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Poor Joe Biden has spent his entire term as vice president being privately rebuked and publicly corrected by his boss. Every time Biden gives an interview, Obama comes out a couple days later and says, “I stand behind everything Joe said, except just to clarify, he meant the opposite,” and Biden has to sit in the Naughty Circle for ten minutes.
The latest shameful rebuke came after Joe admitted to George Stephanopoulos — and why is it that George Stephanopoulos, not exactly the hardest journalist for Democrats to get along with, always manages to make these guys say outrageous things? — that the Obama administration had “misread” the economy at the beginning of the year and not understood what a terrible shitshow it was going to be, well into the midterm election season.
“Misread” was obviously the wrong word, because it was accurate. So today, President Obama said that “we had incomplete information.”
Indeed, it is difficult to find any information at all about the economy, anywhere!
Joe Biden has been sent to Bermuda to live with the Uighurs.
Obama Responds To Biden On Economy: “We Had Incomplete Information” [Huffington Post]
Klutzy guy who tends to say the truth, even when it is not in his own interest, or evil overlord who made sure his friends made good money through a stupid war? It is so hard to choose.
Maybe what Joe was saying is that they misread the incomplete information.
What’s with the picture of Chevy Chase? I don’t remember any trains in Caddyshack.
I’d settle for Joe telling the whole world he thinks Barack’s shit stinks before I’d take one minute of tundratits as the veep.
The Republicans are so lame, Obama needs to have at least one worthy opponent, and the vice president has kindly agreed to fill in.
“When the time comes to enrich DuPont or credit card companies at America’s expense, we’ll be sure to call on you for your expertise, Mr. Vice President.”
No more going out for man-dates for burgers. Joe can eat in the cafeteria now, by himself, while Barry and Axelrod go for sushi in the Pallisades.
Just because you can put him on a train doesn’t mean you can train him.
I can’t help myself. I still like the guy. He reminds me of my still-lovely ex-boyfriend. He didn’t have an inner censor, either.
There, I said it.
He’s still a better VP than Palin would have been.
Maybe he’ll quit because he’s a fighter to better serve the country…
What a relief — now the people who were worried that President Obama was doing too much can go back to worrying that he isn’t doing enough.
Joe Biden has been sent to Bermuda to live with the Uighurs.
“No, Barry, don’t send me to live with those Uighurs! I can’t dance and I can’t play basketball!”
Am I the only one who thinks this “gaffe” thing is a total DC media creation? I don’t think I’ve ever actually heard him say anything that I’d consider embarrassing, let alone scandal-worthy. I just hear him say some innocuous or commonsensical thing, and then the media letting out a giddy squeal of “GAFFE! BIDEN PUTS HIS FOOT IN IT AGAIN! TEEHEHEHEHEHEHE! LET’S SPEND AN HOUR TALKING ABOUT IT ON CNN/FOX/MSNBC AND WRITING BLOG POSTS ABOUT IT!”
Worst sidekick since The Little Wooden Boy.
http://www.thetick.ws/car14.html
Vulpes82: I know that vice presidents don’t have many formal responsibilities, but cruising Wonkette during work hours is below you Mr. Biden. I encourage you to take a page out of Palin’s book and focus on editing your own wikipedia entry.
tehbenton: Sounds like the sparkin’ thing is still happenin’ there.
Come here a minute: There are things I miss about him. His innate… er… Biden-ness is one of them.
Now that Michael Jackson is now permanently dead (probably), sensible people may start paying attention to what Ol’ Gaffy Joe has to say - so now’s the time to send ‘im on a nice, long, media-free goodwill-trip to some desert island somewhere…
At least he didn’t get sent to live with the Weegs in real-live Uighurstan…their going at it with the Peoples Revolutionary Army using sticks and meat cleavers.
Canmon (the Inadequate): Quayle was better than Palin would’ve been.
He hasn’t yet caught on that in times like these we need more of a Billy Dee Williams-style smooth talker, as opposed to a Grandpa Simpson loose cannon. Truth, experience, and perspective be hanged!
Get back, Jo-Jo!
I’m hoping that Sara makes me sit in the Naughty Circle.
But Chevy Chase did do a mean Biden impression.
rambone: How dare you, sir! I’m not Joe Biden; I wouldn’t be caught dead on Amtrak!
