Barack America

[AZXD]

Confirmation ... Now I don't feel so bad ... I thought I was hearing things
I can't wait for these guys to have a teleprompter failure ... Silence or ... cringe .. speaking their minds

Obama and Biden lose the script on their day in the sun

4 hours ago
SPRINGFIELD, Illinois (AFP) — Barack Obama and Joseph Biden both fluffed their lines Saturday as the new White House running mates ceded an opening to their Republican enemies by veering off-script under a broiling sun.

The tropical intensity in Civil War president Abraham Lincoln's hometown here certainly took its toll on a crowd numbered at an impressive 35,000 by fire marshals.

At least one woman collapsed as the crowd, dozens deep in front of the Old State Capitol building and around adjacent blocks, sizzled in the long wait for the Democrats to stage their grand entry.

Perhaps feeling the heat as the mercury nudged 100 degrees Fahrenheit (37.8 degrees Celsius), Obama made a slip of the tongue as he introduced Biden as "the next president," before correcting it to vice president.

Honor thy stand-in Father

But the campaign of Republican rival John McCain was in no mood to be charitable, calling it a "Freudian slip" that, it said, betrayed the 47-year-old Obama's unreadiness to serve as commander-in-chief.

If the silver-tongued Obama rarely slips up, Biden trails a treasure trove of gaffes that is already feeding the Republican attack machine.

The Delaware senator, 65, was in full cry against McCain when he botched his new boss's name as "Barack America." That triggered corrective chants of "Obama" from the crowd and a rueful smile from the VP hopeful.

Rock Star ?

Despite the heat and despite squadrons of midges that launched remorseless raids on exposed skin, the audience was pumped up for the rollout of Obama's most important decision yet in this epic White House contest.

Biden bounced onto the stage, jacketless with shirt-sleeves rolled up for action, after the Obama campaign had played possum all Friday with media organizations desperate to confirm the new VP pick's identity.

The campaign had promised to divulge the name in an electronic blizzard of text messages and emails to signed-up supporters. But Biden's selection eventually leaked across the TV networks late Friday, 24 hours after Obama first asked his veteran Senate colleague to come on board.

The hotly anticipated text message finally set cellphones buzzing at 2:00 am Chicago time, rousing reporters from their beds for a frenzy of late-night writing.

Two spokeswomen accompanying Obama on his plane confessed to being kept in the dark themselves, reinforcing signs that the announcement was kept under wraps by a very tight circle at the campaign's seniormost levels.

"It isn't like there was a staff meeting to say 'this is the person'. We were all signed up for the text messages, like you," one of the aides said.

At the event, "Obama-Biden" banners made their debut as the enormous crowd gave a rapturous welcome to the two Democrats standing on the same steps where Obama launched his White House quest on a bitterly cold day in February 2007.

Joyce Jackson, an African-American office manager still working aged 70, dismissed Republican attacks on Biden.

"He brings experience, he brings maturity, he's his own man who can tell you you're wrong with a smile on his face," she told AFP.

"I like the combination of youth and experience, he's a senior just like me!" she said.

Father and Son ?

Colleen Callahan, a Democrat running for the state's 18th congressional district encompassing Springfield, said Obama had made an "excellent choice."

"He's done what he said he was going to: he's added someone who's not a yes man," she said.

Addressing the objections of some diehard supporters of Obama's vanquished primary rival Hillary Clinton, Callahan said: "There'll probably still be unhappiness.

"It doesn't mean that he and she won't still be confidantes or that she might not end up in his cabinet," she said.

As watchful Secret Service agents monitored the crowd, sweating in their dark suits, Jackson addressed fears in the African-American community and beyond that Obama could be an assassination target.

"I do worry but I do believe that he's got a divine arm of protection around him. So let's pray and put it in God's hands," she said, mopping her brow.

[XDCC]

I am sure that someone has pointed this out already but how is Biden, "change"? This guy is an old school, long term Washington insider! Come on! Do they really think nobody will notice?

[Reeek]

Originally Posted by XDCC

I am sure that someone has pointed this out already but how is Biden, "change"? This guy is an old school, long term Washington insider! Come on! Do they really think nobody will notice?

I think it's fair to say his M.O. would probably be a change from the M. O. of the White House for the last 8 years. Right or wrong, I think he favors diplomacy rather than the "frothing pissed off dog whose cage has been rattled "attitude that has put us in a military quagmire.

I think America has a VERY valid reason to be a pissed off nation after 9/11 but I also think the warrior to be feared is the warrior who is in control of their faculties. A warrior who is smart and wise and methodical. A warrior who has the intelligence (as in mental capacity) to see the future better than the current White House has. The bottom-line is, GW's White House severly under-estimated the long term Iraqi invasion. I truly believe they thought the hard part was over when Bush declared victory. The White House fu*ked up big time . . .

I don't know how many of you feel since the Russian invasion of Georgia but I have personally felt vulnerable and I can't ever recall feeling that way about America's military might.

