Biden is not only a gaffemesister, he is a flat out liar.   He lied throughout the debate and made himslef look like a fool with all his facial expressions, ala AlGore, during the debate.

I was at the Chaifetz Arena at SLU for a Debate Rally and it was a lively crowd.   We got to see the some of the candidates for Missouri, and saw lots of youg people at the event.  Especially young females.  Who says all college age kids are Liberal.

As for the debate, I thought Sarah Palin did a great job and flustered Biden throughout the debate.  It could have been that I was with 10,000 or so Palin supporters, but the facials expressions Biden were priceless.   And it does not help when Biden lies throughout the whole thing, Ala Obama:

“Joe Biden graduated from his trademark verbal gaffe to outright lie in tonight’s debate.  Each time Senator Biden was on his heels, he looked directly into the camera and lied — more than a dozen times by our count.  He lied about John McCain’s record, his own record, and Barak Obama’s dangerous policies.  Governor Palin showed the American people tonight why a McCain-Palin Administration will bring real reform, leadership, and straight talk to Washington.” –Tucker Bounds, spokesman McCain-Palin 2008

 

JOE BIDEN’S 14 LIES TONIGHT

 

1.    TAX VOTE: Biden said McCain voted “the exact same way” as Obama to increase taxes on Americans earning just $42,000, but McCain DID NOT VOTE THAT WAY.

 

2.    AHMEDINIJAD MEETING: Joe Biden lied when he said that Barack Obama never said that he would sit down unconditionally with Mahmoud Ahmedinijad of Iran. Barack Obama did say specifically, and Joe Biden attacked him for it.

 

3.    OFFSHORE OIL DRILLING: Biden said, “Drill we must.” But Biden has opposed offshore drilling and even compared offshore drilling to “raping” the Outer Continental Shelf.”

 

4.    TROOP FUNDING: Joe Biden lied when he indicated that John McCain and Barack Obama voted the same way against funding the troops in the field. John McCain opposed a bill that included a timeline, that the President of the United States had already said he would veto regardless of it’s passage.

 

5.    OPPOSING CLEAN COAL: Biden says he’s always been for clean coal, but he just told a voter that he is against clean coal and any new coal plants in America and has a record of voting against clean coal and coal in the U.S. Senate.

 

6.    ALERNATIVE ENERGY VOTES: According to FactCheck.org, Biden is exaggerating and overstating John McCain’s record voting for alternative energy when he says he voted against it 23 times.

 

7.    HEALTH INSURANCE: Biden falsely said McCain will raise taxes on people’s health insurance coverage — they get a tax credit to offset any tax hike. Independent fact checkers have confirmed this attack is false

 

8.    OIL TAXES: Biden falsely said Palin supported a windfall profits tax in Alaska — she reformed the state tax and revenue system, it’s not a windfall profits tax.

 

9.    AFGHANISTAN / GEN. MCKIERNAN COMMENTS: Biden said that top military commander in Iraq said the principles of the surge could not be applied to Afghanistan, but the commander of NATO’s International Security Assistance Force Gen. David D. McKiernan said that there were principles of the surge strategy, including working with tribes, that could be applied in Afghanistan.

 

10. REGULATION: Biden falsely said McCain weakened regulation — he actually called for more regulation on Fannie and Freddie.

 

11. IRAQ: When Joe Biden lied when he said that John McCain was “dead wrong on Iraq”, because Joe Biden shared the same vote to authorize the war and differed on the surge strategy where they John McCain has been proven right.

 

12. TAX INCREASES : Biden said Americans earning less than $250,000 wouldn’t see higher taxes, but the Obama-Biden tax plan would raise taxes on individuals making $200,000 or more. 

 

13. BAILOUT: Biden said the economic rescue legislation matches the four principles that Obama laid out, but in reality it doesn’t meet two of the four principles that Obama outlined on Sept. 19, which were that it include an emergency economic stimulus package, and that it be part of “part of a globally coordinated effort with our partners in the G-20.”

 

14. REAGAN TAX RATES: Biden is wrong in saying that under Obama, Americans won’t pay any more in taxes then they did under Reagan.

Two words, three letters - Iran and EMP:

Iran is on the verge of developing a nuclear weapon that could cripple the United States “in a blink of an eye,” says Frank Gaffney, a leading expert on U.S. national security….

In an exclusive interview with Newsmax TV, Gaffney warned that Iran’s nuclear program has progressed much further than most officials believe. The Islamic republic could attain a nuclear weapon “any day,” he said.

A single nuclear weapon exploded at the proper altitude would create a wave of energy sufficient to wipe out the entire U.S. electrical grid, causing “catastrophic disaster,” Gaffney said.

