Joe Biden update: Obama found VP's effing gaffe hilarious highlight of historic day

Quick update tonight on Joe Effing Big Deal Biden's effing gaffe at Tuesday's historic healthcare bill signing.

According to the Vice President of the United States, getting caught saying the F-bomb in the White House on a live mic on national TV was very funny. (See video below.)

According to the vice president, President Obama agreed the cursing was not only funny but was the historic day's highlight. Biden said the president was even memorializing the moment with a T-shirt bearing the funny F-phrase.

According to the vice president, during Wednesday morning's presidential briefing, the president said, "You know what the best thing about yesterday was? Joe’s comment." (Laughter.)

Biden shared the hilarious incident Wednesday night during a $2,500 per plate Democratic fundraising dinner in the home of developer David Cordish near Baltimore. Biden reaped additional laughter about the presidential laughter.

Biden said he told the leader of the free world, "If you thought it was so good, why didn't you say it?" (Laughter.)

In related news about healthcare, the man who was riding trains to work in the Senate when the president was still in sixth grade admitted to about five dozen donors that 2010 was shaping up as a pretty unhealthy year for Democrat politicians. Biden predicted "losses" in November's midterm elections, which he said he wouldn't specify due to the presence of a pool reporter..

Here's the vice president's political analysis:

Barack generated such an overwhelming turnout and enthusiasm (in 2008), that we had the biggest turnout in history. It was gigantic. And a lot of really good Democrats got washed up on shore and all of a sudden were Congressmen, in districts that Democrats have no business having Congressmen.

I'm not here to tell you we're gaining seats. But I'm telling you, we're going to go into the second half of our administration, with a solid Democratic majority in the House and the Senate, and with the wind at our backs.

So, now all those Democratic members of Congress who washed up on Capitol Hill with the Obama-Biden administration and don't really belong there can spend the next 7+ months wondering if they're the sure November losers Biden had in mind tonight. (Laughter.)

-- Andrew Malcolm

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Photo: Pete Souza / White House

Comments

[Top Grade]

According to the vice president, President Obama agreed the cursing was not only funny but was the historic day's highlight. Biden said the president was even memorializing the moment with a T-shirt bearing the funny F-phrase.
it is really a insult of our nation and our nation's pride.

[Barbarian]

Nice Hussein. Nice.

[molarmauler]

Hey, can you mention a couple of more times how funny and hilarious it was? It's funny and hilarious how many times the words funny and hilarious aappear in this funny and hilarious article (laughter) (more laughter). It's historic!

(AM responds: Funny and hilarious. Funny and hilarious. Also historic. Customer is always right.)

[Jimbo]

A class act.

[Jan Lee]

We thought the Clintons were trash, but this administration resides in the sewer.

[Chuck]

This entire legislation is an insult to our nation and our nations pride.

[America]

What a disgusting display.

[donabernathy]

That's some Class

[arnonerik]

It was a big f_____ deal! It was the American people who got f_____.

[Locked and Loaded]

I have to look at this as a Christian. Barack Obama confesses to be a follower of Jesus Christ, as well.

Now, perhaps anyone, even any Christian, is likely to use such a word, but would a person who is really trying to follow Christ admit publicly that they think it is funny? No. If I was caught, I would be embarrassed, ashamed, and apologetic.

As instructed, I am only judging this with the same measure with which I would be judged.

[Kala]

The real F Bomb was the one the Democrats dropped on the American People with this healthcare bill which they have exempted themselves from being a part.

[SW Phillips]

Right up there with "The only thing we have to fear is F'ng fear itself", or "Four score and seven F'ng years ago".

Stay classy, Libs.

[karela]

A sense of humor is a good thing. Lots of people will be getting BFD t-shirts. It's gone viral and will likely be a new addition to the language. Why not? It expresses a positive concept and it doesn't hurt anybody. It is a BFD that 40,000 Americans won't die every year from lack of health insurance. And in my little life, it is a BFD that the sun is shining on a lovely spring day after a long cold winter! Happy Spring!

[Thoughts...]

really classy for our VP...

It's not going to be quite so cute when employment remains at 10% and full unemployment (and underemployment) hovers at 20% perpetually because this new healthcare bill is crushing to the private sector...maybe we should all just work for the government? They pay better than the private sector by some 30% (see USA Today). I think I might run for congress on the premise that 100% of Americans should work for the Government...I'm not going to worry about where the money is going to come from...why should that be a concern?

[Doug]

Far better to hear that word used as an adjective in celebratory moment than the malicious way a certain Republican VP used it some years ago. Of course, Republicans weren't upset then ... Hypocrits. No wonder that keep losing, losing, losing.

[Ashamed of them]

Stay classy Democrats....ugh.

[AZGranny]

It's disgusting that our President and Vice President have no sense of decorum, dignity or respect for the White House, our country and citizens. I'm weary of the frat house party mentality in the White House. Grow up please! I'm still waiting for Biden's apology. Apparently that will not be a happening thing since they thought his words were so profound.

[higgins]

This from the President who gave Hillary and McCain the middle finger. Geez, are their ANY adults in the White House?

[Stan Green]

Maybe Biden's remark was appropriate, considering what they did to Americans and America with this bit of legislative rape. Their vulgarity isn't confined to their words.

[Janet]

I heard that the FCC penalizes anyone using foul language on any of the channels that it regulates which includes NBC, CBS, ABC, etc....I guess no one has looked into suing his filthy hide for degrading the office of vice presidency even further into the mire.....Have these people absolutely so shame at all???? Not only have they destroyed the country with this monstrous bill they rub the american people's noses in it by saying, in essence, we beat you, you effing retards.....Learn to live with it...

[MKS]

Vice President Biden curses.

President Obama laughs.

American tax-paying workers bleed, sweat, and weep.

Many pray.

Some vote.

Let's repeal this thing - all at once - or take it apart piece by piece, and replace it with a common-sense, free-market reform such as HR3400 sponsored by representative Tom Price (R). Then let's dismantle the debt-laden entitlement culture using a plan like representative Paul Ryan's (R) approach.

Don't get mad; get even. No violence, no petty threats, no epithets. Let's use the next few election cycles to consign Democrats to history, like the Whig and Know-Nothing parties. Let them try working real jobs for a while! Then, several years from now, we can iron out our other differences, when we give the country a solid choice among the Republican, Libertarian, and Constitutional parties.

[PD Quig]

The funniest thing about the day was that the “effing” electorate that put these totalitarian jack@sses in office is learning the price of voter folly, petulance, and inattention to details. Good. Now maybe they’ll be paying attention this November unlike 2006 and 2008.

It turns out there is more than “a dime’s worth of difference” between the two parties. The GOP certainly blew from 2002 to 2006, but now we can see just how off the charts radical the Democrat party is. Are you awake yet, America? Have you got a pulse, or are you still watching American Idle (pun intended)?

[Joy`]

You got to love the Vice President using the F word.
After watching him for years and years, I never knew he would
say such things. But I used that word for thirty years in corporate America...it gets the attention when needed.