Diplomacy, Thy Name is Biden

[LarryW]

Big Teddy, Sorry. It's what I try to think about after reading One Second After, or the Book of Revelation...I have to think of someting worse than armageddon. Otherwise I'd go nutz.

[incarcerated]

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/o...,2851220.story

Still not covered by health care: Biden’s mouth

VP drops expletive on open mic just before historic signing

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http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2010/...comes-t-shirt/

Joe Biden’s F-Bomb Gaffe Becomes T-Shirt

http://www.zazzle.com/hcr_big_fing_d...71564353624757

[Green Light]

Class act our VP.

[Dozer523]

Originally Posted by Green Light

Class act our VP.

Yeah, I miss the class act that preceded Mouthy Joe.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...toryId=1980130

oh and the guy before the One.
http://www.salon.com/news/politics/f.../04/cuss_word/

[Richard]

The Veep is truly a piece of work - but anybody who buys and wears a shirt with that tacky graphic is as big a class-less act in their own right IMO. But hey, I personally think all those window decals of the Calvin-like character peeing on something or other is just as tasteless when displayed on vehicles in public like that - says a lot about the vehicle's owner to me.

Richard's $.02

[GratefulCitizen]

Don't know the author.
It was in a Mad Magazine a few decades ago.

Ode to a Vice President


A man can be a governor or mayor of a city,
A man can be a congressmen and run a big committee.

A man can be a diplomat and put on fancy airs,
But when a man's Vice President, let's face it: no one cares.

[Utah Bob]

Originally Posted by Richard

The Veep is truly a piece of work - but anybody who buys and wears a shirt with that tacky graphic is as big a class-less act in their own right IMO. But hey, I personally think all those window decals of the Calvin-like character peeing on something or other is just as tasteless when displayed on vehicles in public like that - says a lot about the vehicle's owner to me.

Richard's $.02

Alas, Cretinous behavior seems to be accepted these days. Even admired and emulated.

I think it started when JFK wouldn't wear a hat.

[afchic]

Originally Posted by Utah Bob

Alas, Cretinous behavior seems to be accepted these days. Even admired and emulated.

I think it started when JFK wouldn't wear a hat.

Can you imagine the mass hysteria in the MSM if VP Cheney was caught on an open mic saying the same thing about say...the invasion, the patriot act, waterboarding, etc...

They would be apoplectic by now.

[ZonieDiver]

I think it started when JFK wouldn't wear a hat.

Or, perhaps, when LBJ picked up his dog by the ears!

[Utah Bob]

Originally Posted by ZonieDiver

Or, perhaps, when LBJ picked up his dog by the ears!

Not the act of a cretin. Merely a Texan.

[Sigaba]

Originally Posted by Utah Bob

I think it started when JFK wouldn't wear a hat.

Well, Marilyn Monroe did say she was on the pill.

[Richard]

Can you imagine the mass hysteria in the MSM if VP Cheney was caught on an open mic saying the same thing about say...the invasion, the patriot act, waterboarding, etc...They would be apoplectic by now.

Yep - I can just imagine the furor we'd be hearing from Fox, Rush, Michelle, and Glen if Joe ever peppered one of his hunting companions.

And so it goes...

Richard's jaded $.02

[incarcerated]

http://www.stratfor.com/sitrep/20100...fere_spokesman

Iraq: Biden Requested Not To Interfere - Spokesman

May 11, 2010 | 0955 GMT
An official spokesman for the Iraqi government called on U.S. Vice President Joe Biden not to interfere in the details of the formation of the future Iraqi government, Al Sumaria News reported May 11. The spokesman, Ali al-Dabbagh, said Washington has not intervened until now on the details of the government formation, but merely watched the political situation in the country.

[incarcerated]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...=feeds-newsxml

Vice President's staff lock journalist in a closet for hours during a fundraiser to stop him talking to guests

By Simon Neville
Last updated at 3:37 AM on 27th March 2011
The White House website proudly says ‘President Obama is committed to creating the most open and accessible administration in American history.’
But try telling Vice President Joe Biden’s staff that, after they held a local reporter in a closet for hours after he was invited to cover a Florida political fundraiser because they did not want him talking with the guests.
As the unaware $500-a-head invitees dined on caprese crostini with oven-dried mozzarella and basil, rosemary flatbread with grapes honey and gorgonzola cheese, grilled chicken Caesar and garden vegetable wraps, veteran reporter Scott Powers was locked away.
The Orlando Sentinel reporter was ushered into the closet inside wealthy property developer Alan Ginsburg’s Winter Falls mansion, after being told that Joe Biden and Senator Bill Nelson had not yet arrived.
He was told he could only come out when the politicians were ready to give their speeches.
Powers told The Drudge Report: ‘When I'd stick my head out, they'd say, “Not yet. We'll let you know when you can come out.”
After 90 minutes he was allowed out to hear Biden and Nelson speak for 35 minutes, before being taken back to the closet for the remainder of the event.
From inside his temporary prison Powers emailed his office from his cell phone: ‘Sounds like a nice party.’
....Powers said of his treatment: ‘It was frustrating and annoying that I was not given a chance to do my job fully and properly.
‘This was an extreme, and extremely inappropriate way of handling the press… it was essentially a rude and uncomfortable way to treat a reporter.’
He attempted to play down his treatment calling it ‘hardly unusual or shocking’ and confirmed that he received an apology from Ginsburg.
But the Vice President’s staff emailed him an apology which he said ‘I found far less satisfying than Ginsburg’s.’
The incident is especially embarrassing for the administration because it comes at a time when the White House has been condemning the treatment of journalists trying to report in Libya.
Just ten days ago, President Obama’s spokesman Jay Carney told reporters: ‘journalists should be protected and allowed to do their work.’
The Vice President’s office did not respond to requests for comment.