In September, the International Atomic Energy Agency that monitors global nuclear activities provided intelligence to diplomats indicating that Iran is trying to refit a long-distance missile so that it can carry a nuclear warhead.

“The missing piece as far as we know is the nuclear weapon, and they’re busily working to acquire that,” Gaffney told Newsmax. “And I am afraid they could at any day have the ability not only to obtain that nuclear weapon, but to mate it with a ballistic missile, and God forbid, use it.”

Experts agree that a nuclear detonation at a high altitude would generate an electromagnetic pulse, or EMP, that would destroy most electrical systems. Gaffney predicts it would plunge the entire country into conditions similar to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. The resulting social breakdown could ultimately lead to millions of American deaths from various causes, he said.

“Such an attack could really cripple our 21st-century society, and I would suggest sort of push us back into preindustrial society in the blink of an eye,” Gaffney said. “It would translate over time — not immediately but over time — into the deaths of perhaps as many as nine out of ten Americans, because our society simply can’t be sustained without electricity and all of the infrastructure that supports our urban settings.” [emphases added]

I was trying to explain this to my daughter yesterday, not because I thought I’d be able to convey the true horror of the implications, but as a test of a psychology theory I have of the uncommunicability of mortal national security threats. My theory was borne out, not surprisingly. But then it is difficult for even me to imagine the immensity of a successful EMP attack on the United States.

The best I can do is to ask you to imagine all the ways your life would change if there were no electricity. All the applicances in your home, the lights, the heat, would be gone. All the food in your fridge would spoil. You couldn’t go to the grocery store to replace it because your car wouldn’t start, and even if it did, you couldn’t refill the gas tank because the pumps at the local filling station wouldn’t run, and the tanker trucks couldn’t get to the filling station to delivery more gasoline - nor could eighteen wheelers deliver more groceries to the grocery store. You might have a home generator for just such emergencies, except that they run on gas or kerosene or diesel fuel and that would dry up just like the gas for your car.

Freezing to death. Starvation. Chaos. Let your imagination run wild from there.

The end result? America would cease to exist as a coherent continental nation because it is simply too big to remain intact without an interconnected modern infrastructure to sustain it. Civil order would break down. The law of the jungle would return. Most of us, rendered decedantly fat, dumb, and happy as the citizens of the late, great global hegomon, wouldn’t have a clue as to what to do so survive in such dire circumstances. Maybe the “over time” death toll wouldn’t be quite as high as 90%, but it would be staggering nonetheless. And there would be no FEMA to ride to the rescue, competently or otherwise, and certainly no international assistance coming our way.

That, of course, assumes that there wouldn’t be any follow up from our enemies, whether that was via land invasion or simply nuking our crippled, defenseless homeland to irradiated oblivion.

But again, that hasn’t happened - yet. And because it hasn’t happened, it’s difficult to see through the prosperous normalcy of life in these United States to recognize the danger of it happening in the very near future.

It’s base human nature. People don’t want to confront threats if doing so involves a signficant cost, even if the cost of not confronting them will be inestimably worse. Far easier to convince yourself that gambling on the latter is the safer bet. A psychological phenomenon colloquially known as “wishful thinking.”

Wishful thinking dominated the foreign policy of the Western democracies in the 1930s even as Adolph Hitler was following his published blueprint for anti-Semitic genocide and world conquest to the letter. There is arguably no war in human history that was more preventable than World War II, and yet Western leaders refused to believe the evidence of their eyes and ears and instead took comfort in self-generated pacifistic myths and delusions, no more infamously exemplified than the “tough direct diplomacy” that Neville Chamberlain and Édouard Daladier undertook at Munich with Herr Hitler. Until, of course, the German tanks rolled across Poland, and then France and Holland and Belgium, and then German bombers started raining fire down on London, six million Jews perished, and fifty-four million other human lives joined them, all because Western leaders didn’t have the courage to recognize the futility of “diplomacy” and act pre-emptively against Hitler while they had the opportunity.

Happily for the world, the United States was there to (belatedly) intervene and eventually turn the tide against the Nazis. Which, of course, leads inexorably to the question of who is going to bail out America after it has been decimated by a long-proclaimed EMP attack from the Islamist theocrats in Tehran whose enmity against the United States has been proclaimed non-stop for the past thirty years. Once again we face an enemy that has told us they are going to bring us to our knees, told us how they’re going to do it, and that they will not and cannot be talked out of doing it. And once again we - and I mean the bipartisan “we” - are refusing to believe the evidence of our eyes and ears and instead are taking comfort in self-generated pacifistic myths and delusions, so much as that we are about to elect as our next president a man who makes Neville Chamberlain look like Winston Churchill.

