Biden Bashes McCain Speech: “Attack, Attack, Attack”
ROCHESTER, NH — John McCain’s attempt to hit the “reset button” on his flailing campaign sounds like more of the same to Joe Biden.
The Democratic VP nominee preemptively blasted the McCain’s “major speech” today — which the Arizona Senator’s advisers say is meant to right a campaign that even Republicans worry has become a listing ship — saying America wants solutions, not partisan attacks.
“Both Senator Obama and John McCain are giving big speeches today. You’ll read about it in the press,” he said to a crowd of 400 in New Hampshire. “Barack is going to make a major speech on economic policy. He’s gonna further outline what he’s going to do and how he’s going to deal with it.”
“It looks like John McCain’s entire speech is going to be attack. Attack, attack, attack.”
“It couldn’t be clearer to me what’s going on here,” Biden said. “John McCain wants to attack Barack Obama. Barack Obama wants to attackle [sic] the problems that face America today.”
Biden said he was disappointed in McCain - who he often says he’s been friends with since the 1970’s.
Voters’ question about everything from health care, education, and the financial crisis, Biden said, “aren’t going to be answered by negative political attacks that are going on. These questions aren’t going to be answered by attacks on Barack Obama that are coming out of the McCain campaign.”
McCain’s campaign shot back that the economic solutions BIden and Obama are offering are rip-offs of infamously clueless Depression-era President Herbert Hoover. “With sleight of hand and misdirection, Joe Biden continues to pitch Barack Obama’s recipe for greater economic suffering,” said spokesman Ben Porritt.
“The Obama-Biden ticket’s call for higher taxes on American businesses and isolationist trade policies mirrors the proposals that President Hoover implemented at the onset of the Great Depression, spurring a complete economic collapse – it’s plagiarism of the very worst economic policies in American history.”
While the financial crisis may take top priority for most voters across America, Biden was sure to address what he said was the first priority of people in New Hampshire — the health of Red Sox pitcher Josh Beckett.
“I know there are two priorities for people in this area right now, and frankly all over the country. But the first is unique to here. The first is Josh Beckett’s arm. I understand that,” Biden said to laughs. “My Phillies didn’t do too well last night, you know, we had a rough night. But I understand. We get our priorities. First, Josh Beckett’s arm, and — direct order — secondly, the economy.”
“I don’t know what to tell you about Josh Beckett’s arm but I do have a few thoughts about the second issue, the economy.”
Biden, who was introduced by Governor and Senate Candidate Jeanne Shaheen, will campaign in Manchester, NH next before delivering a speech at Delaware’s Jefferson-Jackson dinner in Dover tonight.
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Biden and Obama need to make this about attacks because if you look past that in into Obama plans you will see have he has flipped on almost everything he said during the primary.
From drilling to opening the congressional health plan for people. from taxes on businesses to taxes on people. From abortion to illegal immigrants. From accepting pubic finances to getting money from special interests groups. Even his logo has flip flopped through-out this election from new politics and not playing dirty to just as dirty as the next politician. He went from a new person to just another dirty Chicago machine.
Here we go again. Biden on the attack, doing just what he accuses McCain of doing. And since he pre-emptively blasted McCain’s major speech today, we’ll all be sure to watch it!
NOBAMA/BIDEN
YES MCCAIN/PALIN
Hey Wake-Up, let’s hope we don’t get the same congressional health care plan. The government plan that my wife has STINKS and is a bank breaker. I do agree that it seems this is the only new thing that he is spounting. I am still waiting for his GREAT ECONOMIC HELP PACKAGE.
Remember Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton attacked Barack Obama as unfit, unqualified and unprepared to lead?? American people are smart enough, to understand they happen to correct. Who is the real Barack Obama, with a thin resume, no experience and no real government achievements? Can he lead the world, and deal with seasoned leaders such as Vladimir Putin of Russia, and other leaders from North Korea, China, Vietnam, Pakistan, Cuba, Iran and Israel? Can he answer the phone-call at 3 A.M., in the White House, or all talks and empty promises to please the listeners and to get votes?? American voters are smarter than that.
