James Lileks is either less merely elementally offended by the Vice President that we’ve been saddled with, or else he’s better at hiding it:
It takes years of yoga to learn the posture necessary for speaking clearly with all your feet in your mouth. But for some the skill comes naturally, which brings us to Joe Biden. Those who saw Dick Cheney as an evil genius crouched silent in the shadows of the Oval Office like Nosferatu must enjoy Biden’s high profile: he’s out there daily with the sunny enthusiasm of Ronald McDonald opening another store. And, quite often, telling everyone to have a Whopper.
Read the whole thing, and no need to point out that Whoppers come from Burger King: remember, this is Biden that we’re talking about, here. Unlike Lileks, I’m not convinced that the VP’s unrehearsed comments represent the thinking of this administration, mostly because I’m not convinced that there’s anything that represents the thinking of this administration. The slapdash strategy of the White House towards pursuing its goals – which apparently can be summed up in two words: ‘sign something‘ – could be easily making the Vice President’s utterances look more important than they actually are. After all, we’ve become accustomed to having someone who should be taken seriously being in that spot – so when POTUS is giving us rhetoric with the semantic content of tapioca pudding, it seems natural to assume that VPOTUS at least is providing something with more heft to it. Whether this is a justified assumption, or not.
Still, either way… you know, ‘they told me that if I voted for John McCain‘ we’d end up with a Vice President who kept mucking up things on a fundamental level – and they were right.
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I'm still not sure why Obama picked him
eliminatedebt Sunday, July 19th at 5:32PM EST (link)It is to no one’s surprise that he has his foot in the mouth every single day. Delaware had no strategic value, and he added little to the Obama Pennsylvania case, he had no constituency.
He has 30 years of experience but even so that can’t be tapped to its fullest as a Vice President (he should have stayed in the Senate).
Oh well. He’s a character.
Independent, fiscal conservative.
He picked him because if he couldn't pick a fellow Marxist
Tbone (Diary) Sunday, July 19th at 8:37PM EST (link)it was best to pick a fool.
Envisioning when all that is Left is the Right.
To Appease The Old White Irish/Italian FDR/JFK Catholic Vote
Swamp_Yankee (Diary) Sunday, July 19th at 8:45PM EST (link)Contrary to many conservative assumptions, there is a big riff between the old hack Democrat wing and the progessive moonbat liberals. The only that unites them is there hatred for Republicans.
Obama was the liberals candidate. Biden was his way of saying, “I’m down the Democatic good ole boy network too”.
How can the conservatives exploit that weakness?
Xasteius (Diary) Monday, July 20th at 1:25PM EST (link)An alliance of hatred is fragile at best.
Don’t leave the party, hijack it back!
The only poll that counts is the one at the ballot box.
I don’t want to be Reagan. I want to be a Chance/Soros hybrid.
I'd say it was the 'Dan Quayle' strategy of
The_Gadfly (Diary) Monday, July 20th at 2:01PM EST (link)picking someone so incompetent that no assassin would ever try to target the president.
Except that Dan Quayle wasn’t really incompetent, where as Joe Biden actually is. Still, we’re stuck with the name.
Lileks has such a command of the language
peg_c (Diary) Sunday, July 19th at 5:48PM EST (link)Then there’s the word “thinking.” I just can’t associate that word with Biden OR this administration.
Cheney’s genius; this administration is just evil.
Government cannot be the solution when government is the problem.
VP Joe's in a re-done TV commercial...... Link to storyboard here.......
Kenny Solomon (Diary) Sunday, July 19th at 6:02PM EST (link)This is about as funny as it gets…. enjoy !
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2009/07/clip-joint.html
CUE THE DUCK !!!
Cheers !
That was priceless! nt
muffin Sunday, July 19th at 7:13PM EST (link)Fortitudine vincimus – By endurance we conquer
A Gaffe A Day
muffin Sunday, July 19th at 6:35PM EST (link)That’s the Biden way!
Fortitudine vincimus – By endurance we conquer
5!!!
6eorge Jetson (Diary) Sunday, July 19th at 6:45PM EST (link)My variation of muffin’s line…
A Gaffe a Day
Doesn’t keep the odor away.
Has Joe had his Gaffe today?
Some of Biden's gaffes are welcome expressions of the truth, especially
Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) Sunday, July 19th at 6:53PM EST (link)when he has, on several occasions, referred to our operations in Iraq as preserving a victory. Even in Obama’s trip to Iraq, he never called their achievements and successes a victory.
Mike DeVine’s Examiner.com, Charlotte Observer and The Minority Report columns
“One man with courage makes a majority.” – Andrew Jackson
Biden
Pomme (Diary) Monday, July 20th at 1:56AM EST (link)The gift that keeps on giving.
And, the “They said if I voted for John McCain… and they were right!” schtick will not ever get old. Not. Ever.
“Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views” William F Buckley Jr.
The Latest Czar.......
Kenny Solomon (Diary) Monday, July 20th at 4:55AM EST (link)Finally, one us Eeeeevil Jooooooooooos figured out how to really win friends and influence people.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/132478
Bruce Bialosky, former national treasurer of the Republican Jewish Coalition, has sarcastically suggested that President Obama overcome growing Jewish criticism of his policies on Israel and create a “Latkes Czar” to ensure quality of the potato pancake traditionally associated with the holiday of Hanukkah.
Ahhhhh, my people.
The one office I think that Obama needs to create is
Xasteius (Diary) Monday, July 20th at 1:00PM EST (link)the office of court jester (much apologies to Danny Kaye).
It combines the functions of press secretary and VP.
Don’t leave the party, hijack it back!
The only poll that counts is the one at the ballot box.
I don’t want to be Reagan. I want to be a Chance/Soros hybrid.
Representing "...the thinking of this administration..." would first require
The_Gadfly (Diary) Monday, July 20th at 2:05PM EST (link)that there actually was thinking occurring somewhere in the administration. Joe is clearly not capable of that, neither is The Big 0. Given that neither of them are, they can’t permit any immediate subordinate be capable of thinking either. So I think figuring out the “thinking” is pretty much a lost cause.
Now, it might be a good insight into the feelings of the current administration, but that is an entirely different horse.