Sep 22 2008
Dem VP Candidate Biden Slams Obama Campaign Ad, Defends McCain
It was the one of the most deplorable ads of the political season. It was the Obama campaign down in the sewer.
Apparently the stench is so bad on this one Democrat VP candidate Joe Biden has chided the Obama Campaign (“I am Barack Obama, and I approved this ad”) and defended McCain on this one:
Barack Obama’s running mate says a campaign ad that mocked Republican presidential candidate John McCain as an out-of-touch, out-of-date computer illiterate was “terrible” and would not have been done had he known about it.
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“I thought that was terrible, by the way,” Biden said.
Asked why it was done, he said: “I didn’t know we did it and if I had anything to do with it, we’d have never done it.”
We here at the Strata-Sphere agree with Senator Biden – this was despicable and should never have run. Here is the ad for those unfamiliar with it:
It is not a good sign for the Obama campaign when the VP, in an effort to salvage his own personal credibility, turns on the presidential candidate and distances himself (herself) from said candidate. Obama is in real trouble if even his own VP is jumping ship. Please, not rat metaphors in this case. Biden is trying to do the honorable thing here.
AJ,
Being a little cynical about this, first Mr. Biden says he may not be the right person for the VP job then he calls is boss out in public. I do not know if it will be about honor or expediency, but the Dem’s look to be getting a new VP candidate.
Evidently Biden was “taken to the woodshed” for his attempt to do the honorable thing. The “Washington Post” now reports that he has “clarified” his remarks and included following:
“Having now reviewed the [“computer illiterate] ad, it is even more clear to me that given the disgraceful tenor of Senator McCain’s ads and their persistent falsehoods, his campaign is in no position to criticize,” Biden said in the statement. http://tinyurl.com/3grs5q
“Pivot and attack” is the only course Obama and the netroots will tolerate. “Honor” is something to be transcended in the service of The One.
There’s some speculation that Biden is doing this on purpose or it is part of an orchestrated plan. It goes something like this:
Obama campaign intentionally picks the most boring, good-old-boy they can find as VP and then at the last minute replaces him with Hillary causing a huge bump that lasts to election day. Women are ecstatic, Obama gets all “mending fences” and stuff, the democrat women who bailed to go to Palin suddenly flock back and McCain collapses just before the election. For maximum impact this would be done about two weeks before election day.
Yeah, assuming Hillary thinks Obama really will win and is willing to take the number-two spot. (Also assuming that such a switch doesn’t strike ordinary people as completely slimy, given the context of the previous weeks of too-clever-by-half stunts from the Obama camp, such as the attempt to fake a grassroots viral video campaign claiming that Sarah Palin is a member of an anti-American secessionist organization. ALSO assuming that the PUMAs decide that they can trust this Obama creep even if he does bring Hillary aboard.)
Apparently now Biden has changed his ‘mind’
That is, if Hillary would accept the job when offered.
I understand that Bill Clinton gave sublte hints on The View of his disdain towards Obama.
Also, is Obama still willing to work with both of them?
That sort of bait-and-switch would not play well with most people. Too blatant.
The real question is whether Biden knows something that we don’t…something about the Obama campaign either polling badly or having a big skeleton in the closet that is about to come out.
Something so likely to ruin Obama that Biden is starting to back away from the explosion.
I refuse to believe in conspiracies… perhaps Biden thought, appropiately, that people know the ad was deplorable , and the least bad thing to do would be to just admit it.
0 would use Hillary to attempt to get elected and then discard her. She would be diminished at every turn. Not a place she would want to be.
What a mess it would be in Our House. Constant bickering and fighting for power and policy making.
Total dysfunction. But hey, what else is new with democrats. Just look around at states and cities they have domininated for decades…