“McCain’s campaign shot back that the economic solutions BIden and Obama are offering are rip-offs of infamously clueless Depression-era President Herbert Hoover.”
Makes the point of the story quite nicely…
Not only has he flipped on everything he has said, he also today stated that Americans are too unsophisticated to process the information out there and make a good judgement on it. Well I can tell you I’m one of those Americans and it is obvious that the positions this ticket takes are only what they think will further their election to office. Right now I don’t know what they plan to do if they win because they change their minds like the wind. What ever new plan is put out today will be what is popular today. What will they say next week?
Yes, I think John Mccains speech is going to be the same on that Joe Biden gave back in the primaries while he was supporting Hillary Clonton. Some of the accusations will be the same as Biden’s were and the facts will be identical. Joe Biden detested the very ground Obama walked on until he was asked to be the VP candidate with Obama. Joe biden knows what Mccain is going to say about Obama’s past associations because he has said the same thing very recently. John Mcccain wouldn’t even have to say anything if he would put out a campaign ad with Joe Bidens remarks about Obama. Let Joe attack Obama. He’s done it before.
Obama will steal this election with the help of ACORN.
Yes, I think John Mccains speech is going to be the same one that Joe Biden gave back in the primaries while he was supporting Hillary Clonton. Some of the accusations will be the same as Biden’s were and the facts will be identical. Joe Biden detested the very ground Obama walked on until he was asked to be the VP candidate with Obama. Joe biden knows what Mccain is going to say about Obama’s past associations because he has said the same thing very recently. John Mcccain wouldn’t even have to say anything if he would put out a campaign ad with Joe Bidens remarks about Obama. Let Joe attack Obama. He’s done it before.
It ok to attack Palin and McCain but to attack obama and the drive by media is not ethical. In my opinion obama needs to be revealed from the inside out without any stones left unturned. Character does matter in the presidency as well as within each living individual on the face of this planet. If obama is a fine and upright person as the media trys to make him out to be then what does he have to worry about. IF there is something in his make up that is not up to snuff then of course he needs to keep it quiet. I think the fellow is a deceiver from the get go. Remember this- there is nothing hid that will not be revealed. (Matthew 10:26) If he gets into White House then his real agenda will manifest for all to see.
People don’t actually fall for this O’Bama/Biden stuff do they? I mean, after I researched all the facts Palin actually has more time in Office than O’Bama. What is with O’Bama dropping his associations with everyne he knows, one of his friends was a terrorist, so now he says he is no longer friends with him, he has done this about 6 times now…Why does this start to sound weird to me. O’Bama is all spin, and no Plan. First he would not wear the flag pin, now he does, then he had a Maxist Communist Flag hanging in their office (is that still there?). Where are this guys accomplishmnets, I really annot find any. So I am jsut trying to figure out why I would vote for him when all research is telling me “DANGER, DANGER”. I am still looking for an actual reason to vote for O’bama, other than the stupid reason I hear from mst people “He promises change”. Well, so far it doesn’t look like intellegient change, and I am not sold on the show boat displays he does, there are way too many holes and scarry things in this guys past, including the Chicago Maffia and how he got his money for the Election Race. So why is everyone in the media ignoring this, why are people not at least asking why all the Problems with O’Bama? I am very scared of what our country will endure if he becomes president. …But I am still looking for a reason to vote for him, I just have not found one yet of validity.
Wake-Up sounds more like McCain to me…. He have more then flip flopped on all of these issues..
To Wake-Up!
I don’t think they would post this but this would be a good time to either keep quite or say something worthwhile. The republican candidate is planning to buy up ALL bad mortgages, no matter who is at fault. He is suggesting stretching the military (and its spending) in Afganistan without closing the book on Iraq. I am not a pro-Obama person (I plan to vote third party) but if Sen. McCain plans to win this election, he better start talking about HIS ideas/solutions. And labeling them yours on Monday and given credit to another person (a democrat) on Tuesday is not the way to go.
Bob Barr 08
yes attack ! do what you have to do because people are not getting that Obamas change is change to socialism ! Stop them . Biden should know better but he has decided a socialist vice pres position is better than nothing !
