Biden lashes out at Palin's 'pro-America' comment

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Biden lashes out at Palin's 'pro-America' comment

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/17/campaign.wrap/index.html

(CNN) -- Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden ripped into recent comments by his Republican counterpart that suggested that some places in the U.S. are more "pro-America" than others.

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin told a fundraiser in Greensboro, North Carolina, on Thursday night:

"We believe that the best of America is in the small towns that we get to visit, and in the wonderful little pockets of what I call the real America, being here with all of you hard-working, very patriotic, very pro-America areas of this great nation," she said.

"This is where we find the kindness and the goodness and the courage of everyday Americans," Palin added.

On Friday, Palin clarified her comments.

"It's all pro-America. I was just reinforcing the fact that there, where I was, there's good patriotic people there in these rallies, so excited about positive change and reform of government that's coming that they are so appreciative of hearing our message, hearing our plan. Not any one area of America is more pro-America patriotically than others," she said.

At a rally in Mesilla, New Mexico, on Friday, Biden responded to those comments in a vociferous tone.

"I hope it was just a slip on her part and she doesn't really mean it. But she said, it was reported she said, that she likes to visit, 'pro-American' parts of the country," he said to loud boos.

"It doesn't matter where you live, we all love this country, and I hope it gets through. We all love this country," he said. "We are one nation, under God, indivisible. We are all patriotic. We all love our country in every part of this nation! And I'm tired. I am tired, tired, tired, tired of the implications about patriotism."

[AspenRose]

1. Thank you Joe.

:patriot:

We're tired too.

[Larkspur]

2. Ditto

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

3. That headline's a real piece of work.

Way to go, CNN.

[Starry Messenger]

8. It's funny seeing them trying to make it into a catfight.

"Watch out girlfriend, Biden's got his claws out!"

[TomInTib]

4. "being here with all of you hard-working, very patriotic, very pro-America areas"

"being here with all of you .... areas"?

dumb fuck

Hey!, Amerigo! Did you know that we are "areas"?

[Amerigo Vespucci]

5. There's a "Palinisms" page on About.com:

http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/sarahpalin/a/palinisms.htm

Top 10 Dumbest Sarah Palin Quotes
Idiotic Quotes by Republican Vice Presidential Candidate Sarah Palin

By Daniel Kurtzman, About.com

http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/sarahpalin/a/palin-top-10.htm

1. "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?" --Sarah Palin, interview with CNBC's "Kudlow & Co", July 2008 (Watch video clip)

2. "As Putin rears his head and comes into the air space of the United States of America, where– where do they go? It's Alaska. It's just right over the border." --Sarah Palin, explaining why Alaska's proximity to Russia gives her foreign policy experience, interview with CBS's Katie Couric, Sept. 24, 2008 (Watch video clip)

3. "Well, let's see. There's -- of course -- in the great history of America rulings there have been rulings." --Sarah Palin, unable to name a Supreme Court decision she disagreed with other than Roe vs. Wade, interview with Katie Couric, CBS News, Oct. 1, 2008 (Watch video clip)

4. "All of 'em, any of 'em that have been in front of me over all these years." --Sarah Palin, unable to name a single newspaper or magazine she reads, interview with Katie Couric, CBS News, Oct. 1, 2008 (Watch video clip)

5. "They are also building schools for the Afghan children so that there is hope and opportunity in our neighboring country of Afghanistan." --Sarah Palin, speaking at a fundraiser in San Francisco, Oct. 5, 2008

6. "Pray for our military men and women who are striving to do what is right. Also, for this country, that our leaders, our national leaders, are sending soldiers out on a task that is from God. That's what we have to make sure that we're praying for, that there is a plan and that that plan is God's plan." –Sarah Pailn, on the Iraq war, speaking to students at the Wasilla Assembly of God, June 2008 (Watch video clip)

7. "I'll try to find you some and I'll bring them to you." --Sarah Palin, asked by Katie Couric to cite specific examples of how John McCain has pushed for more regulation in his 26 years in the Senate, CBS interview, Sept. 24, 2008 (Watch video clip)

8. "That's exactly what we're going to do in a Palin and McCain administration." --Sarah Palin, elevating herself to the top of the ticket, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Sept. 18, 2008 (Watch video clip)

9. "I told the Congress, 'Thanks, but no thanks,' on that Bridge to Nowhere." –Sarah Palin, who was for the Bridge to Nowhere before she was against it

10. "I'm the mayor, I can do whatever I want until the courts tell me I can't.'" --Sarah Palin, as quoted by former City Council Member Nick Carney, after he raised objections about the $50,000 she spent renovating the mayor's office without approval of the city council

~Compiled by Daniel Kurtzman

:toast:

[Danascot]

11. You betcha, and Palin is

Area 51

[patrice]

6. I live in a city of a couple of million people. Darn! I guess we aren't really Americans.

[gordianot]

7. This woman is a secessionist, give her time she will try to spread this across the country.

There are more than a few people who have this sentiment, Palin seems to appeal to them.

[Zenlitened]

9. Sarah Palin is a secessionist sympathizer.

That's a fact.

[katandmoon]

10. I could REALLY do without the "under God" crapola.