Top Ten Reasons John Ensign Should Resign
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Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
between Obama's gaffes and Biden's daily blunders, Palin is starting to look like Einstein.
Lol, no. Way.
Not a bit of it.:The laughing Chrisisall
Try these on for size.....
Here's a list of 14 amusing yet cringe-worthy "Bidenisms" made during the vice president's more recent political career.
-- On March 13, 2009, Biden addressed a former Senate colleague by saying, "An hour late, oh give me a f**king break," after he arrived on Amtrak at Union Station in Washington, D.C. The vice president's expletive was caught on a live microphone.
-- During a Feb. 25, 2009, interview on CBS' "Early Show," Biden encouraged viewers to visit a government-run Web site that tracks stimulus spending. When asked for the site's web address, Biden could not remember the site's "number."
"You know, I'm embarrassed. Do you know the Web site number?" he asked an aide standing out of view. "I should have it in front of me and I don't. I'm actually embarrassed."
-- At a Jan. 30, 2009, swearing-in ceremony of senior White House staff, Biden mocked Chief Justice John Roberts for his presidential oath blunder on Inauguration Day.
"Am I doing this again?" Biden said, after Obama asked him to administer the oath. When Biden was told the swearing-in was for senior staff -- and not cabinet members -- the vice president quipped, "My memory is not as good as Justice Roberts," prompting a stern nudge from Obama.
-- On Inauguration Day, Jan. 20 2009, Biden misspoke when he told a cheering crowd of supporters, "Jill and I had the great honor of standing on that stage, looking across at one of the great justices, Justice Stewart." Justice John Paul Stevens -- not Stewart -- swore Biden in as vice president.
-- When criticizing former GOP nominee John McCain in Athens, Ohio, on Oct. 15, 2008, Biden said, "Look, John's last-minute economic plan does nothing to tackle the number-one job facing the middle class, and it happens to be, as Barack says, a three-letter word: jobs. J-O-B-S, jobs."
-- In a Sept. 22, 2008, CBS interview, Biden misspoke when he said Franklin D. Roosevelt was president when the stock market crashed in 1929.
"When the stock market crashed, Franklin D. Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the, you know, the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened," he said. Herbert Hoover -- not Roosevelt -- was president in 1929, and television had not yet been invented in 1929.
-- During a Sept. 12, 2008, speech in Columbia, Mo., Biden called for Missouri State Sen. Chuck Graham, who is wheelchair-bound, to "stand up."
"Oh, God love ya," Biden said, after realizing his mistake. "What am I talking about?"
-- At a Sept. 10, 2008, town hall meeting in Nashua, N.H., Biden said, "Hillary Clinton is as qualified or more qualified than I am to be vice president of the United States of America. Quite frankly, it might have been a better pick than me."
-- Biden mistakenly referred to Alaska governor Sarah Palin as the "lieutenant governor" of her state during a town hall meeting on Sept. 4, 2008 at George Mason University in Manassas, Va.
"I heard a very, by the way I mean this sincerely, a very strong and a very good political speech from a lieutenant governor of Alaska who I think is going to be very formidable, very formidable not only in the campaign but in the debate," Biden said.
-- Biden said he was running for president -- not vice president -- during a Sept. 1, 2008, roundtable discussion in Scranton, Pa.
"Today is the moment for me as a United States senator running for president to put aside the national politics and focus on what's happening down there," Biden said.
-- Biden referred to John McCain as "George" during his vice presidential acceptance speech on Aug. 27, 2008, at the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Co. "Freudian slip, folks, Freudian slip," he explained.
-- Biden confused army brigades with battalions when speaking about Obama's p
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I can forgive constant misspeak if I can follow what the person means and they actually KNOW what they mean...
Bunch of funny, eye roll worthy ones in there though. :)
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Quote:NONE of that paints him as stupid as that prank call paints Palin, sorry.
Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
Biden, a likeable nice guy, is a first class nincompoop.
The laughing Chrisisall
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Frem: Had to actually look that up.
Well... It does pretty much sound like my perspective, yeah. I put a lot of focus on the community, in how everyone has some intrinsic worth, and how people do better both progressively and emotionally when they help each other, as opposed to isolationism. I like the idea of breaking down the walls between people. I think measurements of economic worth (class and hierarchy) are just another means of dividing one person from another, and that hurts everybody, because that breeds desensitization, a lack of empathy, and crime. It enables corruption.
But I'm not sure how far you can go making private property community owned. On one hand even though private property and materialism can be a motivating factor for progress, it's an empty one. On the other, you start taking about forcibly taking from people because they should SHARE it, and you start treading dangerous ground.
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On the other, you start taking about forcibly taking from people because they should SHARE it, and you start treading dangerous ground.
NOBODY but me owns MY phaser!!!!
They'll take it from my cold, dead hand!
The laughing Chrisisall
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And I guess to be fair, Letterman doesn't write his monologues.....but he does approve/axe them.
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Originally posted by chrisisall:
NOBODY but me owns MY phaser!!!!
They'll take it from my cold, dead hand!
Heston was a conservative. A bad-ass gut toting conservative.
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Or your warm living one.
*space time continuum'd!*
Where's your fancy not-yet invented weaponry NOW?
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Originally posted by OPPYH:
Heston was a conservative. A bad-ass gut toting conservative.
I thought he was quite slim.
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Quote:*Just exiting his Delorean*
Originally posted by Bytemite:
Or your warm living one.
*space time continuum'd!*
Where's your fancy not-yet invented weaponry NOW?
Back with me.
The laughing Chrisisall
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