Since the children of vice-presidential candidates are supposedly newsworthy, why isn't more being written about Sen. Joseph Biden's daughter, Ashley Blazer Biden?
Ashley Biden was arrested in Chicago in 2002 for "obstructing a police officer", which meant: "Biden blocked the officer's path and made intimidating statements". The charges were later dismissed in exchange for her public apology to the police.
But no recent mentions of this in the mainstream media. Also nowhere reported is Ashley Biden's arrest for marijuana possession in New Orleans while she was a student at Tulane.
No, it shouldn't necessarily be a big deal for an 18-year-old college student to carry a little weed. But when her father trumpets himself as "a leader in Congress on combating drug use and stemming the flow of drugs into our country." with a special focus on "Educating Children and Keeping Drugs Out of Schools", a responsible press should be asking Sen. Biden some questions about Ashley's drug use (might she also have been under the influence when she messed with the police in Chicago?) and how that personal experience influences the Senator's positions on drug policy.
And it would also be fair to ask whether Ashley was given favorable treatment in either criminal proceeding on account of her father's position.
Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at September 03, 2008 04:35 PM | Email ThisNo Daily Kos, Andrew Sullivan, Democrat Underground, HuffPo, Wonkette, etc.... Omerta on Biden!
Posted by: Crusader on September 3, 2008 04:52 PMI appreciate what you're doing here, but hope we can leave it here and go no further. It's worth pointing out that the Democrats and media are being hypocrites, but I dislike doing it in this way. Your choice of course, and maybe there's really no other way to point out the hypocrisy, just saying ... let it go no further, please.
I join in Biden's call to say that the kids are off-limits, unless they make themselves a public part of the campaign (as Chelsea did this summer), or their own professional choices are especially worthy of note on their own (such as Biden's son, as Attorney General of Delaware).
The point is that Palin has an awful lot on her plate for all her underaged kids.
I'm wondering if in engaging this kind of tactic will diffuse the effectiveness of it by comparing it to "mutually assured destruction" that got us through the cold war years.
You can bet the leftist scum that propulgate this kind of bottom feeder behavior will not stop if it's proven effective and there is little or no backlash in return. Plus, "news" organizations today are outright political activists* that can both hype or bury a story at will, leaving few if any outlets from which the truth can be disseminated by the average American voter.
* - Newt Gingrich embarrasses MSNBC reporter questioning Sarah Palin's experience. No report yet on whether his response sent a quiver up Chris Matthews leg.
Posted by: Rick D. on September 3, 2008 06:49 PMGoose and gander, pot and kettle...:) I think this is more than fair, and it's about time that if the Slavery Party is going to set a precedent we take them at their own challenge.
Posted by: Shanghai Dan on September 3, 2008 07:07 PMIt was OK for Joe Biden to be a single father and Senator with 4 kids, but not OK for Sarah Palin to be a MARRIED mother with a husband and 5 kids?
Sure, in your sexist Slaver worldview women are always less capable than men, and should be kept barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen, right?
Unless they choose to forgo all kids and murder their babies, right?
Goose and gander, Westello, goose and gander.
Posted by: Shanghai Dan on September 3, 2008 07:29 PMMoron. Conservatives have been caught in this web of hypocrisy, and you need to just deal with it.
Posted by: demo kid on September 3, 2008 07:40 PM...and the pregnant daughter of the VP nominee in the news for the past 3 days is relevant how?
The news organization's should be focusing on Joe Biden's problem drinking if they want a news story (video proof on youtube).
The only hypocrisy here is just how far the fringe leftist cowards will actually take this election into the gutter. This week? Misogyny ,Male chauvinism and perverted rumors on display by the kooky left.....
what will next week bring?
Even the last few honest people in the Slavery Party see the hypocrisy and rampant sexism in your stance. Suck it up, embrace your Slavery past, embrace your fascist and socialist present, and embrace your sexist and racist souls.
Posted by: Shanghai Dan on September 3, 2008 07:59 PMYes, it is fair. It's not good, though.
This is a legitimate issue about Biden. He's campaigning for VP on the basis of his Senate record and he trumpets his purported leadership on the drug issue as a central part of his Senate record.
It's entirely appropriate to ask how his own family experience with drug problems informs his policy making, or whether his "leadership" is a lot of hypocritical hot air.
