Biden, the human gaffe machine, chugs on

according to a new book by Richard Wolffe.
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From swearing-in to published book in 4 month? pull-easse

We all knew that Biden was picked for comedy relief.
 
The gift that keeps on giving ...

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White House Defends Biden as 'Asset' After Controversy Over Russia Remarks
Vice President Biden stirred controversy when he suggested that Russia would cooperate with the United States because the country is in a state of sharp decline.

FOXNews.com

Monday, July 27, 2009

White House Press Secretary Roberts Gibbs on Monday called Vice President Biden an "enormous asset (Mostly ass -- j) to the administration," insisting that the loose-lipped No. 2 is not a distraction even after the State Department had to walk back his thorny comments on Russia.

The vice president is known for his blunt, and sometimes off-color, commentary on issues ranging from swine flu to immigrants to President Obama's teleprompter. The latest surprise came when he suggested that Russia will cooperate with the United States on a range of issues because the country is a mess.

"I think we vastly underestimate the hand that we hold," Biden said during an interview with The Wall Street Journal at the end of his trip to Georgia and Ukraine. "Russia has to make some very difficult, calculated decisions. They have a shrinking population base, they have a withering economy, they have a banking sector and structure that is not likely to be able to withstand the next 15 years, they're in a situation where the world is changing before them and they're clinging to something in the past that is not sustainable."

This drew a swift rebuke from the Kremlin, as the Obama administration has repeatedly said it wants to "reset" relations with Russia. The two countries produced a string of agreements on nuclear stockpile reduction and other matters following Obama's recent trip to Moscow.

Sergei Prikhodko, an aide to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, was quoted in the Interfax news agency calling Biden's remarks perplexing.

"The U.S. vice president's intention to tie this serious work (on cutting nuclear weapons stockpiles) to economic reasons rather than to the responsibility that Russia and the U.S. bear to the international community are absolutely incomprehensible," he said.

Prikhodko acknowledged Russia's economic problems, but blamed them on "reckless" behavior by U.S. institutions.

Asked about Biden's remarks on NBC's "Meet the Press," Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Biden did not mean to suggest that the United States has the upper hand with Russia.

She called Russia a "great power" and said there is an "enormous amount" of work being done to strengthen their relationship.

"It takes time, it takes trust-building. And we want what the president called for during his recent Moscow summit. We want a strong, peaceful and prosperous Russia," she said Sunday.

She made clear that the United States has its terms. She said the administration will insist that Russia cannot have a "sphere of influence" in the former Soviet states in Eastern Europe.

"The Russians know that, you know, we have continuing questions about some of their policies, and they have continuing questions about some of ours," she said. But she praised Russia for its help in pressuring Iran and North Korea, and repeated that Russia and the United States are resetting their relationship.

Asked about the Biden remarks Monday morning, Gibbs neither supported nor rejected them.

He said both Obama and Biden believe better relations with Russia is in the national interest of both countries.

The issue came up again at the daily press briefing Monday afternoon. Gibbs dismissed talk that Biden was a distraction, saying the administration is "enormously helped" by his work in implementing the stimulus package and seeking reconciliation among factions in Iraq.
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He must have an impressively sized dick. How else would he continue step on it with such frightening frequency?

Updated May 25, 2010
Biden Says Brussels Could Be 'Capital of the Free World'

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It's not unheard of for Vice President Biden to get lost in the moment, but during a speech earlier this month to the European Parliament his flattery of the host may have gone a bit overboard, ceding Washington, D.C.'s role as the world's center of liberty.

The U.S. vice president, opening his address in Belgium, argued that Brussels -- considering its rich history and abundance of international institutions -- could well be the "capital of the free world."

He suggested that Washington, D.C., his home, is undeserving of that title -- notwithstanding its wealth of global organizations and the countless international summits that take place there.

"As you probably know, some American politicians and American journalists refer to Washington, D.C. as the 'capital of the free world,'" Biden said. "But it seems to me that in this great city, which boasts 1,000 years of history and which serves as the capital of Belgium, the home of the European Union, and the headquarters for NATO, this city has its own legitimate claim to that title."

