Biden: McCain Has Something To Say? Say It To Our Face
by Aaron Bruns

Joe Biden wasn’t impressed with John McCain’s style at Tuesday’s Presidential Debate.

It’s not about policy — where, as Biden told the crowd Missouri Western State University’s Looney Complex, he’s prejudiced towards his own ticket. Rather, it’s about the unwritten rules of the old neighborhood.

“All of the things they said about Barack Obama in the TV, on the TV, at their rallies, and now on Youtube and everything else,” Biden said — referring to McCain and Palin tying Obama to Weatherman bomber Bill Ayers and accusing him of “palling around with terrorists.”

“John McCain could not bring himself to look Barack Obama in the eye and say the same things to him,” he said to cheers. “In my neighborhood, you got something to say to a guy, you look him in the eye and you say it to him.“

Biden wasn’t too taken with McCain’s new proposal to use $300 billion in taxpayer funds to buy bad mortgages from banks, either.

“He wasn’t going to buy them for what the bank paid for them, he was going to buy them for their market value was. And then on Wednesday morning, he said — his campaign said no, we made a mistake. We are going to buy them exactly what the bank paid for them,” Biden said. “He’s gonna spend $300 billion of your money so the banks don’t lose a single penny.”

“I know it sounds like fiction, but I’m not making this up,” said Biden. “He’s gone to the point of actually wanting to reward banks and lenders for their greedy behavior. Ladies and gentlemen, this is not a steady hand.”

Since Biden returned to the trail, his attacks on McCain have focused on his negativity and inability to take a position; Biden referred to McCain “lurching” from position to position three times in today’s event. But Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill chose to focus on the increasingly ugly nature of the campaign in her introduction - calling McCain’s campaign “petty, small, and personal.”

“The politics of fear and smear,” McCaskill called the McCain strategy. “They want America to be afraid of this inspirational, smart, strong, humble, patriotic, god fearing family man. That’s what they want. I’ll tell you what the United States of America should be afraid of. They should be afraid of four more years of Bush economics.”