Oh Joe. He really does make me laugh. But beyond that, he makes me proud to have supported him from early on in the 2008 race. He is often ridiculed for his big mouth, but I really admire him in a weird way exactly because of his mouth. He doesn’t talk in circles or frailties, he says it like it is. I know it’s a cliche defense, but it’s the truth. Not let’s be clear, no one is calling him the most politically correct guy in politics, but who the F cares. This gem is one of my favorites:
“You cannot go to a 7-11 or a Dunkin’ Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent…. I’m not joking.” – Joe Biden
Here are some of my other favorites, most of which came from the 2008 presidential debates and other proceedings, but which propelled Vice President Biden onto stardom.
“If your kitchen table is like mine, you sit there at night before you put the kids to bed and you talk about what you need. You talk about how much you are worried about being able to pay the bills. Ladies and gentlemen, that is not a worry John McCain has to worry about. It’s a pretty hard experience. He’ll have to figure out which of the seven kitchen tables to sit at.” –Joe Biden
“I should start with an apology to Rudy Giuliani. I said every sentence Rudy utters has a noun, a verb, and 9/11 in it. I was wrong. He called me to tell me after Pat Robertson’s endorsement, there’s an Amen in every sentence he says too.” –Joe Biden
And the reason I’m writing this today was because of the recent uproar over his comments about Russia, which I have to say are pretty spot-on. This is the kind of straight-shooting I wanted when I went to Iowa in 2007-2008 to support his campaign. Biden this the following about Russia while on a trip around Eastern Europe:
‘Russia has to make some very difficult, calculated decisions. They have a shrinking population base, they have a withering economy, they have a banking sector and structure that is not likely to be able to withstand the next 15 years, they’re in a situation where the world is changing before them and they’re clinging to something in the past that is not sustainable.”- Joe Biden
Sounds exactly like a textbook I read on international relations. Either that means Joe Biden is simply reading from a textbook, or is dead on…and as a man who chaired the Senate Foreign Relations committee for years, I’m going with the latter. Way to go Joe.
Yes. But can he see Russia from his house?
If not he is not qualified to be VP.
Your ability to see multiple perspectives, even in the cynical world of politics is impressive.
Yeah, I bet you like his mouth….
i had prepared something worse to say, but your mom’s comment is so cute that it just smothered my diabolical side.
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Melanie, No holding back, I can out gutter you guys anytime. Where do you think Evan got the sarcasm from.