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Biden Cracks Joke at Memorial Service for Slain Police Officer
Weekly Standard ^ | April 24, 2013 1:48 PM | Daniel Halper

Posted on 04/24/2013 11:06:27 AM PDT by Sub-Driver

Edited on 04/24/2013 11:14:40 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

Vice President Joe Biden made a joke today at the memorial service for slain MIT police officer Sean Collier:

"One of my favorite poets is Seamus Heaney," said Biden, who is of Irish descent. "I know the congressman thinks I always quote Irish poets because I'm Irish. That's not the reason I do it. I quote Irish poets because they're the best poets and that's the reason why," Biden deadpanned. "And the Collier family knows that, right?"

Biden continued, "But all kidding aside..."


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: bho44; biden; bidengaffes; bidenquotes; halper; joebiden; leo; mit
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To: Sub-Driver

“Stand up Sean!”


21 posted on 04/24/2013 11:15:40 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Sub-Driver

What. A. Total. ASS.


22 posted on 04/24/2013 11:17:07 AM PDT by TADSLOS (The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
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To: Mountain Mary
Plugs is a drunk..

Ya' mean he could actually sober up?

23 posted on 04/24/2013 11:17:44 AM PDT by laweeks
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To: The Great RJ

Someplace in Delaware a village is missing their idiot.

Most likely it’s Rehobeth Beach.


24 posted on 04/24/2013 11:17:51 AM PDT by stevecmd
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To: Sub-Driver

It’s always about Joe . . . he has to make himself the center of attention regardless of the tragedy or event.


25 posted on 04/24/2013 11:18:35 AM PDT by AtlasStalled
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To: Sub-Driver

He’s damned lucky I was not a relative of the slain officer. I would have stood up and told Biteme to sit down and STFU.


26 posted on 04/24/2013 11:19:14 AM PDT by SoldierDad (Proud dad of an Army Soldier who has survived 24 months of Combat deployment.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Does anyone think the morons who elected this crew not once, but TWICE, will vote for actual SANE adults next time out??

We are SOOOOOOO SCREWED.


27 posted on 04/24/2013 11:19:46 AM PDT by Dick Bachert (CONGRESS, GROW A PAIR. IMPEACH THE USURPER!!)
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To: Sub-Driver

Just doing his job as Vice Attention Whore.


28 posted on 04/24/2013 11:20:21 AM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: Sub-Driver

who invited him?


29 posted on 04/24/2013 11:20:54 AM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: 21twelve

It is one thing for a family member or close friend to share a funny memory of a lost loved one. It’s a totally different thing for an imbecile like Biteme to try to pass off this crap as humor for someone he doesn’t even know.


30 posted on 04/24/2013 11:21:27 AM PDT by SoldierDad (Proud dad of an Army Soldier who has survived 24 months of Combat deployment.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Well, to give him credit, you can’t really blame him if this was just a passing remark, and not part of a funeral speech.

And I give him credit for admiring Seamus Heaney. One of my favorite modern poets. I had the pleasure of meeting him and having dinner with him once when he visited New York.

I can’t seem to find some of the poems I remember, but here’s a good one:

The Otter by Seamus Heaney

When you plunged
The light of Tuscany wavered
And swung through the pool
From top to bottom.

I loved your wet head and smashing crawl,
Your fine swimmer’s back and shoulders
Surfacing and surfacing again
This year and every year since.

I sat dry-throated on the warm stones.
You were beyond me.
The mellowed clarities, the grape-deep air
Thinned and disappointed.

Thank God for the slow loadening,
When I hold you now
We are close and deep
As the atmosphere on water.

My two hands are plumbed water.
You are my palpable, lithe
Otter of memory
In the pool of the moment,

Turning to swim on your back,
Each silent, thigh-shaking kick
Re-tilting the light,
Heaving the cool at your neck.

And suddenly you’re out,
Back again, intent as ever,
Heavy and frisky in your freshened pelt,
Printing the stones.


31 posted on 04/24/2013 11:23:50 AM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: laweeks

“Plugs is a drunk..
Ya’ mean he could actually sober up? “

Wet Brain Syndrome.
http://www.the-alcoholism-guide.org/wet-brain.html


33 posted on 04/24/2013 11:24:47 AM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: Sub-Driver
BA-DUM TISH! "But seriously, folks...HEY! What is this? An audience or an oil painting? I can hear ya' breathing. Thank you! Thank you! I'll be here all week! Don't forget to tip the waitress. Try the veal!"

Simply breathtaking incompetence, one heartbeat away from the Presidency.
34 posted on 04/24/2013 11:25:12 AM PDT by PowderMonkey (WILL WORK FOR AMMO)
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To: nothingnew
Howinhell would you unkink him enough to get a straight line out of jacket onto him, short of first putting him on the rack for a week or so?
35 posted on 04/24/2013 11:26:45 AM PDT by ApplegateRanch (Love me, love my guns!©)
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To: Sub-Driver

Biden’s mouth is the reason that zero mostly keeps him out of the public eye.

It’s also the reason that zero doesn’t fear ever being assassinated. Biden would be a worse POTUS than zero . . . . . . . .

And, America doesn’t need to dig any deeper in the pit than we already have. IOW, we hit bottom with zero, and we don’t need to go any deeper.


36 posted on 04/24/2013 11:28:11 AM PDT by DustyMoment (Congress - another name for anti-American criminals!!)
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To: Sub-Driver

IGNORANT BASTARD!!!


37 posted on 04/24/2013 11:28:17 AM PDT by PLD (Philippians 4:13 I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me)
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To: Sub-Driver

He’s a total idiot but everyone here knows it.


38 posted on 04/24/2013 11:28:23 AM PDT by jazusamo ("Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent." -- Adam Smith)
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To: Sub-Driver

This guy is one heartbeat away from the Presidency..think of that when you go to sleep tonight..I dont know what’s worse, a Communist POS or an idiot..sometimes the lesser of two evils just doesn’t work


39 posted on 04/24/2013 11:32:53 AM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Sub-Driver

Biden is an embarrassment to the human race.


40 posted on 04/24/2013 11:33:43 AM PDT by beethovenfan (If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
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