Posted on 03/27/2013 4:19:15 AM PDT by IbJensen
"My mother believed and my father believed that if I wanted to be president of the United States, I could be, I could be vice president!" - Joseph R. Biden, campaigning in Youngstown, Ohio, May 16, 2012
Yes, that much is true: The plagiarist with the slow-grow hair plugs and the chipmunk fake teeth and the made-up stories about heroics on the football field who quietly won five student draft deferments during the Vietnam War really did become vice president. And this much is clear: He took the gig, after something like 87 years in the Senate, because he knew in his tiny heart of hearts that that was the end of the line.
But no, Ma and Pa Biden were wrong: Their wunderboy Joey, despite his hardscrabble Scranton roots and spectacular work ethic (he did hold an actual job for some 18 months before going on the government dole 43 years ago) will not grow up to be the president of the United States. He's already tried twice, in 1988 and again in 2008 (the latter after giving voters a full generation to forget why they didn't like him the first time around).
Still, something odd is happening. Despite Jump-in Joes now- forgotten assertions that he has no intention of running for president, everyone has started talking about whether Jump-in Joe will run for president.
The chatter started right around the time then-Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton got sick, fell down, bumped her head and disappeared for six weeks. (You skeptics out there can just stifle: She really DID bump her head; didn't you see CNN report that the blood clot that sent her to the hospital was "related to a concussion she suffered this month, her spokesman, Philippe Reines, said." Were getting it straight from her spokesman, people, how can it not be true!?)
Suddenly, all this talk swirled that Joey was going to run in 2016, you know, pick up the mantle of his mental mentor and try to see if he could top the $10 trillion in debt his boss is on pace to rack up. "Biden not shying away from 2016 speculation," gasped MSNBC. "Need Proof That Joe Biden Is Running for President?" wondered National Journal (note to budding editors out there: Question marks bring clicks Well, is he? Is he!?!).
Blue-Collar Joe even popped over to Iowa during inauguration weekend, no less, where he hobnobbed with players at the Iowa State Society's inaugural ball and tossed out this gem: "I'm proud to be president of the United States." He regrouped, and clarified: "I'm proud to be vice president of the United States but I am prouder to be Barack Obama."
At 70 years old, the Gaffe Machine wont have time to wait another 20 years so America can forget all the stupid things he says and does. And they're piling up faster than Indians at a 7-Eleven.
"They're going to put y'all back in chains," he said to a mostly black audience in Virginia.
"Do you know the Web site number?" he asked his staff.
"Stand up, Chuck, let 'em see ya," he said to his crippled "friend."
And: "You cannot go to a 7-11 or a Dunkin Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent." Just in case you thought he was joking, he added: "I'm not joking."
Of course, he has great advice for Americans: "If you want to keep someone away from your house, just fire the shotgun through the door." (The few people who took the advice wound up in jail).
http://www.ijreview.com/2013/02/38482-humorous-women-take-joe-bidens-buy-a-shotgun-advice/
Sure, those are pretty funny. But then there are the gaffes that aren't simply the result of a brain misfire and are truly terrifying. Like: "Every single great idea that has marked the 21st century, the 20th century and the 19th century has required government vision and government incentive," and, during the last campaign against Republicans, "How they can justify, how they can justify raising taxes on the middle class that has been buried the last four years?"
This week brings more to pile onto the horror that the working- mans vice president charges rent to the Secret Service to use a cottage adjacent to his waterfront home in Wilmington, Del. He and his entourage spent $460,000 for a single night in London earlier this year. And they spent another $585,000 for a night at a five- star hotel in Paris. The stays came amid the crisis in Washington over the budget.
What's more, he flies to Delaware nearly every weekend first from his taxpayer-funded home in D.C. on a chopper to an Air Force base, then on Air Force Two. The weekly jaunts have cost Americans more than $4 million so far, according to Newsmax.
No, Joe's free ride is about to come to an end. And it's about time.
