Yeah, we’d be much better off with that brainless chillbilly as our Vice President right now.
“I wouldn’t go anywhere in confined places now,” Biden said when Matt Lauer asked whether he would advise family members to use public transportation.
“I would tell members of my family, and I have, I wouldn’t go anywhere in confined places now. It’s not that it’s going to Mexico, it’s you’re in a confined aircraft when one person sneezes it goes all the way through the aircraft. That’s me. I would not be, at this point, if they had another way of transportation suggesting they ride the subway. ”
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“If you’re out in the middle of a field and someone sneezes that’s one thing. If you’re in a closed aircraft or a closed container or closed car or closed classroom it’s a different thing.”
The White House immediate sent out master wordsmith Robert Gibbs to smooth everything over. Oddly enough, the press corps didn’t believe Gibbs’ silver tongue and confident manner. Imagine my shock.
That’s some quality confidence-building right there, folks. I haven’t seen this much incompetence since the Three Stooges tried their hands at plumbing.
Ace sniffs out some true genius at work in the White House.
He stops just short of recommending locking yourself in a stainless steel sensory deprivation pod for the next year, year and a half.
But — don’t close the borders. That would be rash.
I haven’t been this reassured by an executive officer since Barack Obama threatened to crash Air Force One into the Statue of Liberty.
But “that’s me.”
Rahm Emmamuel just emailed me to say “Never waste a pandemic.” He thinks he can link swine flu to support for doubling teachers’ salaries. “They’re operating in a war zone 24/7,” he explains. I asked him if that meant soldiers should double their salaries, too, but he pirouetted away, which is sort of hard to do in an email. And yet he pulled it off, with moxie and panache.
Moe Lane, on the other hand, suggests we tuck the Vice President away for his, and our, safety. Not a bad idea, that.
UPDATE: Linked at Michelle Malkin’s rocking sidebar!
Tags: Joe Biden, Robert Gibbs, Swine Flu