Biden's trip to Europe in early May came in the immediate aftermath of the attempted Times Square bombing and his comings and goings were not widely reported. The above comment was made during his May 6 address to the European Parliament.


* List of Biden's Political Blunders

Biden used the speech to discuss tackling the threats of nuclear proliferation, climate change and international terrorism and stress the importance of the United States' alliance with Europe.

"We need each other more now than we have ever," Biden said.

Biden said he was "particularly honored" to address the body, "as a lawmaker for more than 36 years in our parliament."
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He's right. With the Obama/Biden anti-American team in charge, DC is NOT the powerhouse it could be.
 
The gift that keeps on giving, and giving, and giving, and ...

Biden got miffed at a custard shop manager's comment about lowering taxes. He says he was just kidding but his history belies that.

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'Smartass' After Taxes Comment

Published June 27, 2010 | FOXNews.com

Vice President Biden called the manager of a custard shop outside of Milwaukee, Wis., a "smartass" after the man asked him to lower taxes.

Biden made the comment Friday after the Kopp’s Frozen Custard shop manager told him that his dessert would be on the house if he lowered taxes.

"What do we owe you?" Biden is heard saying in footage captured by WISN-TV.

"Don’t worry, it’s on us," the manager replied. "Lower our taxes and we’ll call it [the custard] even."

"Why don’t you say something nice instead of being a smartass all the time?" Biden said a few minutes later.

Biden had walked in to Kopp’s mistakenly asking for ice cream instead of custard.

The manager said later in an interview with WISN that he thought Biden didn’t seem happy initially about the taxes comment, but that the vice president later whispered that he was just kidding.

Biden was in Wisconsin to hit the campaign trail with Democratic Senator Russ Feingold. Just days earlier, the vice president told a crowd of Feingold’s supporters gathered at a fund-raising event that "there’s no possibility to restore the 8 million jobs lost in the Great Recession."

He then added that he and the current administration "inherited a god-awful mess."

After he wraps up his time with Feingold, Biden will visit the Gulf Coast on Tuesday to survey the damage caused by the BP oil spill.
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Those crazed sex poodles run amok again?



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Here he goes again.

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October 22, 2010, 3:07 pm
$200 Billion in Ads, Mr. Biden? That’s Real Money
By MICHAEL D. SHEAR

Conservative groups have not dumped $200 billion in political ads on the heads of Democratic candidates.

It evidently just feels that way to the White House.

In an interview with Al Hunt of Bloomberg News scheduled to be shown Friday night, Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. commented on the need for disclosure when corporate interests contribute to political groups.

“I was amazed at the amount of money, this $200 billion of money that is — where there’s no accountability,” he said. “When I say accountability, we don’t know where it’s coming from. There’s no disclosure, so the folks watching the ad can’t make a judgment based upon motive when you say it’s paid for by so-and-so.”

Mr. Biden clearly meant “million” with an “M,” not “billion” with a “B.”

But his tongue slipped again a moment later. “So it really — I’ve never seen this before, so the only caveat I’d put in terms of the House is how much impact this $200 billion are going to mean.”

Mr. Biden was elected to the United States Senate, representing Delaware, a few years after the departure of Everett Dirksen, the Republican Senate minority leader for more than a decade, who died in 1969. It was Mr. Dirksen, from Illinois, who once said, “A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon, you’re talking real money.”
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He's at it again.

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VIDEO: Biden Caught in Armenian Genocide Gaffe

When speaking with a young Armenian-American, Vice President Joe Biden claimed: "Tell them that it was the Armenian President that called me and said "Look, do not force this issue now while we are in negotiations. We passed. That's passed right now, so anyway, reality has a way of intruding."

The comment has caused an uproar in Armenia. The President of Armenia has flatly denied he ever made this statement to the Vice President and has asked the White House to release the phone records.

Now, the Vice President must either admit he was lying on the video, or he must say that our ally, the President of Armenia, is lying. Remember when the Obama Administration was going to elevate America's standing in the world?
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Oh, God, he's done it again.

