Biden On Debate Prep: I Won't Take Palin's Bait

LANSING, Mich. — Democrat Joe Biden has tapped Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm to be the stand-in for Sarah Palin as he prepares for next month's vice presidential debate.

Biden predicted that Palin would try to make their debate personal and said he wouldn't respond in kind if she attacked him.

"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 at a fundraiser Tuesday night in Chicago. "That's not my style. I'm not going to do it."

Biden said Granholm had agreed to spend four days with him to help prepare for the Oct. 2 debate in St. Louis. The Obama-Biden campaign asked for her assistance, and she was pleased to accept, Granholm spokesman Liz Boyd said Wednesday.

Granholm, 49, graduated from the University of California-Berkeley and Harvard Law School. She is married with three children.

Granholm's superior performance in some of her 2006 debates against Republican opponent Dick DeVos, a businessman whose father co-founded Amway Corp., was credited with helping her win re-election despite the state's struggling economic performance.

According to the pool report from Tuesday's events, Biden said he'll be concentrating on national issues when he debates Palin.

"I'm not into the small-bore stuff. I don't care whether or not she built a bridge to nowhere. I don't care if she sold a plane," he said.

"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," those struggling with other economic problems, and the foreign policy challenges facing the country, Biden said.

Comments

[eladora]

She will go at his family. She will find that achilles heal . She is a witch who needs to have the truth about her come out. I cannot believe all of the court records of her abuse in Alaska and that she hasnt been recalled yet. Abuse of Power, hiding emails, charging the state and lying about it, all cheney/rover type habits. No wonder she is their sweetheart.

[Icantbelieveher]

She can't go after his family when her family is in such a shambles!!! Her 17 year old pregnant daughter and it turns our her son was addicted to prescription pain killers. And what really makes me sick is they made such a huge deal about his going to Iraq (God bless him), but did anyone know that Joe Biden's son left for Iraq months ago?

[mergina]

I have news for you Joe. Biden is not bating you. She is not bating Obama. You are doing it to yourselves.

[TheRealMacDaddy]

Like Bill Maher said last Friday "Pitbull Palin meet Joey the Shark".

Biden is so intellectually superior to her it is actually a shame that McCain picked her knowing she was going to be embarassed as she will be on national TV.

I mean this is a woman who registered a Business License for a Technical Consulting Company under the name Rouge Cou. For those of you who didn't learn French that translates into English as Red Neck. However, as a red neck she didn't realize the correct term would have been Cou Rouge. Yep, she's a red neck, and not a very smart one either.

[jupitor]

just in case at the debate, we must check to make sure she isn't wired! I don't truest them. Also at the upcomeing interview watch to see if she's being feed ans.

[Icantbelieveher]

http://homepage.mac.com/c.shaw/BushBulges/PhotoAlbum15.html

I don't trust them either!!!! And if she won't talk to the press, do you really think she'll be ready for a debate one on one?

[MickyD10]

The problem.

Repub talking heads have already been making the case that her performance expectations are pretty low. And as far as I can tell, the press has pretty much bought into that idea. So, you know what will happen after the debate, right? Even if she is just barely able to hold her own and in the process not make any huge screw ups, Repubs will find a way to spin that as a huge Palin victory over Biden. I can see it coming.

[drkazmd65]

Yep that is their plan - set the expectations bar low enough and as long as she doesn't faint dead away at the sight of 'manly' Joe Biden - then Palin comes out of a debate with him looking no less like a decent VP potential than she went in.

If she only holds her own part of the time - she wins.

Law of low expectations - if you don't expect much, and that's what you get, you don't feel gypped.

[Gib]

Many people have misunderestimated (sic) Palin. All she needs is a reasonable memory, to be able to regurgitate the lines prepared for her by the Rove boys. She can handle the presentation, with her ability to put a "good face" on lies.

[wedgie]

Joe's got it exactly right.

Who cares about the Ebay airplane.

It's four more years of Bush policies we need to be thinking about.

**

[jupitor]

I wonder if she can remember every thing they are cramming into her pretty little head?

[Gib]

Unlike Obama, who sees the need to understand and remember a vast amount of material, she needs only to remember a few slogans. Her role is merely to shore up McCain's campaign. After he wins Cheney et al. will take over.

[All57States]

"Stand up Chuck" ........."Oh"

[vfippinger]

Joe needs to be Joe!
If he backs off his stand on any issue because of fear from Repub. politics, we are done!
Obama started out right today, calling a lie a lie!