The word was already out a couple days ago that the McCain campaign was desperate and needed to shift course by Resetting his campaign. They were going to try to be sneaky about it so McCain doesn’t look desperate, but unfortunately for them seems like McCain’s campaign has a leak…as everyone already knew about his new desperate tactic. This is why many lifelongan families like ours are jumping ship and voting straight Democrat for the first time this election, many of Republican friends are doing the same.
We are so close.
Ayers will be the next supreme court justice! We will give Bin laden a passport so he can bomb his next target without dealing with airport security. We will force people to become elitists! It will be hilarious, a man who hates America will be running it (how ironic).
There is nothing any of you real Americans can do about it.
Obama and the left are hip deep in the economic mess and have their fingers in all the legislation used to dumb down lending rules. Obama has ties to ACORN and all their dirty tricks.
When you get caught - you need to distract people. Thats all Obama and Biden know. They are both unfit for command.
Biden keeps making the domocrats angry and getting them riled up. He is insighting HATE amongst his supporters.
he should be ashamed of himself.
Biden is one old angry man.
95% tac cuts=$500-$1000 to ALL amercians who DO NOT pay taxes (its called a welfare check) while the middle class and the rich get taxes raised so much that they will take their business elsewhere (overseas), lay off workers, not hire new workers, oass the cost dow to the employee or reduce insurance benfits. obama said he wanted to fix te economy from the bottom up. what he means by that is that he wants people with money to share their supposed wealth to those who do not have money (the unemployed). proof in point. obama was asked by a man who has a plumbing business why he should have to be penalized for having a business and making money. obama told him that he would not be penalizing the man for having a business but that he was worried about the mans employees that may never be able to be so prosperous and that he believed that this mans wealth should be shared. did you hear what i just said?!!! obama wants to take your hard earned profits and give it to people so that everyone has the same amount of money. if i were that man i would have then asked obama, why the man should even try to succeed in life if he had to give his profits to people for doing nothing. wheres the incentive to become wealthy, to achieve the amercian dream? obamas tax plan will cause the unemployment rate to go up because busineeses will let people go or will move operations overseas. these people will then stand in an unemployment line then move over to the food stamp line and then thank obama for the welfare check that they will have to live on and should they get sick, no problem, free medical care. cant you people see the tree through the forest? he wants complete governement control over all of us. its called socialism and communism. do you really want this?
MCCAIN IS GOING TO WIN BIG TIME. OBAMA’S ACORN IS TRYING TO STEAL THE ELECTION.
Its over! Your Racist Republican leader John McSame as Bush is going to loose and you people here on FALSE NEWS will cry for the next 4 years. Because you cant accept having a Brotha as your leader! A man who would have been a slave if this was america 100 years ago. Thank God America has changed! We need Change! And not God DaXX America, but GOD BLESS AMERICA AND BARRACK OBAMA!
OBAMA 08′
My vote is centered around the VP this time around. And I will definitely not vote for Sarah Palin!
Where was John McCain’s judgement when he picked her for VP?? What on earth was he thinking. Being a conservative and a woman, this Sarah Palin does not appeal to me at all.
For a woman to be Governor of a state yet not know a supreme court case other than Roe v. Wade, not know what reform bills McCain has fought for and having a JOURNALISM degree and to say NUCULAR, she is not very bright.
Biden brings more experience, more stability, and more change than Palin ever could.
WHY CAN’T OBAMA SPEAK WITHOUT A TELEPROMPTER??? Ridiculous!
McCain is seriously flawed in many ways. Reps turn a blind eye to it. Crazy how his wife and her father kept doing business with Keating 11 years after he supposedly had cut all ties. What will his defense be again, he did not know? that’s getting tired. So, basically if he dose not know what is happening in his own house how can he govern this great land?
Talk about how McCain and Palin seem to differ on abortion. Or how he stopped running on real issues and was relying primarily on his “maverick” image. Sorry, that wont pay the bills.
McCains barrage of negative campagning has backfired on him. He vowed from the start to run a honorable one and he did what republicans always do, get in the dirt. Good for him, Obama finally threw it right back at him.
