TOLEDO, Ohio - Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden commented on Sunday on the attractiveness of Republican John McCain’s new running mate, Sarah Palin.
Campaigning with Barack Obama in the 
industrial state of Ohio, Biden digressed as he was drawing a contrast between his party’s approach on the economy and that of McCain’s party.
“There’s a gigantic — gigantic difference between John McCain and Barack Obama, and between me and, I suspect, my vice presidential opponent,” Biden said. “Well there’s obvious differences — she’s good looking,” he said of Palin, a 44-year-old Alaska governor and former beauty queen.
When a woman in the audience shouted out that she thought Biden was “gorgeous,” he drew laughter from the crowd when he asked her to make sure his wife heard that.
“I haven’t heard that in a long, long, long time,” said Biden, 65, who has thinning gray hair.
Referring to the 47-year-old Obama, he added, “Hanging around a lean, young-looking guy is making me feel pretty old, you know, what I mean? I thought I was in pretty good shape until I hung out with this guy.”
Photo: Reuters/Jim Young (Biden and Obama) Reuters/John Gress (Palin and McCain)
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“Well there’s obvious differences — she’s good looking.”
Hey, Joe! What about those gams? Do you think she has a great pair of legs?
- Posted by VituperatorJohn McCain’s selection of Sarah Palin for his presumptive vice-president is so lame
that you know it was just a case of one-upsmanship on his part because Barack Obama didn’t choose Hillary Clinton. I can’t imagine a presidential candidate not having his staff check someone out from top to bottom before choosing her as his running mate.
Looks aren’t everything, Sen. McCain, although they make for better photo-ops. Such things as being able to lead the country in the event of your possible death definitely take precedence over an attractive face and a nice body. Or perhaps you didn’t notice that she’s attractive.
We’re all just waiting for another previously unknown fact to drop its heavy shoe on the McCain-Palin campaign, and for the McCain troops to scurry to close ranks.
- Posted by Elinor LynchJoseph, I read your comment of why McCain picked Sarah Palin.
Please explain the Pete and Repeat ticket to me: Clinton and Gore.
- Posted by SaraMightycline, you took the words right out of my mouth…except I would like to add that the only special treatment the trooper should receive is the same treatment he dished out to his son, if, in fact, he did use his tazer on him.
- Posted by SaraScandals….Scandals….Scandals….let’s revisit one, shall we?
“I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Monica Lewinsky.” Ring any bells????????
And while I’m here. How come Obama’s platform for this campaign has been CHANGE, yet he picks one of the oldest dinosaurs left in Washington as his VEEP running mate?
Just a couple of points to ponder.
- Posted by SaraJohn McCain has blunted his argument against Obama by picking Palin as running mate.
Though the Republicans are good at staying on point, even when lying, Palin does not have more experience than Obama, unless being under investigation within her first 18 months as Alaska’s governor is considered more experience. And, unlike Obama, she does have a 17 year old who has become pregnant out of wedlock; that’s more experience.
Maybe the right-wing mouths have it right.
But what would those same right-wing mouths be spewing had Chelsea Clinton ended up pregnant as a single 17 year old? What hate would those right-wing preachers be spewing under the pretend-umbrella of self righteousness?
A bit of hypocrisy is being shoveled our way, my friends, and we’re seen as dumb enough to buy it.
- Posted by BobBrandon hit the nail on the head. Big money makes swings the votes. The “Good ol’ boy” system is how politics are run today….with corruption. I don’t trust McCain and I don’t trust Obama. Does it really matter who’s going to be president and vice president? This country is screwed up with corruption anyway.
- Posted by DayshiftbobReuters should be CONDEMNED for its lack of journalistic standards, to let an anonymous McCain aide slander Senator Obama in this article: http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/i dUSN2944356420080901?pageNumber=2&virtua lBrandChannel=10112
The culprit here is not Bristol or even her mother, although the woman is so power-hungry she will do and say anything to gain national attention; the true villain is John McCain, who displayed
1. pathetic judgment in choosing as his VP someone who not only has no foreign policy experience but has admitted to having no interest in it;
2. lack of control over or disdain for the vetting process (how can anyone possibly make such an important decision based on 1 meeting in a group situation and 1 phone call?!); and
3. lack of respect for women’s intelligence (to think that Hillary supporters would vote for another woman, just because of her gender).
McCain is desperate, and Reuters is engaging in gutter journalism to support that campaign’s baseless and scurrilous accusations!! SHAME on you, Reuters!!
- Posted by JasmineThe democrats have demonstrated themselves to be a sexist party, both in their dealing with Hillary and their current attacks on Palin. Just days ago, you libscum were trying to tie Palin’s decisions about how to deal with her pregnancy and uterus to her judgement as a vice presidential candidate. Shame on you.
