Biden says Clinton may have been a better pick
September 10th, 2008
From ABC News:
“Make no mistake about this,” Biden responded. “Hillary Clinton is as qualified or more qualified than I am to be vice president of the United States of America. Let’s get that straight. She’s a truly close personal friend, she is qualified to be president of the United States of America, she’s easily qualified to be vice president of the United States of America, and quite frankly, it might have been a better pick than me. But she’s first rate, I mean that sincerely, she’s first rate, so let’s get that straight.”
Spokesman Ben Porritt offered this response from the McCain camp: “Barack Obama’s most important decision of this election, and Biden — the candidate he selects — suggests, himself, that he wasn’t the right man for the job, and that Hillary Clinton would have been a better choice. Biden certainly has a credible viewpoint on this.”
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September 13th, 2008 at 12:46 pm
I think that Joe Binden is setting up the republicans with a great shock, in my opinion, by that statment he is telling us that, sometime soon he will drop out of the race and allow Clinton to take his place. To me that would be that would be the smartest move that the Obama camp coild make. First it would destroy the Palin mystique and then flip McCain for a loop. Such a move would Guarantee Obama the Presidency. The country can't afford 4 more years of Bush policy, to assure that from happening, we must halt the McCain Machine, to do that, you must vote that Democratic line, Please don't allow our great country to be destroyed by voting for 4 more years of Bush/ McCain policies.
September 13th, 2008 at 7:45 pm
Biden is a heck of a lot better than Palin. In less than two year Palin, in the relative obscurity of Alaska commited major ethical lapses:
According to the New York Times, Sept 13th, 2008 – PALIN GIVES HIGH SCHOOL FRIENDS HIGH PAYING JOBS
“Gov. Sarah Palin lives by the maxim that all politics is local, not to mention personal.
So when there was a vacancy at the top of the State Division of Agriculture, she appointed a high school classmate, Franci Havemeister, to the $95,000-a-year directorship. A former real estate agent, Ms. Havemeister cited her childhood love of cows as one of her qualifications for running the roughly $2 million agency.
Ms. Havemeister was one of at least five schoolmates Ms. Palin hired, often at salaries far exceeding their private sector wages.”
September 13th, 2008 at 7:49 pm
Biden has never done anything like this….The photograph substantiates reports that in late August, 2006, McCain celebrated his 70th birthday aboard a yacht, the Celine Ashley, rented by A-list con man Raffaello Follieri and his then-movie star girlfriend Anne Hathaway.
In the photograph, taken in Montenegro at the end of August, McCain is shown boarding the yacht ramp towards the smiling Follieri and Hathaway.
http://www.thenation.com/images/media/doc/27c/1...
Just ahead of McCain and shaking hands with Follieri appears to be Rick Davis–McCain's top aide and now co-manager of his campaign, who accompanied him on the trip and advised the government of Montenegro. A few months after McCain's yacht party, Follieri strengthened his ties to McCain's orbit by retaining Rick Davis's well-connected Washington lobbying firm, Davis Manafort, and offering Davis both an investment deal and help in securing the Catholic vote for McCain's presidential bid. Follieri, who posed as Vatican chief financial officer in order to win friends and investments, pleaded guilty Wednesday in a Manhattan district court to conspiracy to commit wire fraud, eight counts of wire fraud and five counts of money laundering. As part of the plea, Follieri admitted to misappropriating at least $2.4 million of investor money and redirecting it to foreign personal bank accounts that were disguised as business accounts.