Chicago Sun-Times story: "Biden isn't afraid of Palin"

[ClarkUSA]

Democratic vice-presidential nominee Joe Biden assured a crowd of donors in Lincoln Park Tuesday night that he would handle himself just fine in his debate with Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin... He's not aiming to take any cheap shots, he said.

"Folks, look, I know what she's going to try to do: she's going to try to make it as personal as she can. She's going to take a lot of straight lefts and jabs at me. She's going to try to get me to respond. She's going to try to get me to respond in a personal way," Biden said. "That's not my style. I'm not going to do it."

Biden told the heavy-hitter donors in backyards of Barbara Goodman Manilow and Steve Koch that he doesn't care about the passing controversies like whether Palin sold her predecessor's plane or not or whether or when she supported or opposed the "Bridge to Nowhere" in Alaska.

"What I care about is: What in God's name is she going to do -- along with John McCain -- about the thousands of people who don't have health care?" Biden asked. He'll ask her about "The superhighway of terror between Pakistan and Afghanistan where my helicopter was forced down...John McCain wants to know where Bin Ladin and the gates of Hell are? I can tell him where. That's where Al Quaida is. That's where Bin Ladin is. It's not in the country of Iraq."

Four of the six questions Biden fielded Tuesday night were from donors worried about Palin's popularity which has boosted the Republican ticket's poll numbers over the Democrats. Biden urged the donors to "have patience" and Palin's balloon would return to Earth once he or the press forced her to talk about who she would appoint to the Supreme Court or her views on global warming. He told them not to worry about a poll that showed white women defecting from Barack Obama to John McCain because of Palin.

"The press is exaggerating how white women are all of a sudden for Sarah Palin," Biden said. "We still have more women voting for Barack Obama than for John McCain...Part of the problem is in white suburbia, as well as...among ethnic groups, among, particularly Jews and Catholics, there is a lack of ease about Barack. They don't know him. One of my major jobs is to go out and talk about what I know -- they know me -- talk about who I am, why I support Barack."

http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/obama/1154564,CST-NWS-biden10.article

Go get 'er, Joe!! :*

[1corona4u]

1. Yes!!

Perfect response.

[Curtland1015]

2. I have nothing but confidence in Joe.

Give 'em hell Joe!

[NewJeffCT]

3. I hope he is right

and, I hope some of these big donors start funding our 527 groups so they can unleash a bunch of ads the next two months.

[ginnyinWI]

4. Good for Joe! nt

[secondwind]

5. let's not give the questions away, PLEASE! If Palin could cheat her way out of a debate,

she will. She is not an honest person, not a good mother, not a good VP candidate.

[peace13]

8. What she is is an average Repucklican!

That is why they identify with her!

[peace13]

6. Unfortunately the white woman is jabbing at the black man.

It doesn't play well with the racist pigs when Obama tries to defend himself from her. Obama needs to respond only to McCain. If Palin throws dirt Obama needs attribute the attack to McCain and strike back with full force.

[secondwind]

7. right on the money, Obama should stay away from that pit bull

[Doremus]

9. If more Jewish voters knew about "Jews for Jesus" they might change their minds.

Palin doesn't scare Ed Koch without good reason.

[zbdent]

10. In the debate, she will lose in issues, but the media will attack Biden for

picking on the poor girl (hockey pit bull she may be).

Like being in a boxing match ... 14.5 rounds, you are just whaling on the opponent to the point that the ref is seriously considering stopping the slaughter, and suddenly you suffer a brain aneurysm, and the opponent is awarded the match because you're dead ...