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Did McCain choose Palin to bug long-time friend Biden?
 
Frank Cotolo
15 Oct 2008
 
Since Joe Biden became the Democratic vice presidential nominee in August, he and Republican White House rival John McCain aren't the pals they were for decades in the Senate, when they usually shared the portions of their lunches' side orders in the Congressional cafeteria.
 
Biden now says that McCain is "an angry man" trying to take "the low road to the highest office in the land" by approving of a campaign using personal attacks, as well as a woman governor from Alaska, a state that McCain knows Biden has disliked for years.
 
A Biden spokesperson said, "That was the true reason McCain chose Palin to run with him. John knows Joey seriously disapproves of that state."
 
"That's true," said a friend of Mr. Biden from the days they grew up in Pennsylvania together and wants to hide his identity in case he ever needs a loan or something from his old friend.
 
"Joey used to say that he hoped no matter what happened that Alaska would never become a state."
 
"We ignored him at the time because we just wanted to go out and play football or something but Joey kept bringing it up. He even went so far one time as to make a sweatshirt that read 'F Alaska,' you know?"
 
Colleagues in the U.S. Senate for 22 years, McCain and Biden disagreed about Alaskan politics anytime the state came up in a bill or a discussion. When McCain won the Republican nomination he did not, according to sources, even imagine bringing in Sarah Palin.
 
A McCain spokesman said that wasn't true. "Mr. McCain did not choose Mrs. Palin because of Joe Biden being picked by Obama. We deny that and anything else that the Obama people say about almost anything."
 
Biden's insiders still feel that McCain's choice of Palin is meant to perturb Biden and it seems to be working. Biden speechwriters were rumored to have taken the phrase "that icey-blooded Alaskan stiff" out of a recent Biden speech.
 
It was also rumored that Biden is so angered that he has been waking up in the middle of the night and calling McCain's hotel room, then hanging up when McCain answers.
 
"It shows you what a baby Biden can be when it comes to something he abhors and what a baby McCain can be by using something his old pal abhors and shoving it in his face for political gain," said Irving Rapaport, a radio talk-show host.
 
From their workplaces in the Senate, Biden, 65, and McCain, 72, have traveled overseas together but Biden has always shunned going to Alaska with McCain because, as Biden was quoted as saying once by a Senate reporter, "That place is a stain on the planet!"
 
McCain-camp spokespeople said, "John McCain cannot remember anything that Senator Biden ever said about abhorring Alaska. In fact, John McCain cannot even recall what he had for breakfast today."
   
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