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Thanks to the GOP for pointing this out; I suppose that this means fears of Joe running his mouth off and getting Obama in trouble were ill founded.

In the meantime, Sarah Palin spent one of her only off-script utterances sputtering utter nonsense about how Fannie/Freddie had “gotten too big and too expensive to the taxpayers” ($0.00 apparently less than the several billion it’ll cost to bail them out).  There’s also a host of well-documented lies, but those are likely intentional and not technically gaffes I suppose, although learning your VP nominee supported a $3M+ earmark for seal DNA after she’s stood next to you as you publically decried a $3M+ earkmark for bear DNA is certainly a gaffe at the top of the ticket.

For the sake of Equal Opportunity, check out this hysterical misinterpretation of (false) bloggy rumors by Adrienne Williams at HuffPo:

Palin sliced the program by more than half, laying out a mere $3,000 for special needs kids for the year and saving the tax payers of Alaska less than $5,000.

I don’t know about Alaska, but I suspect that Williams’ state is short changing special needs funding if she thinks the bottom-line budget for any class of school is $8,000.  I never really thought of “All dollars shown in thousands” as a warning label before today.

As of 9/3, the GOP.com Biden Gaffe Clock had registered three Biden gaffes since being announced as the VP candidate.  I decided to compare his record to Sarah Palin’s record since her announcement.

Palin repeated her first gaffe last night, which isn’t reflected in this timeline.

Kathryn Lopez right now:

Palin Tonight: A number of people have suggested to me Bristol introduce her mother tonight.

Kathryn Lopez Monday:

Bristol: Obama says “back off.” Good for him. Now let’s.

Because nothing says “back off” like thrusting your newly betabloided daughter into the limelight.

Rich Lowry thinks this was Lieberman’s “killer line“:

Senator Obama is a gifted and eloquent young man who can do great things for our country in the years ahead. But eloquence is no substitute for a record — not in these tough times.

The whole point of having a Democrat speak is to cross lines that’d be troubling for a Republican primetime speaker at a Republican convention.  Here’s and handful of far, far more cutting lines in Zell Miller’s 2004 speech:

Motivated more by partisan politics than by national security, today’s Democratic leaders see America as an occupier, not a liberator.

And nothing makes this Marine madder than someone calling American troops occupiers rather than liberators.

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I could go on and on and on — against the Patriot Missile that shot down Saddam Hussein’s scud missiles over Israel; against the Aegis air-defense cruiser; against the Strategic Defense Initiative; against the Trident missile, against, against, against.

This is the man who wants to be the commander in chief of our U.S. Armed Forces?

U.S. forces armed with what? Spit balls?

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Kerry would let Paris decide when America needs defending. I want Bush to decide.

John Kerry, who says he doesn’t like outsourcing, wants to outsource our national security. That’s the most dangerous outsourcing of all. This politician wants to be leader of the free world. Free for how long?

On top of that, focusing on the language ignores the difference in tone.  If Republicans are happy with the speech that Lieberman gave as an attack on Obama, they don’t have any reason to be sad when they lose in 60 days.  Videos after the jump.

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