Payback: GOP points to Biden daughter

[babylonsister]

Sigh.

http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2008/09/biden_palin_gop_arrest.html

Payback: GOP points to Biden daughter
Posted September 10, 2008 4:48 PM
The Swamp

by James Oliphant


Call it Palin Payback.

After Sarah Palin's daughter, Bristol, her teenage pregnancy, and her high school boyfriend were run through the media wringer last week, Republicans are now pointing to Joe Biden's daughter, Ashley, to make the case, ostensibly, that no candidate has produced perfect children.

Republican sources have been circulating a 2002 news story (from the Tribune) that reported Ashley Biden was arrested for obstructing a police officer in Chicago in August 2002 after getting into a verbal spat with a cop in a late-night nightlife district. The charges were dropped after she apologized to the officer involved. Ashley Biden, then 21, was a Tulane University student at the time. She now works as a social worker in Delaware.

For the record, both John McCain and Barack Obama have said children of the candidates are off-limits. Someone may want to tell the purveyors of the Ashley Biden story or, for that matter, the owner of bristolpalin.com.

Of course, the daughters of the current president were once rather notorious for getting into late-night trouble. But they seemed to have grown out of that. The coverage of the Bush twins, however, serves as a reminder that no matter how hot things become on the trail, the heat gets turned up once the office is won.

[MadrasT]

1. Oooo. "Verbal spat" Well shit, there goes the election.

:rofl:

[treestar]

2. that's nothing compared to getting pregnant when you were raised

in a fundie household.

[1corona4u]

26. Boy, you can say that again.

[NotThisTime]

39. Spot on!One hardly matches the other, sorry, try again - I find it ironic she's a social worker now

[Phredicles]

42. A social worker? Why, that's almost as bad as a community organizer;

Helping people is Elitist, after all.

[Ian David]

3. Did the police officer get her pregnant after she sabotaged the brakes on a schoolbus? No? n/t

[cameozalaznick]

4. Right. Verbal spat totally equals unmarried fornicating teen nt

[genna]

10. Fornicating? Are you the moral majority?

I can't feel good about running down this red state teen. Do you know how many teens from conservative families have all kinds of sexual dysfunction issues?

I'll pass on teenagers or twenty somethings.

[LSparkle]

5. I'd like to know what the "spat" was about ...

Cops ain't perfect; maybe this officer was being an asshole and
deserved some pushback. It's not like she was arrested for
being drunk and disorderly.

[high density]

6. oh my god, she yelled at a cop!!

This is definitely just as bad as getting knocked up. :crazy:

[alcibiades_mystery]

17. ROFL...when she was 21!

:rofl:

Republican operatives are in chaos. The McCain campaign is completely unhinged.

[Binka]

28. Unhinged! Yes! They are a creaky door hanging by a thread.

How is your beautiful little princess BTW? PM me a recent picture. Mine is at that funky stage of second grade, you know the shot where they have no teeth. Her class looks like a bunch of meth freaks. They are all fabulous none the less.

[Retrograde]

25. and she...apologized!

No right-thinking right-winger would ever do that! It's like admitting you might have maybe possibly been not entirely right!

[1corona4u]

7. Ohh....imagine that...a college kid sassing a cop, LOL...

fucking stupid asses. They need to be hit hard!!

[blondeatlast]

8. Aren't you glad you never had a slight hiccup in your youth? Verbal spat vs. premarital

sex and pregnancy in a wacko Assembly of God family--yup; those are so very similar.

[rocktivity]

9. If Biden had concealed the information from Obama while being vetted

he'd be right. It wasn't Bristol Palin's crime, it was her mother's attempt at a coverup.

:headbang:
rocknation

[anonymous171]

11. Obama never attacked Palin's daughter. This is totally uncalled for.

[Beaverhausen]

12. FIrst of all, what "media wringer" was Bristol put through?

Give me a break.

[alcibiades_mystery]

13. Ashley Biden telling a cop to fuck off 6 years ago is the same as McCain bringing Bristol Palin

onstage with her babydaddy at the Republican National Convention.

