You know, something tells us this is not the way President Obama wanted to announce it, but according to some comments Joe Biden blurted out at the end of an interview with the New York Times, he and Barry are running for re-election! So, we guess, the 2012 presidential election has already more than begun, before the midterms are even over? Those things seem to come earlier and earlier every year, like Christmas decorations at the local giant chain store, or layoffs at the local giant chain store. Also revealed in this Tiger Beat profile: political fossil Walter Mondale doesn’t think it’s a good idea to have a black president going around campaigning for Democrats.
“I tell you what, there’s real trust, that’s why he’s asked me to run again,” Mr. Biden said Monday, dropping this tidbit at the end of a 40-minute conversation, just before he dashed off to his third fund-raiser of the day. “Look, he said, ‘We’re going to run together, are you going to run?’ I said, ‘Of course, you want me to run with you, I’m happy to run with you.’”
No, Joe Biden will not have to think about it. Of course Joe Biden will run. He probably wet himself just thinking about it. Or rather, Biden wet the bed just thinking about it, because Obama may actually be too busy with the midterms and having an actual job to start talking about 2012 with Biden, so this is probably just a dream Biden had. “We’re going to run together, are you going to run?” blackily rapped Obama, dressed as a New Kid on the Block, as Biden gave it to 50 chicks simultaneously.
And here’s your grandpa, Walter Mondale:
“He’s the one everybody wants — every candidate out there, when you ask them, ‘What can I do for you?’ they say, ‘Can you get Joe Biden?’ ” said former Vice President Walter Mondale, who appeared recently with Mr. Biden at a rally for Mark Dayton, the Democratic candidate for governor in Minnesota. “He seems to understand working people, he’s got the ethnic background, he puts a lot of emphasis on his faith and his family, and people are comfortable with him.”
Yes, Biden’s got that rare white ethnic background the country is looking for. What a tremendous asset Biden is, like Mondale himself. [NYT]
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He's going full-blurtard.
Well that's a big fucking deal.
What does Leif Garrett think?
I'm waiting for Tony DeFranco to weigh in, myself.
Thanks a lot Biden. Now the Repubs will start putting negative ads on tv against Obamar. Loose lips sink ships, Joe!
Less money for them to spend against lesser Dem candidates they can actually beat. It's all good for chess master Barry.
I had a dream last night that Biden dropped out and that Obammy was going to run with his wife, Michelle. Absolutely true dream. Last night. I dreamed it.
When?
What?
Michele on top, of course….
Are we sure they are not announcing for the 2016 campaign?
This will never work. The country is simply not ready for a black president.
There sure is a lot of running in that first excerpt.
This is shocking news! To think that an incumbent President would run for a second term–it's hardly never not happened. (LBJ doesn't count on account of he wasn't elected to his first term.)
This will come as a shock to the media speculators and PUMAs, and absolutely no one else. No sitting VP has been dropped for reelection since Rockefeller, even Quayle; surely only idiots (ie the media) would think that could happen now barring scandal or death.
True that. These are the morons to whom David Broder is a genius.
If Quayle wasn't dropped, ain't nobody gonna get dropped. That guy is holding down one end of the lame continuum.
>he’s got the ethnic background,
Now we know why Walter Mondale picked future-PUMA Ferraro as his VP candidate.
My thoughts exactly. The entire 1984 ticket was a buncha Klanskritters!
Just a little note on grammar, Mr. Stueff. Whenever Biden is the subject of a sentence, and the verb is an active verb, the "clumsily" is understood, so it is redundant to state it. Make a note of that.
You might note, however, that he jabbed a pencil through his cheek for emphasis.
It wouldn't surprise me in the least to learn that this was yet another of the lovable "Uncle Joe" character's pre-planned and approved pseudo-gaffes, designed to allow Biden to obliquely let the air out of a subject or situation that the media would otherwise self-inflate to the point of absurdity before popping it in Obama's too-busy-for-this-shit face.
I didn't that Scrantonian was an ethnicity, though I guess Joe does have a bit of that Schrute look to him.
Speaking of Scranton, Biden would fit in well at Dunder Mifflin.
Obama long ago pointed out how it's not surprising that people in some of those small towns in Pennsylvania cling to their guns and religion and Bidens.
That would explain why Biden is frequently stained with beet juice.
What do you think Trig will be wearing for the inauguration?
He and David Vitter will both still be wearing diapers.
One thumb up isn't near enough for the priceless Vitter comment. It's gotta be worth a couple of Whore Diamonds, at least. Do we still have those?
Mondale should get himself good and drunk and take a nap in a snowdrift.
Biden is Bullworth, only the press just can't stand it and they stick to their script, "gaffe-prone" biden, "hapless" democrats, "surging" republicans, "sober" Boehnor, "sane" teabaggers, etc. etc.