Vulpes82: do a google search for “obama biden clean” or “biden dunkin donuts”, you’ll get some gaffes…
I’m seeing a change on the #2 horse after 2012.
But no, we love Joe Biden. I can’t see him lying like Cheney. In many ways, he’s the anti-Cheney.
Vulpes82: I for one agree with you. Perhaps the previous administration’s attitude that any admission of fallibility is itself a gaffe has seeped into the mindset of the chattering class. The chatterers are so self-absorbed that they don’t know that an administration has made a mistake until the administration acknowledges it. That’s when it becomes a “gaffe.”
Here we are at the end of another work day and Mark Sanford still hasn’t resigned. And no one else famous has died. what a drag.
Can we just blame the Intelligence Community like we always do?
Also, if a Biden bio-pic is in the works, the producers better get a move on.
The actor who’s played a version of him in every movie he ever made ain’t getting any younger.
and this is why, for the 5 seconds or so before he dropped out, joe was my pick to be president in the 2008 campaign. he generally says exactly what he really thinks, and more often than not i agree with him.
Watching Hopey and Dopey makes me want to watch an old Abbott and Costello movie.
I still love me some Biden. Everyone should give this guy a lifetime pass for the Herculean effort during his performance at the VP debate. How many of you could have kept a straight face during Winky McJiggle-butt’s performance?
so does this mean we will invade “the economy”?
InsidiousTuna: The warm bucket of piss would have been a better VP than Palin.
Biden will be punished by the Department of Law.
Hopey dont play that game: Aint it the truth. I read a piece recently that claimed the Grifter “held her own” in the VP debates and I flashed back to the part where she claimed the questions were a media filter and she was just going to pretend she was giving a stump speech instead of debating him.
I’ll happily go to the Naughty Circle if Sara will sit next to me…
tehbenton: Bad sign if one of the things you now really miss about him was something that just drove you crazy when you were together…
dijetlo: My new Wonkette handle is gonna be “Tundra Grifter.”
Hopey is so worried about being all things to all people and getting everyone on board his Love Train to Mediocrity, he’s pleasing no one. Except perhaps Her Majesty the Queen, who seems to dig him. I’ll take the breath of truth that is Joe.
In conclusion, Joe has ‘Tourettes of Truth’ syndrome.
I believe the Naughty Circle is getting crowded, especially since “Diaper Dave” Vitter requested a permanent reserved spot there. (Please, mistress.)
mookworthjwilson: Yeah, now that you mention it, the “clean” thing was definitely a gaffe.
bureaucrap: It might also be that they’re so used to a President who can’t open his mouth without some hilarious/insane mangling of the English language and the laws of logic that they can’t conceive of an administration without it, and since Obama isn’t going to provide it…
Joe does have this unfortunate habit of sometimes telling the truth…which is something that passes for news here. I’m waiting for him to fess up that neither he nor the big O have the slightest clue what to do about the economy except pray.
Barry needs to lighten up and let Joe be Joe.
TGY: Truthettes Syndrome? That actually kinda works…
Joe better watch his back. I’d say them Uighurs have a mean-and-nasty streak, considering the mayhem going on in western China. (Not sayin’ it’s unwarranted, but street mobs armed with cleavers and crowbars make for interesting mental images.) Bermuda, you have been warned.
Hopey dont play that game: Yeah, he gave a great performance, especially when he spoke of his family dying in a car crash and Snow Queen was smirking away and trying to unleash one of her “stingers.”
A politician who tells the truth? Well I’ll be dammed, ain’t seen many of them around.
Geez, I thought Obama read the paper and stuff. How much brains did you need to figure out that the economy was totally going to suck for a while? By January, both the stock market and the housing market had just crashed, and without shovelfuls of cash from the government, all the major banks would have gone belly up. Obama administration, if you are reading this, the economy isn’t going to be much better by the time of the next presidential election. Can’t say you weren’t warned.
I waiting for the truth to spill out from Joe Biden about Obama trying to skirt doing anything about Don’t Ask Don’t Tell. One of the media mouthpieces needs to ask him about it so he will embarrass Obama with the truth, again!
GaySailor:
Did you ask or did you get told?
Why isn’t there a big red bow in Joe’s lap? Just came from Gawker and they LUUUUUV them over there!
Naughty Circle.. heh heh… wouldn’t you like to be sent to the Naughty Circle?
please. joey rocks.
it was ever thus.