McCain: Biden 'ready to gaffe'

this is trash journalism.

That's just JOE BEING JOE. what a moron. a 36 year politician. is that CHANGE ?? lolol. how transparent he is.

Truly unpleasant, personal, unprofessional and downright sleazy.

In short: everything we have come to expect from John McCain.

Biden is also a notorious plagiarizer. I wonder who's words he's going to steal for tonight's debate? At least Palin is sincere and speaks from the heart; unlike the overly scripted Obama bin Biden team, with their 500 advisors pulling their puppet's strings.

there is a significant difference between a "gaffe" and having no clue of the answer.

This coming from the moron who picked Sarah Palin. Talk about a GAFFE!!!

Why is it all McCain offers is hate and negativity but Obama talks about hope and positive plans? Does McCain have a positive thought in his head?

The question that should be posed to both VP candidates:

"As Putin rears his head and comes into the airspace of the United States of America, where do they go?"

Palin can answer that, let's see if Biden can.

Ha Ha!

Why would they run that commercial? All the Obama camp needs to do is run clips from Palin's Couric interview.

McCain is the King of Gaffes...

If a Republican told me it was raining out I would sell my umbrella.

I guess that McCain's distaste for "gotcha journalism" only applies to situations where Republicans get caught. At least, Joe Biden didn't make all of these in the last two weeks.

Brilliant! Funny as heck. -and I am democrat! :) Although not as BAD as PALIN'S GAFFES!!! HAHA

SARAH PALIN HAS BIDEN, IFILL, ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC, CNN, MOVEON.ORG, TIME MAGIZINE AND LOTS MORE TRYING TO CUT HER THROAT. IF PALIN COMES OUT HIS WITHOUT HER THROAT CUT I DON'T SEE HOW...
SINCERELY, JIMMIE W BECK

After the debate on the Fox website...
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Liberal Gwenn Ifill plays gotcha journalist, Asks questions favorable to Biden.

The liberal media once again made us poor republicans look bad. Liberal, "in the tank for Obama" moderator Gwen "Hussein" Ifill asked Biden easy questions and was mean to poor Sarah Palin. The liberal, "in the tank for Obama" media proved yet again how "in the the tank" they are for Obama and coninued to be mean, sexist, condescending and liberal to the republicans. The mean, liberal media that is liberal and "in the tank for Obama," was mean and liberal.
Palin proved she is up to the task of being VP because of the liberal, "in the the tank for Obama" media.

I see the straight off the tracks express is back in action. I guess when you have absolutely no ideas to put forth, then it's time to just sneer a lot, e.g. Palin's convention speech, aka Her Last Coherent Moment.

Count on the Republicans for the low blow. Time and again. Sadly, that has worked too many times. I guess they have to have something working for them. It sure isn't their vision for our future).

i don't understand how you can make fun of ANYTHING Biden has to say
after listening to Sarah Palin's interviews. She doesn't even sound like she
graduated from high school let alone college. Who doesn't know the name of at least one newspaper, magazine, or journal they can cite as having read.
Who doesn't know at least one supreme court case? Who thinks that they
have foreign policy experience because they live next door to Russia. The writer of this story must be as stupid as her.

A gaffe is simply mis-speaking, jumbling of the words or perhaps an awkward delivery. Being dumber than a box of rocks and spewing random, nonsensical words that don't make sense and that you don't know the meaning of, that's something else entirely. Give me Biden and his gaffes any day, at least he's knowledgeable and intelligent.

"Stand up Chuck. Let them see you! Oh, God love you, what am I talking about?" Biden is shown saying at a campaign event last month to a man in a wheelchair."

Had Biden been more able to think "on his feet" he might have just added, "Be healed!" It could have cinched the Evangelical vote.

Marvelous! How helpful of the McCain campaign to do the Obama campaign's lowering of expectations for them.

Weak...there must be something wrong with Sarah. Whatever her short comings are the Republicans will tell you first by accusing their opponet of it first!

That's rich coming from McCain. The old coot can't keep his stories straight from one day to the next. The most frighteningly unprincipled politician I've witnessed (at least since our last liberal President Richard Nixon).

Uh oh...he just went there. Ads using clips of Palin are fair game.

McCain's simply trying to blow smoke because he knows what a poor excuse he picked for his running mate. I've despised this woman for over a year because of her aerial slaughter program against wolves and her anti-polar bear attitude (not wanting them listed for protection on the ESL because protecting them means interference with oil interests: Big Oil is more important than the extinction of one of our most beloved wild animals). She couldn't think of a SINGLE Supreme Court decision but Roe v. Wade: not even the Dred Scott decision or many others she should have learned in her history classes! Sarah Palin is a disaster in waiting, and one more example of McCain's poor judgement. Maybe he'll get lucky and she won't show up.

Jay Leno advised Sarah Palin to let Joe Biden have the first question and he will talk for ninety minutes and she is off the hook.
To Governess Palin: try to remember what Cassius Clay had to say "I never said I was the smartest, I just said I am the greatest!"

This campaign just gets more funny by the day. The comment from McCain can be described as the 'gaffe attack'.

This campaign tactic is great to employ when you or someone in your party has said dumb things, so you hold a press conference and refuse to own up to the mistaken comments by electing to say, but...you say dumbs things too bucko!

Beyond desperation, just plain comedy. Hopefully McShame realizes that he is at the top of the ticket, and Palin is more of a distraction than a spark for him.

