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Biden scrambles back on message

The Republicans can reset their Joe Biden gaffe clock.

The Democratic vice presidential nominee went off message in an interview broadcast Monday night and had to quickly pull back.

Asked by CBS anchor Katie Couric about whether he was disappointed by the tone of the campaign and the flood of attack ads, including one mocking Republican nominee John McCain's self-professed aversion to computers and email.

"I thought that was terrible, by the way," Biden replied.

Couric pressed on, "Why'd you do it then?"

"I didn't know we did it, and if I'd had anything to do with it, we would have never done it," Biden said.

McCain spokesman Brian Rogers quickly weighed in with a statement: “While the New York Times and other media outlets were silent in the face of Barack Obama's shameless and dishonorable attack on John McCain, even Obama's own running mate has now condemned the ad as 'terrible,' admitting he never would have approved it. Barack Obama has brought the sleazy gutter politics of Chicago to our national stage, exposing his call for a ‘new politics’ as a lie and embarrassing even his own running-mate with the low road campaign he's running.”

Within about an hour, Biden had issued a clarification through the Obama press office, trying to get back on message: “I was asked about an ad I’d never seen, reacting merely to press reports.  As I said right then, I knew there was nothing intentionally personal in the criticism of Senator McCain’s views which look backwards not forwards and are out of touch with the new economic challenges we face today. Having now reviewed the ad, it is even more clear to me that given the disgraceful tenor of Senator McCain’s ads and their persistent falsehoods, his campaign is in no position to criticize, especially when they continue to distort Barack’s votes on an issue as personal as keeping kids safe from sexual predators.”

Source:  Boston Globe

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