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RenfredDowell
04/30/09

In reply to Joe Biden: Run to the Hills, Run For Your Life
This serial exaggerator is one heart attack away from being The Man. How is he better than Dan Quayle? Answer: he's not.
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njoyurride
04/30/09

At least the media is going to cover up Biden's gaffes where they screamed out loudly Quayle's. Even his remark about Kennedy shows a deeper level of thinking than Biden's remarks today.
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Mediahohoho
04/30/09

@njoyurride: Yes, but no comments from Biden could ever top Dan Quayle telling an audience in South America that he wished he could speak Latin since he was visiting Latin America.
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ifstone
04/30/09

In reply to Joe Biden: Run to the Hills, Run For Your Life
Well, Cheney would link swine flu to Saddam's mobile bioweapons labs. We need to keep VP gaffes in perspective, and "There is no doubt that Saddam is pursuing nukes" and "Insurgency is in its last throes" are going to be hard to top.
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uninspired
04/30/09

In reply to Joe Biden: Run to the Hills, Run For Your Life
It's not as bad as Michele Bachmann's quote from a few days ago (crazy MN congresswoman):

"I find it interesting that it was back in the 1970s that the swine flu broke out then under another Democrat president Jimmy Carter. And I'm not blaming this on President Obama, I just think it's an interesting coincidence."
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BxgrlJeri
04/30/09

In reply to Joe Biden: Run to the Hills, Run For Your Life
Wash your hands and cover your mouth when coughing and stay home if you're sick. I'm not sure you get more controversial than that.
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Smitros
04/30/09

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I just learned that the European Commission is calling this "novel flu".

Remember, you can't get this from poetry, essays and children's books.
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Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate
04/30/09

In reply to Joe Biden: Run to the Hills, Run For Your Life
If we want a real panic in the media/politico circles, let's plant a rumor about a new spray-tan flu.
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JudgeFudge
04/30/09

In reply to Joe Biden: Run to the Hills, Run For Your Life
Yo, btw, I saw three people holding rags up to their faces on the subway this morning. Made me feel like my laziness will eventually get the best of me where swine flu is concerned.
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BadUncle
04/30/09

In reply to Joe Biden: Run to the Hills, Run For Your Life
Well, as long as we have a new plague, let's have a new Decammeron.
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Smitros
04/30/09

@BadUncle:

Or one could just pop a 40 and read "The Masque of the Read Death."
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BadUncle
04/30/09

@Smitros: Or watch the Vincent Price movie.
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relunctant entity
04/30/09

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Gawker has finally found a writer who can cater to my particular need for Iron Maiden song titles in political discussion.

Thank you!
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Smitros
04/30/09

@relunctant entity:

Thank you for not leaving me alone in noticing that.
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MrInBetween
04/30/09

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How'd you like to be Biden's flack, former TIME magazine bigwig, James Carney? Must suck being on pooper-scooper duty trailing the elephant in the parade.
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PandoraSpocks
04/30/09

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Two weeks from today, this is exactly what the CDC will be telling everyone to do. Maybe sooner.
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Hydroceph
04/30/09

In reply to Joe Biden: Run to the Hills, Run For Your Life
I just adore the way the hysteria's setting in. My son's been coughing this morning, and i'm already freaking out.
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HiredGoons
04/30/09

@Hydroceph: SHOOT IT IN THE HEAD! KILL IT WITH FIRE!!!
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Paul.B.Dodd
04/30/09

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I don't know. I'm somewhat worried. I'm suppose to attend a conference in DC for 2 days early next week. I'm thinking about not going.
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Mount_Prion
04/30/09

@Paul.B.Dodd: Yes. Because there's a 1-in-300,000,000 chance that you'll catch swine flu. And also there's a chance that it might be worse than normal flu!
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Smitros
04/30/09

@Paul.B.Dodd:

From my desk in DC, I would say don't sweat it. I have an event scheduled in Manhattan next week, and I'll take my chances in both places.
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Lizawithazee
04/30/09

@Paul.B.Dodd: @Almostbanned [jezebel took away my star]: The most dangerous part of your trips will probably be the trips to and from the airport, statistically speaking.
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Almostbanned
04/30/09

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Huh. Its interesting that such stupidity is accepted with a shrug from Obama's VP.
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secretagentman
04/30/09

@Almostbanned [jezebel took away my star]: Who cares if he's stupid. It's not like he has any power over anything. At least he's not "Death Incarnate-Cheney".
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Almostbanned
04/30/09

@secretagentman: But I thought that Sarah Palin would have been a national catastrophe as VP because she wasn't nearly as smart as Obama either. But its cool if Biden is an idiot though.
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BxgrlJeri
04/30/09

@Almostbanned [jezebel took away my star]: No it's because McCain/Palin stupidity is dangerous and Biden by himself is just kinda endearing. O is not going to allow him to drill, baby, drill and Biden doesn't want to.

Instead of wrecking the environment and killing defenseless animals while advocating for the population soar out of control with breeding hillbillies, Biden just kinda chuckles about staying home when you're sick.

Big freaking difference.
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eatsshootsleaves
04/30/09

@Almostbanned [jezebel took away my star]: Yeah, Biden really isn't an idiot -- he's just a guy who occasionally puts his foot in his mouth. I'm glad that Obama is president right now and not him, but I have no doubt he has the skill and experience and intellect to handle the office.
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quatrevingtquatre
04/30/09

@Almostbanned [jezebel took away my star]:
I don't think he's stupid, I think he has no filter between his head and his mouth. Additionally, the difference between him and Sarah Palin is that I don't get the impression from Joe Biden that his eventual goal is to be President.
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OldSpinDoc
04/30/09

@thatonegirlsays: Yea, you're right.

He's never wanted to be president before...
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celery
04/30/09

Whoa, no need to get defensive about Biden. People still have a decent impression of him because the media still wants them to, unlike Palin, where pretty much every quote in the blogosphere's Palin handbook was taken out of context, actually spoken by Fey, or outright manufactured (Just commenting on the campaign, not agreeing with policy, so no need to get all up in arms).

Just be glad that the groupthink on the idiot who agrees with your policies is better than the groupthink on the one who doesn't. That, and Biden didn't have a terrible interview with Couric.
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Richard Lawson
04/30/09

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"I don't take subways. I travel exclusively by motorcade. And I suggest all Americans do the same."
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Mount_Prion
04/30/09

@Richard Lawson: If only all Americans could take the subway. Then I might actually leave NYC at some point.
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BxgrlJeri
04/30/09

@Mount_Prion: Srsly. I remember traveling around the US extensively in my early 20s and in every city and town I would ask, "How do you get to the subway?" and most people did the "You are from Jupiter. Leave our vicinity immediately." response.
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