Oh boy "Bumblin Joe"

We will see the vice president of the United States.

For some reason, for at least the past 30 years, we usually make fun of the VP no matter who he is and for which party. Mr. Biden was a key member of the Senate who was a favorite of talk shows and journalists. Then, about 2 seconds after he became VP, he was "bumblin' joe." Nice though that NH is important in this election.

Cindy, that's a great point. Can anyone name the last Veep who doubled as a really cool guy that everyone loved? On that note, this is a fun Facebook page, all about "Being No. 2!" http://www.facebook.com/pages/VicePresidents/158440157524387

The way the World is right now humor seems less important. The best question which no one will print the answer to is; why was Joe selected as the vice Presidential running mate?

Talk about role reversal! Age has a sad affect on people. Joe should retire before he uses up any dignity he has left.

Patriot,
Come on now. Seriously? A member of the party of Dick Cheney
Attacking Vice President Joe Biden based on his age? Care to
give any examples of his growing senility? I didn't think so.
.www.whitehouse.gov/administration/vice-president-biden -

"I wouldn't go anywhere in confined places now. … When one person sneezes it goes all the way through the aircraft. That's me. I would not be, at this point, if they had another way of transportation, suggesting they ride the subway." --Joe Biden

"His mom lived in Long Island for ten years or so. God rest her soul. And- although, she's- wait- your mom's still- your mom's still alive. Your dad passed. God bless her soul." --Joe Biden, on the mother of Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen, who is very much alive, Washington, D.C., March 17, 2010

"You know, I'm embarrassed. Do you know the Web site number? I should have it in front of me and I don't. I'm actually embarrassed." –Joe Biden, speaking to an aide standing out of view during an interview on CBS' "Early Show," in the midst of encouraging viewers to visit a government-run Web site that tracks stimulus spending

"Am I doing this again? For the senior staff? My memory is not as good as Chief Justice Roberts'." --Joe Biden, mocking Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts' botched effort to swear in Barack Obama as Biden was set to swear in White House senior staff one day after the Inauguration snafu, Washington, D.C., Jan. 21, 2009

"Jill and I had the great honor of standing on that stage, looking across at one of the great justices, Justice Stewart." –Joe Biden, mistakenly referring to Justice John Paul Stevens, who swore him in as vice president, Washington, D.C., Jan. 20, 2009

"Look, John's last-minute economic plan does nothing to tackle the number-one job facing the middle class, and it happens to be, as Barack says, a three-letter word: jobs. J-O-B-S, jobs." --Joe Biden

"When the stock market crashed, Franklin D. Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the, you know, the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened." –Joe Biden, apparently unaware that FDR wasn't president when the stock market crashed in 1929 and that only experimental TV sets were in use at that time

"Stand up, Chuck, let 'em see ya." –-Joe Biden, to Missouri state Sen. Chuck Graham, who is in a wheelchair

"A man I'm proud to call my friend. A man who will be the next President of the United States — Barack America!" --Joe Biden, at his first campaign rally with Barack Obama after being announced as his running mate,

"You cannot go to a 7-11 or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent.... I'm not joking." --Joe Biden

"Hillary Clinton is as qualified or more qualified than I am to be vice president of the United States of America. Quite frankly, it might have been a better pick than me." --Joe Biden, speaking at a town hall meeting in Nashua, New Hampshire

This is why they send him to New Hampshire! Goes to show you what they think the average IQ is.

13 consecutive posts from Patriot alone. How's that for meaningful dialogue? (I am thankful for such a good example of why not to waste time on such folks, though.)

@Patriot. It matters not if you are quoting someone, profanity is against our Terms of Use http://merrimack.patch.com/terms. Please refrain from its use on our sites in the future. Thank you.

My apology to you Carolyn and everyone that reads Patch. I was so enjoying the comments made by the Vice President I missed an opportunity to edit his remark. I will try and be more careful in the future.

LJoel Hackbart

10:19 am on Monday, April 9, 2012

Patriot,
Come on now. Seriously? A member of the party of Dick Cheney
Attacking Vice President Joe Biden based on his age? Care to
give any examples of his growing senility? I didn't think so.

Patriot--- How you feeling these days about that Iraq war Dick Chaney ordered. How about that major blunder ?

Kate, sorry for disturbing you with my response to LJoel Hackbart. There had been a question and instead of me writing why I think Joe should bow out I would let the readers remember some of Joe's great contributions to humor. I did not want to misrepresent his statements as is so often done by critics. You noted 13 consecutive quotes, the list kept going. Maybe this was President Obama's way of showing the world how silly some in the legislature are.

