The Obama-Biden campaign appears to be following the time tested advice that when your opponent is self-destructing stand aside. This is apparently the strategy that Senator Biden will follow at Thursday's VP Debate with Governor Sarah Palin.
The Politico has an article up with the Biden strategy:
If Sarah Palin goofs, flounders, stumbles or blunders during her debate against Joe Biden on Thursday night, Biden is going to let it slide.
"If she makes a gaffe, he underplays it," one of the people prepping Biden for his vice presidential debate told me. "At most, he says, ‘I am not sure what Gov. Palin meant there.’"
There are three reasons for this. First, Biden does not want to look condescending. For the same reason, he plans on referring to Palin as "Gov. Palin" during the debate and never as "Sarah." (He will sometimes refer to John McCain as "John," however, because they have been senators together for many years.)
http://www.politico.com/...
Biden himself is aware of the situation and is prepping hard. He knows he has to avoid his own gaffes--both political and personal.
While he does not expect to make much of any gaffes Palin might commit, he is preparing his own lines of attack on her record.
But at the end of the debate, he will not judge his success on whether the audience believes Biden is a better choice than Palin. He wants the audience to believe Obama is a better choice than McCain.
I know many including a controversial front page story on Kos a few days ago have urged a more aggressive tack, but I think the Obama campaign nails it again. They seem to know what they are doing even when we question it at the time.
I have never seen a campaign where both the candidate and campaign apparatus and strategy are in such sync. It bodes well for victory in November and for a successful presidency beyond.
Go get her Joe!