Vice President Joe Biden rang in Cinco de Mayo on Dos de Mayo with a breakfast at the Naval Observatory and a joke about the Mexican ambassador being a waiter.
About 40 people, ranging from Labor Secretary Hilda Solis and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar to National Council of La Raza president Janet Murguia, dined on omelette and chorizo after Biden talked about “any excuse to celebrate,” even on the off date.
Biden called the day “more than about battles, it’s a celebration of friendship between Mexico and the U.S.,” according to the White House pool report.
He noted that Mexican-Americans had “enriched the culture” of America and that the country’s “single most significant advantage” in competing in the 21st century is its “constant nurturing” of new cultures.
Before he began speaking, Biden noted that Mexico’s ambassador to the U.S., who was sitting nearest to the vice president’s lectern, was holding a silver drink tray.
“We have the ambassador now serving drinks?” he said to laughter, grabbing the tray from the ambassador. “He’s an all-purpose ambassador, I tell you.”
I like how all of these cultures contribute to the richness of America, but no one really gives examples of those contributions.
Apparently they make really nice drinks waiters for stupid Democrats.
*FACEPALM* Oh Lord. The man is a humiliating gaffe machine.
I’m having a hard time finding this one anything but amusing.
Vote for Obama saw that Palin ISN’T VICE PRESIDENT! They said.
Biden will be an asset because he knows about “foreign stuff,” they said.
Where’s my baseball bat? I said.
Maybe they should have stuffed Joe full of candy and given all the guests sticks.
– were they drinking?
now, now.
what I want to know is, how many people who were served the meal have any idea what goes into chorizo? it tastes great, but …
Wait three days. Biden just might mis-pronounce it “Sicko” de Mayo.
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– looks like Captain Picard just after surrendering to the Klingons.
The headline made this sound worse than it was. I thought it was going to be on the same level as Jimmy Carter joking about Montezuma’s Revenge to the Mexican president in Mexico City.
In a couple of days we can go from Biden’s “D’oh’s de Mayo” to Obama’s Cinco de Cuatro.
Good thing Obama wasn’t at the Naval Observatory, he couldn’t run into any corpse men.
The “Smart” ticket, Doncha know.
Biden makes Lyndon Johnson look like a tactful man.
“Pendejo estupido” is an appropriate term for Biden that probably passed through the mind of the Mexican ambassador. But of course unlike Biden he is a professional and wise enough not to utter his every stray and incoherent thought.
Pinche Gabacho.