Posted on 02/09/2009 9:15:30 PM PST by fallingwater
Pity poor Joe Biden. His "there's still a 30 percent chance we're going to get it wrong" quote is put straight to President Barack Obama during the White House press conference just now and his boss seemed to want to say: "Vice-President Who?"
As reporters started giggling, Obama came close to conceding that Biden was indeed a joke. "You know, I don't remember exactly what Joe was referring to, not surprisingly."
The President went on to say that "I think what Joe may have been suggesting, although I wouldn't ascribe any numerical percentage to any of this, is that given the magnitude of the challenges that we have, any single thing that we do is going to be part of the solution, not all of the solution."
Of course, Biden wasn't saying anything of the sort - Obama knew that and all the rest of us did too.
Biden's exact quote, read out by Fox's Major Garrett at the presser was: "If we do everything right, if we do it with absolute certainty, if we stand up there and we really make the tough decisions, there's still a 30 percent chance we're going to get it wrong."
Clearly, Obama and his aides were unhappy about Biden's loose lips. On Friday, top Obama adviser David Axelrod said on CNN: "I don't know exactly about what that math was."
We're probably going to have to get used to Obama explaining "what Joe may have been suggesting". And Biden must be wondering if he's going to end up as a Dan Quayle figure.
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I knew what the question was about. You would think the smartest President ever would.
Biden.. A gift that will keep giving for four years.
Getting crowded under that bus. Grandma, Rev. Wright, Biden...
HIs “Religion”.... isnt he shopping around for a new one these days post the Wright episode?
If my friend, colleague, or boss did that to me, they would not be my friend, colleague, or boss any longer.
Obama won’t last his term in office. The DNC’s will be so embarrassed by this guy over the coming months that THEY will initiate a “No-Confidence” proceeding against him - Impeach him or whatever.
This kid is really a joke.
Sadly, Obama will eventually throw the entire country under the bus.
This guy is a disaster and is in way over his head.
(((((((Giggle)))))))
Biden couldn't live up to that high mark even if he were to perform beyond his loftiest aspirations. To suggest Biden might end up as a Dan Quayle figure is a tremendous insult to Quayle.
making fun of the VP YOU PICKED. who is the fool there??
Hell, 125? Even John Kerry is smarter than that!
My vocabulary ain't so bad, but I'm shy, otherwise I'd run for president, except, it would interfere with my sense of honor, I just couldn't kiss that much butt, and face myself in a mirror!
What we have in the Whitehouse is a recording machine, just smart enough to record the communist manifesto, and play it back, any time the button gets punched! Just another, almost "useless idiot"!
What in the world made Obama choose Biden?
I do not think there has ever been in other countries such a thing as Vice-Dictator.
More truth than meets the eye here.
Obama cannot accept that their could possibly anybody to challenge him, slowly but surely he will keep Biden off on obscure projects, anything to keep him as the stupid foot in the mouth image thats already been spread around by Obamas minions.
Yes, even the President tacitly admits that his Vice Presdient is a boob. What an Administration!
Dream on (i hate to say)
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