by Mark Silva
Is there a limit to Joe Biden's jokes?
The president suggested so when he reportedly rebuked his vice president for a remark about presidential friend and adviser Valerie Jarrett.
And we wondered if Biden wasn't pressing his luck the other day when he whispered something about relaxing into the ear of the president's Supreme Court nominee, Judge Sonia Sotomayor, at the podium in the East Wing and then congratulated her afterward on her performance at the announcement: "Piece of cake,'' Biden told Sotomayor.
But now we're wondering about the phone call to follow on the report from our colleague, Johanna Neuman, at Top of the Ticket, about Biden's joke about the tumbling TelePrompTer at the Air Force Academy commencement today. This, for a president whose critics contend that he can't operate with that prompter -- an entire Web-site devoted to the alleged ruminations of the president's speechmaking aid, "because there is no POTUS without TOTUS.''
"Not content to leave without a jaunty ad lib,'' Neuman reports of the vice president's commencement address today, "Biden noted that heavy winds were gusting through the ceremonies. One of his two TelePrompTers had toppled over. Alluding to the jokes of Obama's reliance on the speech-facilitators, Biden added:''
"What I am going to tell the president when I tell him his TelePrompTer is broken. What will he do then?''
That's what we're wondering.
(Vice President Joe Biden pictured with a graduate of the Air Force Academy today. And Academy graduates celebrating as a team of F-16 Thunderbirds fllew over the graduation ceremony at Falcon Stadium in Colorado Springs, where Biden delivered the commencement speech and dropped a joke about the president on his way out. Photos by John Moore / Getty Images)
Comments
As long as the Republicon party is depending on crap like Teleprompters, Birth Certificates and Dijon Mustard as their strategy for a comeback they will continue being what they are now - a shrinking regional party (the south).
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http://voices.washingtonpost.com/thefix/parsing-the-polls/gallup-poll-gop-boat-springs-l.html
Posted by: Biff O'Reilly | May 27, 2009 5:15 PM
I would imagine Obama is devastated as the many layers of his veiled empty suit are being revealed....even by his oh so fooish, yet honest v.p. Way to go Joe.....you are only admitting what we already know... Obama is lost without his props and his peeps.
Posted by: sad sadie | May 27, 2009 6:02 PM
The Air Force Academy graduates have to be wondering, the Middies get BO, West Point gets Gates, and we get the Gaffe Machine.
Posted by: Terry | May 27, 2009 7:07 PM
They were thanking their lucky stars that Joe wasn't trying to pilot one of those F 16's.
Posted by: ornery | May 27, 2009 8:37 PM
I would imagine Obama is devastated as the many layers of his veiled empty suit are being revealed....even by his oh so fooish, yet honest v.p. Way to go Joe.....you are only admitting what we already know... Obama is lost without his props and his peeps.
Posted by: sad sadie | May 27, 2009 6:02 PM
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It must be fun to live in that land of unicorns and pixie dust that you Wingnut whackjobs live in now, huh?
Republicans less popular than Russia and Venezuela with Americans:
http://www.pufferfishblog.com/weblog/2009/04/republicans-less-popular-than-venezuela.html
Here's the clown that Republicans voted into office twice:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AioJbNL1JS8&feature=related
Posted by: Albert Heartbreaker | May 27, 2009 9:47 PM
Terry, it's just not their year. The prez rotates among the service academy graduations; the ones that don't get him get the VP or the SecDef. Probably the newly minted O-1's understand that.
Posted by: DaveB | May 28, 2009 9:53 AM
Dave,
Thanks. I knew that, but those Air Force folks got to be questioning their timing or probably wishing McCain had won.
Posted by: Terry | May 28, 2009 10:22 PM