The LA Times has an
editorial by Andrew Malcolm about just how inaccessible Joe Biden has been over the last two months.
Is it possible we've been living in a bubble for the last several weeks, not noticing a complete role reversal between the Democratic vice presidential candidate, Sen. Joe Biden, and his Republican counterpart, Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska?
It has been noticeable--the media just hasn't bothered to report it. Malcolm notes how Palin has become
much more accessible but then turns his attention to Biden.
But Biden is something else entirely. We've got Joe the Plumber and Joe Six-Pack. But Joe Delaware-by-way-of-Scranton has gone missing.
Obama officials will deny it. But he's clearly been muzzled by the Democratic campaign that's for real change.
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[ABC Blogger] Tapper points out, amazingly, that Biden has not taken questions from his crowds of supporters since Sept. 10. That's before some of us learned Tampa Bay has a baseball team.
Malcolm also writes about the truly amazing part of this story. Despite being sequestered, Biden has still managed to suggest Hilary Clinton would have been a
better choice for VP than him. He has said that the world would
challenge Obama as soon as he took office and that Obama's response would appear to be wrong. Lets not forget that he stated unequivocally that Obama-Biden was
against clean coal when in fact supporting clean coal was prominently mentioned on the official campaign website. Do you remember the time he thought FDR was on the radio, talking about the depression--apparently having
mastered time travel? What about when a historically anti-gun biden suddenly started
clinging to his guns?
[quoting Tapper again]"in terms of general availability to their traveling press corps, Biden's and Palin's roles are switching."
Does anybody seriously think that if the trend was going the other way, we would not have heard by now endless accounts of her hiding?
Malcolm seems shocked to learn the media is biased. I guess he really has been living in a bubble. But it is nice to see him break out of it and take notice.
1 comment:
Couople of pts on your item on my item: 1) Mine wasn't an editorial. It's a blog item. I write the Top of the Ticket political blog. And 2) Biden's historical gaffe was even more amazing because he had FDR talking to the nation about the depression on TELEVISION, which hadn't been invented then and FDR didn't take office until 1933.
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