The media's obsession with gaffes seems to have misled McCain. As a voter, I don't care about gaffes, or gotcha one-liners. None of the quotations tabulated in this ad have any bearing on how Biden might govern, and we are smart enough to know it. Sarah Palin hasn't committed 'gaffes' - she has demonstrated a startling degree of ignorance and superficiality. That's why voters have lost confidence in her.

This hits the truth of the situation in a humorous way. You can't get made watching this as your laughing at the truth! Good Ad I give it 10 out of 10!

Fascinating move on the part of the McCain camp, considering Palin has been verbal train wreck for the past week and the Obama campaign has taken the high road and hasn't exploit it.

On the one hand, I'm pleased that this and other similar moves made recently by the GOP seem to be acts of desperation. On the other hand, I am experienced enough to know that there is a significant portion of undecided voters who are going to be swayed by these tactics. Can anyone say, "Swift boat?"

he may have a few gaffes, but at least he understands the questions. which is more than I can say for caribou barbie...

My prediction:
Biden wins by TKO in the first round (TKO=Palin rushes off stage in tears)

Is the only way a republican can look good by making a democrat look bad? Does he feel his only chance to create the illusion that Sara is qualified can be done by making Biden appear that he isn't? If the republican party speaks and points fingers this way in the public eye, what goes on behind the scene?

McCain's campaign is getting desperate. He's not the man I respected years ago. I'm voting for Obama this year.

Did McCain just give up?

Oh brother, the McCain campaign is sinking to new depths, even for them! There is a huge difference between being gaffe-prone, and being utterly and blindingly ignorant. Biden is the former, and Palin is the latter, as witnessed by the GOP VP candidate's (lack of ) response to her positions on Supreme Court decisions when interviewed by Katie Couric. I am pretty sure a number of us can rattle off a few and we are not seeking higher office, nor are we lawyers!
Do you want someone who knows what he is doing but can occassionally put his foot in his mouth, or someone who has no clue and can put her hand on the red button? Just askin'........

I'm not sure it's a wise idea for the McCain campaign to drive MORE viewers to the debate tonight.

Typical silly Republican tactic of trying to smear the opponent while not paying attention to any of the issues. Thank you for continuing to play low-ball politics GOP, it's going to lose you this election. Any good-will or faith I may have had in John McCain has long since gone out of the window since roughly 2006 when it appeared his Maverick-ism expired. But when he became the candidate, I thought he might at least be able to elevate the rhetoric, but clearly the GOP has decided to stick at mud-level. Shameful. Also, it's worth noting to those who believe the Democratic party is "smearing" Palin it is because she doesn't know the issues!

Did everyone just forget plagerism charges during college and campaigning?
Also left off "nice and clean looking" comment.

Well, he may gaff from time to time but at least he is smart enough to understand basic science. Unlike Palin who thinks the world was made in 7 days and our children should be taught such in schools.

And perhaps McCain will sit next to Palin as he did during the last CBS interview to hold her hand and say "There, there dear. Don't let the mean interview lady scare you."

Pot? Kettle is calling.

All the Biden gaffes in the world don't change the fact that Sarah Palin

1. Can't name a single Supreme Court ruling other than Roe v. Wade.
2. Can't name single news source she uses.
3. Thinks that living in across the Bering Strait from Russia qualifies her as having foreign policy experience.

I'm not a McCain supporter but... That was a great ad.

This seems off-message for the Republicans. All week, they've been trying to raise expectations for Biden, not lower them. Now Biden's performance will succeed if he doesn't gaffe badly.

Quite possibly the stupidest ad yet out of a treasure trove of stupid ads...What am I talking about? McCain's advertising agency.

Jeeeeesus!!! These republicans are really really dirty.

McCain should know about gaffes, he's the master......

What a stupid ad -- the ad itself is a gaffe.

John McCain is a poor sad little man. This is the best he can do?

You know, McCain is a sour piece of crapola: his attitude takes him way beyond assholism into the realm of prickdom! Do you honestly want this guy's hand near the "red button" given his untreated Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (as manifest by a quick temper, poor impulse control, clinical depression that is obviously present more days than not, and overabundant ego defense mechanisms that actually have him believing that he has never told a lie!) Do you honestly want this guy repressenting you to the rest of the world? I do not. . . .

This is silly season again during an economic meltdown. McCain is misjudging the mood of this country when even life insurance payments are no longer a guarantee. McCain NOT showing leadership, AGAIN. His VP pick is being laughed at because she shows she lacks common sense. It's reflected in her statements, her choices, and her financial choices. McCain doesn't even trust her to do interviews because he knows it too. He's the one who raised the red flag. We didn't even know until he started stupidly covering her up.

We're choosing between a VP candidate who has read and studied the Constitution vs. one who clearly has never read it, much less studied it. So when either of them vows to uphold the Constitution, which one will be lying?

Like it flipping matters! None of these things are important. Jeeze, i hope he has a higher IQ than you; he's running for the second highest office in the country. Hillary may have been more qualified or a better choice, but does it make a difference? No , becuase Biden was chosen, and the rest of his point was ignored. He also told the chap in the wheel chair to stand up, but in the same breath realized what he had done and told the man that he is already standing taller than everybody. Biden's gaffes are a page in a book of gaffes where Bush, McCain, and Palin each have their own chapters!

Anyone with a digital video editor could make even Einstein look like a moron by cutting together disparate video clips with no regard for context. Palin's interview blunders are unedited, they are real, she is real, and not in a good way.

