Joe Biden Is Laughing. Are You?
Rude. Condescending. Contemptuous. Overbearing. Also just plain wrong: about the only time last night that Joe Biden pulled a straight face was when he said that the Obama administration didn’t know that Chris Stevens had asked for additional security shortly before the U.S. consulate in Benghazi was overrun in the coordinated attack on September 11 (September 11, Joe: remember that date?). Nobody told them that things were hotting up in Libya, you see. They thought everyone was just fine: after all, as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton mumbled, we had helped liberate the Libyan people from Gaddafi: where was the gratitude for that? Where were the beneficent blossoms of the Arab Spring? And why are people talking about Chris Stevens and those three other murdered Americans anyway? These things happen. President Obama said it was too bad they were killed, but hey, these things happen. They were just “bumps in the road.” (“What was that, honey? I think I ran over something.” “Just bumps in the road. Drive on.”) According to Stephanie Cutter, Obama’s deputy campaign manager, the “entire reason” Libya is important is because Mitt Romney has made it a “political topic.” Our ambassador and three other Americans are murdered by al-Qaeda operatives and the Obama administration sends its ambassador to the UN to explain that it was because of an internet video, then, when that doesn’t work, it says that the whole subject is somehow Mitt Romney’s fault. Pathetic.
But was it more pathetic than Joe Biden’s performance last night? Some commentators think Biden won the debate. Most of the polls I’ve seen disagree. Yes, he had clearly taken an extra dose of Geritol before stepping on to the stage. But he apparently chased it with a snort of laughing gas. The resulting rictus of contempt was not just ungentlemanly, it was unhinged, disturbing. This is how the vice president of the United States reacts in a serious discussion about grave national security issues.
Joe Biden is laughing. Are you?
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Yes, I’m laughing, not with Joe, but AT him. I think Joe has what it takes to host his own TV show over at MSNBC; the smile, the anger, the rudeness, and the smarmy self-righteousness will serve him well there.
For sure, as one poster said, Clint Eastwood was wrong, there should have been two empty chairs.
And empty chair and an empty straightjacket would be more appropriate.
With all that is going on in my own backyard, surrounded on all sides by Islamic barbarians, I was still able to become enraged watching this buffoon of a VP, debate a cultured man like Ryan, someone who is not only refined, but highly intelligent, and a man you viscerally feel wants to do well by his country.
In comparison, Joe looked like everyone’s crazy uncle, the uncle one goes to for laughs, but makes you wary, knowing that he could go off the rails, when least expected.
IF this election was not so fateful, it would have been an entertaining interlude to watch.
Those who understand what is at stake, hope to vote out the most corrupt, far left, dangerous regime in U.S. history. They realize what a second term of the Radical-in-Chief will wreck- http://adinakutnicki.com/2012/08/02/revealed-the-second-term-plans-of-an-obama-presidency-nothing-short-of-a-national-nightmare-commentary-by-adina-kutnicki/.
They are terrified. They should be.
How are Israelis responding to Bidet’s assertion that the Iranians aren’t closer to having a nuke than four years ago? Ho told a lot of whoppers last night, but that one was pretty egregious.
I don’t know, I think Clint had it right. One empty chair, one non-existent.
Israelis are hip to their jive talk. You should hear the average person in the street,as they discuss the election. It shows which way they are veering – as far away from Obama as possible, almost as if they are on fire!
And, I am in touch with those who are involved with the ex pat American vote. Romney is beating the Islamist-in-Chief, hands down!
As to my American brethren back home, who the hell knows….
But if the Arabs weren’t rioting about the video (in fact, weren’t rioting, or even demonstrating at all), two questions remain:
1) Who DID make that connection, since it wasn’t true and Biteme said they “just didn’t know”? Who made it up and pushed it as a real explanation? Why have the not been fired?
2) Who made that idiot ambassador to the UN sell it like falling stocks on that weekend? C’mon! Every single Sunday show? A made-up thing?
Even the KGB tries to lie with some degree of plausibility, some weasel room.
