thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com - 10/21/2008
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Republicans pounce on the Democratic vice-presidential nominee's warning to supporters that the next president will face an international crisis.
weeklystandard.com - 10/21/2008
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weeklystandard.com —
John McCain took note Monday of Joe Biden’s
remarks the day before at a Seattle fundraiser (where...
Biden apparently didn’t realize at first there were media present). But there’s more McCain could say. Here’s McCain, in Belton, Missouri: Just ...
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Kristol: What Biden Implied
politico.com - 10/22/2008
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politico.com —
Joe Biden shifted things briefly onto what's thought
to be McCain's turf at a Seattle fundraiser yesterday:...
"It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking. We're about to elect a ...
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Biden: Obama will be tested
corner.nationalreview.com - 10/21/2008
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Sarah Palin in Reno today, via the campaign:
Two weeks from today, Americans will be asked to...
cast their vote for the next president of the United States. There's no time to wait. Let's get right to it. Did you hear what Senator Biden said ...
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Palin Runs with Biden's Test Warning
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... "just because." Afterall, a rout is better without doubt. (I made up the "just because" part.) John Broder of the New York Times looks into the ramifications of Biden's "test" comment. Rupert Murdoch's Times (UK) ...
Linda Bergthold: Unchallenged Lies and Unexamined Cliches -- CNN Interview of Sarah Palin by Drew Griffin
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... . Or her mischaracterization of what Joe Biden said about a potential international crisis. When will the mainstream media challenge this? Drew Griffin only asked her if her message was being "trapped" in media reporting. ...
Sarah Palin: The Crisis of Joe Biden's Mouth
Tennessee Guerilla Women —
... The Caucus: “Mark my words,” Mr. Biden warned at the Seattle fund-raiser, according to reports from network producers traveling with him, “It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking. We’re about to elect a brilliant 47-year-old senator president of the United States of America. Remember, I said it standing here, if you don’t remember anything else I said. Watch, we’re going to have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy.” ...
Fox Finally Gets Something Right - "Democratic" Strategist Kirsten Powers is a Fake
News Hounds —
... One of the segments on Fox's "premiere business news" show today (October 22, 2008) featured "Democratic strategist" Kirsten Powers. Powers, a sorry excuse for someone who's supposed to advocate on behalf of Democrats, was on to bash the ("liberal") media for allegedly ignoring Joe Biden's comment about Barack Obama being "tested" in the first six months of his potential presidency. As has been the case during all the coverage I've seen about this, Powell left out Biden's money quote: "[T]his guy has it. This guy has it.” And, "strategist" that she is, she failed to mention ...
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He’s Right, Of Course
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Biden's Epic Gaffe, Cont.
rossdouthat.theatlantic.com 10/24/2008 — People keep emailing me to say that Biden's gaffe wasn't a gaffe at all, that he was just talking about how Barack Obama will be tested like any new President will be tested, etc. Daniel Larison makes a similar point , calling Biden's remarks "wholly ...
A closing argument for John McCain
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mudvillegazette.com 10/23/2008 — Wacky uncle Joe Biden : Dan Quayle will have “POTATOE” etched on his gravestone. But how many times have late-night comedians and cable shows replayed the video of senior statesman and six-term Sen. Biden’s own spelling mishap last week while ...
On the Road: Marietta, Ohio
fivethirtyeight.com 10/20/2008 — When local field organizer Christian Lund took the stage just prior to Joe Biden's appearance on Tuesday night in Marietta, he asked those in the attendant crowd of about 4,000 to look at the sheets in their hands. Each sheet held four names, and each ...
Biden's on Tonight Show: 'What About this Joe?'
blogs.abcnews.com 10/17/2008 — ABC News' Matthew Jaffe Reports: In a taped appearance on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" to air later Thursday, Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., joked that Joe "The Plumber" Wurzelbacher, who was the man of the hour at Wednesday’s presidential...
Biden: John, stop these calls! —
CNN Political Ticker
Sen. Biden told John McCain to stop the robo-calls Tuesday.
GREELEY, Colorado (CNN) –- Joe Biden spoke directly to John McCain during a speech Tuesday afternoon, demanding that his campaign end robo-calls that attack Barack Obamas ...
Biden's warnings —
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From NBC/NJ's Mike Memoli Over the course of five fundraisers on the West Coast this weekend, Biden offered some pretty honest assessments of the state of the race, even by his standards.
He warned that the polls will tighten. He said that ...
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