Obama’s character is in question. I want to know who are his friends. We are taught “we are who we hang around”, isn’t that enough to raise an eyebrow? Anyone who has ran for office has been put through a thorough investigation of their entire life. They have had to defend their associations as far back as college and some of the decisions made before ever thinking of being in politics much less president. Why is Obama being treated differently? To shake the hand of the president we needed a standard back ground check. This man is going to be a reflection of America. He is going to make huge decisions and have a great influence on a nation as well as the world. As a citizen of this great nation, I want to know who this man is and his ideals.
Biden is a jackass so anything that falls out of his mouth and yes I mean falls like drool - should be ignored -
When democrats shout dirty words against John McCain and Sarah Palin they don’t notice anything ugly and foul smelling. When Barack Obama’s record, about his relationships to domestic terrorist bomber Ayers, convicted felon Resco, Pastor Wright his pastor of 20 years he disowned and ACORN, is brought out in the open and give Obama a chance to explain to the people his side, the democrats come out in chorus shouting in anger it is a distraction from the issue about the economy. They forget to ask McCain and Palin - please do not bring out the issue on character and judgement. Cucufate T. Catral
List for obama Acorn of people that is illegal to register to vote during any election
1-dead people(zombies)
2-illegal alien (yes little green people to)
3-criminals ( person w/a criminal record)
4-fictional characters (mama joe or papa joe)
5-cartoon characters (mickey mouse , scooby doo)
6- super heroes (superman , spider man , ironman)
7- new people ( babies , children , not of age to vote)
8-crazy people ( a person w/ mental problems)
9- and many other reasons
personal comment: if McCain losses this election is because obamas fraud machine Acorn.
The obama plan will turn 40% or more of this country in to a welfare system and keep using my tax money to control the people.
Any one who would vote for Obama is just plain stupid unless ofcourse the want a
Socialist Country and that’s exactly what we will have is a very short time. Obama has
went to the Center for this election but everyone knows how liberal he is. With Nancy,
Reid, Dodd and the likes and then Obama as President this country will slide so far
to the left that we won’t know it as the same Country.
I for one love my Country and so I will be voting for John McCain.
Also I have lived in Illinois all my life and if I have learned anything its is the motto of Illinois politics is (if you can’t buy the election, steal it or if you can’t steal it, buy it.)
Go figure, if you aren’t drinking the kool-aid then you are bible toting, gun toting and just spiteful, Right??? Fighting for the country and our way of life and freedoms are on the line FIGHT!!!
If anyone watched the speeches, you would see that nothing he says is different than what it was.
Where is McCain’s Plan? Or are they turning the page on the economy?
I find it hilarious that McCain keeps trying to compare Obama and Biden to Herbert Hoover. Has he forgotten that Herbert Hoover was a REPUBLICAN?!! Look at the major economic downturns over the last century: Great Depression/87 Market Crash/Recession after 9/11/Subprime Crisis. Now look who the presidents were: Hoover/Regan/Bush: ALL REPUBLICANS. One seldom mentioned fact about “The Great Ronald Regan”, aside from “Trickle down economics” is one, but lest we forget “Voodoo economics”, which basically says that we should give tax breaks that the government can’t pay for, creating larger deficits, running up the debt in hopes that it will stimulate growth, that will eventually make up the deficit. What has been the result? Massive deficits, growing national debt. WAKE UP REPUBLICANS! REGANOMICS DOES NOT WORK!!!!
One of the only constants in life is change. You can either embrace change or hide from it. That is the choice, bottom line, in this Presidential election. Do we want another 4 years of the same failed policies? Do we hide from the changes in the rest of the world and our own domestic issues or do we embrace the changes, understand them, master them, and excel above the rest of the world again? That is what we are choosing between.
The single biggest issue facing our country is our energy dependence. It effects every aspect of our current problems in terms of domestic policy, economically, and in respect to foreign policy.
Because we produce 25% of our country’s need for oil, we import the rest. We are borrowing massive amounts of money from the Chinese, right now estimated at over $500 billion, to give $1 trillion to the oil exporters of the Middle East. Another 5 years of that and our standing as the world’s greatest economy is over. As it is, our national debt is over $11 trillion dollars.
