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

[cmu89]

Off hand, I would say some major differences include...
Experience, ability, reliability, intelligence, and integrity. This is just a short list of reasons to vote for McCain over BHO....

Palin has more experience then BHO....

[Thomas Dark]

Sorry folks...

Palin is not bi-partisan. When she makes most budget decisions she has turned to her husband instead of working with other lawmakers. As mayor and governor she has a factual record of cronyism, exaggerations and lies.

She has little executive experience. As mayor of Wasilla she was almost recalled because of her personal attacks and so she hired a city manager to make all the decisions. BTW...when she entered office there as Mayor they had a balanced budget, when she left they were $20 million in debt.

As a governor with executive experience...she spent 312 days out of the last 365 working from home...so she was not in Juneau with the other lawmakers. So much so that lawmakers began wearing pins regarding her lack of person exposure to other lawmakers.

She was for the bridge to nowhere and Congress modified the earmark...not Ms. Palin. The money was not returned but simply re-pointed to another Alaskan highway project.

As mayor of Wasilla she hired a Washington lobbyist who acquired $27 million in earmarks. In the CURRENT Alaskan budget she acquired $200 million in earmarks. No maverick or reformer here.

Obama has much more experience. Please actually do research before you comment. If Obama wins election and takes office in January 2009, he will have served four years in the U.S. Senate representing Illinois. Before that, he was a state senator in Illinois for eight years. He was also a senior lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School during that time.

[Naush]

Sarah Palin is short on facts and long on lies!!!!!!!! Just like the RepubliCONS. We are not holding our breath about her debating Joe Biden. She is no Hillary!!!!!!!

[egc52556]

I wonder how Palin's jokes will play with her neighbors, the Russians? Ha, ha, ha.

[swflhomepage.com]

Do the republican trainers think these smart little quips will be viewed as a good thing? I am a solid independant and have to say her mannerism and even some of her expressions do appear smug and a little off. This has nothing to do with a female verses a male treatment. My wife noticed and commented before I did. Look at how silly Bush looks with his expressions at times.

I think she is being trained by a group that thinks this makes her look strong. But actually it isn't coming off right. It only makes her look like she is hiding from the facts about experience and track record.

I'm so sick of this garbage and I think the larger american public is as well. Especially considering all that we've seen this week.

[Mary]

God Help us and please let Barack and Joe Biden win. I cant take these whiny self righteous idiots who have run off with our future thanks to electing the dumbest president and the most unscrupulous vice president. Everytime you hear something you dont like a newspaper is leaning left. Thats right educating yourself might actually show you you've been wrong but conceding points isnt a republican strong suit. You all can speak up via Rush or Fox but got forbid any news story written by an actual journalist reveal some unsavory aspect of your beloveds. "Leftists liberals," You whine. How about ignorant Fascist Republicans. I grew up in a working class family and put myself through a great school. I have never been an elitist but now you can call me one because you people are the biggest pack of ridiculous sheople. You complain about people portraying Palin as a characiture, she does it to herself. You will never admit it. You didnt while Rumsfeld let hundreds of our young men die, because he was a stubborn fool and Dubya was gonna "stick to the course." Keep druming the same drums into the ground along with your 401k's. We're not rolling over. We're Democrats and we dont care that your itty bitty feelings got hurt. You hive of ants should learn to think for yourselfs. You peoplel have ruined our future.

[Larry Clifton]

As long as Palin fillets Biden, she can smile all that she wants to. I see the media is running full tilt against anything woman, not unlike they did with the women molested by our first black president, Bill Clinton.
If folks want civil-rights militant activist Obama running the White House, hapless Harry Reid the rubber stamping Obama, and dragula's wife, S. Pelosi keeping House, bring it.
This will insure Republica majorities across the board by 2012. That is if Charles I-da tax-man Rangel doesn't tax US out of existemce.
http://www.examiner.com/x-852-Atlanta-Civics-Examiner

[roy]

I have not heard the new talk about the issues all they put out is junk about who said what about the other party. If they would quite starting all the fights we could get down to the issues of who is best for the president.

[tmju]

The truth is that the libs are fuming because Palin IS everything that they are portraying Obama to be. He is nothing but a trendy face of the far left machine.

