Biden--

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(livelychick @ Feb 1 2007, 10:23 AM) [snapback]383850[/snapback]</div>

Maybe it's his way of saying that he doesn't have a chance and wants us to vote for Obama.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(livelychick @ Feb 1 2007, 10:23 AM) [snapback]383850[/snapback]</div>

Imagine a man of this ilk actually votes on matters of national importance! How can anyone take him seriously?

How about a Kerry/Bidden ticket :lol:

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(dbermanmd @ Feb 1 2007, 11:15 AM) [snapback]383893[/snapback]</div>

Now you know how we feel having a chimp in the oval office spouting idiotic remarks that make him sound like one of the three stooges.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(livelychick @ Feb 1 2007, 07:23 AM) [snapback]383850[/snapback]</div>

“I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy,†[/b]</span></span>
http://www.observer.com/20070205/20070205_..._newsstory1.asp

. . . I'm not sure, there are so many fine Biden quotes to choose from. :lol:

Besides, if you take this quote literally, what's the problem?

Obama is articulate.
Obama is bright.
Obama is clean. (at least he looks clean)
And I guess you could say Obama is a nice-looking guy.

Yep, all the attributes the mainstream media needs to work with to puff-up a candidate for President of the United States.

So how is it that W got elected and then reelected?
Oh, that's right . . . he ran against <span style="color:#009900">“blow-dried candidates in 2000 and 2004.â€

Right on Mr Biden! You go man. The Comedy Channel “news†programs need fresh material.

 

The real travisty is that if this exact same statement had been uttered by DeLay or Trent Lott the NAACP, Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton would have been banging on the doors of congress demanding those gentlemens resignation!!!

(wait that did happen and all Lott did was wish an old man happy birthday, of course that old man was old enough to be in the KKK, maybe even a founding member , and a Democrat at the time to boot!)

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(livelychick @ Feb 1 2007, 01:55 PM) [snapback]384006[/snapback]</div>

Of course, I kind of like a politician who doesn't have the art of not offending anyone so acutely that he doesn't have to think about it. Are we really being served that well by the slick characters who spend so much energy making sure that they don't offend anyone? Do we really feel that not offending anyone is so important that we put it above everything else? There are so many wimpy, thin-skinned people in this country that we could really use some "being offended" time.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(JackDodge @ Feb 1 2007, 04:12 PM) [snapback]384018[/snapback]</div>

you can think people like beangirl and marijuana

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(efusco @ Feb 1 2007, 02:21 PM) [snapback]384026[/snapback]</div>

Yes but we're such an unforgiving society when it comes to politicians. We denounce them when they <gasp> have the audacity to change their minds as if they aren't human and their thoughts not subject to change. They're human beings so shouldn't we cut them some slack when they make mistakes? Is it really that awful? There but for the grace of god go I, so to speak. Still, politicians live by the sword and they die by the sword. Playing off of people's emotions to get elected can just as easily turn in to a nightmare for them when that same power of emotion is turned against said politician. I don't have that much sympathy for a politician who falters like that but I get really tired of whether some politician offends someone or not as their de facto reason for being elected.


<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Devil's Advocate @ Feb 1 2007, 02:08 PM) [snapback]384015[/snapback]</div>

Yes, poor little Trent and Tom, such downtrodden unfortunate souls treated so unfairly. How can you stand the grief? A genuine travesty.

 

Hey Lively and Jack:
I'm not commenting on the substance of either comments by Lott or Biden, I am commenting on the difference in treatment that they recieve after making them and how they are questioned about why they made the statements. Not to mention the number of opportunities which Biden has recieveed to try and diffuse the remarks which Lott never recieved, he was guilty of something from the moment he made the remarks.

 

It's the "clean" part of his remark that was so puzzling. Did he really mean clean as opposed to dirty, or "clean cut", or has a "clean" past or record? He definitely shares Kerry's foot-in-mouth disease, and yeah, I wish he would just shut up at times, just like I wished Kerry would shut up. I believe both of them are intelligent, serious men, but maybe they just need to take themselves a little less seriously.

It was also a little cringe-worthy when Obama was trying to make the best of it by saying he didn't take the remarks "personally." You couldn't have gotten more personal!

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(PriusRos @ Feb 1 2007, 06:04 PM) [snapback]384146[/snapback]</div>

And then there are the guys who have nothing to say like bush sitting in that classroom on his little chair when told that we were under attack. Six minutes of DUH! DUH! DUHHHHH!

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(JackDodge @ Feb 1 2007, 06:18 PM) [snapback]384154[/snapback]</div>

True. But, judging from the gibberish you usually hear from him, his speechlessness at that point was probably preferable to the alternative.