Say what you will about Joe Biden

[rah]

and absolutely no one will ever think that Joe has any influence or power at all.

[Ming]

Joe who?

[Tattila the Hun]

So, this isn't a thread for saying what I will about Biden?

[rah]

Yeah, 20 years from now people will remember who dubya's vp was, but nobody is going to remember who Obama's was. (unless obama gets assasinated of course)

[Kitschum]

That's good, though, isn't it? The vice presidency is not supposed to be an important position and only becomes so when the president is weak.

[rah]

The VP is usually responsible for some semi-important pet project.
In Cheney's case, it was, run the ****ing country.

[Drake Tungsten]

Cheney

[Kitschum]

I heard he's impotent

[DinoDoc]

Let's get some teabaggers on this!

Why would GLAAD care about this?

[DaShi]

and absolutely no one will ever think that Joe has any influence or power at all.

Thank goodness for that. Best VP ever!

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Thank goodness for that. Best VP ever!

Or at least since Alben Barkley, if not Schuyler Colfax.

Veep obscurity

[Drake Tungsten]

Biden

President Obama is so "distracted by his vice president's indiscipline" that he has been forced to rebuke privately Vice President Joe Biden, according to a new book by Newsweek journalist Richard Wolffe, who interviewed Obama a dozen times.

"He can't keep his mouth shut," Wolffe quotes a "senior Obama aide" as saying of the gaffe-prone Biden in "Renegade: The Making of a President," set for release June 2.

As evidence, Wolffe reports that during the presidential transition period, Biden insulted Valerie Jarrett, one of Obama's closest friends and confidantes. Jarrett had been considered Obama's top choice to fill his vacated Senate seat in Illinois, but took herself out of the running just hours after Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich allegedly told a wiretapped conference call he would not heed any Obama recommendation without a payoff.

"Soon after Jarrett pulled out of consideration for the Senate seat, the senior transition team met to discuss cabinet picks," Wolffe writes. "Biden tried to compliment Jarrett after one contribution. 'You should be in the Senate,' he quipped. After the meeting, as everyone returned to their offices, Obama stopped Biden to warn him not to say anything like that again. 'It's not funny,' he told him."

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/05/20/obama-distracted-bidens-indiscipline-book-asserts/

[Drake Tungsten]

I'm really starting to love Joe Biden.

As Vice President Biden delivered a commencement address to about 1,000 graduates of the Air Force Academy, a gust of wind knocked over his teleprompter.

Biden took that opportunity to crack a joke at the expense of his boss, President Obama, who famously uses a teleprompter for all of his speeches.

"What am I going to tell the president when I tell him his teleprompter is broken? What will he do then?" Biden joked at the ceremony in Colorado Springs, Col.

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/05/teleprompter-fa.html

[Straybow]

Vice Presidents are usually ignored because they are usually incompetent, chosen so as not to ecclipse the Presidential candidate. The epithelials Cheney left behind are better than Obama and Biden combined.

[dannubis]

yeah, he shot a mna in the face while being drunk and got away with it... people should know who he is