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- ABC NEWS STICKING WITH BIDEN: Is there Joementum? Biden supposedly has extra Secret Service protection around the house, too. [ABC News]
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Ladies and Gentlemen, we have a Veep. Start the countdown until he calls Obama a “nice young colored man” or something.
So! Just a Reed Herring?
They’re just helping him with his load.
ahhh! cannot take pressure of guessing.
glad my intrade account didn’t go through and i put that $25 into my savings instead?
People! A paddy wagon is not a Secret Service detail.
I think we should just disappear and regroup around the salmon spawn spring in the fall. Fuck no–Hillary and Bill would drain our bank accounts by then and rearrange everything.
Dang, Ken & Jim are up late tonight. Anyway, who on earth would want to kill Biden? I mean I like his attack dog style, but there ain’t no one out there wanting to take him out. (Excuse my grammar, I’ve had a few Silver Bullets.)
Well this accelerates my plan to run for Senate. I was targeting Delaware due to only having to convince 200-300k people to vote for me in order to secure a 6-year power-mad reign of terror in the Senate (or 4 years plus a prez campaign).
Does it help that on Wednesday I referred to the State of Delaware as a ‘leach’ sucking its lifeblood from the great state of Pennsylvania?
Dang. This is a lot of f’ing buildup for a stroke victim who raped Anita Hill all over again…
thwanger: Intrade is the devil. I put $50 in, soon made it turn into $120 be betting against Giuliani and Mittens. Then bets on Huckabee as the nom or the veep took me all the way down to $0. I’m very bitter about this, and am in line with the Fed for a bailout.
To steal a joke: its actually the hair club for men after him.
Fear of a Black Reagan: hahahaha…. Wait, what?
Don’t joe know who is in the reed, not chet? This is all getting barry sibbily-ous. Wait until tomorow? We better kmow biden!
jagorev: right on with the Fed bailout. if they can spare $50 billz for the bears or whoevers then they can spare 3 digits for folks like you and me!
why does the Fed hate America?
Texan Bulldoggette: it’s not that they want him dead.
they just want his hair plugs, yo.
but for realz, why biden? what good can he do? would delaware swing? would he convince and bitter from kansas? doubt much?
Texan Bulldoggette: also, silver bullets? braver than i, m’lady. braver than i.
Darehead: ahhhh!
pun overload! fantastic glorious pun overload!
yes i’ve been drinking. alone. duh.
Darehead: I’d suggest you put down the brutally cold vodka, but you must be sober to come up with that after the day we’ve all had…
thwanger: Biden has, believe it or not, a ton of foreign policy cred (but I’m too lazy & semi-drunk to look it up). And Silver Bullet is pretty high class for my area; most folks here drink Bud Light and wine in a box (but they think they’re all fancy!).
Darehead: You punned it!
@ topic: Stating the obvious . . . Whoever gets picked, they will be showered with peanuts across the internets and beyond, because hating on VPs is a very popular pass-time. Your VP candidates are always going to enrage people, because if they were really popular in the first place, they wouldn’t be a mere VP pick.
Some VPs deal with the hate by hating 100 times back (see Dick Cheney) or by being as bland and anonymous as possible (see Al Bore, back in the day). Which is better?
Also, to state the obvious again, some people drink an awful lot (me).
I like Biden, he’s articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy.
Texan Bulldoggette: Plus, Biden has a higher IQ than we do.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE4D91F3CF931A1575AC0A961948260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=print
sigh
Texan Bulldoggette: Look it up? Since when do commenters need to look shit up? Especially on Friday night during wild pointless VP speculation?
Biden was last seen minutes ago at his Wilmington estate…
Wilmington estate?! Um — hold up a sec, folks…
Serolf Divad: he’s da 100% white obama?
Back home. And I’m pissed about the text message thing. If this was a ploy to get cell numbers, fuck Obama. I’m down with Walnuts!
