Sarah Palin, slyly, spotlights a key difference between herself and Joe Biden

THIS is what Joe Biden better be prepared for when he and Sarah Palin meet for their debate Oct. 2 -- getting filleted, no doubt with a smile, by the self-described hockey mom who revels in being a Washington outsider.

Fox News has released more excerpts from the second segment of her sit-down with Sean Hannity, which airs tonight (for an earlier excerpt, see here). Asked about her upcoming encounter with the 65-year-old, six-term senator from Delaware, she responds:

Sen. Biden has a tremendous amount of experience. I think he was first elected when I was like in second grade.

Ouch!

Palin, in fact, was 8 years old when Biden (then just a few days shy of 30) first won his seat in November 1972.

And for the record, Barack Obama was 21 when John McCain began his political career by winning a House seat in Arizona in November, 1982.

Palin went on to say of Biden:

He's been in there a long, long, long time. So he's got the experience. He probably has the sound bites. He has the rhetoric. He knows what's expected of him. He is a great debater, also. So yes, it's going to be quite a task in front of me.

The Ticket takes note of her repetition of the word "long."

-- Don Frederick

Comments

[mwf]

Um...the snappy little comments (written by other people) only make Ms. Palin look smug and nasty.

Do we REALLY want such a person as President if McCain dies in office the next year or two?

Do you REALLY think she's the type of person that is willing to 'reach across the aisle" to get things done?

Nasty and Smug were never positive personality traits.

[Kathleen]

Joe Biden has a lengthy record of substance--working on behalf of women's rights, health care, ethics in government, sound fiscal policy, and the environment.

Speaking as an Alaskan, I can say that Palin is no reformer. She is the throwback--to political patronage, superficiality, and no efforts on her part for health care, women's issues, or the environment. She is skilled in the politics of pork to her most favored constituents.

[When Pigs Fly]

Off hand, I would say some major differences include...
Experience, ability, reliability, intelligence, and integrity. This is just a short list.

Oh, Joe Biden is not a moose killer.

[lucy2008]

Yes, many people who get older get wiser, which is the case of Joe Biden. And he is loved and highly respected for it. He is also modest and self-deprocating.

Some people get old and all they can do is tell old stories about what they did when they were young (e.g., POW) and forget what they are doing at the moment.

Some people are young and feisty without wisdom and smarts. But they are ambitious and fight the dirty fight.

[PJ]

And Palin has such a short, short, short political history and still has an ethics investigation that she's trying to sweep under the rug and has LIED in her brief, brief, brief career more times than anyone cares to count. But republicans just LOVE those glasses.

[Independent-in-Cal]

Does Sarah Palin plan to star in "Mean Girl II" the sequel?

It seems to be the one unique and only qualification in her thinnest resume.

[Lynn]

Gov. Palin has a STRONG record of reaching "across the aisle" as Alaska's chief executive. Last year, Newsweek magazine had an article praising Governor Palin's "pragmatic, postpartisan approach to solving problems, a style that works especially well with the large numbers of independent voters." You can read it at: http://www.newsweek.com/id/42534/

[Sid Connor]

The title to your article really reveals where you are coming from and the impression you want to give of Sarah Palin. It is for this reason that newspapers like the LA Times have lost all credibility with fair minded people who recognize a thinly veiled propaganda ad for Barack Obama.

[Tony Guevara]

I will go out on a limb and say that this probably will be the most watch debate ever.

Can't wait.

[Frieda]

Sarah rocks!

she is real, non-polished and she is NOT a lawyer.

She has more experience than Obama, and that's enough for me in this race.

[Vinny]

If Sarah Palin is the snappy, no prisoner, quick wit responder and she wants to be my Vice President... Thanks, but no thanks!

[Aaon]

Joe Biden is a big supporterof the one of most overlooked issues. The drug war. Which is mostly to blame for the overcrowed prions and the billions of dollars it costs tax payers every year. Kind of a shame really.

[pipian]

The uglier the left gets, the stronger they make their opponents. This is why I switched from Obama, his followers helped with my decision.

[thebob.bob]

What's there to debate about. Does Palin want to argue that Biden has been in the Senate too long when her partner has been there so long he can't remember that Spain is an ally?

Hows the last 8 yrs been workin' for ya? Thank the Republicans, McCain and McCain's best bud, GW Bush. Now there's a record you can run.....away from.

[JudiNV]

I think that snarky cockiness is what has been turning people off in droves this past week. She's too unknown and too new to the scene to deride a seasoned and respected politician like Biden. She hasn't earned the right.

[JWMAC]

I am amazed that Palin is ALWAYS taking the hit for lack of experience to be the VP when Obama's lack of experience couldn't withstand the same accusations for PRESIDENT! He's NEVER held ANY executive office! Hillary was a better pick anyway but the smooth talker took it away. And Biden?? He couldn't even get his bid for Pres. off the ground! So keep focusing on Palin, Joe will come off looking like the arrogant insider he is after Oct.2.

[robt]

Biden is a smarmy insider socialist thug who doesn't mind suck off corporate America when it helps him or his equally low life son scam thousands from individual Americans.

Kind of like Babwa Streisand charging old geezers $2,500 a ticket for her "final" tour 10 years in a row -

Somehow when liberals scam people its OK.

[sean]

Oh, please. That's all Palin's got? Snappy little comments and a snarky smile. At least Joe Biden is not under invesigation for abuse of power. Need I say more?

Joe Biden would never insult Americans with stupid comments like 'I have foreign policy experience because I see Russia from my house"...

[Dmitriy]

Nice article.

[Ayne]

So, as I've expected since her acceptance speech, Palin has no intention of actually debating the issues. She lacks the intellect to actually debate Biden. So what else is left? Smarmy attempts of character assassination here we come!

Biden will be spending most of his time trying to get back to the debate while she derails it.

Thanks for this Palin. This truly is what the American public needs. Debates reality TV style. PATHETIC...

[dan]

Obama is also out there blaming Bush for 10 billion a month in Iraq, claiming we are spending our money on their infrastructure while the Iraqi's have 79 billion in the bank. We have all heard him blame Bush for this...

But if you check the senate record you will see it was amendment 4245 that provided..."To restore full funding for the international affairs budget, in support of the reconstruction of Iraq and Afghanistan". It passed 73-24.

Not only did Obama vote for this spending..but guess who sponsered the bill? Why no other than Obama's VP choice...Joe Biden himself. Just another example of Obama out right lying and his supporters don't care because it isn't about speaking the truth...it's about hating republicans.

There is no way Obama can unite our nation by dividing it with lies.

[Sean]

Oh, please when Palin was doing beauty peagants I was learning to crawl. That doesn't make me any more or less qualified than her for anything. She needs to get a clue!

[MB]

Arrogance and hatred, which Palin seems to exude, are not the qualities of a leader.

[bbmaps]

I just love it when Republicans get all gooey and self-congratulatory about how progressive they are to put a woman on the ticket - forgetting that the Democrats did it in 1984, when it was far more of a risk, and far less accepted.

Yeah, a quarter century behind... That sounds about the righ time scale for McSame and Company..

[bloggie]

Why, Why , Why do some republicans equate ignorance and inexperience with competency and wisdom. For the love me, cant see why McCain picked her, she is his polar opposite. Her idea of good governance is firing everyone and appointing her own yes men to work with her. Anyone can run a state with a hugh budget surplus, George Bush did. Look how well he ran the country. That isn't going to work in Washington. She will be a source of rancor instead of reconciliation. She is loud, brash vulgar and petulant. Hugo Chaves in Drag.