Biden says Palin ‘warrants respect’ -- Disagreements will be based on issue positions

[jefferson_dem]

Biden says Palin ‘warrants respect’
Posted: 08:04 PM ET

Biden said he would debate Palin with respect.

SARASOTA, Florida (CNN) – Joe Biden again refused to attack the experience of GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin, hours before she was to deliver a speech sharply critical of the Democratic ticket.

At an event in Sarasota, a voter asked Biden how he would debate Palin when she “was not prepared to face an international crisis.”

Biden offered a strong rebuke.

“Well look, the answer is one word: with respect,” he said. “She is the governor of a state. She warrants respect.”

He told the crowded high school gymnasium he would debate Palin on the issues, not on her experience of governor of Alaska.

“It will be determined by what her positions are,” Biden said. “Our disagreements will be based upon how fundamentally, if it is fundamental, and I expect it's likely to be, her views on everything form the Supreme Court, protecting a woman's right, all the way up to ending the war in Iraq. That's what it's going to be based upon.”

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/09/03/biden-says-palin-%E2%80%98warrants-respect%E2%80%99/

[Kdillard]

1. Biden and Obama keep saying and doing the right thing.

[Olney Blue]

2. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. That is how to play this card, Joe.

[Fluffdaddy]

13. Joe knows how the game is played. It's up to our 527's and bloggers to do the dirt

[stolivodka]

3. This is smart.

By the time the debates come around, people will be completely sick of hearing how Failin is the governor of a lame state and has no real experience. When Joe tears into her on the issues, people will think to themselves "What does she have left?"

Good stuff. It's nice to have Democrats who want to win, again. It's been too long.

[Marsala]

4. Great strategy

Really, the temptation to join in the bash-fest must be strong, but Obama and Biden are mature enough to keep the high ground.

[Lisavella]

5. Agree, but...

Some privacy matters should be covered because they illustrate Palin's hypocrisy.

[Muttocracy]

14. oh please, you just posted here to up your count to be able to troll post. nt

[gemlake]

6. That's exactly the way to play it.

Let the media/tabloids do the vetting on her background. Obama/Biden can focus on the issues.

[liberal renegade]

7. Hey Joe

she ain't getting my respect. I'll spare you from criticism and tell it like it is. She's a douchebag and her husband is the contents of said douchebag.

[dennis4868]

8. meanwhile....

Palin and McCain and the other speakers at the convention will attack Obama's lack of experience and the media will love it and you will see McCain get a bump in the poles because of it....

[Canuckistanian]

9. Very diplomatic

That's right, Joe.

Save it for the debate.

You'll clean her clock.

[tigereye]

10. I wish someone would have the chutzpah to call it for the cynical douche-

baggery that it is.


Why does everyone always fall over backwards not to offend the Reps? They never worry about offending us.

After all the crap that Hillary got and the shit that the Reps pull slamming every candidate we ever put up, this totally unqualified woman deserves respect? :wtf: :banghead:


I'm not talking about you, OP, but the whole concept....

[stolivodka]

15. Good cop, bad cop.

I'm sure you've heard of "Good Cop, Bad Cop". Well, Repukes don't practice it. When they slime our guys, the name of their candidate is all over the attacks. That means that they lose points for playing dirty, but the idea is that their opponent who was slimed lost more points.

Obama/Biden seem to be using a new strategy that is the best of both worlds. You see, us here on the "liberal internet" are the "bad cops". What we do is dig up the dirt, get all up in the muckety-muck, and kneecap the crap out of the Repuke candidates. Thanks to the information economy, our muckraking bleeds into the mainstream media, damaging the other candidates. Now, Obama and Biden denounce us as being a bunch of fringe element nobodies, or even Republican false flag operatives, and virtually none of the stigma of playing dirty sticks to them.

Pretty neat, huh?

[earthside]

11. That's good for him to say, but ...

... the rest of us need to pound her and old John McSame into the dust.

[jillan]

12. What else is he suppose to say?

"oh - I can't wait to rip her to shreds?" :P

Joe's got more class than that.

[DemsUnited]

16. All Biden has to say is he'll debate Palin like he debated Clinton, who not only held her own

in debates, but whupped him good at the polls!

[ClarkUSA]

17. Yes, and Biden called Karl Rove "a great American" after Rove called him "a blowhard doofus"

Joe knows how to play rope-a-dope as does Barack.

Let Palin sound like a shrill version of Sally Field tonight,
attacking the media and Barack. Her schtick will get old,
fast.