grandma zaza
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shattering and breaking news? Sarah Palins book has been out for months......
"During rehearsals, I accidentally called Randy "Senator O'Biden", a slip of the lip combination of Obama and Biden. The blunder struck too often, even tripping up campaign staffers. Jay Leno later made the same slip on his new talk show, so we were in good company. We laughed about it but knew that if I said it even once during the debate, it would be disastrous.
Then somebody said, "You ought to just call him Joe."
"Oh, I can't just call him Joe!" I said. Senator Biden was a senior statesman. He'd been sitting in a U.S. Senate seat since I was nine years old. I believed calling him by his first name without his permission would be disrespectful.
Randy seemed to read my thoughts. and offered a solution. "In every debate, you cross the stage and shake hands with your opponent," he said. "When you shake hands, just ask him for permission to call him Joe. He's certainly going to say yes, because he is a gentleman."
So, that's what we decided I would do. We had no idea my mic would already be hot when I walked onstage, crossed over to his turf, and said, "Can I call you Joe?"
"During rehearsals, I accidentally called Randy "Senator O'Biden", a slip of the lip combination of Obama and Biden. The blunder struck too often, even tripping up campaign staffers. Jay Leno later made the same slip on his new talk show, so we were in good company. We laughed about it but knew that if I said it even once during the debate, it would be disastrous.
Then somebody said, "You ought to just call him Joe."
"Oh, I can't just call him Joe!" I said. Senator Biden was a senior statesman. He'd been sitting in a U.S. Senate seat since I was nine years old. I believed calling him by his first name without his permission would be disrespectful.
Randy seemed to read my thoughts. and offered a solution. "In every debate, you cross the stage and shake hands with your opponent," he said. "When you shake hands, just ask him for permission to call him Joe. He's certainly going to say yes, because he is a gentleman."
So, that's what we decided I would do. We had no idea my mic would already be hot when I walked onstage, crossed over to his turf, and said, "Can I call you Joe?"