Biden is by no means the only poltician who's vulnerable on this issue, but when he's on a national ticket this is more than fair game.
Posted by: Stefan Sharkansky on September 3, 2008 09:17 PMSay no more about Biden's daughter. Unless she breaks the law with something that lands her in the hooskow in 2008, her life is the business of the Bidens and nobody else.
Posted by: bigdawg on September 3, 2008 09:52 PMI disagree. Children == off-limits.
But as I have nothing else to add other than my disagreement, I'll stop now.
Posted by: pudge on September 3, 2008 10:51 PM"Since the children of vice-presidential candidates are supposedly newsworthy, why isn't more being written about Sen. Joseph Biden's daughter, Ashley Blazer Biden?"
Because her emulation of W's daughters (zing!) does not directly, absolutely, completely embody the colossal failure of her father's policy. Abstinence-only "education" has given young Ms. Palin a shotgun wedding and adult responsibilities, which she has chosen to accept, as per her family's pro-choice policy for female minors. (Too bad Gov. Palin could not accept having other Alaskans share in her family's values.)
Now, why did the Republicans make a public matter of Ms. Palin's unprotected teenage sex? Because of speculation around Gov. Palin's own bizarre behavior during her own last pregnancy. Her unhealthy decision, to fly thousands of miles to a remote Alaskan hospital, prompted speculation she was covering for her daughter's pregnancy. Endangering the healthy delivery of her fetus, while her choice, was rightly seen as bizarre by someone who publicly holds fetal life to be sacred. Now that we know her daughter is currently pregnant, why did she make her dangerous trek?
Recent revelations give us speculative explanations for both her decision to travel to Alaska, and to reveal her daughter's pregnancy. We now know of Gov. and Mr. Palin's long, comfortable association with the America-hating Alaska Independence Party, whose founder hated Old Glory so much that he called it a "damn flag", and is now buried in a foreign country, rather than the United States of America that he so despised. If Gov. Palin sympathized with the AIP's desire to destroy our union, she would therefore have taken great pains to have her baby born in Alaska, and not in Texas, Washington, or any other state.
Now, look at the political problems this would cause:
(1) Endangering the health of her fetus. To the GOP's anti-choice constituency, this is child abuse, and they would not feel comfortable voting for such a "bad mother".
(2) Snubbing Texas, a state with many electoral votes. (Her husband's silly "fish picker" comment apparently means he does not know of a fishing industry in Alaskan waters.) Texan hospitals just are not good enough for her, hm?
(3) Virtual flag-burning. Wrong, wrong, wrong, especially with veteran's groups.
(4) A candidate for federal office who hates the very idea of our federal government is an insult to all patriots, regardless of political affiliation.
What could distract our shallow, vapid, corporate press corps? Teenage sex, of course. And so, the Republicans violated young Ms. Palin's privacy. Wonderful.
"Just because the Democrat press and some Democrats are willing to roll around naked in the mud and have $eX with farm animals doesn't mean we have to do it."
Oddly enough, we liberals feel the same way about using drugs while committing adultery with a same-sex prostitute, chasing boys, or having anonymous gay sex in public restrooms (yech!) To each his own, I guess.
Wait -- which Democrats were in the mud with farm animals? Please give specific examples, complete with public admissions of guilt. Sauce for the goose, y'know.
Posted by: tensor on September 3, 2008 10:55 PMI wonder tense, are you an obstetrician?
Have you had an illegal peek into Governor Palins medical records?
Are you privy to her communication with her OB prior to her delivery?
If the answer to any of those questions is NO, then you have no right to a voice in the matter.
I further wonder if you have any "child abuse" feelings about allowing a child to die alone in a dirty linen closet.
Or the "child abuse" of leaving your child home (to screw another woman) while his mother is battling the horrible effect of fighting deadly cancer?
One of your comrades whined about the Palin children being horribly uprooted to move to DC. Clearly that comrade has not the same concern about the bH0 kiddies.
You just don't get that it's always about your sanctimonious HYPOCRISY.
But the American people do.
And Governor Palin drove home that message tonight in spades.
Sleep well.
You want mud? Look no further than your own prophet Obama. You know, the one who condones and VOTES to murder babies AFTER they're born. Yes, condones MURDER. It doesn't get muddier than that. Yes, vote Obama - support murder of living, breathing babies!