Is it any wonder? Don't they all ultimately feed at the same trough as the US Chamber of Commerce?
Everytime I see Barry's expression in that picture, I can't decide if he wants to smack Joey B. or kiss him.
Barry as the Wife of Bath with Biden as her fifth husband?
Sure.
Hell, I like Uncle Joe Biden. He awkwardly tells the truth no matter how obvious it is. Joe Biden is Captain Anti-spin. The world could be ending and politicians would be lying to keep people calm except for Joe Biden. "Hey," he'd say, "we're fucked."
He's a national treasure.
Agreed – Biden summing up the passage of HCR with "this is a big fucking deal" alone is worth a hundred fancy-ass speeches to me.
Love me some Gaffey Joe.
Does that mean Geraldine Ferraro had a particular gender background Walt was looking for?
WHAT! I was expecting him to quit this November.
Fuck, by the fall of 2011 he will be the longest serving worst president in the history of forever.
He'll never stand a chance after Republicans bring forth the shiny city on the hill with their repeals of accessible medical care legislation and re-re-re-re-re-deregulation of Wall street which we desperately need to live the over mortgaged, fat-ass SUV, biker-bar-fund-raisers for cancer friends life-style we are entitled too. Nobama 2012.
Blonde Republican Sex Kitten whining to the POTUS about bipartisanship on that MTV Yo Yo Mistah P. special. I want my Wonkette liveblogging so I can suffer through this painful spectacle.
What's with the photo–did Biden have to run this by Louis Farrakhan for approval?
Walter Mondale offering advice on winning is about as useful as Jonah Goldberg telling you how to get laid.
Or Dr. Phil telling you how to lose weight.
Or Sarah Palin telling you how to make sense.
Obama must be getting so tired of hearing how he's just not ethnic enough.
i wonder – if the ticket had been reversed in 2008 and biden had been pres nominee – would we have baggers?
Probably not. The entire racial and Birther components of the Movement would not of been there to stoke the flames of hatred.
Just being pissed off because a Democrat was President got played out during the Clinton Administration.
Oh yeah, and if we'd had McCain…not a peep about how fucked up the government is. Geez they had at the least 4 years to rail against gov spending and sat with zipped lips (thankfully to hide toothless grins).
We'd all be thankful for the Chinese dry cat food that would have made up 65% of the Amerikun diet after 2 years of McCain/Palin because, melamine, never heard of it.
Sure we'd have baggers. The only requirement is that there be a Democrat in the White House. Doesn't matter what race, gender, ethnicity, religion, whatever. If they went Full Mental Apeshit on the Big Dog, they'll lose it on anyone.
Ah, say it ain’t so, Joe. There you go again, pointing backwards again, though.
~S. Palin
"My kid's turning eight. Is he any good at twisting balloons into animals?"
uh oh…. somebodies' plane is going down in the mid-atlantic….
“He seems to understand working people, he’s got the ethnic background, he puts a lot of emphasis on his faith and his family, and people are comfortable with him.”
Ladies and Gentlemen, your Democratic Party!
1992-2004: Here are a bunch of white guys prone to political gaffes stumping about agreeing with republicans only some of the time (pyrrhic victories and failures)
2006: Here are a bunch of white guys saying that they are not the republican party at all. (win)
2008: Here is an unbelievably eloquent minority stumping on how he's going to do everything that Republicans hate. (epic win)
2010: We want the white guy prone to political gaffes stumping for half the tax cuts the republicans want. (you know what? fuck it)
“He seems to understand working people, he’s got the ethnic background, he puts a lot of emphasis on his faith and his family, and people are comfortable with him.”
Translation:
"He's not an uppity negra, who was born in Kenya, who is a secret Muslin, and married to an equally uppity black woman and the crackers in my district won't string him up on the nearest tree"
Walter seems to have broken out the "Advanced Wingnut Tea Party" dvds from Rosetta Stone.
Lincoln didn't run with Hannibal Hamlin the second time. Just sayin'
Who the hell woke up Walter Mondale to ask him a question?! That was a brilliant idea – hey, let's ask the guy who got slaughtered by the dumbest Prez e-v-e-r what he thinks, as if anyone cares. Surely he will have some KEEN INSIGHT and share some Bobby Fisher-like moves that will pull the Dem's outta their melancholy and have them speeding down the highway to victory in no time!!!
Biden is ethnically of the "blank" ethnicity, ethnically speaking. If I can work some form of the word ethnic into this post several more times, I'll be apace of a typical episode of Chris Matthews' Hardball. Ethnic.
Honestly, what has Joe ever NOT clumsily announced something.
This is a big fucking deal.
Joe's probably just looking forward to having his first VP debate with an actual adult.
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