Vice President Joe Biden speaks to Bellevue Elementary School students Sunday in Syracuse, N.Y. (Photo by Michelle Gabel/The Post-Standard)
By Rebecca Cole
At the White House Correspondents' dinner over the weekend, President Barack Obama promised to get off the TelePrompTer...and put Vice President Joe Biden on it.
Looks like that presidential directive lasted less than 24 hours. On Sunday, speaking to Bellevue Elementary School students in Syracuse, N.Y., where he attended law school 40 years ago, Biden dissed poor Bo, the Obama's fluffy purebred Portuguese water dog.
Asked by a youngster if he had ever petted a dog, Biden said yes and that his dog, Champ, was the "smartest, coolest dog in the world," according to a blog post at the Christian Science Monitor.
"My dog is smarter than Bo, his dog," Biden jabbed.
"I think so," he taunted. "Yeah, I do."
Seems like Biden really wanted those kids to get the point that Champ plays second-fiddle to no one (or to no dog).
Champ may or may not be smarter than Bo, but at least he can't talk.
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Comments
Both of their dogs are smarter than Bush is.
Posted by: DrainYou | May 11, 2009 4:29 PM
This is my favorite story of the day.
Posted by: Garfield | May 11, 2009 5:18 PM
They warned me that If I voted for McCain, America would have a moronic buffoon as Vice President--and they were right!
Posted by: HopeyChangey | May 11, 2009 7:14 PM
The Pres and the VP should just put Bush and Cheney on a lease as punishment for their law breaking and war crimes. They could serve as White House dogs for the next eight years.
Posted by: Goposaur | May 11, 2009 7:25 PM
This story is garbage. News media can't take a playful joke? Report some real news, thanks.
Posted by: jennie | May 11, 2009 8:21 PM
Down in Alassippi, men folk would sooner shoot you if you said something bad about their dogs than about their wives.
Joe's mouth is about the only thing I've ever seen that has a 30% rate of return--returned boomerangs.
Though it is in fact true that German Shepherds are the smartest breed.
In addition to being the Romeos of the dog kingdom.
Posted by: ornery | May 11, 2009 8:56 PM
I am well aware that I cannot trust democrats and their media co-sponsors to not spin the story for the advancement of their special propaganda agenda. So, I listened to the entire 15 mins and 14 secs of Joe Biden doing his thing, telling his stories of romance and intrigue. There were questions, finally, near the end.
Now, this group of Fourth and Fifth graders did not get the memo on the “torture” questions so that the morally righteous democrats, like God’s loyal servant, Job, would have the opportunity to expand on their so pious, so holy, attitude towards “torture”. There was no 'compare and contrast', no 'listen and learn', no 'learn and share' kind of opportunities. No questions about “Torture” as the memo group alledgedly did with Condeleeza Rice a week ago. I would naturally expect something more along the lines of: how do you like your room in the White House, do you like your dog and where does he sleep, which would you rather eat – broccoli or worms.
And here are the questions that they finally did get to ask: what is it like living in the WH, some sort of basketball question, another life in the WH question (kids weren’t paying attention), eventually the dog arrangement question, becoming a VP, and finally, ending with a young, future Republican asking the vice-president a question about his time in the “Legislative Branch”. But NO Questions to illustrate, yet again, the always righteous, always fair and always just, democrats standing before the entire world and denouncing “Torture”.
I invested 15 mins and 14 secs in this thing and sometimes you just can’t trust kids to just follow the damn script.
Posted by: Django - N Exile In/Around the 30th Parallel | May 11, 2009 9:20 PM
It's not just an insult to Bo. It's an insult to the office of First Dog!
See:
http://notionscapital.wordpress.com/2009/05/11/biden-insults-presidents-dog/
Posted by: Mike Licht | May 11, 2009 10:53 PM
am well aware that I cannot trust democrats and their media co-sponsors to not spin the story for the advancement of their special propaganda agenda.
Posted by: Django - N Exile In/Around the 30th Parallel | May 11, 2009 9:20 PM
***********
Tex,
Yeah, well you've been saying that you're going to leave for about three months now, so what are you waiting for?
Leave Already!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCLz7XQOIOQ
Posted by: Elephant Herder | May 11, 2009 11:24 PM
Such dissing is not uncommon; Rush Limbaugh once referred to Chelsea Clinton as the White House dog.
Posted by: Socks | May 12, 2009 9:47 AM
But Django you could have invested that 15 min. 14 sec. chasing latinas. Where is your judgment, you dog you?
Posted by: Flo | May 12, 2009 2:11 PM
I don't know, for the life of me, why the backfield--Condoleeeezzzzzzaaaa, Biden , et al.---are ever invited to a primary school or if invited would accept an invitation.
To read "My Pet Goat"?
Only appropriate invitees are the Prez and Michelle, or, come election time, Sarahhhh Palin, so the 3rd graders can ask her how to spell various vegetables.
Any backfielder who ventures into a primary school classroom deserves any question she gets.
Such as: did George W. share your fixation with stiletto Manolos?
Maybe that's what George Boy was daydreaming about on 9/11--not some of the hard words in "My Pet Goat" but how hot Condi looked in her new Manolos.........
Posted by: ornery | May 13, 2009 12:38 AM
"Bo Obama"? A dog doesn't have a human family name! Dog naming follows specific rules, here they are:
http://www.braquedubourbonnais.info/en/dog-name.htm
Posted by: Dog naming expert | December 18, 2009 10:14 AM