We made a huge mistake going into Iraq in the first place. We did the right thing going into Afghanistan. These are my personal opinions. I don't think there is any argument that the person who assembled our proclaimed current enemy is still at large.

Now because of Iraq, we can't do anything about Russia. Russia is laughing their asses off at us right now and they are not afraid of us right now either.

[LUVMYSIGP225]

Originally Posted by Reeek

Now because of Iraq, we can't do anything about Russia. Russia is laughing their asses off at us right now and they are not afraid of us right now either.

I see that your sig line states that you are a Navy Vet. Then you know that Russia is very afraid of the Boomers that we have shadowing every coast of their country right now.

You are correct, Russia is not afraid of our conventional forces right now, but they know that we are FAR from vulnerable.

I wonder what we aren't hearing about right now. What kind of "close call" nuke games are we playing with them right now.

[AZXD]

Originally Posted by Reeek

GW's White House

I'm glad you're not upset enough to loose the topic of this thread.

Why don't you start your own "I hate this administration" thread and leave this one alone.

[AZXD]

Originally Posted by LUVMYSIGP225

I see that your sig line states that you are a Navy Vet. Then you know that Russia is very afraid of the Boomers that we have shadowing every coast of their country right now.

You are correct, Russia is not afraid of our conventional forces right now, but they know that we are FAR from vulnerable.

I wonder what we aren't hearing about right now. What kind of "close call" nuke games are we playing with them right now.

I guess I was late ... Let's just change this to Reeek hates George Bush and likes to talk about him every chance he gets.

I agree with you LSM we are not that vulnerable ... But it was the excuse Reeek needed to tell us once again how he feels about "the frothing pissed off dog whose cage has been rattled"

[Reeek]

Originally Posted by AZXD

I'm glad you're not upset enough to loose the topic of this thread.

Why don't you start your own "I hate this administration" thread and leave this one alone.

I specify the GW WH only because I believe his WH has screwed up while still respecting the the Office of the President and the sanctity of the White House. That is the only reason I do that.

I think GW and his WH are a bunch of bungling buffoons who have screwed a lot of things up royally but I am not a "Bush Hater" per se.

In all of my 52 years on earth, all those years a vicious patriot, I have never criticized an Administration like this although I had some extremely colorful crtitcism for the Carter WH to be sure!

So please don't classify me as a "Bush Hater" even if I do consider this administration the worst administration in my adult life. Since I have been alive the two worst WH's have been Carter's and Bush's. That's how I feel and I think I have a lot of ammo to feel that way.

I've said it before and I'm saying it again, I'm not a liberal and none of my crticism toward GW and his cabinet has anything to do with my political persuasion. It's all about their record as far as I'm concerned.

[AZXD]

Originally Posted by Reeek

I specify the GW WH only because I believe his WH has screwed up while still respecting the the Office of the President and the sanctity of the White House. That is the only reason I do that.

I think GW and his WH are a bunch of bungling buffoons who have screwed a lot of things up royally but I am not a "Bush Hater" per se.

In all of my 52 years on earth, all those years a vicious patriot, I have never criticized an Administration like this although I had some extremely colorful crtitcism for the Carter WH to be sure!

So please don't classify me as a "Bush Hater" even if I do consider this administration the worst administration in my adult life. Since I have been alive the two worst WH's have been Carter's and Bush's. That's how I feel and I think I have a lot of ammo to feel that way.

I've said it before and I'm saying it again, I'm not a liberal and none of my crticism toward GW and his cabinet has anything to do with my political persuasion. It's all about their record as far as I'm concerned.

Bull$hit

Show me one place in your writing that has anything to do with Barack America and the gaffe's of Obama and Biden as highlighted in this article ??

Face facts, you are pi$$ed at GW and crew and just decided to go off on them again while ignoring the thread topic.

[justgotback]

Originally Posted by Reeek

I specify the GW WH only because I believe his WH has screwed up while still respecting the the Office of the President and the sanctity of the White House. That is the only reason I do that.

I think GW and his WH are a bunch of bungling buffoons who have screwed a lot of things up royally but I am not a "Bush Hater" per se.

In all of my 52 years on earth, all those years a vicious patriot, I have never criticized an Administration like this although I had some extremely colorful crtitcism for the Carter WH to be sure!

So please don't classify me as a "Bush Hater" even if I do consider this administration the worst administration in my adult life. Since I have been alive the two worst WH's have been Carter's and Bush's. That's how I feel and I think I have a lot of ammo to feel that way.

I've said it before and I'm saying it again, I'm not a liberal and none of my crticism toward GW and his cabinet has anything to do with my political persuasion. It's all about their record as far as I'm concerned.

Watchout AZ, he says he'll knock people out for certain things....

[AZXD]

Originally Posted by justgotback

Watchout AZ, he says he'll knock people out for certain things....

Yea, I think that was also an off-topic comment