Is Joe going to meet with OWS? Joe is full of you know what and the Occupoopers do you know what. Match made in heaven.

Patriot,
No. They seem that way to you because you want them to seem that way to you.
Being prone to slips of tongue has nothing to do with strong beliefs and making
the tough calls a president has to make.
Joe Biden- Please keep up the good work.

Being prone to slips of the to the tongue has everything to do pressure. Some people can only juggle a few issues in their mind at once before they get them confused.
I love it when people play "good cop, Bad cop," Obama Plays "smart guy, Dumb guy."
Joe makes a great bar room buddy, always with a great story. Not sure that mind set is helpful while negotiating arms reduction.

Thanks for clearing that up for me. I thought Bush made his nightmarish
bad decisions because he listened to Cheney and Rove. I thought he had
a fundamentally bad world view. I thought he was incompetent. Now I know
his failed presidency, along with his gaffes, were merely due to pressure.
I feel so enlightened!

Come on Ljoel, you forgot to add the democratic participation on your crib sheet. President Bush was under a great deal of pressure. I would like to think it took all the energy he had to keep from nuking those he thought responsible for attacking this country.
I will take Vice President Cheney over rev. Wright! God Bless

I will take Vice President Cheney over rev. Wright!"
Another Sean Hannity talking point disciple are you? I'm really sorry that
you said that.

www.cbsnews.com/2100-250_162-5152619.html
www.businesspundit.com/the-25-most-vicious-iraq-war-profiteers/
www.commondreams.org/views05/1117-22.htm
www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/2009/05/the_truth_about/
www.salon.com/2009/05/18/torture_25/
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLb3vENE4Tw

I loved reading some of the material from your sites. If you think that just because one gets elected that entitles them to top secret material, your wrong. What the Bush administration did right after 911 was no different than any president would have if attacked. The fact that newly elected officials from the opposing party would play monday morning quarterback is no surprise. If what was being done was so egregious why was this printed at the bottom of your first site?
"In a separate but related move, House Democrats are pressing for legislation that would expand congressional access to secret intelligence briefings. The Obama administration has threatened to veto it over concerns about protecting secrecy."
www.cbsnews.com/2100-250_162-5152619.html

Halliburton has been a target for a long time. Lets get down to the dirty fact that companies that don't turn a profit go out of business. Sad but true! Usually one hires a firm based on their knowledge, not always smart to hire a firm that has no connection to the targeted project.

www.commondreams.org/views05/1117-22.htm
This site was my favorite, how did you find it?
Our community.
We are writers. Activists. Everyday citizens.
We are hundreds of thousands strong.
We are united by our common dreams of peace, social justice, equality and human rights.
We are energized by our passionate belief that these dreams should be within reach of everyone. Regardless of race, gender, or status.
We understand that to assure a meaningful participation by all in democracy we must maintain a free press - providing reliable information, critical thought and creative ideas.
You have to love the Peace Movement! (Very independent)

LJoel, did you read this whole article or just the head line?
""Last night I was on Rachel Maddow's show on MSNBC at the top of the hour. But before I came on, through the earpiece I listened to the five minutes that Rachel sketched as a lead-in.""
The authors continued use of Cheney-Bush administration was so annoying.
This was another clue to the quality of investigation done by the author. ""My investigations have revealed to me--vividly and clearly--"" What?
But we all know MSNBC has always been fair when reporting.
But to be honest, I could not read the whole article because it was so poorly presented. This could have been why Lawrence Wilkerson earned the title "Former chief of staff of the Department of State during the term of Secretary of State Colin Powell."

LJoel, do you ever look into the background of the author?
www.salon.com/2009/05/18/torture_25/
Marcy Wheeler lives and works in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and is married. She campaigned for Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean in 2004, and is a former vice chairwoman of the Washtenaw County Democratic Party.[5]
Why should I expect her story to have a slight tilt to the left? My thought; stay away from the bowl that says free Koolaid.

Patriot,
Nice try. Well not really. Somewhat feeble actually. What me using left leaning authors And left leaning links to expose Bush-Cheney?????????, Well, Ya!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Perhaps I should use such an objective source like Hannity and "Faux News !!!!!!!
Col. Lawrence B. Wilkerson, [who is, or at least was as conservative as you] former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan, and former Secretary Of State Collin Powell, had consciences and confirmed Exactly what “the left" had exposed. So
again, I'm very sorry that you made that comment.

