Senator Joe Biden attempts to penetrate the fog that is AG Michael Mukasey on 9 July 2008:
You know us. We don't do cheerleading at the POGGE Institute, and there is undoubtedly a lot of stuff about Joe Biden that is eventually going to trouble us. He isn't Wesley Clark, eg, which is sort of a shame. But he is another one of those guys who make you think, gee, he could have been a Canadian, if only ... Well, isn't he? I think so.
Y'know, if Obama's strategerists are smart, they will figure out a way for Obama to introduce Biden somewhere as an "articulate and bright and clean and ... nice-looking guy" -- which would be about the best way to laugh off (and therefore defuse) that disastrously unthinking comment that fell out of Biden's mouth last year.
And besides, Biden is cute. C'mon, that is not a superficial comment. That is a judgement delivered by a member of a highly valued demographic group -- ie, mine, which also happens to be Hillary's. In other words, aging women, many of whom Democrats feared might drift away in anger and disappointment after Hillary withdrew from the race.
Nonsense. If you're a girl over fifty, you know that Biden is cute. I mean, look at those French cuffs! How can you resist?
"I coulda had class. I coulda been a Canadian. I coulda been somebody, instead of a bum..."
Hmmm. Not bad.
As for the French cuffs, that's all very well, but in at least one photo I've seen, his jacket sleeves are noticeably too short, so I expect he'll be getting advice on that.
What can I tell ya? I coulda wrote the book on superficial, if only...
Just keep Biden away from Indian restaurants.
Oh, dear. Oh, urgh. It does sound as though our Joe needs some re-edumacation on the I-am-an-overprivileged-and-mindlessly-entitled-white-guy front, don't it?
One flop is maybe a mistake, but more than that means that work is needed. Quickly.
Biden's remark to Mikey Mukluk on his floating in the ether above the DOJ is beyond priceless (finally made it to the comments over here, skdadl, from our chats @ emptywheel).
Greatly looking forward to yr. GTMO post a bit later...
Hello, Marie, and welcome to our curious abode.
I don't know whether you noticed, but pogge hisself scared the life outta me today by suddenly turning up in one of bmaz's threads. Oh, drat. Now I have to be on my best behaviour everywhere! ;-)
You know how it hits you every once in a while -- OMG! This is going public!
The GTMO series may follow a time-honoured POGGE tradition in being delayed until tomorrow morning. skdadl is still trying to figure out how to illustrate evil psychologists.
Yup, did notice the pogge one over @ ew earlier today. Frisson of the boss suddenly lurking around, or has pogge been lurking for a while?
And whenever the GTMO post makes its appearance, I'll be back over here to appreciate the skewering of, um, some evil psychologists.
has pogge been lurking for a while?
With Ian doing so much of his blogging there and skdadl spending so much time there, I've been looking in to see what's going on. It's certainly a going and growing concern.
I only speak for myself, of course & always, but please post much more @ ew, & fdl.