Slog - Comments on Giuliani and Biden Go a Few Rounds http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/giuliani_on_biden 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... Copyright 2008 Wed, 31 Oct 2007 12:30:33 -0800 Fri, 02 Nov 2007 10:24:51 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by kid icarus Holy shit, RAWR!!

]]> kid icarus http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/giuliani_on_biden#c837377 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/giuliani_on_biden#c837377 2008 Wed, 31 Oct 2007 12:38:20 -0800 Comment by B Biden would make an excellent President.

]]> B http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/giuliani_on_biden#c837380 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/giuliani_on_biden#c837380 2008 Wed, 31 Oct 2007 12:41:30 -0800 Comment by SDA in SEA 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.

]]> SDA in SEA http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/giuliani_on_biden#c837415 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/giuliani_on_biden#c837415 2008 Wed, 31 Oct 2007 13:24:15 -0800 Comment by DOUG. God I hope Rudy wins the nomination.

]]> DOUG. http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/giuliani_on_biden#c837419 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/giuliani_on_biden#c837419 2008 Wed, 31 Oct 2007 13:27:03 -0800 Comment by Mahtli69 Biden is doing Hillary's dirty work. Taking the gloves off and doing a nice job.

]]> Mahtli69 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/giuliani_on_biden#c837438 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/giuliani_on_biden#c837438 2008 Wed, 31 Oct 2007 13:41:37 -0800 Comment by Mr. X 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....

]]> Mr. X http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/giuliani_on_biden#c837525 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/giuliani_on_biden#c837525 2008 Wed, 31 Oct 2007 14:18:05 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle 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.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/giuliani_on_biden#c837593 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/giuliani_on_biden#c837593 2008 Wed, 31 Oct 2007 14:27:23 -0800 Comment by Matt Biden would make a horrible President. Biden would make an excellent Secretary of Defense.

]]> Matt http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/giuliani_on_biden#c837851 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/giuliani_on_biden#c837851 2008 Wed, 31 Oct 2007 15:07:08 -0800 Comment by Cascadian 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.

]]> Cascadian http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/giuliani_on_biden#c838073 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/giuliani_on_biden#c838073 2008 Wed, 31 Oct 2007 15:57:03 -0800 Comment by mikeblanco 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!

]]> mikeblanco http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/giuliani_on_biden#c838593 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/giuliani_on_biden#c838593 2008 Wed, 31 Oct 2007 19:41:03 -0800 Comment by dave hippo 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.

]]> dave hippo http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/giuliani_on_biden#c839370 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/giuliani_on_biden#c839370 2008 Thu, 01 Nov 2007 09:48:35 -0800 Comment by KittenComputerGoddess 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.

]]> KittenComputerGoddess http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/giuliani_on_biden#c839671 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/giuliani_on_biden#c839671 2008 Thu, 01 Nov 2007 12:18:14 -0800 Comment by Nodak 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.

]]> Nodak http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/giuliani_on_biden#c840459 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/giuliani_on_biden#c840459 2008 Fri, 02 Nov 2007 08:45:02 -0800 Comment by kaseyleigh 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.

]]> kaseyleigh http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/giuliani_on_biden#c840511 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/giuliani_on_biden#c840511 2008 Fri, 02 Nov 2007 10:24:51 -0800