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So....Will Biden Be VP?

 
 
nooks
 
  2  
Reply Sat 20 Sep, 2008 07:21 pm
@Finn dAbuzz,
From what I hear, he's having a bit of a reluctance of even continuing.
snood
 
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Reply Sat 20 Sep, 2008 08:08 pm
@nooks,
Oh, really? Where'd you hear that?
ehBeth
 
  2  
Reply Sat 20 Sep, 2008 08:13 pm
@snood,
Forget VP. Biden is going to be president
okie
 
  1  
Reply Wed 24 Sep, 2008 10:57 pm
@nooks,
I get the sense that his heart is not in the race. After all, Biden once said Obama was not ready to be president. He keeps saying dumb things, and one wonders if it isn't on purpose. I think Biden can hardly stomach the Obama campaign. I think he probably still likes McCain better.
roger
 
  1  
Reply Wed 24 Sep, 2008 11:12 pm
@ehBeth,
I could live with that.
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okie
 
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Reply Fri 17 Apr, 2009 09:01 am
The great Joe Biden:

"Here's a list of 14 amusing yet cringe-worthy "Bidenisms" made during the vice president's more recent political career.

-- On March 13, 2009, Biden addressed a former Senate colleague by saying, "An hour late, oh give me a f**king break," after he arrived on Amtrak at Union Station in Washington, D.C. The vice president's expletive was caught on a live microphone.

-- During a Feb. 25, 2009, interview on CBS' "Early Show," Biden encouraged viewers to visit a government-run Web site that tracks stimulus spending. When asked for the site's web address, Biden could not remember the site's "number."

"You know, I'm embarrassed. Do you know the Web site number?" he asked an aide standing out of view. "I should have it in front of me and I don't. I'm actually embarrassed."

-- At a Jan. 30, 2009, swearing-in ceremony of senior White House staff, Biden mocked Chief Justice John Roberts for his presidential oath blunder on Inauguration Day.

"Am I doing this again?" Biden said, after Obama asked him to administer the oath. When Biden was told the swearing-in was for senior staff -- and not cabinet members -- the vice president quipped, "My memory is not as good as Justice Roberts," prompting a stern nudge from Obama.

-- On Inauguration Day, Jan. 20 2009, Biden misspoke when he told a cheering crowd of supporters, "Jill and I had the great honor of standing on that stage, looking across at one of the great justices, Justice Stewart." Justice John Paul Stevens -- not Stewart -- swore Biden in as vice president.

-- When criticizing former GOP nominee John McCain in Athens, Ohio, on Oct. 15, 2008, Biden said, "Look, John's last-minute economic plan does nothing to tackle the number-one job facing the middle class, and it happens to be, as Barack says, a three-letter word: jobs. J-O-B-S, jobs."

-- In a Sept. 22, 2008, CBS interview, Biden misspoke when he said Franklin D. Roosevelt was president when the stock market crashed in 1929.

"When the stock market crashed, Franklin D. Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the, you know, the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened," he said. Herbert Hoover -- not Roosevelt -- was president in 1929, and television had not yet been invented in 1929.

-- During a Sept. 12, 2008, speech in Columbia, Mo., Biden called for Missouri State Sen. Chuck Graham, who is wheelchair-bound, to "stand up."

"Oh, God love ya," Biden said, after realizing his mistake. "What am I talking about?"

-- At a Sept. 10, 2008, town hall meeting in Nashua, N.H., Biden said, "Hillary Clinton is as qualified or more qualified than I am to be vice president of the United States of America. Quite frankly, it might have been a better pick than me."

-- Biden mistakenly referred to Alaska governor Sarah Palin as the "lieutenant governor" of her state during a town hall meeting on Sept. 4, 2008 at George Mason University in Manassas, Va.

"I heard a very, by the way I mean this sincerely, a very strong and a very good political speech from a lieutenant governor of Alaska who I think is going to be very formidable, very formidable not only in the campaign but in the debate," Biden said.

-- Biden said he was running for president -- not vice president -- during a Sept. 1, 2008, roundtable discussion in Scranton, Pa.

"Today is the moment for me as a United States senator running for president to put aside the national politics and focus on what's happening down there," Biden said.

-- Biden referred to John McCain as "George" during his vice presidential acceptance speech on Aug. 27, 2008, at the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Co. "Freudian slip, folks, Freudian slip," he explained.

-- Biden confused army brigades with battalions when speaking about Obama's plan for sending troops to Afghanistan.

"Or should we trust Barack Obama, who more than a year ago called for sending two additional combat brigades to Afghanistan?"

-- During his first campaign rally with Obama as his vice presidential running mate on Aug. 23, 2008, Biden introduced Obama by saying, "A man I'm proud to call my friend. A man who will be the next President of the United States -- Barack America!"

-- On Jan. 31, 2007 -- the day Biden announced his presidential bid -- the Delaware Senator was roundly criticized for calling Obama "the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man.""


http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/04/17/bidens-list-political-blunders/
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nimh
 
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Reply Fri 17 Apr, 2009 07:14 pm
@okie,
okie wrote:

I get the sense that his heart is not in the race. After all, Biden once said Obama was not ready to be president. He keeps saying dumb things, and one wonders if it isn't on purpose. I think Biden can hardly stomach the Obama campaign. I think he probably still likes McCain better.

Huh. I'm guessing that's one theory that's been quickly resigned to the dustbin of brainfarts ...
okie
 
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Reply Sun 19 Apr, 2009 08:46 pm
@nimh,
nimh, the desire of Biden to be vp outweighed his true feelings. I think what he said about Obama while he was running against him is probably the truer indicator of the inside of Biden's brain. One only needs to remember Joe Lieberman running with Gore, and then witnessing Lieberman endorse McCain, that tells you alot about these guys. Lieberman answered the call, to his party and the lure of vp, but thats all it is. I do not think Biden is that fond of Obama either, no, no more than Lieberman was of Gore, if that much.
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okie
 
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Reply Wed 17 Jun, 2009 11:29 pm
Does anyone else agree that the more we learn about Biden, the more amazing it is this guy is where he is? He doesn't seem to be smart enough to mow his own lawn, let alone be a senator or a vice president. He really is a useful idiot for Obama, and that is now very obvious to me why he picked the guy.
blueveinedthrobber
 
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Reply Thu 14 Jan, 2010 01:44 pm
@okie,
sort of the same reason cheney picked bush
Finn dAbuzz
 
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Reply Thu 28 Jan, 2010 04:56 pm
Well, we know the answer to this question is...Yes.

Last night though we found out he's also the Obama Administration's #1 bobbing head doll.
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ebrown p
 
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Reply Thu 28 Jan, 2010 05:36 pm
@okie,
Sounds like you are jealous, Okie (although I am not sure if you would be "useful").
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okie
 
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Reply Mon 8 Feb, 2010 12:09 am
@blueveinedthrobber,
blueveinedthrobber wrote:

sort of the same reason cheney picked bush

Cheney had the ability to think for himself. I doubt that with Biden. He has to be one of the biggest lapdogs in the vp position ever.
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blueveinedthrobber
 
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Reply Mon 8 Feb, 2010 01:57 pm
nonsense.
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Marcus Aurelius
 
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Reply Sun 4 Sep, 2011 02:34 am
@blueveinedthrobber,
I wouldn"t see Biden as President since he declares being a zionist.
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Lash
 
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Reply Mon 12 Dec, 2011 09:45 pm
Biden has been pretty much locked away for safe keeping for the last 4 years...
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