In Joe Biden’s World, Al Franken Is A “Leading Legal Scholar”
The Vice-President’s tendency toward hyperbole is getting just a little ridiculous:
Vice President Joe Biden described former Saturday Night Live comedian, Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., as a “leading legal scholar,” presumably in the Senate, today.
“He has been one of the leading legal scholars,” Biden said of Franken today, according to the pool report.
Jonathan Turley comments:
Franken is clearly smart and has proven a leader on many issues. However, Biden’s tendency to use superlatives where mere adjectives would do has become rather pathological.
Indeed.
Well, has he published more scholarly works that Obama?
Let’s see, Obama is at zero, so it’s possible.
Dude, in Joe Biden’s world Marcel Marceau was a great orator, Eva Mendes is a great actress, Roseanne Barr is a great singer, Eliot Spitzer and Mark Sanford were husbands of the year, and Terra Nova was a hit TV show.
Terra Nova wasn’t a hit?
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I really wish they would replace Biden. I know it won’t happen but I can dream.
Hyperbole is Joe’s middle name. He really is embarrassing. It’s amazing how poor the 2008 VP picks were.
@Vast Variety: I’m absolutely amazed that they haven’t replaced Biden. Does not compute.
I think he’s actually just insulting the rest of the senate, and justifiably so.
@Gustopher:
There is dust on the desk in the Senate chamber Ithat I would consider a better “legal scholar” than Stuart Smalley.
Biden makes great tabloid fodder and is at least an entertaining goof in public.
Compared to Cheney, though, I prefer embarassment.
Doug, you do get excited about the most trivial things.
Why can’t Al Franken be a leading legal scholar? He’s good enough, he’s funny enough, and gosh darn it, people like him!
It has always been so.
BFD
(Source: Wikipedia)
So… not too shabby for a funny guy, but not a legal scholar.
Maybe work experience for the last 4 years counts for something?
I’m reminded of another great quote from a couple decades back:
“As far as Saddam Hussein being a great military strategist, he is neither a strategist, nor is he schooled in the operational art, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general, nor is he a soldier. Other than that he’s a great military man-I want you to know that.” -General H. Norman Schwarzkopf 1991
I think it’s wrong to keep bringing up all the times Joe Biden says something stupid. It’s “dog bites man.”
Save the postings for when he does something non-stupid. That would be real news.
@Jenos Idanian:
Well, he was right about what we should have done in Afghanistan.
Is Al Franken a fan of broccoli? ‘Cause if he is, he might be qualified to sit on today’s SCOTUS.
I’ve read a log of dubious legal reasoning from historical cases, some more modern than others, that have me shaking my head at accepted “legal scholars”.
So why not?
Well at least he didn’t shoot someone in the face. And he’s not even our dumbest VP in my lifetime. And he wasn’t even the dumbest VP nomination in 2008. However, yes, those are all damning faint praise, and yes, he is a jackass.
@PogueMahone: Indeed…I have seen none of Franken’s musings that sound as foolish as Scalia’s broccoli argument…of course, Scalia may have simply been grasping for whatever argument he could to cover his partisanship, after all, he traveled down that same road in Bush v. Gore…