Posted on 01/24/2007 10:17:51 PM PST by Gondring
Chairman Joe Biden of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee was trying to uphold two resolutions yesterday: one criticizing the [...]administration's Iraq policy and the other Biden's own resolution to himself -- to stop talking so much.
[...] Biden's other resolution failed, by a voice vote -- Biden's voice.
The Delaware Democrat and presidential hopeful ran the hearing more like a talk show host than a chairman: inviting the other senators to speak and then commenting on each senator's remarks.
He opened the hearing with a 3,000-word statement in which he used the word "I" 88 times, including a lengthy discussion of the types of questions he has asked himself and how he has answered himself. Finally, the committee's ranking Republican, Richard Lugar (Ind.) got a chance to speak. Then Biden spoke again. Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) introduced an amendment. Biden interrupted him four times, the last time stating, "I don't want to belabor the point."
By this point, Sen. John Sununu (R-N.H.) had heard enough Biden. "We're going to be here a long time, and I'd certainly like to speak," he announced with irritation. Biden yielded the floor to Sununu, but then interrupted him, too -- five times.
"Senator," Sununu eventually pleaded. "You've had a wonderful opportunity to express your views. I think many on the committee would at least like to express their own views, and I'm sure you'll have ample opportunity to respond."
For Biden, verbosity frequently tramples what might otherwise be profound points. Friends have urged him to put a sock in it, and he knows that his wordiness prevents him from being, as he has put it, "the best Biden I can be."
But, like any addict, he is prone to lapses. "I'll not interrupt again," he promised after one of his monologues yesterday [...] and then he broke the promise minutes later.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
I think the word for the guy is narcissist.
But actually, I love that he keeps opening his mouth, as he keeps embarrassing the Dems!
I'd pay to see Jimmy Carter's self righteousness and Joe Biden's ego in a Texas death match.
Joe-Blowhard Ping
WOW! I don't know who'd win that one, but I love the imagery!
I was absolutely serious when I stated that I think he's a narcissist...and I mean that in the clinical sense.
The word for most prominent Democrats is narcissist. Kerry, Kennedy, Clinton, Biden, Pelosi, I could go on and on.
In any other line of work, Biden would be the office idiot.
My (liberal) psychiatrist friend says that it takes a narcissist to want to be president, but I think she'd even agree that Joe takes it over-the-top.
ROTFL! That's the funniest thing I've read in a while, Milbank did a great job on the article. I can just picture the other members of the committee rolling their eyes every time he interupts.
It's going to be a long two years for that committee.
Joe is a plagarizing, lying, megalomaniacal, phony blowhard.
Who is running for president.
Only in America.
To the people of Delaware: Please do your part to stop global warming. Don't vote for Joe Biden anymore.
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