Biden On Palin: "She's Good Looking"
TOLEDO, OH - Joe Biden is already conceding one thing to Sarah Palin.
"Well there's obvious differences," he joked during a roundtable discussion on the economy this afternoon. "She's good looking."
Biden was trying to make a serious point about the different perspective he said each ticket has on the economy, but the crowd began to chuckle when he said there was a "gigantic" difference between Barack Obama and John McCain and himself and "my vice presidential opponent." After complimenting Palin's looks, someone in the crowd shouted back that Biden was "gorgeous."
"Oh, I tell you what! Would you make sure Jill hears that?" he replied. "I haven't heard that in a long, long, long time."
He added that hanging out with a "lean, young-looking" Obama was starting to make him "feel pretty old." But he continued on with his intended message, which was that the Democratic team would work to give the middle class a "fighting chance."
"John McCain looks to the past," he said, saying he'd give tax breaks for corporations and oil interest instead of working people. "John McCain's proposal - he leaves out 100 million American families without a single red cent," he said. "Barack Obama's going to give 95 percent of the American people a tax cut."
Biden began by saying he offered a prayer at morning mass for the people of the Gulf Coast, and urged those in the audience to do the same.
"These folks have been through, you know, they've been through hell, and pray God this Gustav decides to take a turn or something, but it doesn't look real good now," he said.
(NBC/NJ's MIKE MEMOLI)
Biden is already making feminists gaffes referring to Palin as "good-looking". She's not in a beauty contest, and if he wants to compliment her he should say she is a tough competitor. Its easy to see why he and Obama have lost the female vote.
Of course Palin is good looking, that is why McCain picked her. There are many other women in the Republican party he could have picked for his VP with a lot more experience and knowledge, he instead choose a beauty queen with little or no experience in national or international affairs. What else could Biden say about her as she certainly is no equal to his Senatoral experience.
Of course Palin is good looking, that is why McCain picked her. There are many other women in the Republican party he could have picked for his VP with a lot more experience and knowledge, he instead choose a beauty queen with little or no experience in national or international affairs. What else could Biden say about her as she certainly is no equal to his Senatoral experience.
Of course Palin is good looking, that is why McCain picked her. There are many other women in the Republican party he could have picked for his VP with a lot more experience and knowledge, he instead choose a beauty queen with little or no experience in national or international affairs. What else could Biden say about her as she certainly is no equal to his Senatoral experience.
I find Biden's joke about Palin being "good looking" insulting to women and sexist. He's part of the "good ole boy" network in Washington, and his comments prove that nothing has changed.
How often do these men judge other men by their appearence?
Joyce
How sexist can you be. Just because Palin is hot you think she's less qualified than some other less attractive governors. If a man had made this comment it would have been sexist, I guess coming from a lesbian it is not supposed to sound as bad, right. Men really get a bad rap on this stuff.
Joyce;
I see your jealous rage caused your click finger to jitter. Once is enough. Three posts is way overkill.
Cheryl;
Heh. Wrong question. How often do women judge men by their appearance? Or would that be telling? ;)
Sarah Palin is a GLIF.
Call me sexist, but it is the only thing I really do know about her.
She was mayor of a small town, which is usually a part-time position. She is governor of a small state (population) for 1.5 years. She supported pork-barrel projects then switched her position.
Not much to go on.
How do you think most women get in the positions they are in? Duh. It's quite obvious that her credentials will lend nothing to McCain's presidential bid. At least on his campaign's "bridge to nowhere" she can look pretty in her apron while she cooks for the campaign crew.
This is ridiculous. Biden was just trying to pay her a compliment. I can't believe that his intentions were any more complicated than that. If you want to get offended, in my opion that is your problem... not his.
I'm not a Biden fan, but this nitpicking at everything the political candidates say is utterly ludicrous. Whats more important, whether or not he understand the intricacies of not offending a specific group (feminists in this case, but insert whichever group you care about: hispanics, jews, blacks, conservatives, muslims, etc., etc.) or his actual views on where this country should be headed?
Lets talk about his voting record. Lets talk about his views on abortion, gun control, foreign policy, the economy, interest rates, socialism, national healthcare, etc., etc., etc.
How he chooses to complement a female opponent is of no interest to me and of little consequence regardless.
I am a 63 years old. Now I can see what my Daughter and Grandaughter are talking about the "Male Chauvinist". Every woman out there should see it too. The Democrates are the worst offenders. This should be brought to his attention, but I know it won't be, just like nothing else will. The jerk.
a Democrate
Sarah Palin knows that most people don't know what a small-town mayor does - and doesn't do. So she has, so far, been allowed to show her best Rethug qualification - her ability to lie easily and completely without conscience - as she vomits forth her false and insulting claims of leadership credentials. (blue in NC's diary :: :: )Other diarists on dKos are right: we need to shift our foucs back to Barack Obama and Joe Biden and the positive direction our country must turn toward if we as a people are to survive the next four years.
We need to shift our focus away from Sarah Palin's daughter and her mooseburgers and her snowmobiles. But we can't let her get away with whitewashing her governmental failures: failures so abject, so major, so complete, that the fact that she accomplished so much failure in a 12-year political career is amazing in and of itself.
If she's going to use her stint as small-town mayor as a prop for her vice-presidential aspirations, then we need to remind the voters exactly what she did as mayor. Let's use her own words against her. As she said in that verbal spew that passed for a "speech" last night, as mayor she was "like a community organizer" but with "actual responsibilities".
