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Many a patriotic heart races and stumbles at the thought of Joe Biden being one heart-beat away from the Oval Office. He’s the only man in the republic who can make conservatives think warm thoughts about Barack Obama and pray for his good health.
Biden is as left-wing as Obama. He’s also impulsive, thoughtless, easily excitable, narcissistic, and has a room-temperature IQ. You could say that he speaks before he thinks if there were any evidence that he’s capable of thought.
What Biden frequently comes out with aren’t exactly gaffes. A gaffe is usually defined as when a politician accidently utters the truth. So his phantasms are in another category. Blog items are supposed to be short, so I can’t catalogue Biden’s rhetorical knee-slappers, but most of you are familiar with them. I can say that my favorite is how he explained that when the stock-market crashed in 1929 as a preface to the Great Depression, President Roosevelt went on television to reassure the nation. That’s the sort of wisdom, incisiveness, and historical perspective that waits in the wings should, God forbid, something happen to our rookie president.
Unlike the horror expressed by the left-stream media over the prospect of Sarah Palin being “a heart-beat away,” crazy Uncle Joe’s idiocies are met in these quarters with a kind of tolerant affection. Here’s the Washington Post Alexandra Petri after Biden’s latest — the “back in chains” riff: “He inspires the sort of discomfort one feels upon introducing one’s fiancé to Grandpa after he has had a Scotch too many.”
Well, isn’t that cozy and special? Makes you almost want to know the guy. Many of us have and love relations just like this. (“Uncle Buford’s at the door — hide the single-malt!”)
Somehow I don’t recall this level of jocularity when Palin was on a national ticket. And it’s my understanding that people still approach Dan Quayle on golf courses to demand why he can’t spell “potato.” Joe gets a pass. Conservatives get the shaft. Well, at least we know the rules.
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aware| 8.17.12 @ 3:33PM
I've told you conservatives before, you are way underestimating Plugs the Gaffer and not giving him the credit he's due. He would easily be the worse president ever and make even you guys beg to have Obama back. Mark my words.
Ken (Old Texican)| 8.17.12 @ 4:05PM
Sarah has found her place...for now. PUllllllllese, let's focus on reclaiming our country...right now.
I just re-read "After America" by Mark Steyn.
Brrrrrrrr...oil up ole betsy.
Occam's Tool| 8.17.12 @ 4:09PM
Ken,
One of my finest pieces of political persuasion was introducing you to Mr. Steyn's work. G-d Bless, and have a FANTASTIC weekend, this wish for both you and your lovely bride. I'm taking the wife and kids off to Fargo for some Japanese Steakhouse fun.
irish19| 8.17.12 @ 6:13PM
Somehow, when I think Fargo, Japanese Steakhouse does not come to mind.
JimH| 8.18.12 @ 7:50AM
As long as a wood chipper is not part of the show.
Occam's Tool| 8.20.12 @ 3:15AM
You see, Irish, how little you know Fargo. the steakhouse is Kobe's.
The woodchipper from the movie is in the F-M visitor center. the actual movie was shot in Brainerd, MN, which is about 2 hours from Chez Razor.
Fargo also has a nice old fashioned moviehouse which I plan to go to on next visit, if I can.The Plains Art Museum is in a magnificent restored warehouse, and puttering around West Acres mall can be fun as well.
Next time I go out there, I will try Redford's steak house and see what I think. Also kind of fun, I am told, is to spend time in Minot in winter, where their mall connects to a hotel connects to a waterpark. Also in Minot is a restaurant owned by Josh Duhamel, whose wife is Fergie of the Black Eyed Peas group (and that's why they played a relief benefit in Minot after the flood).
Hey, when I get vacations in winter and want to disappear where NO ONE goes but the food and shopping are good, and the kids can play, I have my little places.
By the way, the Steakhouse was great. We went out for a spa treatment and the wires got crossed, but the food was great---Kobe's, in Fargo. Wonderful Filet Mignon.
Occam's Tool| 8.20.12 @ 3:20AM
Sorry about the capitalization screwups, Irish. Again, let me know if you are ever in F-M. I'm getting tired. Time to put the towels in the dryer and get some shuteye.
Occam's Tool| 8.17.12 @ 4:08PM
Liberalism IS a Mental Disorder. Savage is very correct.
Vance P. Frickey| 8.17.12 @ 7:35PM
The problem isn't that Joe Biden's dumber than Barack Obama, but that the Democratic Presidential ticket are book-ends, intellectually. Anytime Obama's out of sight of a TelePrompTer, his apparent IQ plummets. The myth of Barack Obama the intellectual giant is a tribute to his speech writers - and whoever ghost-wrote his books.
But the Democratic Party is the Party of "So what?" - the same people who accuse their political opposition of intellectual laxity stop collecting non sequiturs and just plain bloopers when their own politicians speak. The same people who can't stop talking about Dan Quayle's "potatoe" after 20 years are serenely content to have voted for a man who actually talked about visiting all 57 states during his 2008 campaign. Come to think about it, they've been amazingly forgiving about Obama's record of KEPT campaign promises.
John Navratil| 8.18.12 @ 9:28AM
My mother is English and I went to some school in England and spell potato with an 'e' almost instinctively. They misspell the gray colour of aluminium as well.
Quayle's Competitiveness Council is worthy of remembering - especially today.
Occam's Tool| 8.20.12 @ 3:17AM
Yup: al-oo-min--ee-um, John. Weird.
Of course, even more fun is "fanny" for female genitalia region and "shag" for sexual intercourse. Tell people you are going out to play catch with your son in New Zealand, "shag some fly balls," and watch the hilarity ensue.
Rich D| 8.20.12 @ 2:10AM
Quayle read the card that was prepared by the classroom teacher (ouch!) - he didn't want to embarrass her by spelling the word correctly.
wodiej| 8.18.12 @ 7:52AM
My patriotic heart raced at the the thought of Gov. Palin being VP. She would have done a fantastic job.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 8.18.12 @ 8:19PM
Upon learning of the results of the 2008 presidential election, I put a sticker above my Delaware license plate: "Goodbye, Joe. Now you can embarass the country instead of just us".
Edward Cropper | 8.20.12 @ 8:52AM
Joe Biden always reminds me of Huntz Hall (Sach)
of the Bowery Boys. Same intellect, same comprehension skills.
(When Sach reads a magazine in a darkened bedroom he is asked how he can read in the dark and replies, "I went to night school.")