Joe Biden used to have a good friend called John McCain. He doesn’t anymore. After the latest attacks from the McCain/Palin camp, Biden has had enough and is hitting back, saying he is immensely disappointed in his former pal. McCain was civil during Tuesday’s debate, but when speaking at a rally in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, the tone was totally different.

As his campaign is trailing in the polls the Republicans have come up with a new strategy; to create uncertainty and worry as to what Obama will do if elected. ‘Who is senator Obama’ asked McCain. ‘What he says today and what he has done in the past are two completely different things’, he continued, before following up with ‘broken promises’ and that Obama cannot be trusted. The whole speech was peppered with words like ‘socialist’, ‘terrorist’ and ‘liar’.

Before John McCain entered the podium he was introduced to the audience by a fellow Republican, who made sure to use Barack Obama’s middle name; Hussein. He probably hoped that was all that was needed to get some stupid voters to think the opponent is Muslim.

It was this arrangement that got Biden all worked up. He is now hitting back, saying that McCain is inciting dangerous anger among his followers. He also labeled McCain and ‘angry, old man who lurches from one position to another.’

It is sad when politics gets in the way of friendship, but it is probably better for Biden to be friends with Barack Obama anyway. He’ll be around for much, much longer.