Scrappleface, folks. Believe it or not...
Vice President Joe Biden, under fire from Karl Rove and other former Bush administration officials for bragging that he ridiculed George W. Bush face to face in the White House, today claimed he had also once defeated President Bush in arm wrestling.
"We were all alone in the Oval Office, as we often were," said Mr. Biden, then a U.S. Senator. "I had just dissed old Georgie with another of my famous presidential put-downs, when he challenged me to arm wrestle...the truth from my lips to Gods ears, I swear. So we get down on our knees next to that little coffee table between the sofas. And I get the grip on him, you know, the old Biden clutch grip. It was over in seconds."
The vice president said he had promised that he would never publicize the humiliating incident, "but now that Bush says he owes the Obama administration his silence, I feel at liberty to tell the story...you know, since hes not going comment on it, and no one believes Karl Rove or Dick Cheney anyway."
Mr. Biden added that President Bush had reacted angrily to his loss, and pushed the table over to clear the rug for a "winner-take-all Indian leg-wrestling bout," but Sen. Biden politely declined.
"You gotta respect the office," said Mr. Biden, "even if the man is a failed leader with absolutely no followers, and has a bicep like Ann Coulters wrist. It was pathetic."
Republican strategist Karl Rove called Vice President Biden a "liar" on Thursday, dramatically escalating a feud between Biden and aides to former President George W. Bush over Biden's claims to have rebuked Bush in private meetings. "I hate to say this, but he's a serial exaggerator," Rove told FOX News. "If I was being unkind I would say liar. But it is a habit he ought to drop." Rove added: "You should not exaggerate and lie like this when you are the Vice President of the United States."
Biden's office did not immediately respond to a request for comment, although Biden spokesman Jay Carney told Fox on Wednesday: "The vice president stands by his remarks."
Carney was referring to two controversial assertions by Biden, the latest coming Tuesday during an interview on CNN. "I remember President Bush saying to me one time in the Oval Office," Biden began, "'Well, Joe,' he said, 'I'm a leader.' And I said: 'Mr. President, turn and around look behind you. No one is following.'"
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#1
What a refreshing breath of sanity! From a state school, no less.
Posted by: Richard of Oregon ||
04/10/2009 11:05 Comments ||
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#2
Sounds like a bunch of angry coffee shop people to me. Seems like they are trying to reason why that since he is president, why shouldn't he receive honorary degrees? There was the one brave soul, "Have to pass Speech 101 first", heh. Some posters who had reasoning/good points were shouted down, so on.
#7
I just took on a bunch of those whiney posters at Huffpo on this, got insulted left and right and it was worth it.
God, its like a hornets nest of whiney sycophants at Huffpo. Lets see if they still feel so good about Obama in about 2 years...
#11
Notre Dame and ASU having some problems sorting out their commencement policies??? Jimmy Carter has a significant body of work despite nearly all of it stinking--they could have invited him if that were the standard. These honorary degrees are largely symbolic [and political]--kind of like the the Nobel Peach Prize.
#13
Good to stir the hornets nest every now and then Girl Thursday. You are right, I think BO is a one term President like Jimmy Carter--the disenchantment will set in before four years.
When you're the president of the United States, only the best pizza will do - even if that means flying a chef 860 miles.
Chris Sommers, 33, jetted into Washington from St Louis, Missouri, on Thursday with a suitcase of dough, cheese and pans to to prepare food for the Obamas and their staff. He had apparently been handpicked after the President had tasted his pizzas on the campaign trail last autumn.
'It's surreal, it's a huge honour,' said Mr Sommers, who owns Pi restaurant in St Louis. 'It will be a casual lunch and hopefully we'll have a chance to say hello to the president.'
Mr Somers was accompanied by this business parnter Ryan Mangilardo who will help prepare the dinner for 140 this evening. It will feature his signature dishes - ten deep dish and ten thin crust creations. He is also planning a pizza especially for the president - the Hyde Park topped with chicken and hot sauce.
That's enough abomination right there! Chicken and hot sauce? He's no Chicagoan! Send this clown Sommers home and bring in a dozen deep dish pies from Giordanos!
#5
Look prez. Stop spending money you don't have, get that Captain off of that lifeboat NOW, and stop it with your kingship with the 500 people you carry with you. You are really failing as a leader.
#6
Chicken and hot sauce? I had that at an all-you-can-eat CC's in State College. It wasn't bad, but once you start soaking that place's pizza in hot sauce, pretty much anything'll taste fine - it was like setting a flash-bang off in a pitch-dark room.
Posted by: Mitch H. ||
04/10/2009 12:01 Comments ||
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#7
Moving to a city without any good pizza joints (that I've been able to find) makes this almost understandable. I've been drooling for a Savoy pizza for mony months.
Posted by: Mike N. ||
04/10/2009 12:40 Comments ||
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#8
Remind anyone else of Clinton's traffic stopping haircut?
#11
Good for him. If I were President Id do the same damn thing. And if Michelle Malkin carped about it Id tell her to shut up, put on a short skirt and make sure everybodys beverage glass never got half empty. Sheesh!
#14
Good for him. If I were President Id do the same damn thing.
Not with my tax dollars, tyrant. This BS is for the President and his staff. There is a kitchen in the White House with a full time staff. Flying in cooks and their staff at tax payer expense used to get government officials in trouble. But if everyone is kissing your (_*_) you think you deserve it. But you don't.
Tyrant tyrant? Get a grip people. Its not like hes flying in a chef from France to prepare a 10-course gourmet meal. Its two guys coming from St. Louis to DC to cook fuckin pizzas. I guess it goes to show that childish whiney people arent just the Bush Haters.
#19
Geeze. And I used to make fun of Kimmie flying in sushi in from Japan. That's a bus ride compared to St. Louis - DC. But since making light of The One is forbidden, now I must exalt Kimmie in his exquisite taste in fresh fish. All hail B. O.! (and Kimmie too.)
Posted by: ed ||
04/10/2009 16:38 Comments ||
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#20
Think for a moment. Can't you see what he and his mutant staff are doing? This is brazen, sophmoric arrogance of the first order. They knew this would instantly light conservatives. That's why they did it. Simple in-your-face arrogance. Not a thought in the world about setting some kind of proper example. We won, we'll order the Pizza.
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