Larry King Live at Midnight Special.
I thought that was just an old campfire story.
anybody know what does biden’s wife look like?
Serolf Divad: When was the last time you had a white male VP candidate that’s articulate, dynamic, reasonable and trustworthy? It must be the first time in decades. That is why we must encourage white males to take up this challenging job. Sorry to come off patronizing, but I have no doubt that it would prove character-building for that whole white male community. Let’s give them a chance, I say.
It’s Delaware’s U. S. Senator Joe Biden. All indications point to him!
http://osi-speaks.blogspot.com/2008/08/breaking-news-unofficially-barack.html#links
Texan Bulldoggette: oh yes i know he has a ton of cred. numerous thingies etc etc…
but would he change the mind of someone? maybe i’m a bitter. or an anti-bitter. or something.
i mean, picture your average texan, you know them better than i, i assume. can you think of someone he’d convince. someone who said ‘well, i was gonna vote for mccrappants, but now that old joe is involved that [insert racial epithet] has got my vote.
i guess, maybe, as long as we can vote for one old guy with white hair…
hey! didn’t obama say he didn’t look like the dude on the dollars? maybe that’s why he picked ol’ fancy french wig joe?
Texan Bulldoggette: ph, and nothing but mad respect for you for drinking the bullet.
and what, exactly, is not fancy about drinking wine out of a box? a certain ms. stephanie miller is (relatively) famous for it!
Canmon (the Inadequate): Sorry, by the article you linked (which wasn’t terribly flattering to Joe B.), I can’t tell if you were being sarcastic. But, yeah, he probably does have a higher IQ than most of the bitters & those who are inebriated on the weekends, but I won’t hold it against him.
PLEASE let it be Biden, if for no reason other than the possibility of more “Fresh and Clean” sound bites. He’s by far the least boring. As Colin McEnroe once said way back when, “Picking Dan Quayle was George [the First] Bush’s way of saying to the humor industry, ‘I’m going to take care of you boys.’”
Street Organizer: not so bad
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/145/375043431_3a4fec82d7.jpg?v=0
However, biden’s mistress (behind him in this ‘nuzzle’ shot looks a little jealous
http://bagnewsnotes.typepad.com/bagnews/images/Biden-Iowa-1.jpg
http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/08/fun_with_flightaware_whats_thi.php Marc Ambinder says a chartered flight has gone from Chicago to New Castle DE.
Biden was vocal about wanting McCain to run with Kerry four years ago. He gives the Repubs that ad, and another one because Biden once issued a press release calling Obama a foreign relations neophyte.
thwanger: that was supposed to be an “oh”, not a check on your ph balance. for complaints write to: http://www.bellsbeer.com
thwanger: No, BO was never going to win TX (didn’t matter if he put Sam Houston on the ticket with him). I’m just thinking more nationally. Biden’s not going to piss off half of the electorate & the bitters may or may not get behind the joint ticket. But Biden may put PA more in play (with his Scranton roots) & he does have all that blue collar ‘working man’ cred (whatever the hell that is).
I heard that Barry had made his pick, but then Michelle called him up short and said No to his choice, that he needed to pick someone he’s comfortable with.
So he probably picked Biden, thought about Michelle’s good advice, then chose Reed.
That would be my guess. *yawn*
Texan Bulldoggette: “may put PA more in play”? Dems haven’t lost PA since 1988. If Obama loses PA, we don’t even have to watch the results from other timezones on Nov 4.
Texan Bulldoggette: yes, but, then again.
ah hell i don’t freakin know. who does? i only know like 4 people. and they don’t vote (they are all homeless drug addicts) so i’m a horrible horrible horrible guesser on such subjects.
HOWEVER! why don’t the bitters buy into the whole ‘raised by a single mother working on chicago’s south side” cred for BO? biden’s always seems like a sassy know-it-all to me, and i like sassy know-it-alls.
maybe ol’ joe just bugs me somehow.
maybe i’m not clean and articulate enough?
but thanks for the info on scranton. did he work for.,, oh i can’t even make that joke.
why can’t michelle be his running mate? she’s fantastic.
