Biden, appearing Wednesday on CBS' "The Early Show," called Palin's remarks about Obama and Ayers "over the top."
"You know, the idea here that somehow these guys are once again injecting fear and loathing into this campaign is ... I think it's mildly dangerous. I mean, here you have out there these kinds of, you know, incitements out there — guy introducing Barack using his middle name as if it's some epitaph or something," Biden said, apparently confusing the words "epitaph" and "epithet."
"It's just malarkey, flat malarkey," Biden said of the Ayers criticism. "The guy Barack Obama is going to turn and ask opinion to is me, not that guy."
Biden returned to the campaign trail on Wednesday after spending the last few days mourning the death of his mother-in-law.
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I think it is ugly. To have somebody stand up there, for example, I heard people, I watch the news, I heard a couple of people hollering from the audience vile things, terrorists, things like that. The idea that a leading American politican who might be vice President of the United States would not just stop mid sentence and turn and condemn that - this is a slippery slope, this is a place we shouldn't be going. But look, they've been straight forward about it...but this is a slippery slope, this is way over the top.