Biden Calls Palin's Ayers Criticism 'Mildly Dangerous'

[DeepModem Mom]

Source: NYT/AP

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden said Wednesday that Republican rival Sarah Palin is injecting fear and loathing into their campaign with her criticism that Barack Obama is friends with a terrorist. He called the effort ''mildly dangerous.''...

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In Florida on Monday, Palin's remarks about Obama and Ayers elicited waves of booing from supporters. One person at a rally shouted ''Kill him!'' according to a Washington Post report. A sheriff who introduced Palin at a rally referred to the Democratic candidate as ''Barack Hussein Obama.''

Biden, appearing Wednesday on CBS' ''The Early Show,'' called Palin's remarks about Obama and Ayers ''over the top.''

''You know, the idea here that somehow these guys are once again injecting fear and loathing into this campaign is ... I think it's mildly dangerous. I mean, here you have out there these kinds of, you know, incitements out there -- guy introducing Barack using his middle name as if it's some epitaph or something,'' Biden said, apparently confusing the words ''epitaph'' and ''epithet.''

''It's just malarkey, flat malarkey,'' Biden said of the Ayers criticism. ''The guy Barack Obama is going to turn and ask opinion to is me, not that guy.''...

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/washington/AP-Biden.html

[meow2u3]

1. Mildly dangerous? That's the ultimate understatement

What Biden means is that McFailin is a genocidal racist who really wants Obama killed and McLame put out of his misery so she can rule the earth with an iron fist--whether it's before or after the sex-change operation remains a mystery.

[AzDar]

2. self-delete for repetition...

[L. Coyote]

3. Fear and Loathing in America, that's sooo Joe McCarthy

and to be expected from the KKK-Bircher wing.

[krkaufman]

4. Ugh... a more uncomfortable Freudian slip... "epitaph" in place of "epithet"

Though it was probably due to his mother-in-law's recent passing. Sorry, Joe.

[ryanmuegge]

5. LOL. That's Senate language for you.