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What Joe Biden Must Do

Posted by ELROD in At TMV, Politics.
Oct 2nd, 2008 | Comments

This is the first of a two-part entry on what each of the candidates must do at the VP debate.

Biden must do three things tonight:

1) Discipline himself. The debate format, with limited response times, may help him a bit. But he needs to keep his answers succinct and on-message. He knows how to do this, but doesn’t always follow through.

2) Ignore Sarah Palin. Speak to the American people and to Gwen Ifill. Stick to the message of the Obama campaign. The format prevents back-and-forth discussion so Biden will have few chances to martyr Palin by “bullying” her. That’s fortunate. Biden should pretend Palin is not in the room.

3) Attack John McCain. Biden has been very strong at this. Palin will undoubtedly attack Obama, so Biden must get his zingers in at McCain.

If Biden stays disciplined, ignores the Palin distraction, and goes after John McCain, then he wins.

Next up, I’ll explain what Sarah Palin has to do.

DLS

Don't blunder. Same as Palin.

daveinboca

Yeah, ignore Palin. The same guys who said McCain was arrogant for ignoring Obama encourage Biden to ignore Palin. Makes sense---NOT!

DLS

Hypocrisy is to be expected these days from the Usual Suspects, as always.

And the media who have been deliberately ignoring (hiding) Biden have obviously not been ignoring Palin. (Their mistreatment has caused resentment and even defense of Palin at her most embarrassing, by better people who find such mistreatment offensive as well as hypocritical and blatantly political.)

ChrisWWW

Yeah, ignore Palin. The same guys who said McCain was arrogant for ignoring Obama encourage Biden to ignore Palin. Makes sense---NOT!

McCain didn't ignore Obama. In fact he attacked Obama frequently throughout the debate. What McCain didn't do was look at Obama, in the eyes or otherwise.

GreenDreams

I don't think "ignore Palin" means don't look at or be polite to her, a la McCain. Just remember who tops the ticket. Biden will attack the McCain positions, or more precisely the McCain/BUSH positions. It's not McCain/Palin. It's McCain/BUSH.

That is precisely what is working against the Bush-weary electorate.

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