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This is not helping Plugs.
That ad is very good, Darleen. Rove is on his toes.
http://acrazychicken.blogspot.com/2012/08/there-gonna-put-yall-back-in-chains.html Chickenlittle’s blog nailed Biden on this!
Jar Jar Biden, the comic relief that fails at both.
geoffb
I just remembered who Biden reminds me of:
Joe Isuzu
He’s got the same type of math skills too.
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It’s exactly what the dems wanted: Snarky and mean spirited. Not sure the rest of the country’s going to go for it, though.
The Obama administration has been unsuccessful, unpopular and is currently controversial. They can’t afford to just laugh off the criticism while simultaneously begging for another four years to fix their mistakes and waring that Romney/Ryan will plunge us all into even deeper darkness.
Wasn’t this a reenactment of the NAFTA debate with Joe Biden playing the part of Al Gore ?
“I’ve known Joe Biden a very long time, he’s a very nice man.” — Brit Hume
Now that is some brilliant analysis.
Are you referring to the debate with Ross Perot on (I think) CNN in ’93?
Twenty years ago (almost exactly) I had the “privilege” of “working” with Joe Biden’s office. The guy is an absolute dickhead. I can’t stomach him. His fucking voice makes me angry. I am irrational when discussing that piece of shit motherfucker. When he became VP, I figured at some point he would get caught out in some kind of rinky-dink chiseling scandal like selling his franking privilege to non-profits for cash and end up like Spiro Agnew.
It was only a two week deal, for the first 13 days I thought he was awesome. After day 14 I wouldn’t piss on him if he was on fire. There are exactly three people in the world who I can’t even fake respect for. He’s one. I’ve been nursing this grudge since I was 22 years old. Nothing in the past 20 years has changed my opinion of the man and by extension his friends, family, pets, fucking Amtrack, Delaware in general, frozen chicken, Bosley Medical hair restoration and the entire east fucking coast of the US, Jekyll Island and Hilton Head excepted.
I didn’t watch the debate, but this morning I did see a clip of Ryan talking about how cutting tax rates can increase federal revenues. Biden, of course, interrupted, claiming it had never been done. Ryan retorted that it had been done “a couple of times” and mentioned when John Kennedy cut tax rates in the 1960s.
Biden: “So now you’re Jack Kennedy?”
Obviously a callback to the 1988 vice-presidential debate and the second most remembered moment from that campaign, after “Read my lips.” Sen. Dan Quayle (R-IN) was saying something or other about the youth and energy of then-Sen. John Kennedy when he was running for president in 1960.
Sen. Lloyd Bentsen (D-TX) riposted with the famous put-down that ended, “Senator, you’re no Jack Kennedy.”
Well, I have three things I’d like to point out to Vice President Biden about that little attempt at a “gotcha” moment (besides the obvious, which is that Ryan blew it off completely* — for which reason probably nobody else even noticed the attempt):
1. Lloyd Bentsen would have known better than to try to deny that what Ryan was talking about was true, and had been demonstrated on multiple occasions.
2. For all the impact of Bentsen’s put-down, he never became Vice President; Quayle did.
3. After four years with Biden as Vice President, you’d think he’d be the last guy to want to draw comparisons to Dan Quayle.
*Ryan did chuckle at that moment, probably recognizing the jab and finding it every bit as pathetic as I did.
Gov’t’s taken share of GDP in 1962?
O for such a condition.
Joe Biden is fake-laughing at the issues . . . and what got the audience’s largest laugh in the whole so-called debate? A reference by Ryan to Biden’s frightful stupidity.
Greetings:
Vice President Biden (aka “Joey Plugs”) reminds me of a loudmouth guy that used to come into my father’s favorite bar, “Archer’s”. Once, when I was about seven, my father took me there on a Saturday afternoon to watch the then New York Giants baseball game on TV. I was sitting at the bar with my father, having my Coke with two cherries, when the loudmouth guy thought he saw an opportunity to insert himself into our afternoon. Over he comes, in his gladhanding way, and says much too loudly, “Well, Ted, are you going to introduce me to your boy-o?”?
Now, my father didn’t suffer, and had no intention of ever suffering, fools gladly. Taking a long pull on his Lucky Strike and exhaling slowly, he answered, in that New York way, with a question, “What are you doing at this end of the bar?”
I have a feeling that ‘He’s a very nice man’ is the DC beltway equivalent of ” Bless his heart!”
A wind-up cymbal-clashing monkey put in by Axelrod to energize their base; hoping beyond hope to draw a ‘gotcha!’ moment from nonplussed Paul Ryan. This may go down as Biden’s Alzheimer Moment.