Patriot,
"We are writers. Activists. Everyday citizens. We are hundreds of thousands strong.
We are united by our common dreams of peace, social justice, equality and human rights. We are energized by our passionate belief that these dreams should be within reach of everyone. Regardless of race, gender, or status. We understand that to assure a meaningful participation by all in democracy we must maintain a free press - providing reliable information, critical thought and creative ideas."
Only in today's world of the extreme far right could that statement be considered a bad thing. Unbelievable.

Biden should fill up the limo himself and "Use His Own Cash". He might figure out how out of touch he and Obama really are.

Do you mean “out of touch” compared to multi-millionaire Romney? You know nothing about the man. The Vice President did not grow up well-off in Scranton, PA. And his life in his early Senate career was far from easy. Just a few weeks after he was elected, VP Biden's wife and one-year-old daughter were killed in an automobile accident. He considered resigning to care for this two sons but he was persuaded not to by other Senators. To be at home every day for his young sons, Biden began the practice of commuting every day by Amtrak train for 1½ hours each way from his home in the Wilmington suburbs to Washington, D.C., which he continued to do throughout his Senate career. A single father for five years, Biden left standing orders that he be interrupted in the Senate at any time if his sons called. I have a lot of admiration for this man.

$1,84 per gal inauguration day. $4.00 now. That is out of touch.

The President does not control GAS PRICES. Duh.

In February 2001, just after Mr. BUSH took office, the average price of regular gasoline was $1.45 a gallon. By June 2008, that price had risen to $4.05. Still think presidents and oil-friendly policies can determine oil prices?

How to double gas prices. Hire Obama/Biden

In December 2008, when Obama was putting together his White House team, Dr. Steven Chu was selected to become Secretary of Energy. Prior to the 2008 General Election, Chu was even more enthusiastic about raising gasoline prices than was Obama.
"Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe," Mr. Chu, who directs the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California, said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal in September 2008.
http://lubbockonline.com/interact/blog-post/may/2012-03-12/president-obama-has-much-control-over-oil-prices#.T4YK9dXvX08

I think this video of Vice President Biden explains it all. In it, the Vice President says that whenever he and the President need financial advice they go to Jon Corzine. Jon Corzine is the former CEO of Goldman Sachs and MF Global. In the last year he had to resign from MF Global because they illegally invested, and lost, billions of dollars of other people monies.

http://youtu.be/d-cLZai63GA

The more you read the more confused one can become. Can the top CEO influence a corporation with 20,000 employees? Sure! Leadership!! Republican or Democrat a good leader would help. President Obama maybe a great leader if his goal is higher priced fuel.

How to cut gas prices in half. Fire Obama/Biden

Changes in US gasoline prices over the past 10 years have predominantly been due to market factors rather than US federal economic or energy policies. Oil is a global market in which America is a big consumer but a small supplier. We consume about 20 percent of the world’s oil but hold only 2 percent of the oil reserves. That means we are, in economics jargon, “price takers.” Domestic production has increased during the Obama administration, but it has had minimal effects on global prices because, as producers, we are just too small to matter much. And even if domestic oil companies further increased production, they would sell to the highest global bidder. THE US PRESIDENT DOES NOT CONTROL GASOLINE PRICES.

We can be 100% energy independent. We need a new Pres/Vice Pres to do it.

Annoy Biden. Think for yourself!

The US is now actually much closer to energy independence than it has been in decades! Last year, the U.S. imported 45 percent of its liquid fuel from other countries, which is a huge drop from the record highs of just six years ago. Not only that, we have actually become a net exporter for refined petroleum and could soon do the same for natural gas. If current trends in production and demand keep up, the long-held dream of not relying on anyone else for power could actually become a reality. Not that President Obama will get any credit for it. His Republican challengers have spent most of the last year attacking him for high gas prices that he has no control over.

Joe Biden: 100% Fact Free.

Joe Baillargeon: Carolyn removed the profanity to keep your Patch f-bomb free.

Obama/Biden Energy Policy: Bend over, America!

Hardy Har har Har's posting policy. Lying whenever possible.

Obama/Biden Energy: Anti Women, Minorities and Poor.

The Poor cannot afford $4 gas. Thanks Obama

Minorities cannot afford $4 gas. Thanks Obama/Biden

Women cannot afford $4 gas. Thanks Obama/Biden

Who's the more foolish, the fool or the fool who follows it ?

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
Albert Einstein

seems like the last 50 posts have been the same 4 guys arguing. Can't you guys just get a table at mcdonalds?

Katherine, the daisies will be out soon and we all can walk in the sun.