Like it flipping matters! None of these things are important. Jeeze, i hope he has a higher IQ than you; he's running for the second highest office in the country. Hillary may have been more qualified or a better choice, but does it make a difference? No , becuase Biden was chosen, and the rest of his point was ignored. He also told the chap in the wheel chair to stand up, but in the same breath realized what he had done and told the man that he is already standing taller than everybody. Biden's gaffes are a page in a book of gaffes where Bush, McCain, and Palin each have their own chapters!

Don't these people have anything important to talk about?

ONE LINERS FOR SARAH
YOUR LOOKING AT THE PIT BULL WITH LIPSTICK

JOE WANTS A CHANGE SOOOOO; AB'S ADVISORS ARE THE 3 THAT MADE THE MARKET FALL. FOR MORE OF THE SAME "VOTE FOR FOR OBAMA.

JOE; DID YOU EVER SIGN YOUR NAME ON THE FACE SIDE OF A PAYCHECK?

JOE, ARE YOU AWARE THAT THE PRESENT CONGRESS HAS A 7% APPROVAL RATING?

JOE. ITS TIME FOR A CHANGE. VOTE FOR McCAIN AND PUT THE REPUBLICIANS BACK IN CONGRESS AND SENATE

My vote goes to McCain. I can not in good conscience vote for a man who thinks he needs his own television channel to push his propaganda on me 24/7, that's just a little to creepy.

Usually I tune in to Comedy Central for good laughs. Tonight, I just hope Sarah Palin will be able to keep me awake during the debate - despite her opponent - why must we give Joe the mic? - yawn.
Frankly, I'm puzzled by the attention focused on Sarah Palin's lack of experience - how about some focus where it belongs: on Sen. Obama.
Ah, I get it, it's not lack of experience in his case, it's change ... sorry, my bad.

"I'm John McCain and I approved this message" is the most amazing part of this ad. It is such a juvenile attack ad it looks like it was authorized by a 12-year-old, not a major party candidate.

We expect to see these low blows coming from third parties (like the attack ad playing now in Michigan that shows McCain's left cheek with stitches, reminding voters over ominous music that he has had melanoma cancer 4 times), not from the national campaigns.

This is just the type of cheap, low-class political ploy that's gotten McCain in trouble this campaign. Biden has been in the public eye for decades. There's a difference between a funny gaffe - and McCain has had just as many ("Bomb Iran" Beach Boys tunes, anyone?) But the concept of Palin - who clearly hasn't a clue on world issues, terrifies many. What would you take - the staggerring knowledge gaps of Palin, exposed in a couple interviews? Or several gaffes of Biden over a 26 year career in the Senate? I'll take the gaffes of the "gap". The concept of Palin sitting in the Oval Office - a woman who doesn't know what the Bush Doctrine is, and can't name a SCOTUS decision is chilling.

I think the ad is very funny and quite true. . .you can't go to a Dunkin Donuts or Seven Eleven on Capitol Hill without using a slight indian accent.

RUFKM? Making a gaffe about a person in a wheelchair is embarrasing, USING it in a political ad is EVIL on so many levels...

Does the McCain campaign have any idea how juvenile they're looking?

This is funny. You could also show hours and hours of Biden over the years speaking to voters, constituents, congress, world leaders and the media -- making a positive difference over many years.

With his "gaffes", it's pretty clear what he meant, or what he meant to say. With Palin, it's that she doesn't know what she means or what she means to say.

The difference is life experience, job experience, and knowledge. It's not that he's smarter, it's that he learned more than she has. She may be a quick study, but just not quick enough

You have GOT to be kidding . . . Just one more thing that proves the point that McCain will say anything to get elected.

john mc cain approves of this message?? he has no clue what to do or say about the economics, or any other subject for that matter so he focusses on attacking the other/ John, your pathetic!

What am I talking about?

Gosh -- you have to love those consistently mean-spirited nasty Republicans. This party that claims the US is a "Christian nation" and yet when it comes to presenting themselves, there is usually little to remind one of Jesus' teachings and words.

It's all fair game. Mccain can attack Biden as much as he can, but if Obama says anything, anything at all about Palin, he will be called a sexist.
Palin attack Biden and Obama personally but if Biden says anything back, he is a sexist.
This gender card played by McCain/Palin makes me sick.

Typical attack ad. Notice how Obama and Biden have NOT been making attacks on Palin. She has come off looking so dreadful because she has been providing incoherent answers to journalists' questions. McCain and his entire team are pathetic.

Groping...... What am I talking about?

Yes, Biden is far less ready to lead than his counterpart, Sarah Palin.

my god i have never seen such a pathetic tactic in my whole life. who the hell are these people making these ads? they should be flogged in public.

Is that really the best they can do??

Gaffes and the inability to communicate intelligently about important subject's are two entirely different matters.

After 20+ years in the public eye, you will exepct a few flubs. After 3 weeks you should see any.........

What's the point here? Don't elect Obama because Biden's had a few insignificant slip-ups in the press? Is that supposed to make us feel better about Palin's non-sensical blitheirng answer to a question of national and economic import? I'd rather take Biden's "gaffes" any day than have this moose-hunting, vacuous windbag in office one second!

Funny that McFlip campaign talks about gaffe. The so called straight talk express has zigged and zagged so violently in the last year and even in the last two weeks, that gaffes of Sen. Biden are harmless ones in comparisons. Are we really expected to be swayed by a man who fails to make eye contact (biggest clue of lying often) and gets himself ridiculed by Paris Hilton, or by a man who doesn't know what shape our economy is... His VP pick shows no sign of intelligence so far. Being shrill and opportunist isn't what impresses people (maybe some). Since she can't see the entire Middle East and Latin American countries from her back yard, I guess she's only mastered Russian politics. Still NO.

it is wonderful how sound bites are taken out of context. by everyone, that is

This really takes the cake. McCain is lower than scum to do something like this but he has left himself and his darling Sarah wide open with this one. Obama is too much of a statesman and a gentleman to retort with anything as blatant as picking on his bimbo VP pick like McCain has done with Biden, but if he decided to do so, they could have a real field day with her.