And you know what? That bill supports letting the baby die of starvation. We don't even let our convicted murders die that way. But what the heck, you Slavers love to torture and kill babies and invalids and anyone who is an inconvenience!
So, when do the purges start? Has the Central Planning Committee of the Slavery Party set the timeline?
Because once you support murder and starvation of born babies, we're now just talking where to draw the line in terms of age or "viability to live", no longer talking about the actual LIFE.
It doesn't get muddier or sicker than that.
Posted by: Shanghai Dan on September 3, 2008 11:32 PMMedical privacy, as protected by the Fourth Amendment, is the very basis of Roe vs. Wade. How refreshingly -- and revealingly -- pro-choice of you!
But no, all of my information -- including Mr. Palin's derisive jibe at President Bush's home state -- comes from public sources. (That darned reality, always flaunting a well-known liberal bias!)
"If the answer to any of those questions is NO, then you have no right to a voice in the matter."
First Amendment, anyone? Bueller? BUELLER?
'Or the "child abuse" of leaving your child home (to screw another woman) while his mother is battling the horrible effect of fighting deadly cancer?'
What has Newt Gingrich to do with this?
"One of your comrades whined about the Palin children being horribly uprooted to move to DC."
As I've never been a member of the Communist Party -- or of any party -- who is this "comrade" of mine?
"You just don't get that it's always about your sanctimonious HYPOCRISY."
Yeah, being anti-choice in public, and pro-choice in private, certainly sounds hypocritical, does it not? IOKIFYAR, as always!
"But the American people do."
Roe v. Wade remains one of the most popular Supreme Court decisions, yes. It is why young Ms. Palin has a choice in her situation. Her mother publicly disagrees, but privately agrees. Just like the entire anti-choice movement, no?
"And Governor Palin drove home that message tonight in spades."
Then she flew to a remote site in Alaska, right? After all, giving a speech in the Lower 48 is more important than the sacred human life of a fetus, according to her.
"Sleep well."
You're the one with your eyes tightly shut, sir.
And, for the bonus:
"Yes, vote Obama - support murder of living, breathing babies!"
Actually, he opposed our illegal bombing of Iraq.
Posted by: tensor on September 3, 2008 11:42 PMObama on being Commander In Chief - it's easier to kill newborn babies than fight terrorists who want to kill us!
Boy, that shows a mastery of foreign relations... Especially with his VP candidate saying only Indians run 7-11s and Obama finally being a clean, articulate, and well spoken black man (or is that, as Jimmah Cartah stated, a black boy?).
Wonderful sensitivity and foreign policy skills there!
Posted by: Shanghai Dan on September 4, 2008 12:09 AMBut no, all of my information ... comes from public sources.
Not a single shred of evidence backs up your claim of child abuse, or of "virtual flag-burning," or of hating the federal government, by Governor Palin.
Actually, he opposed our illegal bombing of Iraq.
No such bombing ever happened.
I didn't claim she abused her child; I don't believe a fetus is a child. Anyone who does might view Gov.Palin's long, dangerous trek to rural Alaska as child abuse, as it needlessly endangered a healthy delivery. (I regard her trip as a egregiously foolish, and her husband's explanation of it as an insult to Texans.)
The founder of the Alaska Independence Party called Old Glory a "damn flag"; his corpse sits mouldering under the soil of a foreign country, since he refused to allow our flag to fly over his grave site. He expressed his absolute hatred of our country in unambiguous terms. She has addressed at least one gathering of his party. Does she agree with the ideas its founder clearly expressed? If not, did she say so?
How many children died as a direct result of our bombing Iraq in 2003? (I'll not bother to quibble with the 'illegal' part.) Do you know? Do you even care what your tax dollars bought? Is such incuriosity the "pro-life" position on bombing?
Oh, and Pudge, you might want to learn a new word, before you wear out the one you've been flagrantly abusing. Just sayin'.
No word from him on when Grand keagle of the Ku Klux Klan Robert Byrd (current ranking Democrat member) wrote that he would never fight "with a Negro by my side. Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds."
A racist elder stateman of the Slavery party (Democrat) proudly today in the U.S. Senate.
