The Moment Our VP Made Me & Mr. Pete-Beam With Pride

[kpete]

BIDEN: And I love my friend here. I — I’m not allowed to show letters but go on our website, he sent me two letters saying, “By the way, can you send me some stimulus money for companies here in the state of Wisconsin?” We sent millions of dollars. You know…

RADDATZ: You did ask for stimulus money, correct?

BIDEN: Sure he did. By the way…

RYAN: On two occasions we — we — we advocated for constituents who were applying for grants. That’s what we do. We do that for all constituents who are…

(CROSSTALK) BIDEN: I love that. I love that. This was such a bad program and he writes me a letter saying — writes the Department of Energy a letter saying, “The reason we need this stimulus, it will create growth and jobs.” His words. And now he’s sitting here looking at me.

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/10/12/1002571/biden-slams-ryan-over-his-past-support-for-the-clean-energy-stimulus/

(mr. pete is an independent btw)
(i should have said: Mr. Peter & I?)

UPDATE:
LETTERS HERE:
http://secure.assets.bostatic.com/pdfs/truth-team/Ryan_4stimulusletters_press.pdf

[NOLALady]

1. Yeah.

I kinda liked that part too.

I was high fiving the air as I was watching it alone.

[rhett o rick]

2. yes very cool. nm

[Voice for Peace]

3. "this is a bunch of stuff"

He must have been coached not to say bullshit, or lies

[Myrina]

7. He almost called Lyin Ryan a liar at least once ...

... i thought maybe it was on purpose, in that 'Lunchpail Joe' kinda way ... it was a rebuttal to one of Lyin's many lies, and Joe said something like "I wish they'd stop ly ... they'd show more candor" ... it was pretty hilarious because you KNOW the word LIAR was right there waiting to jump out ...

[gkhouston]

14. Yes! He got as far as, "I wish you would just tell..." and my mind filled in "the truth" while

he backtracked and said something about showing more candor.

[Cha]

16. Or BFD!

[ocd liberal]

4. Oh YEAH!

I loved that too!!!

[AllyCat]

5. This was fantastic. He made Ryan say "it creates jobs".

He got Ryan to make the point that every thinking American already knows. And he showed how it's okay for the GOP to do this, but then not okay if the Dems do it.

Masterful in my estimation.

[SheilaT]

6. "Mr. Pete and me" is the correct formulation.

Leave Mr. Pete out of it.

Would you say, "It made I beam with pride?" I hope not. You'd say, "It made me beam with pride."

The way to tell the correct pronoun to use in a compound formulation like that, is to leave the other person out. You will always get it correct.

People do not go around saying things like, "Me went to the grocery store yesterday", although they will say "Tom and me went to the grocery store yesterday," and so on.

Exiting grammar witch mode.

[kpete]

10. I knew i would

excite the "grammar witches"
welcome to my post!

peace, kp

[Auntie Bush]

11. Thanks, I liked your lesson and I'm sure some of our friends here on DU appreciated the explanation.

Sometimes it hard to remember 7th grade English lessons.

[Spider Jerusalem]

12. You would if you were speaking Jamaican patois

[SheilaT]

15. Well, I strongly suspect that the OP wasn't speaking

Jamaican patois.

[bluestate10]

8. I had an open invitation to watch the debate with a group of democrats in another city.

I turned it down because I didn't want to risk another Obama style debate flop and end up wanting to flush my head in a toilet. But Biden was spectacular, Biden mastered Ryan and contested every single bit of bullshit that Ryan threw out, contested them with verifiable facts. I read that President Obama watched the debate, I hope that the President saw in stark contrast where he failed to contest Romney's bullshit.

[grantcart]

9. kick.

[Shampoobra]

13. "Mr. Peter & I" in this context would have been incorrect

The way to decide when to use "I" or "me" is to remove the other person's name first.

Correct: "Join John and me tonight while we watch the debate."
Incorrect: "Join John and I tonight while we watch the debate."
(Because "join me tonight" is correct, while "join I tonight" is not.)

Correct: "May John and I watch the debate with you?"
Incorrect: "May John and me watch the debate with you?"
(Because "may I watch the debate with you?" is correct, while "may me watch the debate with you" is not.)

So you used "me" correctly in your subject line: "The Moment Our VP Made Me ... Beam With Pride" instead of "The Moment Our VP Made I ... Beam With Pride"