Joe Biden, our VP nominee was quoted in an interview this morning "
And he expressed some professional admiration for some of her "zingers" directed mostly at Mr. Obama.
"I thought ‘Whoa,’ " Mr. Biden said. "They’re good, funny lines, but I’m glad they’re not about me."
Uh, well ok... but they are about the ticket and Obama, you remember him right?
untitlBiden on Palin: ‘Whoa’
By John M. Broder
Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr. was out early with a response to his Republican Vice Presidential opponent, Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska, appearing on the major morning shows to answer her blistering speech to the Republican convention Wednesday night.
He praised her delivery but said the speech lacked substance. He also said that some of the criticism of her smacked of sexism and was "over the top, totally unfair."
On ABC’s "Good Morning America," Mr. Biden, the six-term Delaware senator, said, "It was a very skillfully written, very skillfully delivered speech. But there was not a word about the middle class or health care or how people are going to fill up their gas tanks or a single word about how we’re going to get our kids through college."
All week Mr. Biden and his presidential running mate, Senator Barack Obama, have been avoiding any criticism of Mrs. Palin that could be seen as personal. Mr. Biden has not questioned her qualification for the vice presidency, saying on Wednesday night that he intended to treat her "with respect."
"I mean that sincerely," he told an audience at a high school in Sarasota, Fla., "She is a governor of a state. She warrants respect. The only thing I have to find out and you have to find out are what are her views. I have made no judgment as to whether she is qualified or not."
On ABC Thursday morning, Mr. Biden said he was still looking for her specific views. "The bottom line here is the phrase middle class was not mentioned once. The economic plight, the hole the Republicans have dug so deeply the last eight years was not mentioned. No specific plans about how were going to get out of that hole was mentioned."
He also said, "They don’t want to defend the past and they don’t have any clear picture for what they’re going to do for the future."
And he expressed some professional admiration for some of her "zingers" directed mostly at Mr. Obama.
"I thought ‘Whoa,’ " Mr. Biden said. "They’re good, funny lines, but I’m glad they’re not about me."
On another television program, NBC’s "Today," Mr. Biden said Mrs. Palin had given "one heck of a political speech" and she would be a "formidable opponent" and a "very skilled debater."
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This election is going to get tough, I am still disapointed by the repubs treatment of Obama last night, although I expected it. But I really expected a little more outrage or fire from the VP. Surely, he is joking and is not afraid to debate Palin?
I read the speech and agree it had very little information that would interest me as a voter. It did not inspire me to be a better citizen, I got no love of country true vibe, no patriotic feelings at all.
Since McCain knew the repubs would love her, I guess this was an attempt to convince the few people watching the convention last night that the Democrats, via their leader, Obama are a joke. Let me see... 40 million people watched him speak on tv, 84,000 people came to see him speak, over 18 million voters have him in the position of the democratic nominee.
I say the real opinions in this race have validated Obama more than have validated McCain, Palin, Rudy, Romney and Huckabee combined. They really have no clue how out of touch they are when they attempt to compare either of their candidates to Obama!!!