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Understatement Of The Day: Joe Biden Edition

Doug Mataconis
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From the pool reporters following Joe Biden around today: 

Vice President Joe Biden, during an event in Las Vegas with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., admitted to voters that he has “a bad habit” of speaking his mind in public.

“I do have a bad habit of saying what I think,” Biden said, according to the pool report.

Yes Joe, we’ve noticed.

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11 responses to “Understatement Of The Day: Joe Biden Edition”

  1. Geek, Esq. Avatar
    Geek, Esq.

    That’s the trade-off when you get someone who’s not a slick politician–you get someone who says stuff that comes out the wrong way because he’s not calibrating it for an audience as part of his nature.

  2. Jenos Idanian #13 Avatar
    Jenos Idanian #13

    Let’s finish that Joe Biden thought:

    “I do have a bad habit of saying what I think is real, and not what is real.”

  3. Jr Avatar
    Jr

    @Geek, Esq.: And that is why I love Joe Biden.

  4. gVOR08 Avatar
    gVOR08

    Joe Biden is widely regarded, especially on the right, as a light weight crazy uncle and gaffe factory. On the right they regard Paul Ryan as a smart as a whip young gun policy wonk. Think anybody on the right reconsidered those opinions after old Joe Biden owned Ryan in the debate?

  5. Tillman Avatar
    Tillman

    Biden’s a good example of what a blue-collar politician would resemble. Terrifically off-the-cuff but well-meaning.

    I give Biden slack because our last vice president wasn’t precisely a paragon of civic virtue or rational thought himself.

  6. OzarkHillbilly Avatar
    OzarkHillbilly

    “I do have a bad habit of saying what I think,” Biden said,

    God forbid our politicians be honest.

  7. john personna Avatar
    john personna

    The right ended up inoculating Biden from criticism. They were so over the top in the first term, saying Biden gaffes would presage the apocalypse … that anytime he speaks and the skies do not rain blood, he looks fine.

  8. C. Clavin Avatar
    C. Clavin

    You guys…James and Doug…are such Republican butt-boys….why no post on Trumps campaign changing revelation???

    1. Doug Mataconis Avatar
      Doug Mataconis

      Perhaps you missed this.

  9. C. Clavin Avatar
    C. Clavin

    I did miss that.
    Good butt boys.

  10. G.A. Avatar
    G.A.

    You guys…James and Doug…are such Republican butt-boys

    ….lol….

    C. Clavin, If they are what you say, you think they might write something about the biggest(and dumbest) cover up in American history instead of about how the Republicans are stupid once in a while?

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