In regard to foreign policy, our dependence on foreign oil handcuffs our ability to display strength and will internationally. Why were we unable to bring significant pressure on Russia to leave Georgia? Russia exports 30% of the world’s oil. Why haven’t we threatened and been more aggresive with Iran with their nuclear threat? They are the 2nd largest exporter in OPEC. Our foreign policy is being dictated by our energy dependence.
An investment now in renewable energies will accomplish multiple objectives. First, it allows us to regain our international standing, for example, “don’t push us, or you’ll be sorry, we don’t need you anymore.” Second, a significant investment in renewables will yield up to an estimated 5 million new jobs in the next 10 years. These jobs cannot be outsourced. The 5 million people will buy things. Homes, cars, stuff to put in their homes, clothes, etc. They will pay income tax, they will pay into the Social Security system and help ease the burden on current taxpayers. They will pay property taxes to the state on their homes which will generate additional revenue and pull the states out of their considerable financial distress.
Barak Obama is the candidate who has expressed the most comprehensive plan regarding the energy changes we need to make in order to realize the goals I’ve discussed above. He agrees with the need for increased domestic capacity for oil, but will invest heavily in eliminating our country’s dependence on foreign oil bought from countries that could be considered hostile. McCain’s only solution is to drill offshore which in reality won’t yield a drop of oil for 10 years. We don’t have 10 years to change our dependence. It has to be attacked NOW.
I’m a white male, 41, Independent, in Northern Virginia
Barack Obama’s plan for energy- Wave his magic wand
Barack Obama’s plan for economy- Wave his magic wand
Health Care-same
Defense-same
Improve U.S. moral fiber-Wright
…I can’t believe you’ve reported Biden as saying “attackle [sic].”
You might as well have rendered it “attackle [but McCain is an excellent speaker]“
…I can’t believe you’ve reported Biden as saying “attackle [sic].” It seems a bit misleading to carefully report a person’s (read: a democrat’s) every verbal tick.
If I hear this “more of the same” slogan one more time, I’m going to throw up. It’s giving me a headache and in itself it says nothing.
With all due respect, doesn’t Sen. Biden remind you of another screamer [John Dean]???? Whatever happened to Dean? Oh, he got the default job–chairman for the democrat party. Heard that’s what Obama is going to do after he stops spending all the democrat elite money and spewing a democrat socialist agenda.
Has anyone taken a look at the ‘community’ that Obama claims to have organized? We don’t know what this guy has done to Illinois yet… He said the same thing about not raising taxes on Illinois taxpayers, but what has Obama really done in the senate other than stack pork projects on the backs of American taxpayers???
MIAMI, Oct. 13 /PRNewswire/ — U.S. Senator John McCain’s recent attacks on the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), are puzzling given his historic support for the organization and its efforts on behalf of immigrant Americans. As recently as February 20, 2006, Senator McCain was the keynote speaker at an ACORN-sponsored Immigration Rally in Miami, Florida at Miami Dade College - Wolfson Campus.
The rally, co-sponsored by ACORN in partnership with the New American Opportunity campaign (NAOC), Catholic League Services - Archdiocese of Miami, Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center, Florida Immigrant Coalition, Miami Dade College, People for the American Way/Mi Familia/Vota en Accion, the Service Employees International Union, and UNITE/HERE, was intended to call attention to the need for comprehensive immigration reform.
Senator McCain spoke at the rally attended by hundreds of ACORN members, most of whom were dressed in the red shirts typical of its members. Senator McCain’s speech focused on the Secure America and Orderly Immigration Act, a bipartisan, comprehensive reform bill, which McCain
sponsored with Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA).
Does everyone agree Joe Biden is John Dean reincarnated???
Just as a political matter, I think Sen. Obama has looked like an erratic democrat this last couple of weeks… Can we get a pda-sized teleprompter for his so called stump speaking???
Move to Chicago, learn how to pad the election Chicago way and go to Washington and teach every one how to do the same thing. They don’t teach this course out side of the south side ,or do they .Get your msaters degree in fraud in the city that wrote the book.
Mc Cain / Palin
Go Joe!!
Obama/Biden 08!!