As noted here earlier, Joe Biden agreed with Ann Curry this morning that mentioning Obama's connections with Rev. Wright and William Ayers constituted an "ugly" tactic. Biden raised the stakes during his Early Show appearance, telling Harry Smith that daring to breathe Ayers's last name, or using Obama's middle one, is "mildly dangerous" and an "incitement."
Biden also managed work in the boast that he would be the go-to guy in an Obama administration.
HARRY SMITH: Let me ask you about Sarah Palin on the other side of the aisle. She's been going to these rallies, tens of thousands of people showing up. Talking about a friend of your running mate as a domestic terrorist. Does your campaign have an answer for that?
JOE BIDEN: Yeah. It's just malarkey. Flat malarkey. Barack Obama was eight years old when this guy was engaging in activities he was engaged in. He is no part of our campaign. He is no part of anything having to do with the White House. The guy Barack Obama is going to turn and ask an opinion of is me, not that guy. You know the idea here that these guys are once again injecting fear and loathing into this campaign is, is, is, is, I think it's mildly dangerous. I mean, here you have aired here these kinds of, you know, incitements out there. A guy using Barack using his middle name as if it's some epithet or something. This is over the top.
Republicans injecting fear? As fellow NewsBuster P. J. Gladnick has noted, it was James Carville who last night raised the prospect of violence if Obama loses. But Smith, unsurprisingly, didn't question Biden on his alarmist allegation. For that matter, just like Curry, Smith didn't deign even to mention Ayers by name.
As for Biden: incitment to what, Senator? Spell it out.
