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Biden: Brain Surgeon Told Him Had Less Than 50% Chance of ‘Being Completely Normal’
Cybercast News Service ^ | June 5, 2013 - 6:18 PM | Terence P. Jeffrey

Posted on 06/05/2013 4:17:34 PM PDT by Olog-hai

Speaking at the White House National Conference on Mental Health on Monday, Vice President Joe Biden told a sometimes serious and sometimes jocular story about the two brain surgeries he needed in 1988 to deal with cranial aneurysms.

Biden told the White House audience “they take a saw and they cut your head off” and “they literally had to take the top of my head off.” He also recounted that as he was being wheeled into surgery he asked the neurosurgeon, “What are my chances of getting off this table completely normal?” The surgeon told Biden he had a better chance of living—and that that chance was in the 35 to 50 percent range. …

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: abbynormal; aneurysm; biden; brainsurgery; neurosurgery
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To: Olog-hai

Does that make him half an a**hole?

21 posted on 06/05/2013 4:31:40 PM PDT by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: Olog-hai

22 posted on 06/05/2013 4:32:04 PM PDT by vietvet67
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

23 posted on 06/05/2013 4:33:04 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (To attempt to have intercourse with a hornet's nest is a very bad idea)
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To: Olog-hai

There is definitely a 50% chance that Biden has below average intelligence.


24 posted on 06/05/2013 4:33:33 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA (Molon Labe - Shall not be questioned)
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To: maggief; penelopesire; SE Mom; MinuteGal; thouworm

SO. Is he setting up the step down. Hill can take over and the impeachment begins!


25 posted on 06/05/2013 4:33:43 PM PDT by hoosiermama (Obama: "Born in Kenya" Lying now or then!)
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To: freedumb2003

Abby Normal!


26 posted on 06/05/2013 4:34:42 PM PDT by Lizavetta (You get what you tolerate)
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To: Olog-hai

Obama’s team could not have picked a better running mate.


27 posted on 06/05/2013 4:35:23 PM PDT by Pan_Yan (I believe in God. All else is dubious.)
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To: Olog-hai

Well, that explains it.


28 posted on 06/05/2013 4:35:30 PM PDT by dinodino
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To: Olog-hai

Brain surgeon was right! Less than 50 percent of his brain is functional.


29 posted on 06/05/2013 4:35:35 PM PDT by formosa
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To: Olog-hai

Joe Biden — The New Normal — Who knew?


30 posted on 06/05/2013 4:35:53 PM PDT by Polyxene (Out of the depths I have cried to Thee, O Lord; Lord, hear my voice.)
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To: Olog-hai

I read an essay here some time ago (last year, at least) that basically intimated that Biden was the Dem’s VP choice as a deliberate joke on conservatism. That is, he’s a middle-age white guy who represents the past, and that the Dems propped him up as a sort of the “anti-Obama” — like tossing a bone to anyone who might have a problem with voting Obi, but the “inside joke” was on them.

Have no idea who wrote it or when, but if anyone else remembers and can give details that’d be nice.


31 posted on 06/05/2013 4:36:27 PM PDT by workerbee (The President of the United States is DOMESTIC ENEMY #1)
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To: Lizavetta

>>Abby Normal!<<

We have to assume biden got the nod when he showed obozo his schwanstucker.


32 posted on 06/05/2013 4:37:12 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (To attempt to have intercourse with a hornet's nest is a very bad idea)
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To: Polyxene

>>Joe Biden — The New Normal — Who knew?<<

Which makes almost everyone else in the USA (and the non-islam world) a freaking genius.


33 posted on 06/05/2013 4:38:09 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (To attempt to have intercourse with a hornet's nest is a very bad idea)
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To: Olog-hai

This story fails to mention the neurosurgeon forgot to put Biden’s brain back before he sewed him up.


34 posted on 06/05/2013 4:38:33 PM PDT by Durbin
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To: Olog-hai

So he doesn’t have as much brain tissue as a normal man—more like that of a women or less...maybe even a monkey.


35 posted on 06/05/2013 4:40:42 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of rotten politics smelled around the planet.)
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To: Olog-hai

This was a couple years before the Clarence Thomas/Anita Hill hearings, in which Biden played such a vital and excruciatingly humorous role, turning the proceedings whenever he had the chance, into
The Joe Biden Show. Not knowing he’d had brain surgery in ‘88, I’m now confident it did him NO good.


36 posted on 06/05/2013 4:41:52 PM PDT by supremedoctrine
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To: Olog-hai

And now you know — the rest of the story.

Paul Harvey ... Good Day!


37 posted on 06/05/2013 4:45:05 PM PDT by neal1960 (D m cr ts S ck. Would you like to buy a vowel?)
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To: Olog-hai

Did he get a discount by having the (hair) plugs installed while his hood was off?


38 posted on 06/05/2013 4:45:25 PM PDT by chrisser (Senseless legislation does nothing to solve senseless violence.)
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To: Olog-hai

Unfortunately it looks like he only hit 25% of the goal.


39 posted on 06/05/2013 4:46:56 PM PDT by dglang
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To: Olog-hai
Uh huh. "Doc, will I ever play the piano again?"
"Uh...do you play the piano now?"
"No."
40 posted on 06/05/2013 4:49:40 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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