Free Joe Biden

Since the election there have been more sightings of Elvis than of Joe Biden. I expect to see his picture on a milk carton any day now. Could it be that
the Obama team is worried about what his next gaffe will be?

Biden was added to the ticket to compensate for Obama’s lack of foreign policy experience. Then he came out with his prognostication that Obama would be tested in his first six months in office by some provocative international incident. We haven’t heard from him since.

In 1988 Texas Governor Anne Richards got tons of press for her quip about Bush the Elder: “Poor George, he was born with a silver foot in his mouth.”
George was Shakespeare compared to Joe.

My favorite was the one intended to criticize W for not acting more quickly to calm the financial crisis. Joe informed us that, when the market crashed in 1929, President Roosevelt went on TV to restore the confidence of the American people. Of course, not only was Roosevelt not elected until 1932, but American households did not begin to get TV until after WWII.

Can you imagine the media frenzy if Sarah Palin had said that?

There’s an old story about a woman who had two sons. One went off to sea and the other became Vice-president: neither was ever heard from again.

The working man’s friend did make the news for renting a $4 million house on Nantucket for Thanksgiving. Sooner or later it will be announced that the VP Elect is heading up some special project of little consequence. In the meantime I’m selling bumper stickers. FREE JOE BIDEN.