It’s gotta be Biden. And it’s gonna be Mittens now. We all knew this weeks ago. All this speculation has just given everyone an excuse to contribute to our already shameless drinking patterns.
Jack Reed. That was a good one.
Delaware sent for Kerry. It has all of 3 EVs. Bonus: He was born in Scranton, PA, where Hillary spent her girlhood summers. So he’s a Bitter.
TJBeck: Sorry, I know Zogby has him up +9 today in PA but I don’t have a lot of confidence in polls that have him up that high. Nov. 4 is still a l-o-o-o-ng way ahead. He’s going to need every advantage he can get & I think he realizes that.
It seems like FIVE AND A HALF YEARS have passed since I have been waiting for my text message. Take that Walnuts…I have been a prisoner to my text messaging device.
I’m fantasizing about a Mittens/Biden debate. Am I alone here?
Damn, I’m having a semi-serious thought (and another glass of red something). An early knock against Biden (besides having a name that’s short for “Bin Laden”) was that his partition plan for Iraq was at odds with Obama’s position. But doesn’t that help Barry brand himself (THERE’S an auto-erotic masochism image) as someone who can take the advice of a formidable ally/interlocutor with whom he occasionally disagrees, and yet ultimately make the final (3 AM) call himself (i.e., make the formidable ally his bitch)? What the fuck am I talking about?
thwanger: The bitters have Hillary colored glasses; seriously what’s not to get about their hate? She has worked supposedly ‘35 years for the little people’ & along comes this ‘upstart, inadequate black man.’ Nevermind that he cleaned her clock in the Feb. primaries & ran a better campaign. It’s all about how HRC should not have been beat. It’s something her campaign should be looking at–not his.
I got my text message!
But it was from CNN.
Fuck you, Obama.
Hey, CNN called it for Biden. Um…yay?
CNN has “confirmed” that Biden is the VEEP.
CNN just reported that Biden was offered and accepted the veep position. I am happy with the choice. I would really laugh if they fucked it up though. I can’t believe Barry would not have just sent the messages out tonight to get ahead of the report. Just like Christmas…hype and alcohol
itgetter: Far from it. I’m trying to think of which comedian Joey reminds me of. The guy from Night Stand and My Name is Earl??
itgetter: I’m with you. I can’t wait to see Biden rip that empy suit to shreds.
Grouchy Marxist: I was having a serious thought too. On CNN they were raving about Biden’s everyman status, including the fact that he’s actually in debt like many Americans. This was a plus in their book. But how long until the Repubs put out an ad asking voters how they can expect a pathetic debtor to help America’s economy?
Also, are you thinking of Timothy Stack? He’s been on both shows, but I don’t see it.
TJBeck: Your campaign will require your admission of having hair plugs, whether true or false. Following precedent in local politics is all. Kiss your chances goodbye if you have a full head of hair. Delaware voters won’t be fooled. They stick to the issues.
I’m so proud of myself. The first time Obama complimented Biden in a debate I thought he’d make a good VP. He should have saved himself the trouble and made me his vetter instead of Caroline Kennedy.
itgetter: The McCains are massively in debt, too, and they have a bajillion dollars.
eatsshootsleaves: Last I heard it was eleventy billion dollars. But yay! I did not know this. Why didn’t I know this?
Did he plagriarize the text message yet?
Cripes. We’ll never shut the guy up, now. Welcome to 24/7 Biden, all day, every day. He’s never met a camera he didn’t feel the need to talk into its grave. I actually feel sorry for the press, at this point.