[midwestmidwife]

Freida, the only thing that rocks about Sarah Palin is the ones she has for brains. I am a rural farmer in Kansas- who is Methodist, a 4-H leader, a homeschool mom (no lipstick), work as a midwife, shoots when necessary to protect our stock, has neighbors no closer than 1.5 miles and cares about the environment. Sounds like perfect demos for a Republican- which I am not!! SP leaves me cold, worse she truly scares me!! Here in Kansas we are thrilled with our Democratic Governor, Kathleen Sebelius- maybe SP should take a page out of her book to get the vote of real, unpolished, thinking women!! SP is snarky, sneaky, lying, pretentious, (fill in any of the necessary adjectives...) She reminds me of the playground bully or the catty HS cheerleader. She cannot answer a question straight on, she takes it everywhere else but to the point. Why? because she has absolutely no business as a potential VP of our country.

[Donna Hughes]

I just heard Sarah Palin yowling, " Joe Biden says that paying taxes is patriotic!" Boy does she ever sound like a yowling cat! Lord, preserve me from having to listen to that for the next four years! Poor Joe - having to listen to that awful yowl thrugh a debate!

Send this provincial shrew back to Alaska! She is abrasive and an insult to the intelligence of the American people!

[J]

Palin was a cute sports reader (and not a very good one) who was hand-picked to be a spokes model for something she knew nothing about; the oil and gas commission.

FIRST thing she did as Mayor was hire a full time City Manager to do her job. No previous Mayor had to do that. She then left the town that had been financially sound with zero debt in the red and deeply in debt.

SECOND thing was to become Governor and immediately hire the most expensive lobby firm she could. When the pipeline was to be built she immediately gave the contracts to FOREIGN companies instead of American ones.

She is clueless when it comes to real foreign policy.

She is qualified to turn the letters on Wheel of Fortune. She is in no way qualified to be in the White House.

[Richard]

If she was eight when Biden was sworn in, then she was wasn't even born yet when McCain was shot down over Viet Nam. So what?

[realitycheck3]

Right, Sarah Barraclueless, treat the whole political process like a high school popularity contest. Mouth off and make catty comments, flash that smug self-serving lil' grin, turn every minor disagreement into a nasty personal jihad. Be proud of your ignorance, gloss over your shortcomings, refuse to consider other viewpoints and fire people who don't slobber in your massively superior presence...

Use your position to punish "haters," lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie then lie some more. Proudly parade your seriously dysfunctional family on tv so we can see just how wonderful your parenting skills are. Suck up those earmark dollars and leverage your gubernatorial office to win personal vendettas. Don't forget to tan when you refuel in Ireland en route to the Iraqi border... oops, sorry, I forgot that you didn't have a passport until... when?... last year? It's a helpful tool for getting up to speed on international relations.

We've all been hoping someone with these superior traits would come along and save us from political mediocrity.

You'd be, like, a rilly, rilly, rilly fantasmigorical hocky-mom of a Vice President!!! So sorry it won't happen. On Nov. 5th you and that First Dude fella can drive your snowmachines up on a ridge and gaze out at Russia...

[Alarmed]

While critically inexperienced, I'll grant Palin that her long, long, long list of ethics problems/investigations is like that of a veteran:
* using (unsafe, hackable) public e-mail service to conduct government business with the expressed purpose of skirting government communications law
* getting earmarks for worthless projects and denying it
* getting her personal enemies fired
* firing a librarian that wouldn't censor books (later rehiring her after public outcry)
* charging rape victims
* charging taxpayers for staying at her own house

[Thomas Dark]

Sorry folks...

Palin is not bi-partisan. When she makes most budget decisions she has turned to her husband instead of working with other lawmakers. As mayor and governor she has a factual record of cronyism, exaggerations and lies.

She has little executive experience. As mayor of Wasilla she was almost recalled because of her personal attacks and so she hired a city manager to make all the decisions. BTW...when she entered office there as Mayor they had a balanced budget, when she left they were $20 million in debt.

As a governor with executive experience...she spent 312 days out of the last 365 working from home...so she was not in Juneau with the other lawmakers. So much so that lawmakers began wearing pins regarding her lack of person exposure to other lawmakers.

She was for the bridge to nowhere and Congress modified the earmark...not Ms. Palin. The money was not returned but simply re-pointed to another Alaskan highway project.

As mayor of Wasilla she hired a Washington lobbyist who acquired $27 million in earmarks. In the CURRENT Alaskan budget she acquired $200 million in earmarks. No maverick or reformer here.

