Joseph Biden is frankly a comic character and we are lucky to have him. Things are just too grim these days – what with the putative swine flu catastrophe, the economic decline and Islamopsychos on the rise in Iraq again. We need a little Biden in our life. Kinda takes the edge off, listening to him bluster non sequiturs about the coming (or not) pandemic, telling us his family won’t be taking any public transportation at the same time he insists we shouldn’t close the border.
And speaking of transportation, that reminds me of what a great character our current Veep would have made in the 1987 film Planes, Trains & Automobiles. Can’t you just see the younger Steve Martin (in one of his great frantic doofus roles) as the younger Biden? [He would need hair plugs.-ed. Now, now. No point lingering in the past.) The log line for the movie goes: A man must struggle to travel home for Thanksgiving, with an obnoxious slob of a shower ring salesman his only companion. Isn't that just Biden returning to Delaware daily on Amtrak? [Wouldn't we need a substitute for the John Candy role?-ed. I'm afraid so.]
People see Biden as a mistake. They are wrong. He is the best member of the new administration so far. What would we do without him? As an even greater politician once said…. “Hail, Freedonia!”
Teddy K in the John Candy role. Big obnoxious slob who never shuts up. Then the reveal, in the third act, that all his talking is to avoid grieving for the woman he loved before he drove her into a river and left her to die.
Joe’s a regular Joe. Everybody’s friend. Mr. go along and get along. He would have run with Mussolini as happily as he ran with Obama. A place at the trough is all he asks.
I dunno, Roger. Reminds me of that photo of Nixon that Esquire magazine ran on its cover every year with the caption, “Why is this man laughing?!”
Joe Biden will be just the right guy to promote the Obama “green car” America has been waiting for the new Fiat Accompli from the Fysler Corporation . His appearance and actions has always reminded me of the old time car salesman hanging around the showroom waiting for a mark to enter the door.
What a doofus this man is. It says a lot about our political class and none of it is good.
My cousin, distraught at finding out I had not voted for Obama, asked incredulously, “You mean you voted for Sarah Palin?” I gave what I thought then and still think was a more than adequate response: “You mean you voted for Joe Biden?”
“Fiat Accompli” LOL in a kind of high pitched giggle snork getting sick in the back of the mouth sort of way.
I laugh too, and then I remember he’s a heartbeat away from the Presidency. I think even liberals might feel a trifle uneasy at the thought of a President Biden, although they wouldn’t admit that in the presence of a wingnut like me.