NBC 10 in Philly reported at 1 AM that Biden has accepted.
itgetter: Yeah, that’s him. Imagine him in a Biden wig. NOW do you see it?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2KVnNvhcg0
Street Organizer: Um.
oh yay! Biden will add some ‘mean’ to Barry’s side. Poor sweet Barry is too nice to make a decent attack ad so now we’re in for some good old-fashioned hating.
I’m serious. It’s not a good election fight until both sides get snarky.
Osama/Bin Laden 2008!
Texan Bulldoggette: That will be the best. liveblog. ever. on our Wonkette.
Grouchy Marxist: Hmm… I still don’t. But I like thinking about anybody in a Biden wig.
I was out drinking for hours and this is the most you can tell me?
damn it. what good are you?
Outstando: I thought the same thing, but he remarried.
Street Organizer: http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/JILL%20BIDEN%20TWN.jpg
She’s pretty! (And what, like 40 years younger than Biden?) Except she looks kind of like Elizabeth Edwards, which hopefully is not ominous or anything.
Please, please, PLEASE let Obama introduce Biden tomorrow as the most clean and articulate choice he had. Though Biden is neither clean nor articulate (but that’s why we love him).
August suckS Biden balls.
itgetter: I did not know that. Still, I think he gets family joke immunity. Hey, look, I do have ethics!
Outstando: What the hell are those and are they contagious??
eatsshootsleaves: And OMG I just looked up Romney’s wife and SHE’S hot, too! WTF? If there are two people in the world that I would not expect to have good-looking wives, they are definitely Joe Biden and Mitt Romney.
AP just called it too. *sigh*
So, that whole thing with his fake resume was really no big deal? Sweeeet! I’m off to Wall Street, folks, with my new Harvard diploma. Can you say “Ph.D”? Then get used to saying it!
How about that fucking text message now, Barry? I’M WAITING FOR MY TEXT.
STILL WAITING FOR MY GD TEXT.
Thanks for wasting my twenty cents because just think I could have donated that to you but now you get nothing teh end. FUCK YOU BARRY.
Street Organizer: Check out “Fleet Flutin’ Joe”’s flickr site:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/joebiden/375043569/
Barry, why have you forsaken me? I thought we were BFF! And still, the AP knows before I do. *sniff* *snuffle* I’m totally taking back my letter jacket.
Obama is such a text tease
10:45 PM PST: MSNBC is chattin’ it up crazy time…poor Keith Olbermann dragged from bed (?) to comment via phone….any truth to the fact that Secret Service is making a midnight dump run?
Part of me is hoping this turns out to be a huge F-U to the media. Some big scheme to fool them to make sure that it’s a true surprise and Biden’s in on it. And tomorrow Hopey’s going to appear with (oh, what the heck) Jack Reed or somebody.
But it’s not, so screw Barry. He should have texted us tonight.
Serolf Divad: a sweetheart if not quite a pin up
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Joe_Biden,_official_photo_portrait_2-cropped.jpg
Jesus, a girl goes away for a few hours and all this shit gets accomplished? The hell?
I bet McCain’s asleep in his jewel-ladened bed under gold silk sheets and doesn’t know about this shit.
McOldie campaign comment: Joe is a Obama hater.
the end
yawn
Isn’t his wife Katie Couric’s sister or something? Hot. Very hot.
itgetter:
Me too. But I’m actually hoping that he lies in the text message and confirms it’s Biden. But at the convention, it will really be HRC. Then again, the MSM would call him a flip flopper.
Barry had better not wake me up with a god damn “OMG ITZ JOE” text.
Good night, my friends.
Good choice; I believe he polls well with the Bitters. Well, at least I know my mom likes him.
Howard Dean and his Fifty State Strategy means they won’t necessarily pick someone who can carry just ONE state. They want someone who will have mass appeal. A compelling backstory. A kind face. Someone they can relate to.
That ain’t Joe Biden. Biden’s always reminded me of a used car salesman who moonlights as a funeral director on the weekends.
I don’t know… red herring?
should’ve started drinking earlier. now i can’t sleep.
