Joe Biden cracks me up. In the midst of explaining that he doesn’t need to raise any money to win in Iowa and New Hampshire, he said the following.
Q: And if you don’t, all the money in the world wouldn’t have saved you?
Biden: I think that’s true. I really do. I think this is more about two things. Very serious press people … reaching a generic consensus that Biden — not that he should or shouldn’t be president — but that Biden is qualified to be president. He’s the real deal, he’s qualified.
Presumably, the ‘very serious press people’ are Joe Klein, Richard Cohen, Tom Friedman, and David Broder. And they’ll carry Biden over the top because bloggers don’t own the Democratic Party.
Biden: But I think — and this is naive maybe — I have confidence that the American people will put this in perspective. Like when one of the bloggers said, “We’re going to take back the Democratic Party.”
They don’t own the Democratic Party. What are they talking about?
Heh. What is he talking about? Very serious press people…LOL.
What was that Biden said about bush being ‘brain-dead’…Joe B has had more than a few of those moments himself.
I think that is ‘brain-fart’.
No–reinvent it, as a progressive, organized and dynamic group. Lead, follow or get out of the way.
Biden has no clue about the modern democratic party. But given his status in his state, he’ll never have to learn.
I distrust people who speak about themselves in the third person. Others may conclude that Whisper in Blue is being unjustified in his or her assessment, but I believe that most will find him or her to be rightfully distrustful.
“They don’t own the Democratic Party. What are they talking about?”
But of COURSE.
He is corrrect.
How do I know?
Because HE knows who really owns the damned thing.
That’s why he is where he is today.
The Senator from MBNA.
Yup.
AG
Not his policy or his personality – his strategy. Does he want an army of bloggers to go fisking every thing he says? Maybe – an odd strategy, since he has a habit of stepping on his wee-wee in embarrassing unforced errors. Unlike when you are selling rap albums, you actually need good publicity in this business, not just publicity of your dumb ass getting shot when you were cleaning your revolver drunk.
Does he really want Broder to decide that he’s the real deal? Then Obama and Edwards can call him the Geritol insider, replete with Geritol insider Union Label stamped on his ginormous forehead.
What state will he win? Maryland? Ha. Biden cannot beat Martin O’Malley and Barbara Mikulski; they are and have wartime consiglieri, Biden not. Pennsylvania? Nah. They will look at him as a cute joke from a cute joke state who cannot talk to unions, cannot talk to teachers, talk to black voters without stepping on his wee-wee as noted above. Big media markets and he be outgunned, outfought and outspent.
End of the story: Biden wins, at best, a set of steak knives and a box lunch with David Broder.