Joe Biden is on a roll. First, he knocked his running mate for an ad that ran against John McCain, then he was chastised this morning by his running mate for speaking out of turn on the AIG bailout, and now there's new video of Biden straying from the party line on coal - in Ohio no less - saying that "we're not supporting clean coal" and declaring there won't be any new coal plants in America.These fumbles offer great fodder for media looking for a new story to spin and can take the campaign off message. Biden is a great retail campaigner. People relate to his folksy style, colorful language, and spontaneous banter, but with that comes the danger of going off message. Here's Obama trying to get back on the message.
Lauer was talking about how Obama hit Sen. McCain for flip-flopping on the AIG bailout -- saying he opposed it one day then announce he supported it the next day.
But, as Lauer pointed out, scarcely three minutes after McCain said he opposed the AIG bailout last week, "in an interview with Meredith Vieira, Joe Biden, your running mate was asked the exact same question, 'should the federal government bailout AIG?' And he said, 'No, the federal government should not bailout AIG.'" (As we noted at the time.) "And I think that in that situation," Obama said, "I think Joe should have waited as well."
"But it's the kind of thing that drives people crazy about politics," Lauer said. "It sounds like you were trying to score some political points against John McCain using his words, when your own running mate had used very similar words."
"No, hold on a second Matt," Obama said. "I think what drives people crazy about politics is the fact that somebody like John McCain who for 26 years has been an advocate for deregulation, for 26 years has said the market is king and then starts going out there suggesting somehow that he's a populist who's been railing against Wall Street and regulation -- that's what drives people crazy about politics."
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