While some conservatives were giddy with excitement about a five-year-old tape of Barack Obama giving a speech in the house of the Reverend Jeremiah Wright last night, the tape that they ought to be using for material going forward was the one recorded of yet another verbal screw-up by Vice President Joe Biden yesterday in New Hampshire.
"This is deadly earnest. How they can justify ... raising taxes on the middle class that has been buried the last four years? How in the Lord's name can they justify raising their taxes and these tax cuts?" Biden asked.
Uh, who exactly has been the president over the past four years, Joe?
Maybe it was just a verbal miscue. But in an increasingly close race (National Journal today has the race tied nationally at 47 percent apiece), how many more "miscues" can Barack Obama afford out of his vice president?
All eyes will be in Denver tonight at 9 p.m. time for the first presidential debate. Historically, incumbents (think Bush in 2004, Reagan in 1984 and Carter in 1980) turn in their worst performance in the first debate. In honor of the occasion, we put together our own little highlight reel of famed moments in debate history over the past 36 years.
That decision by the Republican Party of Florida to actively campaign against the three state Supreme Court justices who are up for merit retention this fall is not being endorsed by other Republicans on the "down ballot," as they say. Last night in Pinellas County two Republicans running for higher office backed away from the state party's stance.