Dems can all go back to being nice and politically correct AFTER WE WIN IN NOVEMBER!

No more Elephants in the WH!
Elect Obama/BIden 08!

[LemonMeringue]

Her main qualification for being chosen is Her Personal Story. The press and all the pundits have said so a million times.

But Biden cannot ask her about her family.

She, however, seems to believe she has earned the right to mock people who have been in national politics much longer than her 2 weeks.

Biden will not bring up this:
http://www.nationalenquirer.com/_palin_family_shockers_what_sarahs_really_hiding/celebrity/65407

[Soothsayer08]

Here is the phone number and web site for the Presidential Debates. They need to be made aware that allowing one [person to wear an earpiece is not presenting a fair debate. They might as well allow Sarah Palin a teleprompter.


[phone]
http://www.debates.org

[emcd]

What are you implying here? If you have some hard evidence that this is going to take place, post it here!

Planting false stories that can be refuted by the Repubs to prove that the left is hysterical?????

If not, prove it with a citation from somewhere!!!

[Icantbelieveher]

http://homepage.mac.com/c.shaw/BushBulges/PhotoAlbum15.html

You be the judge!!!

[LemonMeringue]

Oh come on!

Do you seriously think that George W. Bush really talks like this when he isn't in front of a camera:

Ahhhhhhhhhhh ahhhhhhhh ............ Iraq blah blah ...................... in other words ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh ...

It is a good trick to listen and speak at the same time. I couldn't do it. Neither can Bush.

[Soothsayer08]

Go get the Pit Bull Joe! I hope he follows through and actually make this woman debate. The question is will Joe Biden be swayed by Sarah Palin aka Tammy Faye Baker , minus the eyelashes? I hope I can stand to watch the debates, her voice is so annoying.

[LemonMeringue]

Who is hosting the debates? If it's ABC I refuse to watch.

[hellboundtrain]

Sarah got my old hound dog to howlin' and he wouldn't stop until her nasely, high-pitched
speech was done. It was painful.

[edwarvir]

They should have a buzzer or some device in place that will let
us know if she is wired. I don't trust her at all.. The main thing is
for Joe to stay focused. Don't let her talk about her children unless he
can talk about his, and the hard time he had raising them as a single Dad
The news media insist are giving her a pass So it's up to him to keep her
issue focused.

[LemonMeringue]

Look for her hairdo - worn down and more bouffant than usual.

[Icantbelieveher]

Or have someone there with some kind of interference device so that she will have to answer the questions on her own!

[Icantbelieveher]

There is no other polician in history who has been able to avoid the press the way they have kept her in seclusion. And honestly, to elect her if you feel sorry for her cuz the press is picking on her? Really? Isn't she supposed to be tough? Look at everything Hillary (and I am not a Hillary fan), went through in the press, not just during her own fight for nomination, but in the 8 years in the whitehouse as well. She never hid from the media. Not once!

Can they hide forever? Why isn't the media calling her out on this. One interview? Really?

[TheFoolkiller]

She is going to CRY and WIN the debate because mean old Biden would only talk about facts
and issues.

[Icantbelieveher]

Do baracudas cry?

[Chad53916]

He had better make it a little more spicy than that. I think the fact that the dems operate on the premise that most American people are intelligent, thinking beings is their downfall. Look at what's on prime time television. Look how much of this country revolves around American Idol and Survivor. The masses need crap spoon-fed to them and the repubs are smart enough to know this. Integrity doesn't mean much when the attentions span of millions is only a few minutes. I don't think Americans are hurting enough yet and don't have the foresight to see what's coming should repubs retain the reigns.

[Sportswoman]

REPUBS, NEOCONS, WING JOBS, ROVIAN QUASI-JOURNALISTS, TV TALKING HEADS, PUPPETS, HOLY ROLLERS, ET AL, REPEAT AFTER ME:
IT'S THE ECONOMY STUPID...
IT'S THE ECONOMY STUPID...
IT'S THE ECONOMY STUPID...

[laralarouge]

I think Biden needs to refine it a bit by emphasizing that even if she says she'll do such and such thing if elected, her word is not credible because her "bridge to nowhere" and "ebay" stories are both lies. We are not going to just take her word for it. Her actions and lies earned her no credibility. In the short 2-weeks she's already revealed what kind of person she is: a complete lack of character and a total disregard for truth. Enough already! We are not stupid.

[LemonMeringue]

Palin is nothing more than a common cheater.

She attacks others personally but will cry sexism or invasion of family privacy if they ask her personal questions - even though her entire candidacy is based on her personal story.