Go Get ‘Em Joe!

Biden is the perfect attack dog – hindsight being 20-20, he was the only logical choice.

Thanks for posting it.

now if he could stop prefacing most of his attacks with praise for McCain, thereby wasting the best part of low-info voters short attention spans.  

Mr. Biden, you’re full of it.

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p>Your own acceptance speech was thin soup when it came to explaining how you would achieve any of the boiler-plate promises you and your running mate made.

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p>It was long on reproach, short on ideas.

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p>You’ve got a lot of damn gall, Mr. Biden. And a big mouth to boot.
Let’s see how well it serves you in the debates.

in the way that music sometimes can.

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p>It’s the total impact of truth, substance, and passion — big contrast with the teleprompter candidates on the other side.

From a previous post on richardhowe.com:

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p>Bush isn’t running for reelection, but McCain has sold out to the same crowd that pulled Bush’s strings for the past 8 years. And what has that got us?

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p>1. An increase in federal debt in excess of $4 trillion.
2. A Trade deficit exceeding $9 trillion, increasing at over $700 billion per year.
3. A reincarnation of “stagflation”, where the economy goes down the tubes and prices accelerate upwards.
4. A change in foreign policy to advocate the concept of preemptive war, and executed under false premises.
5. “Borrowing” (robbing) the Social Security Trust Fund of $200 billion a year, with no realistic chance of paying back this now $2.3 trillion debt.
6. Taking the money they “borrowed” from future Social Security recipients and providing excessive tax breaks to the rich, one of the great wealth transfer sins in our history.
7. Tax policies that enable our rich investors to launder their money through the Cayman Islands, making that small nation the 4th biggest creditor of the United States.
8. Quadrupled the price of oil, while asking for more drilling, yet not validating the existing supply reports which are used to drive up prices.

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p>If the ordinary people don’t speak up now and throw these bums out for good, we can kiss the American dream goodbye forever.

Regulators probing oil supply data: report

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p>Thursday, September 4, 2008; 4:17 AM

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p>(Reuters) – Commodity market regulators are probing whether energy market players are injecting false crude oil supply data into the marketplace, the Wall Street Journal said.

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p>Regulators are concerned that companies may be reporting inventory levels that benefit their own trading positions but may not be accurate, the paper said, citing people familiar with the probe.

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p>Unexpected drops in oil inventories reported each Wednesday by the U.S. Energy Information Administration can spark price spikes on the main oil futures benchmark on the New York Mercantile Exchange.

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p>The report noted a company could theoretically underreport barrels in its tanks to suggest oil is scarcer than it really is, and then sell its physical oil at a premium when oil prices jump on misleading news.

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p>The regulators — the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) — may have been tipped off on unexpected big market moves by sources in the oil trading world, the Journal said.

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p>The CFTC is taking depositions, or testimony, about some of those periods, lawyers told the paper.

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p>No-one at the CTFC was immediately available for comment.

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p>(Reporting by Saumyadeb Chakrabarty in Bangalore; Editing by David Holmes)

Not to belabor McCain’s VP choice, but I especially enjoyed this little gem from last week:

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Sarah Palin’s speech to the convention Wednesday night energized conservatives, allayed concerns of some nervous party insiders – and inspired excited Republicans to donate a cool $1 million to the Republican National Committee’s effort to elect John McCain.

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UPDATE: Bloomberg reported that Palin’s speech was even better for Democrats-Barack Obama has raised $8 million since Wednesday’s speech.

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His knowledge on foreign policy and domestic issues is impressive. I am really glad that you are able to support a truly good choice for VP, in spite of his vote for DOMA. It does show that are capable of weighing positions on various issues. Perhaps you might consider that your blanket rejection of your own Senator, who was one of 14 to vote against DOMA. He has been every bit as good as anyone making the case for Obama over McCain.

We got the good one on our ticket, while the Republicans are trying to make Lieberman officially one of them.

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“I would like to see him vote with Republicans in September,” Specter said. “He’s practically there. That would have the consequence of giving us a Republican Senate.”

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p>Nothing will bolster the “we have zero power, and weren’t anywhere near dirty government argument like taking control of the Senate two months before the election thanks to the defection of a consummate Washington player in a back room deal.