That is the description of Barack Obama???s vice presidential candidate according to Karen Tumulty anyway. We hear a lot about how inaccessible Sarah Palin is from scared leftists but what is starting to come out is how, with Obama slipping rapidly in the polls, Biden has been reigned in to try and minimize his gaffes:
Anyone who has watched Joe Biden over 35 years in the Senate might have a little bit of trouble recognizing the guy who is running to be Barack Obama’s Vice President. Oh, yes, he looks like the same fellow. But traveling with Biden during this campaign has sometimes been like reporting on a politician packaged in shrink-wrap. While his windy, off-point pontification was the stuff of legend among his Senate colleagues, Biden is now leashed to a teleprompter even when he is talking in a high school gym that is three-quarters empty. The exposure hound who in recent years appeared more often than any other guest on the Sunday talk shows is a virtual stranger to the small band of reporters on his plane ??? less accessible than even Sarah Palin is to her traveling pack of bloodhounds. And Biden keeps to a schedule that provides a minimum of off-the-cuff encounters with voters, except across a rope line.
Biden would be taken much more seriously as a speaker if he were tethered to a teleprompter at all times. It is obvious that this man has little, if any, clue regarding the simple facts such as what our Constitution actually does and does not say and what principles this nation was founded on. He needs someone to feed him lines so that he can at least be accurate. But like most liberals he thinks he is smarter and more learned than he really is and he has fellow liberals writing his speeches which makes him continue to sound unlearned. Thus the gaffes just flow like water.
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