Friendly Relations About to Change -- Biden about to deliver a full frontal assault on McLame

[jefferson_dem]

Friendly Relations About to Change
By Jonathan Allen, CQ Staff

Joseph R. Biden Jr. ’s days of paying bromide-laden tributes to his Senate colleague John McCain end tonight.

When Biden delivers his acceptance speech as the Democratic Party’s vice presidential nominee at the Pepsi Center, the Delaware senator is expected to deliver a frontal assault on McCain, a longtime “friend” — at least in the terminology of the clubby Senate — who will officially become the Republican Party’s standard-bearer next week in St. Paul, Minn.

Biden’s primary job, according to experts on political rhetoric, is to be point man for the kind of attacks on McCain, President Bush and the Republican Party that it would be tactically better for presumed Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama to avoid.

“He has to bring the smoke. He has to bring the rain,” said Rep. Jesse L. Jackson Jr. , D-Ill., a national co-chairman of Obama’s campaign.

Jackson painted Biden’s speech as a pivot from the Democrats’ divisive primary to a unified effort to defeat their opponent. “This party must move beyond its pain to John McCain ,” he said.

Presidential nominees typically tend to avoid throwing the lowest blows on the campaign trail, and Jackson said remaining above the fray is particularly important for Obama, the first African-American to win a major party’s presidential nomination.

“Jackie Robinson can’t hit back,” Jackson said, comparing Obama to the Brooklyn Dodgers second baseman who broke Major League Baseball’s color barrier in 1947.

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[SemiCharmedQuark]

1. Oh I hope hope hope it's awesome!

[rucky]

2. Biden Goes Full-Frontal

film at 11.

[Cha]

7. The Full Monty on

mccain! Should be Excellent~

[Ichingcarpenter]

3. I can't wait... Biden will knock McCain and the Bush Crime Family

back to the stone age where McCain grew up.

[avaistheone1]

4. It's Show Time!!!

[AzDar]

5. Kick his Bush-lovin' ass, Joe!

:mad:


Bring tha pain!

[Bobbie Jo]

6. I'm really lookling forward to hearing from Biden. nt

[and-justice-for-all]

8. Smack the taste out of their mouth Joe!! nt

[Cha]

9. The whole article is good..

“The advantage of the role of the vice president is, he doesn’t have to worry about subtlety,” Kamarck said.

[JaneQPublic]

10. And Biden knows where all the bodies are buried. (nt)