Election 2008

Biden, Election 2008, Joseph Biden, Palin, Sarah Palin

Biden challenges Palin to November 5 debate

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After watching Governor Sarah Palin deliver her Vice Presidential nomination acceptance speech at the Republican Party convention last night, Democrat VP nominee Senator Joseph Biden challenged her to a single debate on November 5, 2008.

When Senator Biden was asked if perhaps he had misspoken, noting that date was the Wednesday after Election Day, he replied, “I do not wish to take unfair advantage of an inexperienced speaker. Besides, I will probably have nothing else to do that day.”

Only laughter was heard over the phone when Governor Palin’s spokesman was reached for comment.

Barack Obama, Election 2008

Obama: Flimflam man?

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Flashback 2004: Newly elected Sen. Barack Obama, explaining why he won’t run for president in 2008:

“I am a believer in knowing what you’re doing when you apply for a job. Uh, and I think that if I were to seriously consider running on a national ticket I would essentially have to start now, before having served a day in the senate. Now, there’s some people who might be comfortable doing that, uh, but I’m not one of those people.”

Here’s the video:

Obama has missed 248 votes (44.8%) in the current Congress, from January 2007 through June 2008. So, the question is, between starting his first job working in federal government on January 3, 2005, and essentially abandoning his duties as senator in January 2007 to “apply for a job” as President of the United States, where’s the evidence that he “knows what he’s doing?”

I made a few more observations over at Family Security Matters.