Well. They’re still commies with training wheels, so I guess there will be more “bumps in the road”. Would that two of those bumps were Ostupidhead and Biteme.
The reason there are no firings/forced resignations is they would be trotted into the hearing room and grilled. They would reveal who told them what to say. Guess who that would be?
“Joe Biden is laughing. Are you?”
Hope the Romney-Ryan team jumps on that concept and quickly builds an ad around it. All they’d have to do is string together the questions, show Biden’s bizarre reactions, and close with that question. It writes itself.
The debate revealed what we’ve known all along: The country is leaderless. Empty chairs, empty heads, empty words.
. . . and a great deal of “malarkey.”
Um, check out the video above. They have jumped on it already.
Not only did Biden show us how little he cares about the suffering this administration has inflicted these past four years, but we clearly saw why it has been impossible for congress to work with the white house. How can anybody work with this jerk?
Thanks for the catch. You’re right, I saw the debate so I skipped the video, thinking it was just a straight clip. The RNC ad is a good start.
For another dynamite ad strategy, see William @54 in the comments over at the Fernandez article: Biden v. Ryan
http://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2012/10/11/biden-vs-ryan/
Already been done:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCtemaHgjyA
Chris Matthews loved it. Two peas in a pod.
Paul Ryan destroyed Biden last night. It wasn’t even close. The only thing good about Biden was his high gloss veneers.
My lovely wife is no lover of Republicans, the last one she worked for was Nixon and that didn’t end well, BUT, this AM she said Ryan could have done better but Biden is an a****le. I was shocked.
Who would’ve thought that Clint Eastwood would have some aptly caricatured (via an ad lib, no less) the first two debates: Debate #1 The Empty Chair. #Debate 2 Bombastic Biden aka as “The intellect of the Democratic Party…Kind of a grin, with a body behind it.”
Funny, the left thinks Biden won, the right thinks Ryan won which tells me that both men accomplished what they set out to do. I think Biden “won” because he had a tougher job. Ryan just had to appear competent, calm, in command of the facts, and not make any major screw-ups, which he did. Biden could have tried to appeared calm and elder statesmanlike in an effort to reach out to moderates and the undecided or he could have done what he did in an effort to shore up the base. Given the despair that’s gripped Obama supporters since the first debate, I think he and the Obama campaign made the right call. It was a given that we’d find it obnoxious, so I don’t think that factored into the thinking. Did it hurt him among moderates and the undecided? Possibly, but given how little VP debates usually matter, I think they were willing to take the hit in an effort to toss some red meat to liberals.
While you are correct about the left and right pundits. Only, the left is faking it. The polls are telling just who the winner is, and his name isn’t Biden.
First Joe throws the intelligence community under the bus for their (alleged) Libyan embassy “assessment,” but then indicates that same community will reliably and correctly inform the administration when Iran reaches nuclear capability? Umm, Joe, your underwear is showing. It’s not a pretty sight, it’s ragged and it does not
inspire confidence.
My fear is that the average undecided voter just isn’t informed enough to be offended by Uncle Joe’s laughter.
If you’re not a news junkie like most of us who frequent this site then do you really know what’s going on? The MSM is doing it’s best to kill this country.
On the question of who won the debate, I think Krauthammer got it right – that it depended how one absorbed the debate. If by transcript, a toss-up with each side winning on different issues (Ryan winning on Libya, Biden on Afghanistan, for example); if by radio, a Biden win. But if one watched on television, Biden lost if only because of his (82) interruptions and inappropriate behavior.
One site counted ten major falsehoods coming from Biden; I counted a few more beyond those. (Curious that “experienced” foreign policy hand misstated the respective sizes of Libya and Syria.)
As to Raddatz, I thought she started well with a tough question on Libya to Biden, but subsequently fell back to form – interrupting Ryan nine times by one count with challenges and calls for specifics, but interrupted Biden only once to elaborate his response, then the late debate question on abortion, including a pointed “can you reassure women” remark to Ryan.