I have said throughout this campaign that the reason above all others why I deathly fear a Barack Obama presidency is that he is going to get us all killed. Frank Gaffney says B.O. won’t get ALL of us killed, just “as many as ninety percent” of us. Who’d have thought that the former Reagan Administration official would have become such a wild-eyed optimist?

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The not-quite-in-the-grave-yet Robert Novak does his part today to try and deflect the onrushing Obamanation express by picking up one of the avalanche of golden opportunities John McCain is ignoring:

How would Barack Obama pay for the $800 billion that John McCain claimed in the first presidential debate September 26 in Oxford, Mississippi, that his Democratic opponent would spend if he were elected president? Obama replied, by “closing tax loopholes.”

Obama was no more specific in the debate, and tax experts doubt that structural changes without increasing taxes can raise anything close to that amount of money. …

Obama has made clear that he would try to roll back President Bush’s tax cuts, but that does not come under the definition of a “loophole.” A loophole consists of a conniving tax attorney discovering a weakness in the Internal Revenue Code or such a weakness intentionally legislated by Congress under the instigation of crafty lobbyists. The only specific tax legislation contained in Obama’s paper would raise the capital gains rate for most shareholders, restore taxation on dividend income to pre-Bush standards and restore the full estate tax.

In other words, B.O. is going to raise EVERY tax that EVERY taxpayer pays through the roof to try and pay for the mammoth gusher of domestic spending he pretends he’s going to “defer” in light of the Wall Street “rescue plan” but will tack on after the election. Or, in still other words, he’s going to confiscate more and more of less and less and borrow the rest - in order to “put our economy back on track”!

Yet in the first debate he claimed he’s going to “cut taxes for 95% of Americans” (by stealing it from Big Oil, thus driving energy prices, and therefore ALL prices, still higher, more than offsetting another blizzard of token “rebate” checks) and “close loopholes”.

Ensign Ed thinks Obama doesn’t know a “loophole” from his bunghole. I think he was just tapping the same meaningless rhetorical well that produced the “cutting waste and fraud (and….earmarks)” cliche that Big Government types use when they want to put themselves over as “fiscal conservatives”. And, of course, McCain let him get away with it.

Sailor could have put a nuclear torpedo right in Barry’s amidships with a single line:

“Senator Obama talks about closing tax loopholes yielding hundreds of billions of dollars of additional tax revenues. Does that come from the same line of thinking that prompted him to claim that proper tire inflation on the cars of millions of working class Americans will save billions of barrels of the oil he doesn’t want us to drill for in our own country, which would provide millions of new jobs to offset the ones that will be destroyed by the Wall Street financial crisis his party’s policies and resistance to regulatory oversight created?”

Instead, we got more blathering about “earmarks”. It’s enough to make projectile vomiting seem like a mildly diverting hobby by comparison.

Bidenpropisms used to be another highly diverting hobby, back when it still mattered. Here’s Slow Joe’s latest verbal crapfacedness:

Joe Biden honestly believes that the decision in Roe vs. Wade is “as close to a consensus that can exist in a society as heterogeneous as ours.”

Were Ifill not on the take, a decent question would be, “Senator Biden, are you really completely unaware of the raging abortion debate in this country for the past thirty-five years? If this is “consensus,” what would “division” look like? By your standards, did this nation have a “mild disagreement” over secession [and slavery] from 1861 to 1865?”

Support for Roe v. Wade has ranged from 62% to 49% since 1973; opposition has ranged from 28% to 48%. One third of Democrats oppose it.

If ANYbody is set up to bludgeon Senator Rogaine about the head and shoulders for this lunatic doggerrell, it’s Sarah Baracuda. Question is, will Gwen Ifill let her - and have her McCainiac handlers told her to let that go “in the spirit of bipartisanship”?

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From BlogTalkRadio:

Way back in 2004, when John Kerry was challenging George W. Bush for the highest office in the land, few Americans had ever heard the word blog – let alone spent much of their free time devouring the most passionate and incisive among them.

What a difference an embattled admini- stration makes!

Today, blogging is not only the New Journalism, it’s a major force in shaping our nation’s political opinions.

So it should come as no surprise that FOX News Radio has selected eight of BlogTalkRadio’s most passionate and incisive hosts to voice their opinions about Election 2008 in the mainstream.

Beginning Monday, Oct. 6 at 2 p.m. ET, four hosts from our Heading Left Channel and four from Heading Right will square off during a weeklong, one-on-one tournament that will determine the best blog talker from each side of the political spectrum.