I'd say you're grasping at straws trying to link Palin to the founder of Alaska's independence party when your party's past has all these ugly skeletons laying around. I'm sure many in this nation are unaware just how deep the racist roots of the Democrat party actually run, but may be interested in learning.
The left is in a panic and I'm going to get some popcorn and watch the show.
You Slavers are sick - you really are child murderers. Think it over. You support KILLING a living, breathing child, already born and out of the womb. All because it's an "inconvenience" for the mother.
And your moral equivalency is simply reprehensible.
Slavery Party? How about Murder Party for that is truly what it is, by your own definition. And the fact you go to such lengths to equate that "pro choice" position with a woman - under the advice of her doctor - flying home before starting childbirth is truly frightening.
I bet it's because you simply cannot accept your own heinous position of supporting murdering of children.
So where's the line drawn, tensor? We know you like killing newborns, how far do we move it? 1 hour? 12 hour? 1 day? 1 week? 1 month? How long does that child get to live under the threat of death simply because its mother decided she doesn't want the child? A year? Ten years? How about until the age 18?
Because fundamentally there's no difference between supporting the murder of a newborn and supporting the murder of a 1 month old child. Now you're just arguing for arbitrary timelines. So what is the timeline for when murdering a child moves from acceptable to unacceptable? What's the oh-so-nuanced position of your prophet Obama on determining the death date of a child?
Posted by: Shanghai Dan on September 4, 2008 07:33 AMI didn't claim she abused her child
You claimed it was, according to OUR beliefs. It's not. You're lying.
The founder of the Alaska Independence Party called Old Glory a "damn flag"
This does not in any way reflect HER beliefs. You're lying.
How many children died as a direct result of our bombing Iraq in 2003? (I'll not bother to quibble with the 'illegal' part.) Do you know? Do you even care what your tax dollars bought? Is such incuriosity the "pro-life" position on bombing?
You're dishonestly shifting the goalposts. I said it wasn't illegal. Would you like to try to back up the claim that it was illegal? (Of course not, that's why you shifted the goalposts).
Oh, and Pudge, you might want to learn a new word, before you wear out the one you've been flagrantly abusing. Just sayin'.
I use the appropriate word. When you knowingly state things that are false, in an attempt to deceive, you are lying. Now granted, you could be incredibly stupid, but I presume you are not, so either you are saying those incorrect things as an attempt to deceive, or you are pretending to be trying to deceive when you are really just trolling, but that's simply another form of lying. So either way: you're either stupid or lying. Which do you prefer?
Oh? What is it then, a Chevy? Arugula, perhaps? A MOOSE?
Please, tense, oh please explain to us "ignorant righty fundies" what EXACTLY a fetus is... use little words. [/sarcasm]
"You know why they call it birth control? Because it's meant to stop a birth from happening nine months later. We know when life begins. Everyone who ever bought a pack of condom knows when life begins. To put it another way, with conception something begins. What do you think it is? A car? A 1948 Buick?" --Peggy NoonanPosted by: Ragnar Danneskjold on September 4, 2008 11:39 AM
This troopergate thing sounds like sour grapes from entrenched trough feeders. I like it she went after the graft and corruption of the establishment in Alaska. Don't know how much or how long it will last in DC, but I want to give her a chance to give a whirl. And John knows which programs to go after.
Posted by: swatter on September 4, 2008 05:20 PMBy busting you upside the head with the hypocrisy reeking from YOU, we ARE "dealing with it."
Given you and the other fringe-left nutters infesting us that have been so fascinated by Palin's parenting skills... your completely missing sense of fairness that would require you to bust through your self-imposed blinders and judge ALL candidates by the criteria that you only reserve for anyone to the right of Lenin... one would think that you would, for example, be as concerned about Biden's cowardice as you were about Cheney's.
That you're not, shows you as the pussified leftist punk you are.
Now deal with THAT, moron.
Posted by: Hinton on September 4, 2008 09:35 PMThis troopergate thing sounds like sour grapes from entrenched trough feeders.
That's exactly right. Why else would people care that she tried to get a TROOPER who THREATENED TO KILL HER FATHER fired (if that's what happened)? Any sane person would WANT her to do all she could, as governor, to get him fired.
And John knows which programs to go after.
Yeah, here's hoping they make a strong team ...