Wright:  Senator Obama, your running mate has said some pretty outrageous things over the past few weeks.
 
Obama:  Well, you know, Joe's a master of the rhetorical flourish.
 
Wright:  Let's look at this tape and get your reaction his rhetorical flourish when responding to how he thinks John McCain would respond to those who threaten the United States:
 
Biden (on tape):  Everybody knows that McCain would crush our enemies, see them driven before us, and fill our ears with the lamentations of their women.  But under an Obama administration, exactly the reverse will happen!
 
Wright:  Is he implying that you'd purposely let us be destroyed?
 
Obama:  Well, ah, you see, what he means is that I'm strongly anti-lamentation.  I don't think anybody should lament.  And I have to say that the opposite of seeing your enemies crushed, or whatever, is that everybody is friends and sings Kumbayah.  So I think Joe's onto something really crucial there that's the difference between me and President Bush, and John McCain.
 
Wright:  What about this comment?
 
Biden (on tape):  You know, when Barack says spread the wealth around, he's not talking about socialism.  He's talking about communism.  He's a commie. And that's good, because we're not gonna duplicate the success of the Soviet Union, with the purges and the genocide and the prisons, without a healthy dose of communism.  We're against the free market.  Against it, yeah.
 
Wright:  Are you a communist, Senator Obama?
 
Obama (laughs):  That quote was taken out of context.
 
Wright:  How so?
 
Obama:  Um, uh, if you listen to the whole quote, then what you hear is that he really meant we were committed to making this country whole again.  But you have to hear what he said before that or it doesn't make sense.
 
Wright:  That's the beginning of Senator Biden's prepared statement.
 
Obama:  I mean what he said the day before that.
 
Wright:  Really?
 
Obama:  Sure, why not?
 
Wright:  Okay, then how do you explain this quote:
 
Biden (on tape):  Criticism of the government is almost always bad, and one of the first things we want to do is, we want to limit free speech to prevent criticizing the government.  And we're gonna build special prisons in unpleasant places, like on the moon or in North Dakota, and we're gonna put everybody who bad-mouths the government there.
 
Obama:  What happened there is that Joe said that on opposite day.
 
Wright:  Opposite day?
 
Obama:  Yeah.  So what he meant was freedom of speech is a-okay with Team Obama.
 
Wright:  Well, what about his response to a question about repealing the Card Check law:
 
Biden (on tape):  Card check?  Forget it.  We're gonna unionize Wal-Mart, McDonald's, strip clubs, and everything else, no matter how many legs we gotta break.  It's the Chicago way, baby!
 
Wright:  How do you explain that?
 
Obama:  Er, um, uh…
 
Wright:  Did your running mate threaten every non-union employee in America with bodily harm if they don't unionize?
 
Obama:  Of course not!  Anyways, deep inside everybody really wants to be unionized, don't they?  A union is just the modern-day equivalent of the Masons, and as we know, all the founding fathers were Masons.
 
Wright:  Here's one last quote about the role of women in politics:
 
Biden (on tape):  You know what the difference between Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin is?  One of them wears tight pants, and the other one makes your pants tight!
 
Wright:  Well?
 
Obama:  Okay, I give up.  He's a fucking idiot, okay?  You win.  And if you think I'm ever doing an interview with your shitty little station again, you're fooling yourself.  My advice for you is to avoid the rush and book your tickets to Bismark now.

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