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Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Joe Biden is apparently not from around here

During the highly publicized "CNN/YouTube Debate" last night, a couple of guys from Tennessee asked via YouTube video if any of the candidates' feelings were hurt because the media seems more interested in whether Al Gore will run than in them.

This prompted Sen. Joe Biden to respond "I think the people of Tennessee just had their feelings hurt."

I think Sen. Biden is not familiar with the Red State Report, starring Jackie Broyles and Dunlap out of Murfreesboro, TN. Memo to Sen. Biden: it's an act. We're not really like that down here. Well, not all of us, anyway.

See their CNN/YouTube Al Gore question here. See their other questions (which weren't aired) here.

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posted by R. Neal at 2:31 PM | Email this post | Post a Comment
2 Comments:
Anonymous Howard Hsu said...

hmm... do you think Biden was also joking, or did he think an entire state's population collectively had their feelings hurt? Maybe he has better things to do than follow a youTube sketch that has "rejected" stamps all over it from the Blue Collar Comedy Tour. He has been hard at work authoring a plan to leave Iraq gracefully and in the best condition possible, as well as trying to push for ground troops in Darfur. Oh and while he was out there NOT receiving big corporate donations, he was too busy sticking up for labor unions and the working middle class Americans they represent. Meanwhile, Microsoft is opening a facility in Canada so that they can keep having workers from India continue engineering software for them. What does that say about the pool of tech talent in America today and our education system?

7/24/2007 9:48 PM  
Blogger Michael said...

Joe Biden for President he is the most experienced.... Semper Fi
Vets for Biden...

7/25/2007 3:50 AM  

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