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Oh, That Joe! (No. 9 in a Series) - Wherein Jill Biden and John McCain Dance Drunkenly on a Tabletop in Greece
September 05, 2008 5:23 PM
Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., likes to tell crowds that he and Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., are friends.
In a packed gymnasium at Maple Point Middle School in Langhorne, Pa., this afternoon, before a receptive crowd, Biden explained just how close they are.
"John McCain is my friend," said the loquacious Blue Hen. "I admire John McCain. I know of no man or woman I have ever met that has more personal courage than John McCain. We have been friends for over 33 years. We have traveled together. When John was Navy liaison he staffed me for three or four years everywhere I traveled in the world.
"Jill and John are good friends," Biden said, referring to his wife Dr. Jill Biden, who had just introduced him. "Matter of fact there’s a best-selling book written about us called The Nightingale's Song about John and some of his graduating class from Annapolis that references Jill and John in the book as good buddies.
"She doesn’t like the reference,'" Biden added, "but John, John’s a great guy. John was staffing me in Greece. I was meeting with the Prime Minister Papandreou and we were supposed to go to this fancy dinner and Jill said 'Do we have to go to this dinner?' And John said, 'No, no, no I know this great place for dinner.'
"And there was a place literally down on the docks, where Zorba lived I think, and so I had to go to the fancy thing and I come back down and I find it, and we’re wandering through these alleys on the dock -- you’re gonna get very angry at this Jill -- but I walk around the corner and there’s these cement tables like down at the shore you know, the cement base ,the cement table, and I walk in and Jill and John are standing up on the table drinking ouzo dancing with one another, and I’m thinking, 'I’ve never trusted John since then, Jillie.'
"But he’s a great guy," Biden said, "and if John called me today and said 'Joe -,' like when they went after John McCain, when Bush went after him in South Carolina with the scurrilous comments they made about his character, I called him and said, 'John, where do you want me? I’m an Al Gore man but where do you want me? I will show up anywhere in America to testify to the kind of man you are.' And he is a good man, he is a good man."
-- Jake Tapper and Matt Jaffe
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Did Biden just endorse McCain?
Um, what the @(%%&$^!! was Obama thinking choosing this goofball as VP?
Posted by: Typical White Person | Sep 6, 2008 2:16:41 AM
Biden is so smart the left doesn't deserve him. He knows that McCain isn't Bush, and that if the Democrats treat McCain with the same demonic hatred the left holds for Bush, they will alienate a lot of independents. With this story Biden demonstrates he that being of the left isn't the antithesis of being a grownup.
Posted by: peter jackson | Sep 6, 2008 2:06:14 AM
blip,
We can do better.
And if you were to travel, unlike most of the fear parrots, you would see that people
elsewhere do.
It's really getting embarrassing. The FDA
can only afford rubber stamps now....
So yes, it is theater and to get so identified with it is unhealthy. But the alternative is worse.
Posted by: Leonard Peltier | Sep 6, 2008 1:50:13 AM
Biden is committed to his party. The reason he won't stoop to McCain's level is because McCain is married to the same mud-slinging, fact twisting tactics that put Bush back in office in 2004
To "go there" means playing into his hands and giving up the election. It's all the GOP is capable of and they're good at it.
I say they (Obama and Biden) stay classy, and stick to the issues. That's honestly all I care about, and it's all you should, too.
Posted by: Toni | Sep 6, 2008 1:18:17 AM
Biden speeches on the trail
should be restricted to:
No way. No How. No McCain. No Palin.
If he keeps going, he gets a
tranquilizer dart.
Posted by: anon | Sep 6, 2008 12:26:05 AM
That's a great story. I think it is important for us to remember that this is all politics.
I think people at home get kind of caught up in the jeering... but at the end of the day.
Sure, there are issues that effect us. But the politicians really think it is all some kind of theatre. Until we actually elect people who have ordinary experience... that's all we'll have.
But look, even the novices, Palin and Obama, have gotten their noses dirty. You have to if you want to get in their game. That's America.
And, though I really would like to see my neighbors catch a break on healthcare. And I hate the stupid war in Iraq. And I wish that all these busybodies would just leave gay people alone. I don't really get too bent out of shape when some nut votes for a Republican... because what do you expect?
It's all a bunch of theatre. Like pro-wrestling, only fake.
Posted by: blip | Sep 6, 2008 12:23:41 AM
Biden is for McCain it is obvious and he is smart to support him and defend his character. I also liked how he defended Palin several times. Obama, on the other hand, has shown no integrity what so ever. McCain/Palin only stated what Biden and Hillary stated about Obama, in verbatim, and engaged in battle that Obama himself has started. First he tried to pull the race card on McCain, but failed miserably when Americans know that McCain has a minority child. Everything is a hit and miss with this guy and the heat in kitchen is just to hot for him to handle. Plus, why would Biden really stand beside a man that he once called inexperienced??? Obama is trusting the wrong man as his VP. He should have chosen someone else.
Posted by: NEXT | Sep 6, 2008 12:20:02 AM
I would love if the McCain/Palin campaign would keep a running video log of all the Biden gaffes and make one long ad to air in late October....wonder what number Jake will be on by then.
Posted by: Debra | Sep 6, 2008 12:19:03 AM
Biden is clinically insane.
Voters know that. He got about
zero votes in the primaries.
His drivel on the stump is
not going to make any
difference.
But it's disgusting to see
him on the ticket.
Posted by: anon | Sep 6, 2008 12:15:17 AM
Collect Biden rants from
the campaign trail.
Present them to a judge.
Have him declared mentally
incompetent to stand for
any elective office.
Posted by: anon | Sep 6, 2008 12:03:13 AM
This was my favorite headline of the day, really. Deep inside Biden wants McCain too....along with Hill and Bill who will be pulling the lever for McCain too. Wonder if Biden and McCain have phone conversations or is that off limits now that they are on opposing sides?
Loved Hill, like Biden will vote McCain/Palin, as I cannot bear the thought of BO for Prez. I really would like him to go back and work more than 143 days in Senate, and really serve his country in some way....as McCain said "serve a greater purpose than oneself". DOES THE EGO ONE GET THAT?
Cindy McCain puts Michelle to shame with her humanitarianism too.
Posted by: Debra | Sep 6, 2008 12:02:03 AM
Of course Biden is saying McCain is a great guy. He is thrwoing hints to the American people to not vote for Obama and to go vote for the great guy. Don't say Biden didn't warn us!
Posted by: The Who | Sep 5, 2008 11:58:44 PM
Dem veep vetting process:
Separate the good ones from
the bad ones.
Then pick the worst one.
Posted by: anon | Sep 5, 2008 11:57:40 PM
Wait. Who is Biden campaigning for again?
Posted by: lorien1973 | Sep 5, 2008 11:55:54 PM
Obama has no friends other than Jeremiah Wirght and William Ayres.
Posted by: geevill | Sep 5, 2008 11:40:27 PM
Can we bribe this guy to
drop out?
Posted by: anon | Sep 5, 2008 11:24:12 PM
Joe Biden is a lowbrow.
Unfunny.
Posted by: anon | Sep 5, 2008 11:20:27 PM
Biden's most helpful
contribution to the Dem
ticket would be dropping
out on his own - now.
He should make a quiet
exit. No funny speech,
please.
Posted by: anon | Sep 5, 2008 11:08:26 PM
Why don't we ever hear any fun stories from Obama's friends? Certainly they have cell phones in jail.
Posted by: Shawn | Sep 5, 2008 10:55:45 PM
Tells us a lot about Obama's judgment doesn't it?
Posted by: geevill | Sep 5, 2008 10:53:21 PM
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