COLUMBUS, OHIO –-Sarah Palin usually reserves her jabs for the top of the Democratic ticket, but at a rally today Palin went after her actual rival, Joe Biden. She will face off with him on Thursday at the Vice-Presidential debate in St. Louis.
She went after the Delaware Senator on his years in Washington and his age while increasing expectations for her own debate performance on Thursday, “So I guess it’s my turn now and I do look forward to Thursday night and debating Senator Joe Biden. We are going to talk about those new ideas, new energy for America. I’m looking forward to meeting him too. I’ve never met him before. But, I’ve been hearing about his Senate speeches since I was in like 2nd grade,” Palin said to laughs from the crowd, “I have to admit though he is a great debater and looks pretty doggone confident like he’s sure he’s gonna win. But, then again this is the same Senator Biden who said the other day that the University of Delaware would trounce the Ohio State Buckeyes. Wrong!”
Biden has been in the United States Senate for 35 years and is 65 years old. Palin’s running mate, John McCain has been in Washington as both a United States Representative and Senator for 25 years and he is 72 years old. McCain will be the oldest President of the United States ever elected if he wins in November.
Palin also went after Biden again when she brought up energy independence and clean coal. A You Tube clip surfaced of the Democratic Vice-Presidential candidate telling a member of a group that is against the development of new coal-fired power plants that both he and his running mate do not support clean coal.
Today, the McCain-Palin campaign launched a radio ad using the clip and Palin hit him at today’s rally while pressing that a McCain-Palin administration would be advocates of clean coal, “To meet America’s energy challenges, we’re going to need an all of the above approach. And in a McCain-Palin administration, that’s going to include the use of clean coal. Just recently, Senator Biden made it perfectly clear that in an Obama-Biden administration, there would no use of clean coal at all,” Palin said, “From Wyoming to West Virginia and especially right here in Ohio, American coal resources are greater than the oil riches of the Middle East. And yet Joe Biden says, ‘Sorry Ohio, we’re not going to use it.’ As for Senator McCain and I, we will make clean coal a reality, and to help power the American economy with clean coal technology, we’re going to look to the hard working people of Ohio to help us do that.”
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