"Hey Maverick! I'm A Maverick! You're A Maverick! We're The Maverick Team!"

As requested by reader Damn Sam, at a rally this morning in Florida, Joe Biden has a bit of fun with the McCain-Palin "couple of mavericks" persona:



God love yah, Joe Biden. Finally somebody said it!

"Are You Joking? Is this a Joke?"

Joe Biden shows us how to handle stupid questions.



Expect Fox News to give Barbara West her own show. Stupid liberal media.

UPDATE - Maybe Fox News hasn't given her her own show yet, but she will be a guest on O'Reilly's propaganda machine tonight, as reported by Think Progress. I can only imagine the leading questions about her leading questions - "Do you think that Biden was being sexist or just hates women reporters in general?" "Do you think liberals are attacking you because Obama is a Marxist, a socialist, or because liberals just hate America?"

Also reported by think progress, her husband is a GOP media consultant. Nice. I wonder if that will make it into the interview?

Also reported - they'll do it live!

McCain seizes on Biden's "test his mettle" gaffe

The McCain camp has been jumping all over Sen. Joe Biden's remarks that if elected, Sen. Obama will be tested by a major international crisis within the first six months of his presidency. As reported by Sidecar, Biden, speaking at a campaign function in Seattle, prognosticated that the world is watching Sen. Obama and will seek to "test his mettle" in the first six months because of his perceived lack of experience.

Of course, based on historical analysis, almost EVERY president is tested in their first six months by an international crisis. For Kennedy, the example cited by Biden, it was the Bay of Pigs, a plan devised by the CIA under Eisenhower (not the Cuban Missile Crisis, which didn't occur until mid-1962). For Reagan it was Lebanon and Grenada, for Bush I it was the First Gulf War, for Clinton it was the bombing of the World Trade Center in '93, and for Bush II it was 9/11.

Both McCain and Palin have used the comment today in their campaign appearances. And I must say, McCain's approach today was the first time I've read his comments lately and thought, "wow, that's actually a great argument." Color me impressed. Of course, reminding voters concerned about your age may not be the greatest idea in the world, but I like the line:

“Sen. Biden referred to how Jack Kennedy was tested in the Cuban
missile crisis. My friends, I have a little personal experience in that. I was on board the USS Enterprise. I sat in the cockpit of the flight deck off of Cuba. I had a target. My friends, you know how close we came to a nuclear war. America will not have a president who needs to be tested. I've been tested, my friends.”

Courtesy of Politico.

The Augural Youth Of Barack Obama: Biden Foresees International Crisis, Obama Cries For Assistance

Joe Biden is gaffe-tastic! At a fundraiser in Seattle, the "Thanks-But-No-Thanks-On-That-Help-To-Nowhere" Senator from Delaware complimented Obama's intellect through the implication that he is politically green, holds accurate, yet arcane positions with respect to foreign matters and will need big time help in the first six months of his presidency:

It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking. We're about to elect a brilliant 47-year-old senator president of the United States of America. Watch, we're going to have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy and he's going to need help . . . to stand with him. Because it's not going to be apparent initially; it's not going to be apparent that we're right.

Way to emphasize Obama's truncated record as a first-term junior senator with no executive experience. And as expected, McCain-Palin pounce on Biden's mastication of a simple message - that Obama is smart and right.

It's never a good moment for the campaign when your stump drivel permits your opponents, champing at the bit, to take back the news cycle and prompt a newspaper to entitle an article: "McCain cites Biden to slam Obama").

God love yah, Joe, but do you mind stepping out back for a two-week-long smoke? Don't worry - we'll take it from here. Why don't you grab a bite with Joey Danko at Katie's Restaurant (closed for over a decade).

God Love Yah, You've Had Some Work Done

Yes, Joe Biden has the forehead of a 21-year-old as the Republicans start smearing Lunchpail's unfurrowed brow.

Get a new bag of tricks, neocon vipers! - John Kerry's upper countenance was similarly "skull-f**ked" and "swift-boated" in similar fashion during the 2004 election.

Can't a Democratic elder simply have good, natural bone structure? How do you think FDR appear so rackishly handsome during all those televised speeches and webcasts?

My name is John Kerry and I'm reporting for . . . surgery. This is my buddy, Joe. Can we schedule him for a consultation.

What did the 5 fingers say to the face?

SLAP!! Obama camp getting tough.

MSNBC First Read:

ST. JOSEPH, MO – Joe Biden echoed the campaign’s response to continued Republican efforts to highlight Obama’s past associations, adding a personal touch to the idea that McCain wasn’t willing to make the attacks in person.“All of the things they said about Barack Obama in the TV, on the TV, at their rallies, and now on YouTube … John McCain could not bring himself to look Barack Obama in the eye and say the same things to him,” Biden said this morning. “In my neighborhood, when you’ve got something to say to a guy, you look him in the eye and you say it to him.”

Biden, who arrived on stage in St. Joseph to chants of “Joe! Joe! Joe,” urged the crowd not to be distracted by McCain claims, saying that every “false charge, every baseless accusation is an attempt to get you to stop paying attention to what’s going on in this country and what’s going on in your lives.” And on the issues that matter, he said, McCain is offbase, particularly on his newest mortgage plan.

Coats adds:

Frankly, I've always believed that the quickest way to show you're a chump is to run around telling everyone about that aren't one. You want to prove to the American people that you aren't shook? Don't talk them to death. Get in the ring and kick the other guys ass. It's that simple. Screw all this talk about who's tougher than who. Here is what I know: McCain will talk that shit about Ayers and brag about taking the gloves off. He will send his wife and Sarah Palin out to do his dirty work. But when faced with the man who he believes "palls around with terrorist" he played his position.

Obama - "Say it to my face, Maverick!":