Let’s celebrate what’s good about America. Let’s celebrate honest, thoughtful, and selfless public service. Let us celebrate, in the President’s words, “a lion in American history” who “is nowhere close to finished” to serving his country with his “voice of vision and reason and optimism and love for people.”
Let us celebrate one of President Barack Obama’s best decisions: his Vice-President, Joe Biden:
“Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, / And say my glory was I had such friends,” said the President, quoting William Butler Yeats.
No one’s better than you, but you’re better than nobody, said Joe Biden’s mom.
But Joe—son of Scranton, Claymont, and Wilmington—your brother Barack is right: you are a big… deal. Thank you, sir, for your service.
Ah, Joe got his participation medal. How nice.
Mr. Nixon was a much better Vice President. So was Mr. Chester A. Arthur. He had some chops.
Joe Biden is loved and respected, and has served this nation well! Despite not always agreeing with him, I will never forget him, his grace and authenticity, his love of people, his stamina during his son’s funeral where he stood for hours and hours in the receiving line of the constant line of mourners who came to pay their respects for Beau. I could only wish to have the strength, will and vision of Joe Biden! Good on you Joe! You are so deserving!
I’m sure Mr. Biden is loved, probably by Mrs. Biden. He’s a find fellow indeed, but no Chester A. Arthur in my mind.
Joe Biden is a big deal! That is for sure. I will miss them both and so will the entire country.
I never had the privilege of knowing Chester Arthur and Richard Nixon went on to be impeached and forced to resign the presidency for being a liar.
Joe Biden was an excellent vice president, he was a working vice president that didn’t just sit around and go to ceremonies representing the president.
You don’t often see the friendship between a president and vice president that Joe and Barack had.
Don financial adviser Peter Thiel on the scandal free Obama/Biden White House years. ”
‘But there’s a point where no corruption can be a bad thing. It can mean that things are too boring.’”
Peter Thiel
Yes Roger, the best vice president America has ever had to go along with one the most remarkable presidents we have ever had as well. When you are like Don and those that hang around him that think corruption is cool, you know the next two years are gonna be bumpy.
Unlike Greg’s opening cheap shot, Roger and Jerry note actual facts that support Biden’s recognition. He did real work. He advised the President regularly. and neither the Bidens nor the Obamas brought any scandal to the White House. Much as the right-wingers and profit-turning ringmasters tried, they never found a real scandal with which to tear these two leaders apart. Biden and Obama both provided a solid moral example, not just of how to be leaders, but of how to be husbands and fathers.
Thiel demonstrates how far from reality Trumpists will have to stretch to justify their man’s occupation of the White House. There’s a difference between accepting a man’s inevitable mistakes and celebrating his willful corruption.
I agree, Cory and Roger. It was kind of hard to not like Joe Biden and you could tell it was a real friendship between Obama and him.
Joe Biden is a stand up guy. Tells it like it is. Likes the ladies, but doesn’t grab them … inappropriately. He connects with the common person. He has earned the respect of people from both parties.
Who would I trust to step up to the top job if something happened to the President? Dan Quayle? Dick Cheney? Tim Pence? Nope. Joe Biden.
If Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Robert Reich, John McCain, Lindsay Graham and Susan Collins keep telling it like it is – we’ll be ok. Facts over propaganda.
You have to like Joe Biden, his best quote (BUY A SHOTGUN). He was a great VP
I want to like Joe Biden. However, we was responsible for some of the worst drug prohibition laws on the federal books. Hundreds of thousands of years have been served by people who only wanted to feel better. Shame on you, Joe, for not once mentioning that you made a terrible mistake.
@Greg: I disagree. I’m kind of torn between these two OMG quotes:
“I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American [Obama] who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that’s a storybook, man.”
Or
“When the stock market crashed, Franklin D. Roosevelt got on the television and didn’t just talk about the, you know, the princes of greed. He said, ‘Look, here’s what happened.’”
Really captures the essence of the man. Gonna miss the court jester.
As a veteran, it is clear that Biden is the best Vice President evahhh. That pos that started the Iraq war, fracking and just being flat evil, makes more sense to Coyote and Greg D. That get a shotgun thingy rings true to the fact that he shot his buddy in the melon just for kicks and giggles. You can fool me twice and fool me…WTF, we won’t get fooled again…Classic, and he was the smart one of the two.
If everyone was a single issue voter, we wouldn’t have any politicians.
Biden was refreshing and human compared to eight years of Darth Vader and his wars.
Joe Biden said that paying your taxes was patriotic. The ones that claim to be “the real patriots” however, believe you can run the greatest country in the world without tax revenue. At least their tax revenue.
Mr. Feyereisen, Joe Bidden said a lot of things that were and are patriotic. He said one thing yesterday about his son’s cancer and that was that he was going to sell his house to pay for the costs of that. The President, his good friend, said that he would loan him the money so he would not have to sell his house. His brother’s keeper, strong evidence of real patriots.
Yes Mr. Feyereisen, paying taxes is patriotic because if shows that you are actually a real American patriot. One who pays their fair share so that the whole place has a benefit. A gardener does not just water their favorite tomato, they address the entire garden with the hope of a bountiful crop. Where did our country go so wrong as to put such a hateful corrupt bunch of crooks and liars running the show?
Off topic, but amusing. Some of the port-a-pottys being used for the inauguration come from a company with brand name Don’s Johns. It is unknown who, but someone is busy using masking tape to cover the name
Also off topic Cory – sorry, but Jerry’s observation that
really strikes me as profound and also self-evident.
I wonder if “taxed enough already” folks would agree that, like vets, people who pay taxes are contributing to the freedom we all enjoy in the USA. Although involuntary conscription is gone, do those previously drafted vets deserve less respect than the folks who choose to voluntarily enlist? In the same manner don’t taxpayers, whether voluntary or conscripted, deserve to be appreciated and protected in light of their contributions to our Country’s freedom?
Bob, I respect your deep disagreement with our Vice-President on policy.
Vance, you are a master of off-topicality. ;-) I would plan to use masking tape to turn Trump’s name on posters into TRUMBO… and put a Trumbo-style mustache and glasses on Il Duce’s face.
Real patriots, and real friends—Biden and Obama together model an honest, open friendship and commitment to service that better exemplifies manliness than Trump’s blustery faux machismo. If I had a son, I would have him watch the above video and say, “Be like those men, in your public life and your private life.” Since I have a daughter, I will recommend that, should she wish to pursue a mate many years from now, she seek a man who exhibits the manliness of Joe Biden and Barack Obama.