SlowJoe’s Virtual Memory
Posted on October 3rd, 2008 at 11:57 am by CordeiroI’m not going to even attempt to be fair and balanced in my assessment of last night’s St. Louis Smackdown featuring Stiletto Sarah Palin and SlowJoe Biden. In my opinion, it wasn’t even close. Stiletto Sarah out shone, out classed, and thoroughly out debated SlowJoe.
My bias may have something to do with the fact that Sarah kept winking at me all night.
But I digress.
The MSM is trumpeting SlowJoe’s “victory” on points in that they claim he had a far better command of the issues than did Stiletto Sarah. That might be true if you take SlowJoe’s word on every fact he claimed credit for knowing. I’m willing to cut him some slack on getting his Constitutional Articles mixed up and not knowing the exact range of a Pakistani nuclear armed missile. These things happen.
Over at NRO’s Campaign Spot, Jim Geraghty has begun to document SlowJoe’s “Error/Lie/Hallucination” list. Thus far he’s at number 22. One of them jumped out at me and I came to the conclusion that SlowJoe might be suffering from Virtual Memory Syndrome.
See for yourself:
RESTAURANT: “Look, all you have to do is go down Union Street with me in Wilmington or go to Katie’s Restaurant or walk into Home Depot with me where I spend a lot of time and you ask anybody in there whether or not the economic and foreign policy of this administration has made them better off in the last eight years.”
According to this Delaware site, Katie’s Restaurant is no longer in business; locals remember it on Union Street 25 to 30 years ago.
Now referencing a restaurant that had been around up until a year – maybe two – ago? That I can understand. 25-30 years though? That’s a stretch, even for a virtual memory.
Had McCain made such a reference, there would be wall-to-wall MSM coverage of McCain’s descent into dementia. SlowJoe? This guy can’t tell anti-aircraft fire from a heavy snowstorm and has recent memories eating at a place that hasn’t existed for 30 years. Of course, SlowJoe gets a pass.
Pardon my non-surprise.
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See, I knew he was throwing around random stats and facts. I bet he doesn’t even go to Home Depot.
Maybe he got it mixed up with Lowe’s
Be careful, or the ravishing Mrs. Cordeiro might take notice. Those Latino ladies can have a temper…
Speaking of Katie’s - it probably wasn’t even around when I went to the U of D 23 years ago.
Joe Biden gets the facts right…because Joe Biden is a great American..Joe Biden can’t be wrong because Joe Biden is on Obama’s ticket…Joe Biden signing off now. Be sure to visit me at JoeBiden.com. Joe Biden, OUT.
Only a Democrat could get away with talking like that and not be made fun of on every late night and morning show in the country.
Only a person blinded by party affiliation can believe that in knowledge of the facts, issues, and foreign policy that Joe Biden was not better to Sarah Palin in this debate and as a vice presidential candidate.
I guess that depends on your definition of “facts, issues, and foreign policy”.
Oh, and here’s a fact for you: Geraghty is now up to 24 SlowJoe “hallucinations” during the debate.
Perhaps SlowJoe isn’t lying. Maybe he is just confident in so many things that just aren’t so.
Like Palin is lie free. Palin answers were generic, and at times, rephrasing the question. She did not go into detail about Israel relations, Iran relations, healthcare, the economy (just taxes), spending cuts, her weaknesses, and several other topics. Biden never stumbled on a single answer, while Palin avoided topics she did not know and made up false attacks towards Biden and Obama, which Biden rebuked, yet she still pressed anyway. There is no doubt Biden knows more about Israel, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Healthcare, the Economy,and even her pet subject energy (we have 3% of the world’s oil and consume 25%).
Here’s a simple reason behind this claim in this article: he simply said a random restaraunt. He said the first restaurant that came to mind, and Katie’s Restaurant is a pretty generic name. It’s not that unreasonably to mix up restaurants, especially ones with generic names. Also consider the fact that he is giving these answers in 90 seconds bursts, and it really is not that a big a deal.
In fact, I recall John McCain mixing up the names of two groups of Muslims, two nations, and two terrorist organizations in about a minute. And he got off pretty clean for that one (luckily Lieberman was there to correct him).
Haven’t visited this site for a while, on account of the fairly sharp decline in quality as the rabid partisans on the right got more and more scared about their electoral chances. But I digress. It’s all well and good to want to claim a winner and a loser, but its really up to voters. And voter, in every poll available, gave Biden the win by a fairly substantial margin. That’s because he actually answered questions and knew what he was talking about. Palin’s constant lies, and unwillingness to adress a single direct question asked of her was what led to her disastrous debate performance.
Did she look as bad as she did in the Couric interviews? No, probably not. Why? Because she actually tried to answer Couric’s questions. In this debate, she decided that she’d just only spout her memorized speeches, without regard to the question she was actually asked.
Conservative rapture over Palin’s pathetic performance is classic overcompensation- they know she’s an utter disaster, but the time to admit it isn’t now. Its kind of like how everyone was saying that Bush was a great President until you had a new candidate (and how everyone was saying that McCain was a fake RINO until he was your candidate)