Biden slams McCain camp’s ‘dangerous’ tactics, semi-vile fear and loathing

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10/08/08 10:15 AM

Democratic vice presidential nominee Joe Biden on Wednesday said his GOP counterpart is going down a “slippery slope” by inciting crowds with rhetoric that causes the audience to hurl insults at Barack Obama.

Sen. Biden (Del.) referenced reports that supporters of Republican presidential nominee John McCain and his running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin have spouted insults at the Democratic nominee, such as “traitor” and “terrorist.” Biden, who made the rounds on the network morning shows, said these comments were “semi-vile.”

“And the idea that a leading American politician, who might be vice president of the United States, would not just stop mid-sentence and turn and condemn that, you know, I just -- this is -- this is a slippery slope,” Biden said on NBC’s “Today Show.” “This is a place we shouldn't be going.”

The Democratic vice presidential candidate credited the stepped up attacks, such as Palin linking Sen. Obama (Ill.) to Weather Underground member William Ayers, to the GOP ticket’s drop in the polls.

“They’re losing,” Biden stated. “She’s been told to go out and pull out all the stops.”

On CBS’s “Early Show,” Biden said: “The idea here that somehow these guys are, once again, injecting fear and loathing into this campaign, I think is mildly dangerous.”

http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/biden-derides-mccain-camps-mildly-dangerous-tactics-2008-10-08.html


“I mean, here you have out there these kinds of, you know, incitements out there — a guy introducing Barack using his middle name as if it's some epitaph or something. This is over the top.”

On ABC’s “Good Morning America” the Democratic vice presidential candidate said that since Palin announced that the “heels are on, the gloves are off” she has crossed the line at her rallies and is encouraging supporters who Biden believes are going “overboard.”

“I think it goes way too far,” Biden said. “Look, this really is a case where when you don't have anything to talk about, attack. And it gets really over the edge.”

“I mean, some of the stuff she's saying about Barack Obama and the stuff that people are yelling from the crowd, if she hears it, she should be at least saying, whoa, whoa, whoa; that's overboard. I mean, you know, this is — this is volatile stuff. And it's — I just — I felt we were kind of beyond this place that it seems to be going.”

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1008/14390.html


WATCH: http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Biden_McCain_campaign_injecting_fear_and_1008.html

[Cetacea]

1. K+R Thanks for posting this

Not unlike the JFK "Wanted for Treason" posters in Dallas...
They make me sick.

[thecrow]

2. I do think he meant to say EPITHET

"......introducing Barack using his middle name as if it's some epitaph or something."




ep·i·taph
Pronunciation: \ˈe-pə-ˌtaf\
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English epitaphe, from Anglo-French & Medieval Latin; Anglo-French, from Medieval Latin epitaphium, from Latin, funeral oration, from Greek epitaphion, from epi- + taphos tomb, funeral
Date: 14th century
1 : an inscription on or at a tomb or a grave in memory of the one buried there
2 : a brief statement commemorating or epitomizing a deceased person or something past
— ep·i·taph·ial \ˌe-pə-ˈta-fē-əl\ adjective
— ep·i·taph·ic \-ˈta-fik\ adjective


edit to add:

ep·i·thet
Pronunciation: \ˈe-pə-ˌthet also -thət\
Function: noun
Etymology: Latin epitheton, from Greek, from neuter of epithetos added, from epitithenai to put on, add, from epi- + tithenai to put — more at do
Date: 1579
1 a: a characterizing word or phrase accompanying or occurring in place of the name of a person or thing b: a disparaging or abusive word or phrase c: the part of a taxonomic name identifying a subordinate unit within a genus
2obsolete : expression
— ep·i·thet·ic \ˌe-pə-ˈthe-tik\ or ep·i·thet·i·cal \-ti-kəl\ adjective

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3. right

Raw Story caught that