Biden: Palin Must Condemn Supporters' Hateful Obama Attacks

Joe Biden lashed out at Sarah Palin on Wednesday, calling her recent rhetoric "ugly" and "mildly dangerous," and expressing shock that the Alaska Governor did not interrupt recent rallies when supporters shouted hateful attacks about Barack Obama, including "treason!" and "kill him!"

"I watched the news and I heard a couple people hollering from the audience semi-vile things about 'terrorists,' things like that," Biden said on NBC's Today show. "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 -- it's just a slippery slope, it's a place that we shouldn't be going."

Biden repeated the sentiment on ABC's Good Morning America:

"I think it goes way too far. Look, this really is a case where, when you don't have anything to talk about, attack -- and it gets really over the edge," he said. "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 be saying, whoa, whoa, whoa, that's overboard. But this is volatile stuff."

A Secret Service spokesperson said on Tuesday that agents were trying to track down more information about the individual who yelled "kill him" during the Palin event in Clearwater, Fl., on Monday.

Comments

[ReasonIsMyReligion]

Let's start a list of questions we'd like to ask Carbiou Barbie.

Here goes:

"Governor, when did you first hear the name Bill Ayers?"

"Governor, can you explain whether you now support Senator McCain's position when he said last night that implicitly manmade 'greenhouse gas emissions' contribute to global warming?"

"Governor, last nite Senator McCain spoke about a number of states being within Russia's 'crosshairs.' Do you think Alaska is one of them?"

"Governor, what powers of the Vice Presidency would you like to see expanded under you doctrine of 'constitutional flexibility'?"

"Governor, given the market for oil is global, how can even expanded US drilling keep up with increasing global demand?"

"Governor, how is 'clean coal' clean for coal miners?"

"Governor, do you renounce witch doctors, and was your preacher successful in purging you of witches?"

"Governor, how was the pizza in that bar from which you watched last nite's debate?"

Feel free to add.

[bootcamp]

McCain has nowhere to go now but down. He can run away from President Bush, but he can't run away from the Republican Party. The Republicans will be regarded from now on as "the party that wrecked America." Over the weeks ahead, as carnage in the economy and the financial markets ramps up, it will become increasingly clear. It is important that this meme be spread through the internet. I urge all commentators to adopt and spread the idea that the Republicans are "the party that wrecked America." It will work because it is the truth. Use it freely.

[jimme]

I have to disagree on this one. They tried to wreck her. She's not gone yet and with an Obama/Biden win come November,we together,can restore her to her standing in the world.

[arthur2008]

Her silence (and John McCain's) is tantamount to approval.

[comacoma]

Concur.

[marksmyword]

Uh huh, what Arthur2008 said.

[rinpochet]

Me too. What a sad old excuse for a human being McCain has become. And to think that I once supported him!!!!