I am reassured. I have more trust in the man who loved his little bean even before she was born than a man who has praised China’s one child policy. If we ever go too far in one direction, I would rather it be with those who respect life than those who would murder a child in a women’s womb by force. With people like John Holdren (see Ecoscience particularly the paragraph that argues for forced abortions) in positions in power and the ever steep slippery slope towards legalized infanticide we are sliding, I prefer a prolife VP any day. The best choice may be somewhere in the middle, but I tend to think the leftists are more anti-choice than they let on. Some of them are quite pushy with antinatalist views, and I tend to think this is lurking beneath the surface in many of them more than they let on.
No, I’m not laughing. I’m seriously offended. The vulgar idiocy of Biden must be read for what it really is, an intended laugh at the American People.
Shame on anyone supporting an administration of political criminals (Fast and Furious, Benghazi, Solyndra, and G*d knows how much else) who laughs at the People.
“….who laughs at the People.”
Very good point, SZ. This jackass is an example of what this great nation of ours has to present to the world as a vice-president? A laughing buffoon who was, as you point out, laughing at the American people. Once again, you make a good point.
we may be hitting the tipping point when even the lame stream media won’t be able to cover for this failed administration.
Well, we have a novelty President whose novelty is wearing off and a clown for Vice President. Whats’ to worry? Like Obama, the undemocratic European Union just got the Nobel Peace prize for fostering democracy and peace. Things must be looking up.
Somebody needs to catalog all the things that Bidet said that were just plain malarky. Top of the list is that Iran isn’t making progress on nukes, because of the detonator technology.
Genius Joe was talking about the difficult detonator for a plutonium bomb, but centrifuges enrich uranium. The uranium detonator is relatively simple.
Liar, or just plain ignoramus? Hard to tell the difference with him.
How about lying ignoramus!?
Sure, I’m sure the people in Israel are laughing today at the thought of Iran getting a nuclear bomb. Real funny. And I’m sure the families of those four dead Americans from Benghazi think that their murder was a real laugh, too. And the American people are just tickled by an almost one trillion dollar “stimulus” that stimulated nothing but more debt. And I’m also sure this lousy economy has people in stitches, along with a $16 trillion national debt that has people rolling on the floor with laughter. With all of this going on, though, how come I don’t hear anybody laughing?
You didn’t hear Joe? The joke’s on the mullahs, because they need a bomb to build a bomb. Without a bomb, they can’t build a bomb. Joe said so.
joe bite-me looked and acted like a deranged mental patient jacked up on red bull and vicodin ! he is a disgrace and embarrassment to this country just like his comrade in arms, barry barack hussein obama soetoro !
Vice President Biden reminded us all of his own outrageous treatment of Judge Bork in that Senate meeting when he and Edward Kennedy contributed to the social collapse of this county
Many hours after the debate, the #1 topic of the news shows & talk radio is Joe Biden’s behavior. That’s not going to help the Obama administration one bit. Yes, the liberal whack-o’s might be happy, but the independent voters aren’t impressed, and that’s what was at stake here.
Biden has been, and always will be a creep. His performance last night only cements it.
- Alexander the Great
Say it ain’t so, Joe! Say it ain’t so.
Why are so many prominent Democrats nothing but punks when it comes to it?
Proverbs 29:9
New American Standard Bible (NASB)
9 When a wise man has a controversy with a foolish man,
The foolish man either rages or laughs, and there is no rest.
If the facts are on your side, you argue the facts.
If the law is on your side, you argue the law.
If neither the facts nor the law are on your side, you bring in Joe Biden.
It wasn’t Slo Joe’s fault. He is enthusiastically under the thumb of the affirmative action Alynskyite and his Chicago thug cabal. Ridicule is one of their key strategies, and Joe is nothing if not a compliant acolyte of anything that his master commands.
Like a 13 year-old boy who just discovered there is porn on the internet, he can’t control himself.
Joe Biden is a bully! I am glad his stupid mug was shown in a split screen so America could see him laughing as Paul Ryan was talking about Iran getting nukes. A few of the folks on Fundamental Refounding gave some similar feedback on old Biden. Google it, where the sun never sets on our freedom!
