Palin did one thing in the debate that I almost stood up and cheered for:  She finally addressed the constant BDS (Bush Derangement Syndrome) that Biden and so many other democrats have been playing.

Biden made repeated comparisons between McCain and Bush during the debate, and democrats all over have ridden that dead horse all over town, that McCain is another 4 years of Bush.

In 2004 the campaign was “anyone but Bush” and it lead to a defeat.  I do not know if the same will happen this time, but the constant complaint is tiring.

They won’t address the issues, and address their opponent, just lame comparisons to the present administration.

Sarah, in the debate, would ave none of it (via Hot Air).

PALIN: Say it ain’t so, Joe, there you go again pointing backwards again. You preferenced your whole comment with the Bush administration. Now doggone it, let’s look ahead and tell Americans what we have to plan to do for them in the future. …

No, in fact, when we talk about the Bush administration, there’s a time, too, when Americans are going to say, “Enough is enough with your ticket,” on constantly looking backwards, and pointing fingers, and doing the blame game. …

But for a ticket that wants to talk about change and looking into the future, there’s just too much finger-pointing backwards to ever make us believe that that’s where you’re going.

That alone got her my vote.

I have many more thoughts on the debate, but that’s for tomorrow.

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Deal em up, here comes the race card.

First up is Joe Biden who finally says what everyone is thinking:  Vote for Obama because he is back:¹

Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden, campaigning in North Carolina where black votes could help swing the state to the Democrats, said today that electing a black person to the White House would be transformative.

Biden said the policies of running mate Barack Obama make his presidency even more urgent and declared this to be the most important election that any living person has seen in their lifetime. But he particularly singled out the meaning of electing someone who is black.

“That will be a transformative event in American politics and internationally,” Biden said. “That all by itself will be significant.”

So, why is this necessary?

North Carolina last voted for a Democrat in 1976, when Jimmy Carter won much of the South. But the state has a large population of blacks galvanized by Obama’s candidacy, and the Illinois senator has competed aggressively here for months.

Oh, yea, that.  If they won’t vote for you for your failed policies, go for something more elemental.

Now, I posted this in a forum, and was taken to task by a friend who pointed out that Biden never explicitly said to vote for him because he is black.

Here is how I responded:

Context matters <name>. 

If you want to stand on the exact words, fine. I will assume you are a literalist then, and cannot be trusted to look at hyperbole, idioms and metaphors.

A speech is a method (of) communication, and the communication process has four key elements, a sender (biden), a receiver (the audience), a message and feedback.

If you look at what he said, who he said it to, where he was when he said it and the circumstances of why he said it, it makes sense.

Hmm.  Naw, that may be how the Kos-freaks might treat this, if the same had happened to the conservative candidates of course, but I guess that I, having morals, have to draw the line somewhere.

The real headline should read “Biden and Obama make idiotic mistakes about Disabled people”.

First, Biden pulls this gaffe, asking a guy in a wheel chair to rise and walk (ok, stand up):

Ok, we can be adults and everything, and admit this was nothing more that a bone headed idiotic error.  He forgot, he had a momentary lapse of memory about who he was talking to.  But the chances to rip on him for it are wonderful.

I mean this means that not only are they comparing Obama to Jesus¹ they are now trying to heal people, along the lines of John Edwards in 2004, who told people John Kerry would make people walk again.

Yes yes, I know the guy he was talking to was gracious about it, and was not offended.  So what?  that’s no reason not to rip on it.  So, being a fair minded guy, I (until now) didn’t run the story here…because unlike the Kos-Freaks, Huff Po-lings, I realize that when these guys are on the campaign trail, they make what we poor schlups in the real world call a simple, stupid, understandable mistake.

But…

When Obama said this in his ad:

And when he decided to mock McCain for not being able to send an email, he, or what ever dipshit wrote, designed or filmed this commercial, failed to do their homework².

McCain gets emotional at the mention of military families needing food stamps or veterans lacking health care. The outrage comes from inside: McCain’s severe war injuries prevent him from combing his hair, typing on a keyboard, or tying his shoes.

Oops.

Apparently, at least part of the accusation, is based on his disabilities, which Randi Rhodes says she doesn’t have.

And maybe, just maybe, it isn’t totally true³

Q: What websites if any do you look at regularly?

The smack down regarding abortion continues for Joe Biden as two more Catholic Bishops take him to task for his latest comments.¹

Two prominent U.S. Catholic bishops said Tuesday that Democratic vice presidential nominee Joe Biden contradicted church teaching by saying in a weekend interview that determining when human life begins is a “personal and private” matter of religious faith he would not impose on others.

The statement from Cardinal Justin Rigali and Bishop William Lori said Biden, who appeared Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” is the latest case of the U.S. Catholic hierarchy correcting a Catholic politician.

Asked on the program about when life begins, Biden said: “Look, I know when it begins for me. It’s a personal and private issue. For me, as a Roman Catholic, I am prepared to accept the teachings in my church.”

He added that while he believes life begins “at the moment of conception,” it would inappropriate to impose that view on others in a pluralistic society.

So essentially he takes a position that life begins at conception, but then ducks into a “don’t want to push my beliefs on others” defense.  While that is, on the surface at least, a reasonable sounding perspective, it is also semi hypocritical as it seems that Democrats (and to be fair, politicians in general) are often semi hypocritical as they are quite happy to push their beliefs off on pother people all the time.

This is an artful dodge really, nothing more.  By making the doctrinal stance, he figures he has made the appropriate concession to church, and by leaving it to privacy and individual choice, he has divested himself of responsibility of other choices.  It just isn’t that easy.