Biden: McCain "Clinging To The Past"
ROCHESTER, NH - Previewing today's dueling major speeches at the top of the ticket, Joe Biden argued that Barack Obama will show he wants to fix the economy, while John McCain is more interested in playing more politics.
"It looks like John McCain's entire speech is gonna be attack, attack, attack, attack," Biden said. "It couldn't be clearer to me what's going on here. John McCain wants to attack Barack Obama, and Barack Obama wants to [tackle] the problems that face America today."
Speaking in the Granite State, where McCain won the 2000 and 2008 GOP primaries, Biden acknowledged McCain's favored status here. And, he argued, McCain should have had a built-in advantage in times of crisis because he is a "war hero." But he's squandered that by his behavior, Biden said.
"John's hands have been anything but certain in the last year," he said. "The McCain administration would be uncertain, clinging to the past, lurching from one bad idea to another. ... In a New England sense, it's about a steady hand. It really is about a steady hand and good ideas. Because this is not beyond our capacity. This is not beyond our capacity to turn this country around. And ladies and gentlemen, Barack Obama has steady hands."
Republicans reacted by invoking the plagiarism scandal that ended Biden's 1988 presidential campaign, saying that the Democrats' plan "mirrors the proposals that President Hoover implemented at the onset of the Great Depression."
"It's plagiarism of the very worst economic policies in American history," McCain spokesperson Ben Porritt said in a statement.
Biden's speech at the American Legion Hall began by noting that there were "two big worries" here. Of course, the economy was one concern across the nation. The other might be more specific to Red Sox Nation, which of course, includes New Hampshire.
"My Phillies didn't do too well last night," the Delaware senator said. "But I understand we got our priorities: first, Josh Beckett's arm, and second, the economy."
(NBC/NJ's MIKE MEMOLI)
Man, I'm sure that I'm in the minority here, but I am sick to death of hearing/reading politicians, on both sides, talking about sports. You want to link to the "common man"? Stick to the economy. Sorry, Joe, I'm a big fan, when you stick to the topic at hand.
biden knows better, he knows damm well MCCAIN is not sticking to the past, if anyone is living in the past it is biden and obama, GET OVER IT!!! BUSH IS NOT RUNNING!!!!! and MCCAIN is no way like BUSH, and biden and anyone who knows MCCAIN knows that. he went against BUSH so many times, I get tired of counting how many times. but they think if they say it, people are so dumb they would beleive it.
I am with you, Kris! Skip the sports stories! And the same goes for political bloggers. I stopped reading Yglesias, because I grew tired of his attention to sports.
Biden is correct, McCain is stuck in the past...all he chants about is cutting taxes and more war. Blames all of America's problems on the poor and minorities when it's the rich Wall Street Hustlers, Halliburton and Kellogg Brown, and the Republican NEOCONs who have impoverished this nation, set us on a socialist course and have burden us with unlimited war. It's time for McCain to go. I used to believe McCain cared for this country but his campaign has illustrated he would rather sully the reputation of of country with race baiting and hate. After 25 years in the military, I know what "Country First" means and it doesn't represent anything I heard from Senator McCain and Sara Palin...They and their campaign are a disgrace to the GOP, to our Country and the democratic principals military members like myself have fought long and hard for.
MY REALITY... I am the bread winner for a family of 5. I will be getting a PINK Slip this week because construction has slowed, and projects are suspended due to this banking problems. The last time I got a pink slip was when George Sr. was President.
IMO, there is something WRONG with the Republican management system
McCain's choice of Sara Palin reflects his move toward to the Bush mindset. That was a mistake; it took moderates (like me) away from supporting McCain. With Palin, he moved to the far right, to a Bush-like approach.
McCain's disastrous campaigning is a direct reflection of his famously erratic and impulsive nature. It has decisively demonstrated that Bush really was the better candidate in 2000.
The problem facing the Republicans at this point is that they lack any realistic candidates for the Presidency. Everyone at the top of the party is either a phony, a radical, or a phony radical, like Bush.
McCain's disastrous campaigning is a direct reflection of his famously erratic and impulsive nature. It has decisively demonstrated that Bush really was the better candidate in 2000.
The problem facing the Republicans at this point is that they lack any realistic candidates for the Presidency. Everyone at the top of the party is either a phony, a radical, or a phony radical, like Bush.