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Swear-in switcheroo
Biden can't tell left from right for Kirk oath of office

By Katherine Skiba, Tribune reporter

6:31 p.m. CST, November 30, 2010

WASHINGTON — Joe Biden, the gaffe-prone vice president, strayed from tradition Monday at the swearing-in of Republican Mark Kirk, the new senator from Illinois.

Biden, who is president of the Senate, began by instructing Kirk: "Please place your right hand on the Bible."

Kirk, a Republican, did as instructed, putting his right hand on the Good Book and raising his left.

Oops. Here's guidance from "Traditions of the United States Senate," by Richard Baker, the Senate historian from 1975 to 2009: "Senators-elect affirm their oath to defend the U.S. Constitution by stepping forward, raising their right hand, and repeating the words spoken by the presiding officer. Some carry in their left hand a personal Bible or other sacred text."

Elizabeth Alexander, Biden's spokeswoman, said Tuesday there's no do-over in the works. "We've checked with the Senate parliamentarian, and he's told us that whether Senator Kirk held up his left or right hand is of no consequence and has no bearing on his status as a sitting senator," she said.

Sitting Senate historian Donald Ritchie, told of the incident, said it brought to mind Chief Justice John Roberts getting the words wrong when administering the oath of office to President Barack Obama.

"People make mistakes," Ritchie shrugged. Still, he agreed Monday's miscue is inconsequential.

"The importance of the oath is that you agree with the oath, not that you raise a particular hand or you hold a particular Bible," he said. "All are completely secondary to your commitment to upholding the Constitution and supporting the United States."

Kirk's swearing-in was re-enacted immediately afterward in the ornate Old Senate Chamber, where still cameras are allowed (unlike on the Senate floor, where the oath was recorded on video). Kirk, on his second try, got it right. (Sounds like a do-over to me. -- j)

His office did not immediately respond to questions about the flub.
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At it again ...

I think that Franken once got a traffic ticket so that makes him a legal scholar.

Biden: Al Franken is a 'leading legal scholar'

byJoel Gehrke Commentary Staff Writer

Vice President Joe Biden described former Saturday Night Live comedian, Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., as a "leading legal scholar," presumably in the Senate, today.

"He has been one of the leading legal scholars," Biden said of Franken today, according to the pool report. He also said that Franken "is deadly serious" as a senator. He made the comments while recalling concerns that then-candidate Franken could not be taken seriously as a Senate candidate given his SNL work.

Franken's comedic spirit got him in trouble on Washington. "This isn't ‘Saturday Night Live,’ Al," Minority Leader Mitch McConnell had to remind the freshman senator after Franken made faces while McConnell spoke during the Supreme Court nomination process for Elena Kagan.

(Nothing like being publicly scolded by the chairman of the committee. -- j)

Kagan is now regarded as an able defender of Obamacare, which could be struck after oral arguments last month seemed to indicate that five of the nine justices regard it as unconstitutional.
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He's at it again. He would be funny if he weren't so tragicomic.

This time he called Mitt Romney "President Romney" and then called his boss "President Clinton."

There are videos at the source.

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(Jonathon M. Seidl) It’s almost become expected at this point. In the nearly four years he’s been in office, Vice President Joe Biden has awed the country with his gaffes (see here, here, and here, just to name a few). And on Sunday, he struck again.

During an interview with David Gregory on “Meet The Press,” Biden’s mind seemed otherwise occupied when it came to consistently and correctly referring to who he was talking about. For example, at one point, and much to the joy of Republicans, he referred to Mitt Romney as “President Romney.” But as if that wasn’t embarrassing enough, he couldn‘t seem to keep his own boss’s name straight: he also referred to Barack Obama as “President Clinton.” The Washington Free Beacon noticed it all:

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Well, he's at it again. Funny how the truth comes out when you least expect it. :bgtup:

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Biden: 'There's Never Been A Day In The Last Four Years I've Been Proud To Be His Vice President'

1:37 PM, Nov 2, 2012 • By DANIEL HALPER


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Joe Biden, at a campaign event today said, "There's never been a day in the last four years I've been proud to be his vice president."
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There is a video of this that will make you grin like -- well -- Joe Biden.

VIDEO LINK

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