Election 2008: Battle of the Blog Talkers unfolds on FOX Across America, which is hosted by Spencer Hughes and carried on FOXNewsRadio.com and Sirius XM Radio. (To hear more about this special, click here now.)

Lynne Lupien: Leading off for the Left.

In Round 1, Spencer will moderate a debate between two Heading Left hosts, who will each have five minutes of uninter- rupted time to respond to the same topic. Listeners then vote (via mobile-text message and online poll) for their favorite blog talker, who in turn moves onto Round 3. Meanwhile, two Heading Right hosts square off in Round 2, with the most popular moving onto Round 4. And in Round 5, the Heading Left and Heading Right victors go head to head.

After each round, the topics will be opened to discussion with Spencer, as well as with listeners calling into the show.

Then, throughout the week of Oct. 20, live from 8 to 9 a.m. EDT, the Heading Left and Heading Right victors will join Spencer in co-hosting a special FOX News Radio Election 2008 series.

Here are the BlogTalkRadio hosts who’ll be doing battle:

Chad Everson: Ready to rumble for the Right.

Heading Left

-Lynne Lupien of Lowell, MA: Left Ahead!.

-Julie Pippert of Houston, TX: MOMocrats.

-David McLaughlin of Rome, GA: The Kudzu Vine.

-Tom D’Antoni of Portland, OR: D’Antoni and Levine.

Heading Right

-Kevin Ross of Los Angeles, CA: The Kevin Ross Show.

-Chad Everson of Princeton, MN: Grizzly Groundswell.

-Elizabeth Blackney of Bend, OR: Media Lizzy.

-Andrea Shea King of Cape Canaveral, FL: Andrea Shea King Show.

Once the war of words gets under way, we’ll be keeping your apprised of all the action, so - in addition to tuning into this historic series - be sure to check in here daily.

You can just see her sequel vitriolicly partisan floor speech warming up, cantcha?:

While the Senate will pass its version of the rescue bill with more than seventy votes according to Senate sources [It passed 75-24 - what are the odds the missing vote was the junior senator from Illinois?], senators have taken the partisan bickering over the rescue bill and added a stalled disagreement over a separate issue — “tax extenders,” or extending various tax relief provisions that are due to expire — into the mix…

But some conservative Democrats have expressed serious concerns about the fact that extending these tax cuts is not being paid for in the budget. Adding the provision may attract House Republicans, but it could alienate these fiscally-conscious Democrats, causing them to abandon the one hundred forty House Democrats who voted for the bill to join the ninety five who voted against it…

The implication: not only will Boehner need to provide the entire thirteen-vote margin that the bill lost by on Monday, but also that the addition of the unpaid-for “tax extenders” could cause up to seventeen Democrats who voted for the bill Monday to walk. If not more.

Crazy Nancy’s remarks write themselves, don’t they? “Our Republican colleagues called repeatedly for a ‘clean’ Wall Street ‘rescue’ bill. I tried to pass one on Monday to save the American economy and all the working families that are depending on it, but the Republicans in this House stood in the way and sent the stock market plummeting. Now their counterparts in the Senate pass a version of the same bill that they have crammed full of the very same sort of giveaways to the wealthy that got us into this financial crisis in the first place. As Speaker of this House, I cannot in good conscious, etc., etc., etc.”

Oh, but have no fear, there were quite a few “sweeteners” lipoinjected into the Senate “rescue” bill for Dems as well. Disincentives for House Republican support, to be sure - though not too much for Senator “Porkinator” to nonetheless vote for.

So here’s John Boehner’s mission, should he choose to accept it:

1) Flip thirteen members of his caucus who voted “nay” on Monday despite the bill’s identical unpopular, statist core and now all the swine flesh Christmas treed onto it;

2) Flip an additional seventeen more on the same grounds with only the modest tax relief provisions as mitigation;

3) Be prepared for Crazy Nancy to flip thirty-ONE more of her caucus to torpedo the bill AGAIN, wipe out a trillion MORE dollars of private sector wealth, and blame the Republicans for it AGAIN.

Aren’t you glad you’re not John Boehner?

UPDATE: BTW, after the Senate passed this “economy-saving” “rescue” bill last night, the Dow immediately….plunged over three hundred points at this morning’s opening bell. Raising the rather obvious next question: What if a Wall Street bailout gets passed, and, like each of its piecemeal predecessors over the past month, it doesn’t loosen up the credit markets? And if that proves to be the case, suppose the federal government can’t unload all that worthless paper for a profit, or even a modest loss, as has been advertised? How long until the federal government itself begins [heh] to financially destabilize? And people think the dollar is in the toilet NOW?  Is anybody in Washington, D.C. thinking that far ahead?

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