Brian just noted another whopper:
http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2012/10/12/catholic-bishops-to-biden-what-you-called-a-fact-is-not-in-fact-a-fact/#comment-411287
I wonder if Joe’s going to go to confession for all of these lies?
Biden acting the way he did was planned. Him going into this debate and seriously and respectfully debating his opponent would not have helped his base. Doing what he did made his base have an orgasm and forced Paul Ryan to not only have to debate serious issues but also have to keep his cool. Throw in that Martha Rabbit was on Biden’s side and the whole thing appears very pre-arranged. it was a total disgrace and most people in this country know it.
– once a year about Nixon: Why is this man smiling?
Great commentary! Thanks Roger! Exactly my sentiments on watching the debate.
Biden had to come out swinging, and he did — in all directions. What a buffoon. I was singularly struck by how bullying he was towards a younger political colleague who treated him with respect and, even, deferentially because Paul Ryan is a gentleman and doesn’t need to grandstand the way Biden did. It was rather nasty to watch Biden’s superior attitude based on what? ‘Probably the support he’s getting in the lamestream media, including the subtle but very real cronyism of the so-called “moderator,” who never — not once — told Joe, politely of course, to shut up, to stop interrupting. “Martha” — she and Biden are on a first-name basis — interrupted Paul Ryan 31 times and allowed Joe Schmo to interrupt him 81 times. We’re not talking a level playing field here — and yet, Paul Ryan didn’t lose with the cards stacked against him,
I’d call that a win.
In left-lib Dem La-La Land, being overbearing, disrespectful, contemptuous, and just plain rude to your political opponent is considered a victory. Somehow, however, I don’t think this tactic is going to help the Dems in the long run. Biden’s saying “hey, I put in a thumb and pulled out a plum and, oh, what a good boy am I” isn’t going to get him a whole lotta votes. He’s a bully and a boor.
‘Just what the U.S.A. needs in a VP. (And, God forbid, he ever were to become the POTUS: Laughing Joe would become the laughing stock of the world.)
I don’t know what the problem is. I love Joe Biden. Just get a load of these memorable gems:
“…the next President of the United States – Barack America!”
“You cannot go to a 7-11 or a Dunkin’ Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent…I’m not joking.”
“Folks, I can tell you I’ve known eight presidents, three of them intimately.”
“When the stock market crashed, Franklin D. Roosevelt got on the television and didn’t just talk about the, you know, the princes of greed.”
“IF we do everything right, if we do it with absolute certainty, there’s still a 30% chance we’re going to get it wrong.”
“I got tested for AIDS. I know Barack got tested for AIDS. There’s no shame in being tested for AIDS.”
“Hillary Clinton is as qualified or more qualified than I am to be vice president of the United States of America. Quite frankly, it might have been a better pick than me.”
A number of pundits said that Joe was just being himself and laughed it off.
Would they say Mike Tyson was just”being himself” when he rapes and bites ears off? Being “one’s self” is no excuse for appalling behavior.
It occurred to me that no wonder Joe wants to protect the middle class; he may aspire to that himself. He has showm how low class he is.
The laughting and interupting was obnoxious but the thing that was most disgusting was when he tried to look serious. How he dropped his head and was trying to look sad. It was so sickining to me. It was almost scarry, how he could go from acting like a fool and than pretending to be sad. How stupid do these people think we all are? It was insulting to the American people on so many levels.
The debate showed something refreshing and sad. Refreshing to see the younger Ryan as the adult in the room and sad to see Biden hitting the bottom of the barrel . Like Ryan I’m absolutely convinced that there are many, many decent men and women old and young well prepare and willing to help us to unraveled this inmminent disaster. Sacrifices and moral support will be needed if we want to be part of a brighter and better future for our children and our beloved country. Maybe after Nov. we’ll be able to say like Jan Valtan “the night is behind us”.
Bring in the clowns…there ought to be clowns….don’t bother there… …..here……