Poor Joe. His role in the Obama administration?
For Biden, No Portfolio but the Role of a Counselor
Which is nicey nice for nada. Please stay out of the way and keep your mouth shut.
One can’t imagine John McCain taking that tact with Sarah Palin. She’d put one of her Naughty Monkeys up his…well you know. Another post-mortem observation proving McCain/Palin would have been a better team for America in this time and place.
Mr. Obama has moved quickly to assemble his White House staff and the beginnings of (Bill Clinton’s-JR) cabinet, he is lagging behind even the chronically late President Bill Clinton in bringing clarity to the role his vice president will play.
Breaking up is so hard to do.
“I’m sure that there will be discrete assignments over time,” said David Axelrod, a senior adviser to the president-elect. “But I think his fundamental role is as a trusted counselor. I think that when Obama selected him, he selected him to be a counselor and an adviser on a broad range of issues.”
Ah, discrete assignments over time. Well played Axelrod. Methinks those assignments will entail such tools as a discrete infra-red remote control and a strategically placed hassock emblazoned with the seal of the Vice President.
while Mr. Obama held a news conference in Chicago on Tuesday, Mr. Biden was home in Delaware, having spent Monday night in Wilmington stuffing Christmas stockings with his wife for a charity event.
Quaint. We all know how committed to charity Joe Biden is…stuffing a sock where his wallet is.
The President-Elect did not return phone calls from Jill Biden pleading for Mr. Obama to “Please get Joe the (h-e-toothpick-toothpick) out of the house – he’s driving me crazy.”
Mr. Biden seems to be adapting. He is hiring for his office, including a chief of staff, Ron Klain, who has worked with him since he was chairman of the Judiciary Committee in the 1990s. With Mr. Obama having settled on Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton as secretary of state, Mr. Biden, whose most recent Senate post was chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has privately told people that he recognizes he will not be the point man on foreign policy.
Poor Joe. He will have to fight for that remote too.
The only guy I feel more sorry for than Joe having nothing to do, is the Chief of Staff of The Guy With Nothing To Do.
Hey! Joe’s the Maytag Man! (He He)
Mr. Biden has also interviewed candidates for chief economist, and associates say he is honing his economic credentials.
Not unduly angry?
Aides say Mr. Biden and Mr. Obama sometimes rib each other in private meetings, and they maintain that Mr. Obama was not unduly angry at Mr. Biden for his gaffe predicting that Mr. Obama would be tested by a world crisis in his first six months in office.
So he was pissed, just not unduly. Ouch.
Since then, however, Mr. Biden has not had much to say to the news media.
Because they’re not asking him any questions.
Through a spokeswoman, he declined to be interviewed for this article, itself a break from his voluble past.
More wishful thinking from Roosh. Obama will have his problems, no doubt. Maybe they’ll come from Joe Biden, though not likely. Good to know, however, that on Thanksgiving your thoughts run to your disappointment over the recent election. And that you’re taking a moment to root against the new government of the United States.
AC: I don’t think anyone is rooting for the Obama Admin to fail. However, our skepticism is running high. When someone is ‘coronated,’ by a complicit media and a highly emotional and uniforrmed public, the conservative radar goes to DEFCON II. Barry and Joe could be harmless. They could also be radioactive.
Silly Stink. When liberals are president, standard is “if you’re not with us, you’re against us”.
Mitch, you’re cynicism meter is running a little too “hot.” We’re post-racial, post-modern, post-partisan now. NBC told me.
“Discrete assignments.” Lets see, I suppose Fidel Castro might pop off at any moment but the Pope and the Queen of England are in pretty good health. I don’t think there’s a need to gas up AF2 quite yet.
…your thoughts run to your disappointment over the recent election. And that you’re taking a moment to root against the new government of the United States.
Totally different from your thoughts of every moment of every day for the last eight years, eh hypocrite?
You gotta love an upside. This election pulled one partisan Democrat hack out of the Senate seat he’s been warming for years. Slow Joe went from a position of real power to complete insignificance, overnight. Now there’s something to be thankful for.
Oh, and Clownie, most of us on this side of the aisle are actively praying for Obama and our country. Can that be said of the opposition for the last 8 years?
Kermit, the other side was praying for eight years to Gaia, the goddess of the earth and the sky and the “essence.” They were praying for the cosmic equilibrium to provide them with a Messiah. Their prayers were answered. Small problem, though: Wrong god.
I don’t think there’s a need to gas up AF2 quite yet.
That’s a double entendre. Methinks there’s gas wherever the VP elect goes…just not the kind jets run on.
Amen Kermy.
1 Timothy 2:1-4 KJV
I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men; For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty. For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour; Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.
This does show how poor a VP pick Biden was.
He’s really good for nothing except to add a touch of Washington experience to the ticket. He can’t open his mouth without making a news-worthy gaffe. He delivers no demographic to the D side. Unlike Al Gore he is not considered a policy guy.
On the other hand he will stay out from underfoot.
See ya in four years, Joe.
He’s really good for nothing except to add a touch of Washington experience to the ticket.
So much for “Change”
On the other hand he will stay out from underfoot.
Only if kept under lock and key. Put him in front of a mic, his mouth opens, gaffe ensues.
Mitch,
So when you talk about the new administration (as Mr. Obama uses similar words this week) may I suggest the song by GreenDay “Favorite Son”. The beat is up tempo but I think there is a darker side to it. Maybe you have already but I might have missed it.
Stink: I’ll have you know that while I am sometimes “highly emotional,” I haven’t been uniformed since I was a Girl Scout.
Biden has foot-in-mouth disease like so many of those liberal illuminatis in Washington. He shouldn’t be allowed to get near a microphone because he’s such an embarrassment, never knowing what will come out of his mouth! What a poor choice of the Democrats! Be careful what you wish for–you may get it!
No, no, no, Angie. Permanently affix a microphone to the man. Let America see and hear the depth of this man’s void. If I were a Hollywood screenwriter and wanted to create a political character who was intellectually vacant, pompous, assuming, pretentious, vain and egomaniacal, I would model my character after Slow Joe. Hell, I would hire him as a consultant. Better yet, just write him into the script.
Big Stink said: “If I were a Hollywood screenwriter and wanted to create a political character who was intellectually vacant, pompous, assuming, pretentious, vain and egomaniacal, I would model my character after Slow Joe.”
You may have to rewrite your script to fit Shrub, Stink. (A hint: same qualities, only more stupidness.) Joe Biden’s got other work the next eight years.