Haha, McCain's campaign knows comedy.
Yet, it isn't as funny as not knowing any magazines or newspapers that you read(I mean, "all of them" really doesn't count) and it isn't as funny as not knowing any court case besides Roe v Wade, and it isn't as funny as her rambles about our bailout package.
Actually, none of those things are funny. While Biden maybe off the cuff, and say some questionable things, you can't question his knowledge or experience. It is quite scary to think that someone who doesn't read(she actually likes to ban books) or at least know another Supreme court case (she is running for the the second highest office ya know) will be a heart beat away from assuming the most important office to our nation, really... I am worried.

The Republicans are actually leveling the playing field by creating an expectation in TV viewers of Biden gaffes!
Good. In that case, a couple of gaffes from him won't cost him victory in the debate.
This will be important since expectations about Palin have been lowered to the point when if when she can spell "foreign policy" correctly, she gets high marks,

What a travesty of the U. S. Presidential election that someone so utterly unqualified as Palin is being readied as the next VP!

hmmm. they forgot to mention how biden saw FDR on the TV after the 1929 stock market crash.

Maybe now we know why palin keeps here mouth shut during couric interviews...

A tired ad from the tired McCain campaign. They get more desperate and stupider every day.

The Republicans are actually leveling the playing field by creating an expectation in TV viewers of Biden gaffes!
Good. In that case, a couple of gaffes from him won't cost him victory in the debate.
This will be important since expectations about Palin have been lowered to the point when if when she can spell "foreign policy" correctly, she gets high marks,

What a travesty of the U. S. Presidential election that someone so utterly unqualified as Palin is being readied as the next VP!

The elitest media attacks on Palin are ridiculous. It is sad that they are preventing sincere people from getting a fair view of the candidate. Everything she has said is basically true and doesn't reflect ingnorance, but rather a developing understanding of issues that were not on her plate a few months ago, and in learning how best to communicate to a national audience. It is no different than Obama getting prepared when he started his campaign two years ago. But if you want to look at true gaffes, Biden's are much worse, but the media and entertainment elites are not drubbing him with these. Here are some facts on both candidates gaffes, pulled from the BBC. You tell me whose are worse.

Joe Biden:
Asked by CBS presenter Katie Couric on 22 September about plans to rescue the US financial system, Mr Biden said: "When the stock market crashed, Franklin D Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the, you know, princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened'." Observers were quick to point out that the US president at the time of the 1929 stock market crash was Herbert Hoover and that there were no TV sets yet in American homes. FDR did speak to the nation on radio in a "fireside chat" when he took office in 1933.

In February 2007, Mr Biden commented on Mr Obama - at that point a rival for the Democratic nomination - saying: "I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy, I mean, that's a storybook, man."

Responding to a voter who disliked Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire last month, Mr Biden said: "Hillary Clinton is as qualified or more qualified than I am to be vice-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 is first-rate."

In 2006, Mr Biden faced criticism over a video clip of him saying: "You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I'm not joking." His office later said he admired the growing Indian-American community in the state of Delaware and was talking about how new families were benefiting the local economy by taking over small businesses.

Arguably his most famous blunder came during Mr Biden's first run for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1987, when he plagiarised without attribution a speech UK Labour leader Neil Kinnock had given a few months earlier. He lost credibility and his campaign imploded.

Sarah Palin:
Asked repeatedly in a TV interview by CBS's Katie Couric to give examples of John McCain supporting financial regulation, Mrs Palin eventually said: "I'll try to find some and bring them to you."

In the same CBS interview, Mrs Palin was asked how Alaska's proximity to Russia boosted her foreign policy credentials. She replied: "We have trade missions back and forth, we do. It's very important when you consider even national security issues with Russia. As Putin rears his head and comes into the air space of the United States of America, where do they go? It's Alaska. It's just right over the border. It is from Alaska that we send those out to make sure that an eye is being kept on this very powerful nation, Russia, because they are right there, they are right next to our state."

When asked why she was not more accessible to reporters, amid complaints from the media that the McCain campaign was keeping her under wraps, Mrs Palin said: "I am so happy to talk to reporters. My life is an open book, happy to do it and very happy for more opportunities to do so."

Before she became the vice-president nominee, when asked in an interview for CNBC in July about that possibility Mrs Palin said: "As for that VP talk all the time, I'll tell you, I still can't answer that question until somebody answers for me what is it exactly that the VP does every day?"

Speaking to graduating students at her former Wasilla Assembly of God Church in June, Mrs Palin suggested a natural gas pipeline project had divine backing. "I can do my part in doing things like working really, really hard to get a natural gas pipeline, about a $30bn project that's going to create a lot of jobs for Alaskans and we'll have a lot of energy flowing through here. And pray about that also. I think God's will has to be done in unifying people and companies to get that gas pipeline built, so pray for that."

