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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    10/31/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Biden was the most inscrutable choice, ever, for VP. Instead of "change" Obama brought out an old hack, who had trouble with both truth telling, even during the campaign, and with inserting his foot into his mouth. Oh, to know what kind of negotiation that was, to get him on the ticket---except, perhaps to allay terrified old white guys who feared a woman and a (half)black man on the ticket would bring on the apocalypse. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    apparently I am in the minority, but I love Joe Biden! I think he's like the lovable Steve Urkel of the White House. He comes in, says stupid stuff, knocks shit over, and is like "Did I do that?" Oh Joe. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Joe Biden is everything thats wrong and fucked up with congress. This dope won his seat in the Senate when he was 29 and has never had another job until being VP. He has learned about as much about how the country works from his perch in DC as Palin learned about Russia from staring at it. He is walking proof we need term limits.

    And he doesn't drink. I don't trust people who don't drink, unless they've already been alcoholics. #joebiden
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    Image of Motoko Kusanagi Motoko Kusanagi
    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Why is it that I feel compelled to defend Gawker's subject matter against the editors/writers at least once a day lately?

    Either this new crop of staff writers is utterly fucked, or the editorial direction has taken a nosedive, or both.

    Is there some negative correlation between the quality of stories and the quality of AJAX/CSS? #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    @Motoko Kusanagi: From where I'm standing, it would appear to be a positive correlation. It's a good day when I get tripped up by fewer than five unresponsive scripts, infinite waits for comments to load or what have you. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    @romulus: The site gets prettier, and the content gets lamer. Just callin it as I see it. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    @Motoko Kusanagi: Oh yeah, I didn't mean to quibble. I agree that the site gets fancier all the time, but features seem to break often. I should have added before that it could well be my OS and browser causing headaches most readers don't experience. And in all fairness, I haven't been reading long enough to judge contemporary content against the past. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Not sure what point you're trying to make, Amrita... that you think Cheney's worldview makes some sense? That Cheney was initially popular, before everything he did brought his popularity rating to a low of 28%? I love it that Biden is willing to call a moron a moron. This is a ridiculous post. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Oh, and if you're trying to poke fun at Vice Prez Biden for weeping during the debate when he spoke about his first wife and baby daughter who died, well then, that's just messed up. #joebiden
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    10/31/09

    @Conchie Birdie: One might argue that it was the worst kind of political hackdom for him to bring them up expressly to show his "empathy" side and try to squeeze a tear out of his plastic-surgeryized eye slots. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    I'm absolutely NOT a supporter of ANYTHING Dick says... but, Good Lawwd, Biden, Bin Laden will always BE a part of the issue. I'm sorry, I guess if you had the prez saying this I could understand... but, uh, Joe? Nope.

    That being said, why are we posting crap from Fox News anyway - I thought we weren't supposed to take this stuff seriously?
    #joebiden
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    01/02/09

    In reply to French Guy Pats America On Head For Electing Obama
    I have a lot of rachmones for the French. They are really past their influential peak--culturally, politically, what have you--and the 21st century is going to be very rough on them.


    Still, merci pour Chanel No. 19 et YSL Touche Eclat. I would be a pretty beat-up-looking and -smelling li'l juive Americaine without 'em.

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    01/02/09

    @BookishLookish: Somehow Nicholas Sarkozy, a president who once called a heckler a "poor cunt," has more clout in global affairs right now than literally any other Western leader. I have no idea how it happened, but they are like the most powerful country in the world until January 20th. Rather than being a country in decline, I think they're the new U.K.
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    Image of gawkimo gawkimo
    01/02/09

    In reply to French Guy Pats America On Head For Electing Obama
    I love the French, but I can't held but suspect that their uncharacteristically irrational collective hard-on for Barack Obama must have its roots in their admiration of jazz music, or maybe they've been eating too many Royales with Cheeze and now their view of race is now as superficial as ours.
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    01/02/09

    @gawkimo: Are you suggesting that the French attitude towards race was somehow previously sophisticated? They've been doing this Obama thing since the days of Josephine Baker. "Ah, those exotic negroes! So charming!" I mean, sure, it's better than lynching, but not, I think, more sophisticated.
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    01/02/09

    @gawkimo: Meanwhile, I think there are exactly zero minority elected officials in France, so yeah, condescending only begins to describe this.
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    01/02/09

    @Kid_Twist: Oh, precisely. When they elect a brownish person of Algerian descent then they can pat us on the head all they want.


    But this may not be about race, it may be that they'd given up on us ever electing anyone with any sense after Bush. Wouldn't Sarah Palin have looked like the next step in that "progression" if you were watching from overseas? Can't blame 'em, I guess. Still annoys me.

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    01/02/09

    @ShanghaiLil: Hmmm, I guess you do have a point there. By "uncharacteristically," I mean I haven't heard the characteristic dissenting intellectuals in France who would take a contrary stance from the status quo (like, for instance, how Obama is going to turn out to be just another Hawkish Clintonite NeoLiberal despite his black father, yaddah yaddah). But come to think of it, I think you're right: the French aren't color blind; they're blinded by color. Ooooooold Maaaaaaan Riveeeeeer! Keeeeeeeeps Ooooooon . . . OK I'll quit.
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    01/02/09

    @crotchety: No, I'm pretty sure it's about race. I mean, yeah, they hate Bush and all, but this love-in for Obama is totally about the fact that he's the son of a single white mo. . . er, I mean that he's black. Do you really think they'd have a collective boner for Joe Biden? Who doesn't, right?
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    01/02/09

    In reply to French Guy Pats America On Head For Electing Obama
    So...Publicis has no bank, remortgage or credit card accounts? Smart. Also, probably not true.
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    01/02/09

    In reply to French Guy Pats America On Head For Electing Obama
    I'm not sure why you're picking on this guy. What part of what he said here isn't true?
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    01/02/09

    In reply to French Guy Pats America On Head For Electing Obama
    Oh, and I am thrilled that we are officially smart again, should mention that.
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    01/02/09

    In reply to French Guy Pats America On Head For Electing Obama
    I would like to see the entire picture from which this was cropped. Because I think he is grabbing some guy's derriere or something.
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    01/02/09

    In reply to French Guy Pats America On Head For Electing Obama
    This is what Blagojavitch will look like in 20 years.
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    01/02/09

    In reply to French Guy Pats America On Head For Electing Obama
    We told people that junk was triple-A all the time! That's why Americans own most of the nice parts of France now and the French are stuck glumly eating froglegs in the accursed countryside.
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