Stupidly, Claire McCaskill notes that Joe Biden says stupid things

Sen. Claire McCaskill is a Missouri Democrat who's long been supporting, first, Barack Obama from neighboring Illinois, and now the Obama-Joe Biden ticket.

The voluble Biden has a reputation for saying many things. Often, they're true. But, politically speaking, perhaps better left unsaid during the closely-watched heat of an historic presidential campaign. Like what a great and honorable guy his ticket's Republican opponent, John McCain, is and how probably Hillary Clinton would have been a better Democratic VP pick than himself.

As McCaskill was talking about the gaffe-prone Biden, she had a Biden moment herself. The Kansas City Star reports McCaskill, like most Americans except perhaps the participants, was eagerly anticipating tonight's sole vice presidential debate in her state between Biden and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. (The Ticket will be live-blogging that event right here beginning at 6 p.m. Pacific.)

McCaskill got in the requisite jab at Palin, suggesting the governor might not know much, the Star reports. Then, the senator said, "My friend Joe Biden has a tendency to talk forever and sometimes say stuff that’s kind of stupid."

So, apparently he's not alone in that category.

-- Andrew Malcolm

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Comments

[G.A. Browne]

Is it me, or are there so many out there that think more Bush/McCain is good for America. I am witnessing the most selfish act by any one man and party in American political history save Nixon/watergate. The determining factor is the reaction and clumbsiness by Bush and the Republican party after 9/11. They squandered an opportunity to have the USA take a lead role in shaping foreign policy far beyond our lives. Their use of innocent American lives firstly, service persons second, would be considered treason if tried in world courts. American view that theirs is the only right one, has now put us on track to remain in isolation for at least one perhaps two generations.
What a mess that you two seem to think was everyone save Bush/Cheney and the McCain party.

[Valerius]

So McCaskill gives an honest opinion, which I think most people wouldagree with, and she's stupid? Can't we just let people say what they mean?

Biden does say some stupid stuff. Look what he said about Obama. If that wasn't stupid, it was racist. Biden is lucky the media if preoccupied with playing gotcha with Sarah Palin. Some of the things he has said recently are really really stupid.

Oh, and G.A. unfortunately its not just you. Too many Americans do not understand what the war on terror is all about or how it must be fought. We can sit back and be the sheep or we act like lions. If you don't want to fight, then you don't have to. But those people who would rather protect themselves and their families from future terrorist attacks, risking their lives in the process, deserve the support of all of us.

[Joe Hollywood]

"often they're true"???? Oh, like that FDR was president in 1929, or that there were TV's in every home that he talked through? Or...well, there are HUNDREDS of things that Biden says that are (a) UNTrue, and yes, (b) stupid as hell. That plus the fact that this "noble" and "honest" and allegedly not-so-rich-as-the-rest Senator uses his campaign funds to pay for all those train rides home...and his influential pals for the sweet deal he GOT on that home and, well, maybe the "stupidest" gaffe is the one repeated daily by the media like the Times that the Biden/Obama ticket is about "change" and not just the same old politcs-as-usual. That's the really "untrue" statement in this race.