Biden's gaffes are much worse than Palins, but she is the one getting most of the negative focus the media can deliver. Palin's answers, while not perfect are basically true and honest. McCain has recommended regulation policy of Fannie and Freddie in 2003 and 2005, she just wasn't prepared to cite specifics when asked a gotcha question. The foreign policy experience of being proximate to Russia was never meant to be an important example, and has been blown way out of proportion to what she really was actually claiming. Russia does, in fact, have overflight issues into Alaskan airspace, and Putin is a growing threat on the world stage -- so where is the error in what she dsid. She could have said all of the above a lot of it better, but so could all of the candidates. And her comment to church school kids was totally appropriate for that setting, but perhaps seeming ridiculous to the godless, elitest, athiests in in the media and elsewhere. Palin doesn't seem to bring religion into her public policy, and her general religious values are good and we should be comforted by them when taken as a whole. And even Biden's gaffes while silly, don't make him an unqualified candidate.

The media should take s step back and return to a more civil and sincere time in journalism when credibility and balance mattered. We all deserve better than the trash we are subjected to daily by the media.

we will see tonight.
Anyone, even G.W. Bush makes a mistake once in a while.
That is not the point, in suggesting that S. Palin is a dope.
It does not change the fact that she is a holier than now hypocrite who would take away rights of others. Who wont or cant answer questions that all of should know the answers to that are running for such an exulted office. Twists of words is not the problem when you are on the stomp everyday. Shit happens. Sarah is unconditionally unqualified to govern anything. God help America if McCain is elected. His judgment is worthless.

This is by far the funniest campaign commercial yet. McCain just proves we're all human and some of us can make the funniest slips. Unlike Palin's failure to remember a single supreme court decision, from the one she criticized about Exxon Valdez two months ago to the darkest times of our country, Dredd Scott, Biden gaffes don't have national reprecussions.

watever

The McCain camp should chortle away and enjoy this moment while they can.

When the ads featuring the video clips start to run of John McCain personally singing "Bomb-bomb-bomb, Bomb-bomb Iran" to the Beach Boys' melody (all to the immense delight of a campaign gathering of the GOP faithful), we will no doubt launch into an interesting national dialogue over the difference between what is just a silly slip of a politician's tongue, and what is not a laughing matter.

Wishful thinking from the king of gaffes

Why does no one mention he plagiarized a speach during the 1987 elections?

So basically we should look for another robotic and humorless Cheney-type for our next VP? sorry...

I pity the party that does this kind of deparate damage control after such epic failure in picking a running mate. Your best bet at winning a presidential election right now is to dump Palin and sheepishly admit you made a huge mistake, republicans.

She is seriously not good.

Biden's comments about being patriotic and paying taxes are directed at those making $250,000 or more a year. Biden NEVER voted to raise taxes on anyone making as little as $42.000.

McCain Palin:
Ready to lie-YES
Ready to lead-We'll get back to ya later

The funny part about this is that the Obama campaign has never made any negative remarks about Palin. Barack Obama and Joe Biden have been nothing but complimentary. McCain has it all wrong (big surprise), it's the media that has been attacking Palin and for good cause.

Just another example of how out of touch McCain and his campaign is. Clearly, they "don't get it".

I am so sick and tired of Mc Cann's negative ads and his blatant lies.
Obama was mute his ad claims about the financial crisis. It was
Obama's 6 principles that were included, principles McCann took
as his own, just switched them around.
McCann scares me. Not only is he too old but he's trigger happy
and ill tempered, to use an understatement.

the only bad thing in this ad refers to taxes, and the statement is VERY FALSE. Biden/Obama aren't going to raise taxes for anyone who makes under 250,000 annually. STOP LYING!

This isn't newsworthy. This is ridiculous attack ad that shows just how desperate the McCain campaign is while he watches any chance he had slipping away with his VP pick's inability to answer any questions at all. And by putting this ad on your site, you're making Democrats angry and Republicans happy. So, nice work.

Apologies for not having visited this site before today.....but is there a point to this piece? It's a YouTube video with essentially a summary of what's in the video below it. But there's no context, news, insight, conversation, nothing... Even news blogs have some perspective. Can't a political editor give a little editorial wisdom? If not, is this really etherworthy?

Some fact checking on Biden's supposed vote to raise taxes for those making just $42,000 might be in order...

A truly pathetic attempt to jump-cut misstatements that only highlights how incredibly inept Sarah Palin is by comparison, since ALL the clips of her are shown IN CONTEXT and not little "gotcha grabs" like this. A ten year old with a Mac could do a better production.

Biden's nothing but a leftist liar and exaggerator.

THIS IS PURE DIRTY POLITICS AND WHY I'M NOT VOTING FOR McCAIN!
Continue to have these kinds of ads and a lot of people I know w/also not vote for him ... here and throughout the nation! I am a republican who has had enough of McCain's antics and dirty politics; a lie is a lie is a lie - no matter what color!

Maybe McCain will say he hates Gooks again in his debate. That would be nice. Maybe he will go on to refer to Muslims as towel-heads next time he speaks about the surge working. In a (whimpy geezer voice) what Senator Obama doesn't seem to forget the surge knocked those towel-heads right on their asses. THe surge worked, because now there are thousands of less brownies we have to worry about, and after the election there will be one less I will have to worry about. I'm looking at you NObama!

I hope Palin refers to witch craft and sorcery. I hope she waves her baby above the podium. I'm a hockey-mom pit-bull.

Another cheap shot from the cheap shot, cheap stunt artist McCain and Company. He was no help in Washington with the budget crisis. Did he help lift one bag of sand during Ike? Now he's using cheap out takes to discredit a capable politician like Biden.

McCain's no maverick. He's just reckless. Reckless in selecting Palin to begin with. Reckless with the truth in debate one. Reckless with this type of scare tactic ad. America has no need of McCain the Maverick. Who knows who will be the next collateral damage when McCain the "Maverick" comes into town shooting freely from both sides of his mouth at the same time?

