Joe Biden slams McCain after debate
Joe Biden is all over the networks spinning for Barack Obama. Sarah Palin was nowhere to be found – what a surprise!
Biden was great tonight. He’s at his best in these TV interviews, and he slams McCain for confusing tactics and strategy. This clip is priceless.
Agreed. Biden did a great job post debate. The contrast with Palin is stunning.
I thought Obama projected the correct image also, very serious and strong. Right now, to use a football analogy, we are nearing halftime and Obama has gone up 21-13 with a nice long drive before the half in which he had a balanced attack and ate up the clock.
Not sure the significance but I also found it interesting the continued use of “John” and “Barrack”.
Obama is a very gifted politician and has a lot to offer in many national and international issues; however, he was not at his best in the debate. Both came out hawkish. As for all the bashing of Palin from the media and the left, it will not work. Men, get over it! Women can be attractive, family oriented, intelligent, ethical, strong, and career women. Some women have it all and Palin does. If she wasn’t such a threat to the ultra left, they wouldn’t be resorting to ridicule as a weapon. Palin will be an outstanding vice president and president. McCain got it right and so will America!
I’m glad to have a dissenting point of view on Palin
I definitely agree that she’s attractive, family oriented, strong and a career woman. I’m not so sure about those other two.
Until I saw the Couric interview I really thought Palin was a strong candidate, to use a baseball analogy, I saw her as a sort of top prospect, hitting 340 in the minor leagues who needed a bit of seasoning first but could eventually be a 300 hitter in the bigs. I felt there was no reason she should wait to jump on that national stage, she might not be ready but she would eventually rise to the occasion.
After the Couric interview she simply reminded me of some of the chicks I met as a freshman at Ohio State who dropped out after 1 quarter…. the operative word is “stupid”. I appreciate that the country needs people in Washington who are in touch with common folk, but it is imperative in any case that we send our most brilliant people to Washington too.
JP, You are a man who saw the potential in Palin and that is a lot more than most men and women in the ultra liberal left did. They wanted and still want to destroy her and women like her before the public took on to her and what she stood for. She did not flunk out the first quarter and did graduate from college in political science and journalism. She married her high school sweetheart, had a wonderful family, and is still just as much in love with the same man. She moved up to her career in becoming governor and a vice presidential candidate. I agree that intelligence is a high ideal but without ethics and integrity it is used for corruption. Look at what all the intelligent people in wall street and government have done to our economy and America as a whole for generations to come. Great intelligence requires great morality in all aspects of life, including in government and wall street. Hope there are more men and women like you who can come out of their boxes in politics and choose the best people to run our government in disastrous times.
I agree that the left was very disrepectful of her. Also, it’s important that with intelligence comes judgement and values. As pointed out above, intelligence is not enough.
That said, true equality means Palin needs to meet the same standards we would expect from anyone. Her own words suggest she does not meet the minimum standards of the vice presidency.
CHANGE; CHICAGO STYLE
Body count. In the last six months 292 killed (murdered) in Chicago, 221 killed in Iraq.
The leadership in Illinois is all Democrats:
Sens. Barack Obama & Dick Durbin,
Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.,
Gov. Rod Blogojevich,
House leader Mike Madigan,
Atty. Gen. Lisa Madigan (daughter of Mike),
Mayor Richard M. Daley (son of former Mayor Richard J. Daley)
Chicago is a combat zone. Of course they’re all blaming each other.
Can’t blame Republicans, there aren’t any!
State pension fund $44 Billion in debt, worst in country. Cook County (Chicago) sales tax 10.25% highest in country. (Look ‘em up if you want). Chicago school system one of the worst in country.
This is the political culture that Obama comes from in Illinois.
And he’s gonna ‘change’ us?
Norb – I don’t buy the argument that Obama is a clone of the Democratic party in Chicago.
It’s a matter of the positions he’s taking. He will end the war, work towards universal health coverage and push alternative fuels so we can stop sending money to petro dictators. If he makes progress on all three he will be a successful president.
He will be replacing a president who mostly appointed political hacks and loyal members of the religious right. Competence was not a factor. It’s hard to imagine that he won’t do much better than Bush in terms of appointing competent people.
And Alice in Wonderland will be happy evermore
I hope Alice finally finds happiness. She deserves it.
Better to have some hope for improvement than guaranteed incompetence that we get from the GOP.
