2008 Giuliani and Biden Go a Few Rounds
posted by on October 31 at 12:30 PM
One of the most memorable lines from last night’s debate was Joe Biden on Rudy Giuliani:
I’m not running against Hillary Clinton. I’m running to lead the free world. I’m running to lead this country. And the irony is, Rudy Giuliani, probably the most underqualified man since George Bush to seek the presidency is here talking about any of the people here.Rudy Giuliani — I mean, think about it. Rudy Giuliani — there’s only three things he mentions in a sentence: a noun and a verb and 9/11. I mean, there’s nothing else.
There’s nothing else, and I mean this sincerely. He is genuinely not qualified to be president.
But equally noteworthy was the Giuliani campaign’s angry response, which came from his communications director, Kate Levinson:
As the pundits work to figure out who won the debate tonight, its pretty clear Rudy Giuliani was the real winner. It is increasingly apparent Rudy is the one the Democrats are most worried about running against in the general election.Senator Biden’s comments were of particular interest. The good senator is quite correct that there are many differences between Rudy and him. For starters, Rudy rarely reads prepared speeches and when he does he isn’t prone to ripping off the text from others. And, Senator Biden certainly falls in to the bucket of those on the stage tonight who have never had executive experience and have never run anything. Wait, I take that back, Senator Biden has never run anything but his mouth.
Such a desperate attack from Senator Biden is to be expected considering I — Katie Levinson — have a better chance of becoming President than he does.
I don’t think anyone was under the impression that Giuliani plays nice with his critics, but… wow. The hit sent Biden running for the high road:
We are well aware that former Mayor Giuliani will attempt to drag this race into the mud where the Republicans like to wage their campaigns. It’s pretty obvious that they can’t defend themselves on the real charge that Mr. Giuliani walked away from the cops and firefighters who were waiting for the 9/11 Commission to be enacted and the Biden crime bill to be restored.
Holy shit, RAWR!!
Biden would make an excellent President.
Biden would make a horrible president. Possibly the most boring, longwinded, self congratulating blowhard politician ever.
That was probably the best line he's come up with in a quarter century.
I fail to see why the good people of Delaware keep reelecting this moron time after time.
God I hope Rudy wins the nomination.
Biden is doing Hillary's dirty work. Taking the gloves off and doing a nice job.
They don't call him the Senator from MBNA for nothing.
That said, though, this was some darn good stuff - and it's way past time the Dems started attacking MussoGiuliani and the rest of the Rethug field....
Dodd would make an excellent President. Biden would be ok, but only because none of the Republicans this year is even close to sane or competent.
Biden would make a horrible President. Biden would make an excellent Secretary of Defense.
Secretary of Defense, though from a campaigning point of view he'd be a good VP pick. But I wouldn't want him as president, so for that reason I wouldn't want him in the VP slot.
I think I'm older than most posters here. Rudy's guy was alluding to the time that Biden stole a speech from some labor party hack in the UK and tried to pass it off as his own work. At first he denied it but eventually quit trying. What a country America is! Someone can do something that absurd and still be taken seriously in politics!
Biden sort of stole this one, too. The Onion did a story a month or so ago stating that Giuliani was campaigning to become "The President of 9-11." It's hilarious and true. It's a sad state of affairs when either one of these suits becomes a serious candidate.
So far, the only ones who don't sound like they are taking speech advice from Bush (the moron) are Clinton and Obama, but they aren't that good either. The recent tradition of 'bad candidates and forcing us to vote for the lesser of two evils only to have our votes ignored' is staying strong in the US. So much for Democracy, too bad we will never see true Democracy in the US.
Then Onion stole it from the Senator because I heard him say it in a small gathering in Sept. He's running for Pres. and will make a damn fine one. The past issue was overblown and misreported. Check your facts, don't do what the press did to Al Gore.
Biden did not rip off a speech from UK labor leader Neil Kinnock at the Iowa State Fair debate when he was running for president in 1988. He had used the Kinnock quote in several speeches before that and always gave attribution to Kinnock, and reporters knew it. The one time Biden did not cite Kinnock (possibly because he was busy preparing for the Bork hearings or suffering from a brain aneurysm), the reporters pounced, they were hunting for ways to make Biden look bad.
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