Yes my friends Aldus Huxley's Brave New World's "double speak" is alive and well and represented by John McCain. Distract from the content of the debate by smearing Biden just before.

One Obama in the hand is worth more than a McCain in the Bush! Vote for the future not the past! Vote for Obama!

I'll take "7-Eleven" over "Looking over Russia" any day.

How about Biden's referenece to the US being comprised of 57 states?

This once again another obvious McCain lie and John McCain should be ashamed of himself especially in light of his running mate Palin who is a bully and whose sarcasm is very unbecoming especially in light of her on obvious limitations.

I guess most here don't listen to BHO if you say McCain offers hate and negativity..lol

You have to take this for what it is. McCain's advisors have all determined his only hope is to go as negative as possible, so he is.

If that's the worse gaff's they can dig up on Joe after over 30 years on the job I'd say ,that compared to most politicians, he's go them beat hands down!

I have lived in several countries around the world and have experienced first hand several political campaigns. McCain's campaign equates with the kind of stuff I have seen in Africa and South America.
This only proves that not only the American economy is going down, down, down.
Way to go America!
I guess americans still have the bars and churches to go look for hope.

I watched that little film and braced myself for Biden's "gaffes." I didn't hear any. Was that the best you could do to trash McCain? I don't know him well, but I personally just being to like him better and BETTER! Thanks, McCain for opening my eyes!

Thanks McCain campaign--you are helping to lower the expectations for Biden tonight. Is this your intention? Odd politics...

DB Mania, are you laughing out loud out loud?

I think I might run for mayor this year, that way I'll be ready to be someone's running mate in 2012.

Sarah will do just fine tonight - and McCain is certainly positive on a lot of things - evidently he isn't as "giddy" as some here would like him to be. Sarah probably knows more about how everyday citizens live and their problems than the other three put together. McCain/Palin gets my vote!

Finally! I'd like to see the McCain campaign give this web spot some serious air play. Then the public would see Joe Biden for what he is: a politician who blurts out the truth faster than it occurs to him not to. Unlike Sarah Palin, a politician who recites entire speeches without an honest answer in them. Obama/Biden '08!

Umm, 700B bailout, I am little ill. Like any Americans, we are ill. Why don't they bailout me? This bailout will shore up health-care, ummm, we have to cut spending. umm, just mumbling like Palin. She's cute!

Have any of the posters paid attention to Obama's ads? They are purely negative and generally false. This is an accurate portrayal of Joe Biden, widely reputed to be the dumbest man in the Senate.

Positive plans? What "plans" has Obama put forth? He uses his ads and his speeches to criticize McCain, no matter how false the claims he is spouting have been proven.

Duck JOE- There is gunfire in the area!

A distorted, ridiculous ad -- let's forget gaffes from both candidates and concentrate on what they stand for as a candidate and as a party.

The Republican party stands for and sells what is wrong with America: hate, fear of those who are different than you; support of the wealthy and greedy; exploitation of those who are less wealthy than those they represent.
How can Christian conservatives support them ? in some un-holy alliance where
Jesus carries a gun. Republicans surely do not represent the kind and caring
Christ that I was brought up with.

But if Obama does win, then what? Surely it is not too early to ask.

Could Obama unify the country? During a crisis that Obama called the worst since the Great Depression, he said, "Call me if you need me." Is he The Fonz kind of leader who wants to breeze into a scene and - with appearing cool as his top priority - make a smooth speech and then float out the door, leaving the dirty, uncool work to others?

Would Obama appoint "rivals" to his cabinet? Would Obama ask Hillary Clinton to be secretary of something? Or would Michelle Obama veto that idea, as she reportedly did regarding Hillary for VP?

Obama wouldn't echo Bill Clinton in saying he wants his cabinet to "look like America." But would he appoint cabinet members who think like America - people of divergent views, including those who'd challenge liberal orthodoxy?

Obama has voted against minimum wage increases. He has voted against tax cuts for individuals filing $45000 or less or joint returns of $62000 or less… legislation that included increased deductions for out of pocket expenses for elementary and secondary school teachers and increased deductions for small businesses. McCain voted for these measures.

Obama voted yay for a measure: “Vote to adopt an amendment that opposes comments that criticize the honor, integrity, and patriotism of individuals serving or having served honorably in the United States Armed Forces.” McCain, as a decorated veteran of an unpopular war, voted no. Free speech anyone?

It is true, McCain hasn’t been present all the time, but his voting practices are nearly 50/50, yays/nays, while Obama says nay only about 34% of the time, but of those nays were tax decreases for the middle to lower middle class, increased deductions for teachers and small business. His yays include potential violations of our freedom of speech?

McCain has demonstrated discretionary budgeting, while Obama yays most anything that comes across his plate.

If you are interested in losing your rights in the name of the proletariat along with funding social programs, building the economy “from the bottom up”, I think you’re living in the wrong country.

Obama’s views aren’t Democratic but borderline socialist. Who needs the wake up call? I’m sorry for all you dems who can do nothing more than ridicule a dissenting point of view.

I’m going to vote for McCain based on my love of this country and a sound analysis of what I believe is important and right for the country, rather than going with the flow of the media and the ridicule of bloggers who can only say that if you’re with McCain you must be some sort of red neck. If you’re swayed by peace sign waving hollywood stars and/or your friends saying your stupid if you don’t for McCain with no other bearing you shouldn’t have the right to vote. Oh, my bad, this is America, you do have that right. *gulp*

Here is another example of why I (a longtime Democratic gay man) is actually considering the Republicans this year.