- Posted by anonYou got it. USA wins all the Gold in McCain/Palin
- Posted by MightyclineBy now we all know especially the followers of the shirtless….the Mom is the Mom and the daughter is going to be a mom down the road. Just makes her more attractive to all the single mothers trying to make a living in all those key Dim controlled states like Illinois, New Jersey, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin, Minnesota, New Jersey, etal.
The State Troopergate issue is nowheresville on a typical no-good in the ranks of the do-goods. He deserves no special treatment except seperation papers. Get your facts straight and you surely will vote for the real winners this fall….McCain/Palin and the USofA (all winners)…..Lossers are under the bus, in many ways victims of their own oneness.
- Posted by MightyclineWhy do any of you people really feel as though it matters who is voted into office in November? Wake up people! The Corporations (”Special Interest Groups”)and the uber-rich rule this country. Oh, and don’t be an idiot and argue differently because you don’t have a leg to stand on.
- Posted by BrandonWhere does all the money for these campaigns come from if an individual can only contribute $1000? Special interest groups! Corporations! Gee… nice to see that THINGS that can’t vote can influence the government to act based solely on money (re-election). The average American is not going to go through all the backdoor channels in order to push a $100,000 donation through because they would have to parcel it out at the direction of the Party of their choice in order to make sure that no laws are broken or to ensure that all the right 219 groups (whatever they are called) get their maximums so THEY can give it directly to the candidate. Or indirectly through “Issue Ads” or whatever smoke-and-mirrors the FEC wants to justify these days.
Sorry, people, but when the only people in power (executive power) are rich ex-corporate executives, who do you think they are looking after? Themselves and those who paid to put them there. They make sure that whatever they “do” (they don’t do anything, just take credit for staffers who actually work) is just enough to keep enough people happy to get them re-elected and then slip in all kinds of crud in the legislation or whatever that allows corporations to take the first born of their workers or something like that.
I’m not the smartest person on here, but I think that I have more clarity of vision and reality than most. Most of you still think that your views matter in any of this… WRONG! Your views are being used and twisted in order for you to feel as though you are voting for the candidate who is most (politically) like you, but they aren’t. They are just opportunistic vultures feeding at the carcass of one of the great civilizations in history. Democracy is a grand facade- it can’t work because people still are inbued with absolute power. Guess what? Absolute power corrupts absolutely. That’s why our entire government from top to bottom is corrupted: human nature.
[...] Biden called his vice presidential opponent Sarah Palin “good looking” at an event in Toledo yesterday. It [...]
- Posted by Biden plays the A$s « HRC DeMcCratruss — if in a debate Palin says something like “and she’ll reply “yea, and in 1992 a young governor from Arkansas named Bill Clinton had no foreign experience either, but he did pretty well”….
the heads of half the GOP bureaucracy and 2/3rds the media talking heads will explode! LOL
- Posted by bdbdMcCain picked the Paulin as VP so he and the rest of the oil kings could be kept alive. Her husband is an oil king and she just so happens to be GOV. of Alaska! Come on America if McCain really was “green” why does he bleed black?
- Posted by josephIt’s unfortunate that people are knee jerking to McCain’s pick for V.P. We are in a serious race for president, and it is crucial that every possible effort be made to choose wisely. Palin has many positives, and unfortunately, many negatives. My personal opinion is that while she is obviously a successful neophyte politician, she is nowhere near qualified to apsire to the presidency (which is precisely what the vice presidential office is about). I saw the interview where she asked what the vice president actually does, I heard her giggling nervously to a radio hosts nasty comments, and I have heard the truth about her saying “Thanks, but no thanks” to the Ketchikan Bridge. Her looks have absolutely nothing to do with her qualifications, but it is important to note that they may have a LOT to do with her too rapid ascension. Consider that.
- Posted by JerryMcCain assumes Americans are stupid.
Obama assumes Americans are intelligent.
America, you decide how you would like to be viewed
- Posted by OmarNews reports reveal that Sarah Palin was for the “Bridge to Nowhere” before she was against it.
As governor, she inherited a huge budget surplus and was able to please just about all of the people all of the time. Of course, Alaska has about as many people as Austin, Texas.
McCain says he’s been watching her for “many, many years,” yet she’s only been in the public eye for a very brief time.
McCain said she’s his “partner and soulmate.” Imagine the reaction in the media if Obama had said that about Biden.
If McCain wanted someone with her views as his VP, why didn’t he pick Mike Huckabee?
- Posted by Will Sonnet