Your Joe Biden quip of the day, in front of the new drug czar
"Thank you, thank you; please sit down. I'm only the vice president," VPOTUS quipped, after the crowd stood to welcome him in Washington today.
According to the pool report, after Vice President Joe Biden's joke, the crowd laughed.
The amused audience was there to witness the announcement of Gil Kerlikowske, the Seattle police chief, as the Obama administration's new drug czar, an announcement previewed here in The Ticket a full month ago.
We have a Ticket news video below showing Biden actually pronouncing the chief's properly.
Today's audience included LAPD Chief William Bratton; Cabell Cropper, executive director of the National Criminal Justice Assn.; Ray Kelly, commissioner of the New York Police Department; Cathy Lanier, chief of the Metropolitan D.C. Police Department; Mary Lou Leary, executive director of the National Center for Victims of Crime; Alfonso Lenhardt, president and CEO of the National Crime Prevention Council; and Thomas Manger, chief of police of the Montgomery County Police Department.
-- Tony Pierce
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Photo: Chris Kleponisi / AFP/Getty Images
Biden isn't trying to make them laugh. he is crazy as a lune. But he and the porkmaster are laughing as they mortgage your children's future with your electoral consent.
Stupid is as stupid does . . .
Posted by: Larry | March 11, 2009 at 04:58 PM
Obama and Biden have done more in office than Bush did in 8 years! And what they are doing is positive, in the move towards advancement.
Posted by: Kate | March 11, 2009 at 08:16 PM
Oh, yes, we are advancing every day, can't you tell? Got really far since Jan. 20! We have president that can speak in complete sentences (if it is on teleprompter, of course)- now if only he'd learn how many states there are in US. And a vice-clown who more often than not put his foot is his mouth. What a fabulous army of tale-spinners and tax evaders is leading us--- someplace, I guess--- does it feel like FORWARD to anyone?
Posted by: moving | March 12, 2009 at 08:23 AM
Here's a new idea: How about they fix it so only the children and grandchildren of the folks who stand to benefit from the porkulous plan are the ones who have to pay it back???
Posted by: ExDemocrat | March 12, 2009 at 10:08 AM
A sinister buffoon is what Biden comes accross to me.Has there been just one function where he was given the mike and did not put his foot in his mouth?The
bum is snaffu prone and should be denounced as the suppository of the big labour union bosses.
Posted by: Girl with the bushy armpits | March 13, 2009 at 03:21 PM