I want to win too…truly I want people who represent my issues….but the way the Democrats and Obama are playing the game this year is just wrong (I’m also a UCC pastor and simply care about ethics and the “means justify the ends” playbook we’re using is not okay with me).

It was bad enough watching sexism bring HRC down while the DNC stood by in utter silence. Its bad enough that even I can see how the mainstream media is simply in LOVE with Obama and is, therefore, biased on a daily basis.

I love Biden's gaffes. They are almost always harmless. If the Republicans want to make gaffes an issue I say bring it on. Sarah Palin's gaffes are always much more scary than Biden's

Sure, Joe, like most normal humans, including Sarah, misspeaks at times but he isn't showing signs of senile dementia as is Mr. McCain.

This is my third attempt to add a comment. Is it because I am for McCain/Palin?Please, can't you liberals even be fair with comments - what are you afraid of - must be a lot of people really do think McCain will make a better president.

The Republican party stands for and sells what is wrong with America: hate, fear of those who are different than you; support of the wealthy and greedy; exploitation of those who are less wealthy than those they represent.
How can Christian conservatives support them ? in some un-holy alliance where
Jesus carries a gun. Republicans surely do not represent the kind and caring
Christ that I was brought up with.

Who cares about gaffes? Many Americans and I care about the fact that John McCain picked a running mate based on a purely political ploy. C'mon Republicans, do you really think Palin should be second in command as the leader of the free world? Seriously, what does that say about McCain beside the fact that he's hopping on Obama's "change" bandwagon by picking a woman-- regardless of whether or not she would actually be any good at the job. I don't even care that she may or may not be a moron. He's the moron!!!!!!

HONEST PEOPLE KNOW WHAT OBAMA IS REALLY LIKE

OBAMA IS A RACIST WHO HATES WHITE PEOPLE
OBAMA IS A LIAR
OBAMA IS A CLOSET HOMO
OBAMA IS A MUSLIM
OBAMA IS A THIEF

WHILE OBAMA SMILES IN YOUR FACE
HIS POSSE IS STEALING
YOUR MONEY AND GUNS
OUT YOUR BACK DOOR
CALLING YOU A STUPID CRACKER

OBAMA IS A BLACK MILITANT COMMUNIST
TRUBLE MAKING COMMUNITY MARXIST ORGANIZER

VOTE BLACK YOU NEVER GET YOUR COUNTRY BACK
DAVE

Posted by artwych October 2, 08 01:37 PM -
"This coming from the moron who picked Sarah Palin. Talk about a GAFFE!!!"

CORRECTION: This is coming from the PUPPET who followed the STRING-PULLING of his PUPPET MASTERS to ACCEPT SARAH PALIN as his his running mate.
I feel bad for John McCain. As such a distinguished war hero and lifetime lawmaker, taking the shot of his life at winning the US Presidential election, who would have thought that he could appear so powerless and devoid of leadership quality. I really wanted to vote for him at one time. But seeing how fake the Republican party has become, it is clear to me that the world has missed its chance to see John McCain win and execute the leadership that we want.

He is nothing but a puppet on a stick now.
I am voting with the other side this time. I am no fool.

The name of this rag is "Political Intelligence"? Isn't that an oxymoron?

Palin is one long continuous gaffe, give me a break.

Boy, party lines are something else. The democraps think ANYTHING their boys, NOBAMA and BIDEN say is the Gospel and WE, THE PEOPLE MUST HEED THE SPOKEN WORD. Further, ANYTHING McCain or Palin say is wrong, racist, gibberish or doesn't represent change. If that empty suit gets elected, were all in deep dodo.

doesn't anyone remember McCain's joke about Chelsea Clinton?

"Trash journalism"? I was just thinking this morning about how I have seen an article online every day with a YouTube link to the Couric interview of Sarah Palin -- helpful reminders, perhaps, in case I missed the original broadcast -- and yet I have heard nothing about the John Edwards love child since the news broke months ago. What kind of journalism is that...?

Joe will have Sarah Palin for Dinner tonight. All her high pitched screams wont work. All the talking she did till now was one-way communication. She will now get a fast and furious reply to the nonsense that she frequently barks out.

It's show time tonight.

Desperate,,,,,,,Way to lower Biden's expectations--- another great move on the part of McCain's campaign first initiative

With John McCain's involvement in the Keating Five I am surprised he would want his public relations department to dig dirt on anyone! "He who is without sin..." shall we say.
As far as the gaffes go, everyone has misspoke a time or two, that has nothing to do with ones knowledge of issues.

Sean Hannity says 'journalism died in the year 2008.' Do you suppose he had this kind of entry in mind?

desperate situations call for desperate measures. lol, wooooooooooooow.

I love all of the comments about Senator Obama staying above the fray and not publishing ads about Governor Palin's misspeaks during the interviews the past couple of weeks. What a bunch of bunk. Guess what? Obama doesn't have to say anything. The media does it for him - and all for free! Personally, I don't think she did any worse than any of the rest of us responding to this article would do under the same set of circumstances. Biden's been around for 30 years. He has no excuse.

The only thing "in the tank" is the McCain campaign.

What McCain thinks does not matter. He will not be president and Palin will write a book published by some christian book publisher. Another drama another election.

The only ones not ready to lead are McCain and Palin. Both have been acting increasingly unstable- suspending campaigns, switching positions in less than a day, defending the claim that because Alaska is close to Russia, it somehow makes Palin some expert on Russian foreign policy. Please. We need leadership in this country.
Obama/Biden 08

Funny for McCain to point out gaffes.

