Goofy Guys and Awesome Wives
[Guest post by DRJ]
Jake Tapper at ABC News reports on a People Magazine interview the Obamas and the Bidens did last Saturday. Tapper sees parallels between Obama-Biden and modern “goofy-guy/awesome-wife sitcom” families:
“The interview kind of reads like it could be one of those goofy-guy/awesome-wife sitcoms slated for ABC’s Fall Line-up. (Is “According to Jim” still on the air?)
Some excerpts:
PEOPLE: This is the first mate you’ve chosen since Michelle.
Barack Obama: That’s a good point.
Michelle Obama: Barack is looking for people who will challenge him, who will tell him no.
Barack: That’s exactly what you need [in a vice president].
Michelle: That’s why he married me. (Laughs.) So I’d tell Sen. Biden, don’t pull any punches.
PEOPLE: Now, if Sen. Biden starts yelling at you about picking up your socks…
Barack: Then we’re in trouble. Don’t do that, Joe.
Joe Biden: Don’t worry…
PEOPLE: Sen. Biden, are you ready to hit the basketball court with him?
Joe: Hell yeah, man.
Jill: He plays with the grandkids; we have a basketball hoop. He can train with [8-year-old granddaughter] Maisy.
Joe: I can’t keep up with Maisy! The one thing I want my kids to remember about me is that I was an athlete. The hell with the rest of this stuff.”
More hugs and kisses at the link.
— DRJ
PEOPLE: Sen. Biden, are you ready to hit the basketball court with him?
Joe: Hell yeah, man.
Jill: He plays with the grandkids; we have a basketball hoop. He can train with [8-year-old granddaughter] Maisy.
Joe: I can’t keep up with Maisy! The one thing I want my kids to remember about me is that I was an athlete. The hell with the rest of this stuff.”
Joe Biden: Redefining “gravitas.”
L.N. Smithee (0931d2) — 8/26/2008 @ 10:39 amGee, thanks, DRJ. And I was just about to have lunch. Never mind, I forgive you, I need to lose a couple of inches around my waist anyway.
nk (3c7a86) — 8/26/2008 @ 10:43 amHold your palominos, folks! What’s with the bracketed addendum “in a vice president?” This means that the actual conversation — without the contextual fill-in from the People interviewer — went like this:
Hmmmm…hey, ‘chelle, do yourself a favor; make sure no ex-girlfriends of Jay McInerney or doe-eyed, beret-wearing, thong-snapping Jewish chicks with Oaktown booties get near your man.
L.N. Smithee (0931d2) — 8/26/2008 @ 10:48 amNaah, I’ll give Barry Soetoro this much credit. He’s no Bill Clinton. I believe that he believes that marrying a woman makes the use of your body her exclusive right.*
*”every drop of your sperm” in Turkish Muslim terms.
nk (3c7a86) — 8/26/2008 @ 11:00 amIn the “goofy-guy/awesome-wife sitcom,” I’d mention that I got an e-mail invitation to join former presidential contender Dennis Kucinich in Denver! 🙂
The original Dana (3e4784) — 8/26/2008 @ 11:43 amObama is now goofy? When did Adonis drop his balls. Last I’d read, a reporter said that O!! was so fit and handsome, he might intimidate voters.
Thank god for the truth.
Vermont Neighbor (a066ed) — 8/26/2008 @ 11:49 amThe original Dana wrote: In the “goofy-guy/awesome-wife sitcom,” I’d mention that I got an e-mail invitation to join former presidential contender Dennis Kucinich in Denver!
It’s hard to laugh too hard at Kucinich. He’ll never be President, he’s never gotten an electoral vote, he’s a trivia question and a national punch line. But because of his delusions of grandeur in one respect, he’s now living the dream most red-blooded American men only experience in their sleep: Marrying way, way, way, WAY out of your class.
L.N. Smithee (ecc5a5) — 8/26/2008 @ 12:23 pm…
I know it’s People Magazine.
And I know that I talk like that (slightly salty language) all the time.
But 1) I’m talking informally, not in an interview, and 2) I’m not a candidate for President/Vice President.
Wow. Is it that they’re desperate to appear “just folks”, have standards fallen that much in 4 years, or is it just that as Democrat politicians, they’re expected to represent the ‘little guy’ in vulgarities as well as legislation?
Dave (391b76) — 8/26/2008 @ 12:50 pm#8
Blame media. It all started with the boxers or briefs question.
Vermont Neighbor (a066ed) — 8/26/2008 @ 1:00 pm