8/26/2008

9 Responses to “Goofy Guys and Awesome Wives”

1. 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 am

   
   

2. Gee, 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 am

   
   

3. 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.

   Hold 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:

   Michelle Obama: Barack is looking for people who will challenge him, who will tell him no.

   Barack: That’s exactly what you need.

   Michelle: That’s why he married me. (Laughs.)

   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 am

   
   

4. Naah, 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 am

   
   

5. 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! 🙂

   The original Dana (3e4784) — 8/26/2008 @ 11:43 am

   
   

6. Obama 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 am

   
   

7. The 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

   
   

8. …

   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

   
   

9. #8

   Blame media. It all started with the boxers or briefs question.

   Vermont Neighbor (a066ed) — 8/26/2008 @ 1:00 pm