Sort of like him saying that Iran is in cohots with Al Queda even though Iran is primarily Shia and Al Queda is Sunni

Or how about his mention of the Iraq/Pakistan border

Or his mix up of Somalia and the Sudan

And these are all in McCain's area of "expertise", foreign affairs.

When your in the spot light, giving interviews and answering questions as much as the candidates are, your bound to misspeak a few times, but I agree with those that say there is a difference between a gaffe and just plain not knowing the answer to the question because you are uninformed. I believe that Obama, Biden and McCain misspeak sometimes, but Palin often just doesn't know the answers.

These ads are Rove at his best...America at its worst.

I have yet to see one ad by McCain that shows what his plans are for the country. EVERY SINGLE AD has been a negative attack ad. And want this guy representing us to the world?

He has demonstrated extremely poor judgment in his VP pick. What about Fiorina?
Clearly he does NOT put country first.

S

Are you kidding me??? I LOVE Joe Biden - Funny as heck...and may I say, brilliant as can be when it comes to the issues too.
Let Sarah explain the Russia/Alaska neighbor thing again tonight - not so funny.

i hope everybody in america watches tonight, this is going to be the funniest thing ever televised, i cant wait to see Palin stumbling over her words as somebody speaks into her earpiece confusing the hell out of her

Just when I thought The GOP was at the bottom of the desparation barrel , they manage to scape a bit deeper

Your desperation is showing, Sen. McCain. Your poor judgement is magnified by your choice of running mate.

Sarah will be fine in the debate, if she can read from a tele-prompter, as she did when she delivered her acceptance speech. Oh, I wonder, maybe she'll 'let down her hair' to hide a 'mike' planted in her ear?

Unfortunately Joe can't win. If he verbally attacks, as one would against any male opponent, he'll be criticized for being a bully. If he is kind and gentleman like, and treats her like a woman, he'll be labelled a sexist and a chauvinist.

I would rather make a few verbal misteps than be a complete idiot like Palin!

Once I phoned a friend in a weel chair and told him that at the event we were planning to go to, there would be "no seats" available; we would have to stay standing... He said : "I don't care, I am always sitting!" and added that he was happy I forgot he was handicapped even though I knew him since 2 years.

According to that friend, not seeing the handicap is a virtue... that could be credited to Biden.

When a man hires attorneys to be his TRUTH SQUADS like Obama has done in Missouri, to keep people from speaking then he is already taking our rights away from us. When he uses ACORN to register dead voters and people over and over then I am afraid of what he will do as our president. This man is dangerous and most of you liberal bloggers cannot see it. He is still blaming McCain for the crash on Wall Street. If you do not believe he is lying through his teeth over this, then look yp the Video on You tube and hear and see for yourself how in 2004 that the Republicans tried their best to get reforms on Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae and the Democrats (who were in control of Congress flatly refused it over and over again.Dru

I'm hoping my wildest dream comes true: Joltin' Joe shakes Ms. Sarah's hand and says, "Hey, nice hooters".

Recently, I listened to a Republican Strategist who said that the reason that they used such negative attacks was because they worked.
Maybe the nation is evolving intellectually much faster than they can comprehend.

35 plus years in the Congress, a Zero rating (the worst rating one can receive) for 2007 (22% lifetime average) from the Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) ,Sen. Biden has a liking for pork in the bills. Sen. Obama also has a 10% rating for 2007, (18% lifetime). This is pork they peronally requested, So this is change?

This is getting scary. am I about to witness the demise of America like the D.D.R. and the U.S.S.R.?
I've been following the entire campaign very, very closely for months, but when McCain picked this Palin sad joke I went into apoplexy.
Is the oft discussed "dumbing down of America" finally complete? I think Karl Rove should be your next president. He will definitely finish the job, even though there's not that much left to do.

Biden's gaffes: Inconsequential. Beside the point.
Palin's gaffes: Frightening. Dangerous.

Biden's knowledge: Impressive. Commanding.
Palin's knowledge: Missing. Covered up with "certainty".

Biden's experience: Extensive. Relevant.
Palin's experience: Limited. Unrelated.

Biden: Heavyweight diplomat. Gentleman.
Palin: Lightweight pit bull. Religulous.

This should be fun.

It's a funny concept - but as usual, the GOP'ers screwed it up. That spot is slapdash - they didn't even bother to find his worst gaffes - and the constant repetition of the "What am I talking about?" is like bad PhotoShop. It ends up as an amateurish hitjob perpetrated by the most amateurish campaign in history.
Prepare for a long walk in the wilderness, GOP. Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.
Oh. Wait. The door got repossessed.

Yeah well I would have liked it better if they had included his comment about 'President Franklin Roosevelt going on TV right after the stock market crash that led to the Great Depression' That would have been the clincher. But there are so many more gaffes he makes Dan Quayle look like Albert Einstein.

To the person waiting to hear a gaffe by Gov. Palin...it won't happen. She doesn't make gaffes.

My question is...why do people assume that Gov. Palin is somehow not intelligent? Because she is not hard-looking like Hillary?

Fortunately, the American voters -- *especially* those who didn't attend Harvard -- are smart enough to know that we're not electing someone to deliver ruthless zingers and folksy charm in a televised debate. We're electing a Vice President to be ready from day one to step into the presidency without warning. Sarah Palin's resume shows that she's unqualified for this job and nothing she can do in tonight's debate or over the next four weeks will change this fact.