SaveMeeJeebus: My crazy old lady bitter Jewish PUMA aunt loves him and has repeatedly said that she’d consider voting for Obama if Biden was on the ticket. Then again she lives in Connecticut so who gives a fuck who she votes for.
Obama/Biden reminds me of that old cartoon about a huge mean bulldog adopting an adorable black kitten.
…now I’m fukkin pissed! Not only does my team loose the gold medal(Nigerian soccer team) but now the fukkin VP pick happened already! God damn it, can a man go out and get obliterated on Vodka & tonics and come back to a fairly organized world?! I hold you responsible AnnieGetYourFun, sanantonerose and shortsshortsshorts you guys are suppose to keep me apprised to all situations or stall for time goddammit!!!
AxmxZ: …you too AxmxZ!!!
AnnieGetYourFun: No, it’s Biden. He’s got the same lousy rhetorical abilities that made Kerry so unappealing, plus he managed to be condescending towards Obama several times in the primaries. I must say this doesn’t thrill me, but he’s got foreign policy expertise, unlike McCain who merely pretends to. Hmmph — I think he could’ve done better.
“In February 1988, Biden was hospitalized for two brain aneurysms ….”
Guess we have to cut the jokes about Cheney’s heart.
It’s not official until Barry says its official.
I could live with Biden, though. Not my 1st choice, but he’s clean and articulate.
AnnieGetYourFun: At first I was like, yeah, okay, and Gephart is the vice president — but really, who else was Obama going to pick? I’m wholly convinced Biden was the best choice out of his horrible top four.
SayItWithWookies: gurukalehuru: …fukk that you guys are awake too? Then you guys are held responsible for this shyt as well!!!!
WTF? David fucking Brooks is a Biden fan?? And for reasons that actually seem to make some sense??
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/22/opinion/22brooks.html?_r=1&em&oref=slogin
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SayItWithWookies: It does make ya wonder if Barry changed his mind after the South Ossetia debacle.
Joe seems to be a good guy who sticks his foot in his mouth, so better a tough veep than foreign dip(slip)omacy since veep-gaffes hardly make waves abroad. I guess.
Can we start making headline puns for all those poor copy editors rushing to fit the breaking news in?
“Biden: his time” (too easy)
“Obam’ a’Biden’ his foreign policy skeptics” (too difficult)
“Bye, Bayh: Obama’s got someone else doing his ‘Biden.’” (too suggestive)
(I should stop making comments on Wonkette at 2:30 in the morning.)
eatsshootsleaves: I can’t remember who snarked it the first time, but “Obaba bin Biden” fits.
AngryBlakGuy: Yep. Then again Biden, like Barry, looks more feline than canine to me. It’s mostly a temperament issue. Even when Barry lets his claws out, it’s hard to be either scared or intimidated by him. Even if he draws blood.
eatsshootsleaves: I bet we’ll see “Biden: his time” like five times by sunrise.
Darehead: Yeah, but Biden for State I’d be okay with. Biden for VP? He’ll have to be on his really best behavior.
AngryBlakGuy: Hey I was awake when the Berlin Wall came down, too. You get East Germany to thank me for that and I’ll take my share of the responsibility for Biden. Til then I’m just an aghast spectator.
BIIIIII DENNNN!
let’s shut this mutherfucker down. It’s 3:30 am. See you in the morning (I cheated - I was asleep).
Street Organizer: My sentiments exactly.
(Let me take this opportunity to tell you how much I like your avatar/user name combo. Excellent!)
wheelie: WIN
Ken Layne,
That’s how ABC figured it out. Biden’s extended family was still arriving at his home in Delaware and Obama sends the Secret Service detail. Well, so much for text messaging. “You’ll be the first to know.” Yeah, right. I don’t see the “Change” yet. Am I alone on this? Politics as usual with plenty of room for a big backlash.
Sincerely and respectfully,
Mr-Clark