Joe needs to go
Aug 17, 2012, 3:20 PM | Updated: 5:14 pm
Vice President Joe Biden tried to emphasize his point that Mitt Romney’s plan to “unchain Wall Street” would ultimately lead to the American people – or “ya’ll” as he colloquially put it – being “back in chains.” But there was a confused and befuddled reaction from the crowd of people who were white, Hispanic, and, yes, black. In fact, Danville, Virginia, where Biden was speaking is 48 percent black.
Ouch.
Joe Biden is like that weird uncle at the Thanksgiving table who tells off-putting and off-color jokes thinking he is hysterical and everyone “gets it.” Of course, all it really does is reinforce why the family only invites him to dinner once a year.
Biden is the Democratic Party’s embarrassing distraction. And he’s been one for too long.
In 2006, C-SPAN caught him remarking that “you cannot go to a 7 eleven or a Dunkin Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I’m not joking.” Flash-forward to 2008, when he asked wheel-chair bound Sen. Chuck Graham to stand up. And who could forget when he told CBS’s Katie Couric, “When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn’t just talk about the princes of greed.” Never mind the fact that the television wasn’t introduced to the American public until the 1940s, and FDR wasn’t president in 1929.
Biden’s never let the facts get in the way of him telling a good off-color story to the American people.
