http://thepage.time.com/prepared-remarks-of-biden-in-saint-clair-shores-michigan/<snip>
When Senator McCain was subjected to unconscionable, scurrilous attacks in his 2000 primary campaign, I called him on the phone to ask what I could do. And now, some of the very same people and the tactics he once deplored his campaign now employs. The same campaign that once called for a town hall a week is now launching a low blow a day.
Barack and I can take it. That’s not what bothers me.
It bothers me that — as one media watchdog put it — John’s recent commercial is the, “latest in a number that resort to a dubious disregard for the facts.” As another news organization put it: The wheels have come off the straight talk express.
But what really bothers me, is that every punch thrown at us — is an attempt to distract you. And they can be plenty distracting.