Joe Biden and the Mouth That Soars

[babylonsister]

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0207/2828.html

Joe Biden and the Mouth That Soars

By: Roger Simon
February 19, 2007 07:25 PM EST


AMES, Iowa -- Joe Biden is in the 27th minute of his five-minute presentation, but nobody in the church basement has slipped away, nobody is nodding off, nobody is doing anything but following his every word.

"It was a mistake," he says in reply to a question about his vote to authorize the Iraq war. "I regret my vote."

Joe Biden's mouth can get him in trouble, but when it is working right, the words drop from his lips like pearls, and nodding heads now spread through the audience like ripples on a pond.

Biden's full reply to the attendees of the Story County Annual Soup Supper takes 4 minutes and 45 seconds -- it can take him 4 minutes and 45 seconds to say "hello" -- but here is the short version:

"It was a mistake," Biden says. "I regret my vote. I regret not realizing how incompetent (the Bush administration) would be. The president did not level with us. And if I had known it, I would never have voted to give him that authority in the first place."

The applause washes over him. It threatens to go on and on until he cuts it off by saying: "I want to do yes-or-no answers from now on."

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[Vanje]

1. "The president did not level with us."

LIED. Joe. The President LIED to you.

[LynneSin]

2. Bush Lied to all of us

I remember listening to Joe Biden talk about the upcoming vote. He was hosting a seminar in Wilmington and afterwards he was talking amongst the guests at the seminar.

There was about 10-12 of us gathered around Biden asking questions about what was to happen with Iraq. Basically I came away with an attitude from Biden that 'damn if you're right and damn if you're wrong' with this vote.

It was not an easy decision. Biden, along with the other dems who voted for the IWR, put trust that the information provided was accurate. I guess hindsight is 20/20

[calimary]

3. Wouldn't it be nice if some of our people started using that terminology?

I mean, it's true. bush LIED. And LIED. And LIED. And LIED. And LIED.

But then again, perhaps nobody recognizes what he says as full-on LIES, because there's no illicit blowjob involved.

[JNelson6563]

4. I have heard Biden do both

I have to agree with RS on this, when Biden's good, he's very, very good but when he's bad.....ugh.

Julie