A nice collection of stories today that have Joe Biden directly contradicting the Obama campaign on a few different issues. I guess this is how you please everybody: If you like "clean coal" - Obama's your guy, if not - Biden's got you covered. If you want the government to bail out AIG - Obama's with you, if not - Biden's got you covered. If you think it's ok to pick on a man because he can't physically use a keyboard due to war injuries - Obama agrees, if not - Biden's got you covered.
Obama on Biden's Initial Opposition to AIG Bailout: "Joe Should Have Waited"
"What has been clear during this entire past ten days is John McCain has not had clarity and a grasp on the situation," Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., told NBC's Matt Lauer in an interview that ran this morning.
Lauer was talking about how Obama hit Sen. McCain for flip-flopping on the AIG bailout -- saying he opposed it one day then announce he supported it the next day.
But, as Lauer pointed out, scarcely three minutes after McCain said he opposed the AIG bailout last week, "in an interview with Meredith Vieira, Joe Biden, your running mate was asked the exact same question, 'should the federal government bailout AIG?' And he said, 'No, the federal government should not bailout AIG. And I think that in that situation," Obama said, "I think Joe should have waited as well."
Biden Says Ad Mocking McCain Was ‘Terrible’
WASHINGTON — Barack Obama’s running mate says a campaign ad that mocked Republican presidential candidate John McCain as an out-of-touch, out-of-date computer illiterate was “terrible” and would not have been done had he known about it.
...Asked about the negative tone of the campaign, and this ad in particular, during an interview broadcast Monday by the “CBS Evening News,” Obama’s running mate, Sen. Joe Biden, said he disapproved of it.
“I thought that was terrible, by the way,” Biden said.
Asked why it was done, he said: “I didn’t know we did it and if I had anything to do with it, we’d have never done it.”
Biden: "We're not supporting clean coal"
“No coal plants here in America. Build them, if they’re going to build them, over there. Make them clean. We’re not supporting clean coal.”
That's strange, Obama seems to feel differently, this is DIRECTLY from the Obama campaign web site.
Develop and Deploy Clean Coal Technology
Obama’s Department of Energy will enter into public private partnerships to develop five “first-of-a-kind” commercial scale coal-fired plants with clean carbon capture and sequestration technology.
Of course, it all depends on your audience. Telling them what they want to hear is a great way to get votes but a lousy way to lead a country.
Biden: ‘It’s Nice To Be Back In Coal Country’
CASTLEWOOD, Va. – In his first visit to Southwest Virginia, Democratic vice presidential nominee Joe Biden, speaking at the United Mine Workers’ annual fish fry here on Saturday, was quick to tout his ties to coal.
“I hope you won’t hold it against me, but I am a hard-coal miner, anthracite coal, Scranton, Pa.,” Biden said. “It’s nice to be back in coal country. … It’s a different accent [in Southwest Virginia] … but it’s the same deal. We were taught that our faith and our family was the only really important thing, and our faith and our family informed everything we did.”
All things to all people - how can you lose?
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