Obama has much more experience. Please actually do research before you comment. If Obama wins election and takes office in January 2009, he will have served four years in the U.S. Senate representing Illinois. Before that, he was a state senator in Illinois for eight years. He was also a senior lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School during that time.

[Theresa farrell]

Dear Freida,

You don't care about experience or intelligence and therefore you choose to vote for Palin! WHAT? Are you hoping for the US to become the least respected nation in the world? What could you possibly be thinking at this time of crisis in our nation!

Theresa

[Helen]

this is so ridiculous. Sarah Palin is awesome!! all you people out there who are making nasty remarks about her being arrogant and slamming, get a grip on reality!! if Obama wins this election, I will move out of the country. He will ruin everybody's lives with all kinds of horrible stuff. Read up on what he stands for, then meditate on it for a day or so, and then see if you can still vote for him. and for those of you who were making remarks about her witty comments written by other people, her prompter had problems in the middle of her acceptance speech, and she had to do it without the speech writers, and from what she actually thought and believed in, unlike Obama who has to have his prompter everywhere he goes, to make sure that he doesn't contradict anything that he said that he believes in earlier. I am going to be so disappointed and ashamed of the American public if we let such an in experienced man take over the country.

[flimflam]

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

Is this comparing Obama to Mccain or Palin to Biden?

[realitycheck3]

"...All Sarah has to do is cover the usual talking points, but also demonstrate that she not afraid to pull the trigger if need be. She can do this by talking tough on Iraq, Russia etc..."

Right. So that's all she has to do, how comforting. WWIII gets started by a dim bulb hocky mom who thinks effective diplomacy is talking tough, then pulling the (can she even pronounce nuclear holocaust correctly?) trigger... What's wrong with this picture???

This isn't a John Wayne Western, Sarah Baraclueless, it's R-E-A-L-I-T-Y.

[David Michaels]

OK, so Sarah Palin can recite swipes. The fact is, she's lied repeatedy about her own record and qualifications (or lack thereof). This woman lacks any semblance of professionalism or substance. Given all of the factors (McCain's age and health history), America can't take this bridge to nowhere.

[TL]

Here's something the Anti-Life Liberals and their Media will never admit.
Obama is more similar to Bush's worst traits than anyone else. . (1) Freedom is in jeapardy – speech censorship, state rights. (2) Separation of Church and State is in jeopardy – faith based initiatives, speaking from pulpits, etc The popular mobs says that McCain is McSame but I believe that nothing could be further from the truth.
(1) Bush is very unpopular for the inroads that his administration made on domestic surveillance. If Obama's pushes for speech censorship (look what his campaign is doing) and for steamrolling over state rights (10th amendment) do not scare us, nothing will. Pelosi is already pushing for a balanced airwaves act which would silence conservative talk radio show hosts. These radio show hosts may be nuts, but censorship is fascist. If we want to call it a balanced airwaves act , then all forms of media (television news and newspapers) should be put under affirmative action so that their editors and staff represent all political views equally.
(2) Bush is very unpopular for his perceived trespasses on Separation of Church and State. Guess what? Obama wants to continue and expand efforts for faith-based initiatives. IMO, this means well, but bodes terrible. I have been against this from day one. It is one step further to producing State Churches. When the State empowers the Church, the State also tells the Church what to say. Obama has already been speaking from church pulpits during his campaign. IMO, politicians have no business speaking from church pulpits. If they do, it should be church matters, not state matters.

[Rebecca]

Caribou Barbie offers more high school antics as reason to vote her into the world's most esteemed position.

[Col Joe Bento]

Palin the distraction on Hannity is no more than an infomercial for their ticket. She has been kept in a cocoon very deftly by Karl Rove and his buddies Steve Shmidt and Rick Davis. They will only let her get asked questions she has been trained for and has a 3 x 5 card in her pocket on. Our country cannot afford to put this woman a pretzel choke away from leader of the free world. If Mc Cain wins does she come with the training wheels on her political tricycle?

[Bob Fanning]

funny how the FNMA FRE, Lehman, Citi, MLPFS, AIG, stock market meltdown just made the petty little selfish, self-indulgent, Hollywood socialists look so.............insignificant, irrelevant,boring.

Vote your vote and shut up.