:rofl:

The McCain campaign is clearly unhinged. They know damn well that Barack Obama played them like fools on this lipstick thing, and they know he's killing them on the trail. God, their internals must be hell for them to be out flinging this much sad poo.

[slampoet]

14. Considering the BS Chicago cops are into these days the cop was probably at least half over the line

[eShirl]

15. that's it?

[Nine]

16. payback for what? Palin outed her own daughter. (nt)

[zulchzulu]

18. It's like dealing with a knuckleheaded alcoholic trying to break into your house

The Repigs are filth.

[AtomicKitten]

19. This based on a "verbal spat???"

:rofl:

[bushisanidiot]

20. A verbal spat! SCANDALOUS! CALL THE ENQUIRER!!

oh my god.. the repukes are desperate!!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

[WinkyDink]

21. So are the gloves off now? Because the Palin kith and kin are LOW-CLASS.

[doc03]

22. Oh shame on her for getting into a verbal spat

with a cop 6 years ago. Oh the humanity!

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

23. Oh man, she's a regular Patty hearst. n/t

[blue_onyx]

24. Palin's daughter wasn't even what was really being criticized

It was the hypocrisy of her Bristol being pregnant and Palin's positions on abortion and sex education.

[TheKentuckian]

27. They had no expectation they would be stood up to

none.

McSame's campaign hasn't melted completely down in weeks, back to the usual business for them, aka FALIURE.

The Republicans are on the run handwringers. BRING THEM DOWN!!!

[Vinca]

29. They really don't want to start this going again -

have they seen the National Enquirer?

[TrogL]

30. I've yelled at a cop

It was a misunderstanding. We got it sorted out.

[nc4bo]

31. umm....what else ya got pukies. nt

[Overseas]

32. Ooooh! You mean because she's a dang social worker, like unto those darn community organizers? //eom

[BronxBoy]

33. That's WEAK! n/t

[Jennicut]

34. I think someone needs to tell the Rethugs that Joe said candidate's kids are off limits

Ashley yelled at a cop and was arrested but Biden never tried to cover it up and his personal moral values were not held up to be perfect and acceptable to Fundies everywhere. Oh, the utter hypocrisy. Plus, Palin is the one that outed her kid who happens to be 17. Ashley is 27 and an adult.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

35. She's one o' them thar social workers - even more evil than a community organizer

[Hansel]

36. If the Dems were Repugs, they would simply blame the Repugs'

"outrageous attack" on Biden's daughter for everything negative that was ever said about Bristol. And they would say this with a straight face and oozing indignation. Then they would say "Bristol is now fair game".

[Rosa Luxemburg]

37. Biden's daughter was killed in a car crash - how insensitive

[GoddessOfGuinness]

41. The article says she's a social worker in DE

[Rosa Luxemburg]

44. his other daughter was killed and I thought it was insensitive to go after the other

[GoddessOfGuinness]

45. I didn't know that...

How sad...

[Rosa Luxemburg]

46. his first wife too

they were going to buy a Christmas tree. His daughter and wife were killed and 2 sons injured. HIs 2 sons ofcourse are doing well now.

[ncteechur]

38. Yeah, that's the same, alright. Palin is a LIAR and a CROOK!

[Clio the Leo]

40. I'd actually be dissapointed to learn that Joe Biden's children NEVER went off on anyone.....

I mean, their Dad is Joe Biden.

LOVE YOU JOE!!!!!!!

[and-justice-for-all]

43. Ooopsy there repigs...

"Ashley Biden, then 21," She was an adult, whereas the Bristol is a minor and is the responsibility of her parents. Parents who claim to have some moral high ground and a party that claims the very same, yet again, displaying that repigs are full of fucking shit.

On Edit: There is bases for even comparing the two; Joe never claimed to be morally superior or flawless. And you can bet Joe would be the first to say "I fucked Up". Rather than sweeping it under a rug.

Repigs are a desperate bunch.

[barack the house]

47. What McCain's campaign is doing wrong here is that the Obama/ Biden ticket did not personally attack

their kids. Biden needs to come out swinging on the depths that McCain has sunk to and the education ad McCain ran.

[barack the house]

48. Biden has total recorded evidence he praised Palin's loving family.