As Victor Davis Hanson said, "Had this been Palin, the election would now be over." Here's Hanson's summary of Biden's recent "speech events":
I think in the space of about the last 24 hours, Joe Biden claimed that the AIG bailout was bad, but then said it wasn't bad;
that we did not need to burn coal;
that his apology about the dirty McCain ad was, as they say, inoperative;
that FDR once went on television to address the nation after the stock market crash of '29 (that's a twofer that trumps Obama's Americans liberating Auschwitz);
and all but said that McCain took a $50,000 bribe.
Not
a bad day's work — encompassing terrible energy policy, flip-flopping,
historical ignorance, and slander. And this comes on top of Palin the
"good looking" "Lt. Governor" of Alaska, Hillary as the better VP pick
than himself, the patriotism of paying higher taxes, and so on.
And
those in turn come on top of the primary remarks about Indians in donut
shops, and "bright and clean" blacks. And those in turn come on top of
. . . (Well, go back to the pilfered speeches and made-up bios.)
Something
is very wrong here. While most forgive the silly slip like "Barack
America" or asking the wheel-chair bound to stand up, I think the Obama
staff must have gone from amusement to embarrassment and now to
serious concern whether Biden is up to the job.
Had this been Palin, the election would now be over.