The voters need to be reminded - every day - how badly she failed at exercising those responsibilities. Because we small-town mayors do have actual responsibilities. Chief among them is the responsibility to exercise fiscal responsibility with the citizens' money. Sarah Palin has demonstrated complete failure at that basic responsibility. She took a town of ~7,000 people that was debt-free in 1996 and ran it over $18 million into debt by 2003.
And, while we theoretically do not have sole authority to do such things - only the town council has such authority - a bad and dishonest and self-serving mayor can, and frequently does, accomplish such glaring misfeasance by either intimidating of misleading her town council.
Sarah Palin has done both.
She implemented a 25% increase in the most regressive tax possible - the sales tax - to finance her hockey rink project. Yes, the Queen of the Common Man sure likes to stick it to the common man...every man, woman and child in Wasila is still paying for her self-promoting delusional expenditures. She was taking a $68,000 per year salary in 1996 for her job as mayor, and yet used additional taxpayer funds to hire an "administrator" to do her job for her while she enjoyed her "regal" salary for a sinecure job. Most mayors of towns less than 10,000, nationwide, are practically volunteers with salaries generally below $10,000 per year. In fact, the job of the Wasilla mayor, according to the city code, is as follows (this is typical for most small-town mayors). The Mayor shall preside at Council meeting, act as ceremonial head of the city and sign documents on the city’s behalf upon authorization by the council. Pretty easy work for $68,000/year, isn't it? In 2002, Pailn used city employees (on the clock), city equipment, and city facilities to work on her campaign for Lt. Governor. I mean, come on...this is small-town government 101: Thou shalt not use municipal assets for personal campaign purposes. By 2003, the city of Wasilla owned $741,599 worth of office furniture and equipment (from the city's own Comprehensive Annual Finance Report; I assume that is net of depreciation). Now that's a whole lot o' desks and staplers for a town of 7,000 folks. Well, the town only owned $342,449 worth of that stuff when Palin started in 1996. More than double! Word among locals has it that she had her office lavishly redecorated at least twice while mayor. So much for her stupid story about selling the governor's jet on ebay.
After our almost-sacred fiduciary responsibilty, we mayors are responsible for ensuring the safety of the people who have entrusted us with the office. Palin placed the financial success of campaign-donor cronies above public safety. She opposed an ordinance changing the closing time of bars in Wasilla from 5:00 AM to 3:00 AM. The Wasilla police chief at the time, Irl Stambaugh, supported the change as a public-safety measure. Palin, who had accepted numerous campaign contributions from local bar owners and the liquor lobby, fired Stambaugh immediately upon taking office.
Palin opposed adopting basic building codes within the city. In 1997, she broke a tie in a city council vote to kill building codes. Even some area homebuilders supported the building codes.The bottom line is: yes, we small-town mayors do have responsibilities...and Palin demonstrated a complete lack of ability or inclination to handle these limited responsibilities.
Meanwhile, I'd be the first to say that I don't consider my own experience as a small-town mayor to in any way qualify me to serve as vice president of the United States, much less serve in a situation where the president is a doddering old man bordering on dementia who may well cause invocation of the 25th amendment.We preside over council meetings...the VP theoretically presides over the Senate. There's a world of difference.Our responsibilities are limited. Very limited.And, we're not a mere heartbeat away from the US presidency. I have known small-town mayors like Sarah Palin and, trust me, it ain't purty. They exemplify ego-gone-wild, are uncannily susceptible to corruption and influence peddling, and are notorious for abuse of power. The Sarah Palins in the small-town mayors' offices are, unfortunately, all too common.
These United States of America do not need one in the office of the vice president.Palin is now, in true Rethug fashion, attempting to distort people's concerns with her lack of experience, accusing us of "insulting small towns" and being "elitist". Nothing could be further from the truth. We're not criticizing small towns; I've live d in one and serve as mayor in one and love and respect small towns.What we are criticizing is, first: Palin's lack of national experience and, second: her complete failures at exercising responsibility and integrity during what limited "executive" experience she has.
She is the worst of both worlds: she is corrupt and incompetent. The voters need to know that.
ANYONE CAN READ A SPEACH WRITTEN BY OTHERS,ESPECIALLY AN EX PAGEANT PARTICIPANT. DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH PEOPLE. IF ANYTHING HAPPENDS TO MCCAIN DO YOU THINK THAT WITH PALIN'S TRACK RECORD THAT SHE CAN LEAD OUR GREAT NATION? I DOUBT IT. SHE HAD A HARD TIME WITH CONTROVERSY IN ALASKA (LOOK AT THE JUNO NEWSPAPER AND SEE COMMENTS FROM HER COMMUNITY) AND DEALING WITH HER HOUSEHOLD. NO OFFENSE TO HER BUT THE TRUTH IS THE TRUTH AND IT IS TIME FOR IT LADIES AND GENTS!
Well spoken LT.
I am astounded that the media are treating her with kid gloves like they are.
Truly frightening that she could even be remotely considered a legitimate candidate for such high office.
If america votes the Republican ticket in, then they deserve the worst that is sure to come.
Palin is hot and a good candidate for vice president of USA. She can scare away Taliban by taking part in porn movies and showing them in Afghanistan.