Hello Freepers! If any of you get polled on whether Joe should run for President, say as enthusiastically as possible, YES!
We need Joe on the 2016 Democrat ticket. Go Joe!
quietly won five student draft deferments during the Vietnam War
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Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Biden is worse than Willard...
Willard only got himself 4 deferments...
Yeah, like the Rats are going to nominate an Old White Man....
Joe doesn't have a chance, not because the rat voters would reject him as being, just too damn'd dumb but because the Hillarybeast will squash him like a little bug.
ONE thing is certain... if Joe wanted to get the GOP nomination, he is JUST smarmy and cheesy enough to get it!
THAT way he’d have a chance in 2016!
The 800 lb gorilla in the room is that NOBODY in the media even dares to say a word about “What about Joe?” When all these 2016 Democrat Potentials like “Hillary”, “Napolitano”, whomever are mentioned with a straight face.
Poor dumb ole “Plugs”.....clueless, still thinking he’s gonna get the nod. They aren’t going to throw him under the bus; they’re gonna keep him in it - the short yellow one.
After what happened in 2008 and again in 2012, I'm not at all sure. As a society, I think we may have already made the transition from democracy to idiocracy.
I used to think that 50% of Americans had at least some amount of common sense. Now I think it's fallen to about 48%.
Barack is a pioneer.
Before Barack, every American kid grew up with the thought that even he, or she, could someday become president of the USA.
Now, Barack has shown it’s possible that any kid in the world could someday become president of the USA.
No proof of Citizenship or of your real identification required.
No documentation of schools, colleges, or other background required.
No previous experience required.
No applicable professional skills or ability required.
The DuPont family of Delaware will be losing their Washington, D.C., influence once Joe Biden steps down as VP. He has been in their pocket, since he first ran for the Senate, in the 70’s. The folks at Dover AFB, will not miss him. The Amish in the state, will surely not miss him. Only all those low information voters that exist in the Greater Wilmington Metropolitan Area will miss him!
Obama’s sinful and disgraceful evil regime has shown young people that they don’t want to follow the example of this phony devil.
Biden will be an afterthought. The Hildebeast has a lock on the Presidency after Obama.
THAT attitude and behavior will guarantee a clear path to wholesale public acclaim and possible nomination!
Where's the evidence of that? Young voters are foursquare behind Obama.
Biden plus many others slid by. It was not what you knew but who you knew if you wanted to avoid the draft during RVN or even if drafted if one knew a Colonel or above he could keep his son out of RVN and get him sent to Germany in the 60’s. I can state my father helped a DR.’s son get to Germany. He was a two year draftee with a US serial number.I never asked my father for a damn thing as I had issues with him. I did ask a neighbor, another Colonel, to get my basic training changed to another place. I asked only because I did not want to be around negative influences I knew. That is the one thing I always try to get across to young men. Get away from negative influences. They are not your friends.
I can only speak of my family.
Fortunately all our children, their spouses and my grandchildren are Conservatives. Proper education, good genes and a fondness for history has helped.
"Joe's not white. Joe's clear."
(adapted from a line spoken by Bill Murray to Michael Jordan in "Space Jam", about Larry Bird).
That's what was being said when she was in the primaries against an unknown, unacomplished, not very intelligent senator from Illinois.
I heard on the radio about three weeks ago that the two issues most important to young voters are gay rights and same sex marriage. Well, I am just an old country boy, not very up on pop culture, in fact, not up at all as far as pop culture goes. But to me, if that is true, our future as a Republic is very dim.
I agree on everything except "unknown." Remember Obama's keynote speech to the DNC in 2004? From then on, the dems were touting him as the next big thing. The only thing that stopped Hillary in her tracks was America wanted what it perceived as an oh-so-cool black rock star in the White House. No such repeat of that scenario is on the horizon next time around, unless a hispanic like San Antonio's mayor Julian Castro steps forward to challenge her, which I doubt. He'll probably end up being her running mate.
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