Biden vs. Obama: Who Will Win?

Joe Biden is doing a better job of taking on Barack "World" Obama then John McCain, and Obama is doing a better job of criticizig Biden.  Here is an excerpt from Fox News:

"The Delaware Senator took issue with an attack ad from his own side in an interview with CBS, telling Katie Couric that the Obama hit on McCain’s ignorance of computers and technology was “terrible.” <A href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-ae409tJEI" _extended="true">The ad paints McCain as out of touch — and all but calls him ancient — but doesn’t mention that the Arizona Senator’s war injuries actually <A href="http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0908/McCains_hands.html" _extended="true">prevent him from using computers for an extended period.

">Asked whether he’s disappointed with the tone of the campaign, including the ad that Couric characterized as “making fun of John McCain’s inability to use a computer,” Biden said “I thought that was terrible by the way."

Now here is an excerpt from MSNBC.com (amazingly enough):

"What has been clear during this entire past ten days is John McCain has not had clarity and a grasp on the situation," Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., told NBC's Matt Lauer in an interview that ran this morning."

"Lauer was talking about how Obama hit Sen. McCain for flip-flopping on the AIG bailout -- saying he opposed it one day then announce he supported it the next day.

But, as Lauer pointed out, scarcely three minutes after McCain said he opposed the AIG bailout last week, "in an interview with Meredith Vieira, Joe Biden, your running mate was asked the exact same question, 'should the federal government bailout AIG?' And he said, 'No, the federal government should not bailout AIG.'" (As we noted at the time.) "And I think that in that situation," Obama said, "I think Joe should have waited as well."

"But it's the kind of thing that drives people crazy about politics," Lauer said. "It sounds like you were trying to score some political points against John McCain using his words, when your own running mate had used very similar words."

Then Biden was asked by an environmentalist how the Obama campaign could support "clean coal plants".  Biden immediately went off on a tiradeagainst coal, and ended by sayiing that we shluld build no coal plants, but let China do that--our problem being that China may doom us by doing it.   Problem:  Obama has an ad out promoting clean coal, andpromising to protect coal jobs.

That does not even count the gaffes.  Thre is Joe Biden having FDR President in 1929 (Hooever was, and Democrats have been running against Hoover ever since, except when running against Bush).  Biden, in that same comment, mentioned television in 1929.  Then there ws the speech to a Natioanl Gruard group where Biden says his helicopter was "froced down" in Afghanistan, implying that bin Laden himself may have been respoinsible.  Unfortunately, John Kerry (alson on the helicopter) said it was forced down by a snowstorm.

What if Sarah Palin were out there saying things like this?

What will happen when these two masters of "words" (instead of actions) face off at 10 paces?  It should be interesting, if you can stay awake.

 

P.S.  I got an email several days ago suggesting that there is a plan in the works to have Biden resign as VP nominess in favor of Hillary Clinton.  I did not believe it.  However, Ihave to admit I am beginning to wonder. This eamail (evidently going around the internet) is that Biden will bow out on October 5 for medical reasons.  I still don't believe it, but this building contest between Biden and Obama is certainly lending credence fo the idea.