If it’s incompetence from the GOP, what is it from the Democrats – the party that MANDATED that loans go to a diverse pool of people – regardless of credit – one of the main reasons we are in this mess. That’s criminal.
One comment: My feeling on all this is that if we all could just learn to accept Christ as our personal saviour, this whole darn subprime mess would work itself out…. (opps there I go again….)
SRG – the Democrats have plenty to answer for as well regarding the financial crisis, but Bush has been incompetent on every major issue – Iraq, the economy etc. We’re talking about the next president. McCain doesn’t look any better, especially when you consider who he picked to be his VP. All ideology with no regard to competence.
Also, the Democrats didn’t mandate that people in the suburbs should trade in their $300,000 homes for $500,000 homes they couldn’t afford. Rush and the right wing nuts are trying to blame all this on poor people, but plenty in the middle class are defaulting on loans as well.
There is plenty of blame to go around, but the President needs to be on top of these things. Bush has been AWOL until we reached this point. He’s incompetent.
It’s so lazy of Republicans to blame everything on the Democrats. What SRG is probably referring to is the 1977 Community Reinvestment Act (CRA), which requires banks to lend to the communities they serve. Here’s an article that points out why the blame-CRA crowd is wrong…
http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=did_liberals_cause_the_
subprime_crisis
Rhetoric aside, the argument turns on a simple question: In the current mortgage meltdown, did lenders approve bad loans to comply with CRA, or to make money?
The evidence strongly suggests the latter. First, consider timing. CRA was enacted in 1977. The sub-prime lending at the heart of the current crisis exploded a full quarter century later. In the mid-1990s, new CRA regulations and a wave of mergers led to a flurry of CRA activity, but, as noted by the New America Foundation’s Ellen Seidman (and by Harvard’s Joint Center), that activity “largely came to an end by 2001.” In late 2004, the Bush administration announced plans to sharply weaken CRA regulations, pulling small and mid-sized banks out from under the law’s toughest standards. Yet sub-prime lending continued, and even intensified — at the very time when activity under CRA had slowed and the law had weakened.
Second, it is hard to blame CRA for the mortgage meltdown when CRA doesn’t even apply to most of the loans that are behind it. As the University of Michigan’s Michael Barr points out, half of sub-prime loans came from those mortgage companies beyond the reach of CRA. A further 25 to 30 percent came from bank subsidiaries and affiliates, which come under CRA to varying degrees but not as fully as banks themselves. (With affiliates, banks can choose whether to count the loans.) Perhaps one in four sub-prime loans were made by the institutions fully governed by CRA.
Most important, the lenders subject to CRA have engaged in less, not more, of the most dangerous lending. Janet Yellen, president of the San Francisco Federal Reserve, offers the killer statistic: Independent mortgage companies, which are not covered by CRA, made high-priced loans at more than twice the rate of the banks and thrifts. With this in mind, Yellen specifically rejects the “tendency to conflate the current problems in the sub-prime market with CRA-motivated lending.? CRA, Yellen says, “has increased the volume of responsible lending to low- and moderate-income households.”
Yellen is hardly alone in concluding that the real problems came from the institutions beyond the reach of CRA. One of the only regulators who long ago saw the current crisis coming was the late Ned Gramlich, a former Fed governor. While Alan Greenspan was cheering the sub-prime boom, Gramlich warned of its risks and unsuccessfully pushed for greater supervision of bank affiliates. But Gramlich praised CRA, saying last year, “banks have made many low- and moderate-income mortgages to fulfill their CRA obligations, they have found default rates pleasantly low, and they generally charge low mortgages rates. Thirty years later, CRA has become very good business.”
It’s telling that, amid all the recent recriminations, even lenders have not fingered CRA. That’s because CRA didn’t bring about the reckless lending at the heart of the crisis. Just as sub-prime lending was exploding, CRA was losing force and relevance. And the worst offenders, the independent mortgage companies, were never subject to CRA — or any federal regulator. Law didn’t make them lend. The profit motive did.
with regards to todays vote in Congress…. “wow”
I guess we are going to see how the free market can sort this out after all….
Kind of reminds you of Uncle Adolph and Uncle Mao,doesn’t it?
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=TW9b0xr06qA
Gerardo :you don’t buy “the argument” that Obama is part of the Chicago Democratic machine.
I don’t believe Al Capone was part of the Chicago Mob either.
Norb, the parents of that little girl should be arrested for child abuse. That’s disgusting.