Wednesday, October 22, 2008

the bears are coming out of the woods

and finally joe emerged. the bears are coming out of the woods was his energized opening to the crowd which had been waiting for more than 3 hours to see him.

having made a strange comment the day before about barack's mettle being tested within six months of assuming the presidency it seemed that joe was trying to avoid any major gaffes. with a raucous start and impassioned talk about the need for change and the failure of mccain to provide it joe began to speak softly, earnestly about the problems facing americans.

we got some typical biden-stump speech lines: 'you know my daddy always said: champ, no matter what you do, get back up, get back up. if you get knocked down, get back up.' and 'my mom used to say: joey, if it looks like a duck, sounds like a duck, and talks like a duck, then its a duck. when mccain sounds like a bush and votes like a bush, well they he is a bush.'

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