Vice President Joe Biden, toughened by his years on the mean streets of Scranton and in the coal mines of Wilkes-Barre, went all Sir Robin on us:
Vice president Joe Biden said today he would tell his family members not to use subways in the U.S. and implied schools should be shuttered as the swine flu outbreak spread to 16 states. His remarks quickly caused a stir, drawing a rebuke from New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg and later leading the White House to apologize.
The uproar began when Biden appeared on NBC's "Today" show and said he would advise against riding the subway or taking commercial flights and implied schools should be shuttered amid confirmation of the first swine-flu relation death in the U.S.
The National Associaton of Prison Shower-Room Nancyboys released a statement in response, telling Biden to "quit being such a friggin' pansy".
Seriously - this could still mutate into a bad epidemic. The Spanish Flu of 1918 took one relatively mild pass through the population before it mutated into one of the worst plagues ever to hit mankind, 91 years ago, killing 50 million around the world including hundreds of thousands of Americans.
But we're not there yet, and we won't be for quite some time!
Biden must, indeed, be a living insurance policy on Obama's life.
The country’s in the very best of hands.
Who knew Sheriff Joe would turn out to be Deputy Fife?
Everyone.
It’s not like Peev or AC to miss a chance to prop up their jackass VP.
Maybe the Veep is being “tested”.
“You don’t mess with Joe.”
Scared kittens don’t whimper, they mewl.
Biden looked like a fool with his statements on the swine flu. But then so did some of the coverage from Fox news, like “is this the new black death”. I wouldn’t have thought Biden had all that serious an impact.
…….later leading the White House to apologize. I seem to remember PBO saying something to the effect of “that’s just Joe”. Biden is little more than a buffoon.
“The National Associaton of Prison Shower-Room Nancyboys released a statement in response, telling Biden to “quit being such a friggin’ pansy”.”
That’s good, very good!!
Defend, Badda? I guess you think Angryclown is a mindless partisan like all you wacky Mitchketeers. Angryclown thinks Biden has proved to be Obama’s Dan Quayle and should be dumped, as quietly as possible, when Obama runs for reelection. Biden’s foreign policy experience does little to balance the fact that he says or does something goofy every week or so. And in four years, you kooks won’t be able to pin the “no experience” criticism on the president. Angryclown predicts Obama-Clinton in ’12.
angryclown said:
“Angryclown thinks Biden has proved to be Obama’s Dan Quayle and should be dumped, as quietly as possible, when Obama runs for reelection”
And that the decision to have Biden as a running mate should not reflect poorly on Obama, I’m sure. Funny stuff, angryclown!
“And in four years, you kooks won’t be able to pin the “no experience” criticism on the president. Angryclown predicts Obama-Clinton in ‘12”
Well, everyone will know exactly what kind of experience his leadership provided after those four years, so I guess we’ll have to see. If the last 100 days are anything like the first it may go poorly since “it’s all Bushes fault” will probably only work on a very small group of people. *shrug*
“Biden looked like a fool with his statements on the swine flu. But then so did some of the coverage from Fox news, like “is this the new black death”.”
Oh please, can’t you hide your left-wing liberalism for just one post, Dog Gone?
If the Vice President of the United States of America comes out and describes this Swine Flu as something similar to the plague… what do you want fox news to report?
Speaking of Black death and swine flu… did you hear the one… (I’ll spell flu wrong just so AssClown gets the joke.)
Some said we wouldn’t see a black President until pigs fly…
…and now we have the Swine Flew.