Joe's Taking Off The Kid Gloves, Ready To Put The Beat Down!

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Vice President Joe Biden speaks during a campaign stop at the Bridge View Center on Tuesday, Sept. 18 in Ottumwa, Iowa.(AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

http://nationaljournal.com/politics/caption-this-the-best-photo-of-joe-biden-this-week-so-far--20120919

watch full speech:

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1. "they're both decent men"

referring to Rmoney and Eddie. Not exactly removal of the gloves to me. He needs to quit acting like anyone in the piglican party is decent or a human being for that matter.

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3. Damning with faint praise.

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6. Or couldn't it be verbal irony like that used..

.. by Shakespeare's Marc Antony when speaking about Brutus
being an honorable man?

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones;
So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus
Hath told you Caesar was ambitious:
If it were so, it was a grievous fault,
And grievously hath Caesar answer'd it.
Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest -
For Brutus is an honourable man;
So are they all, all honourable men -
Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral.
He was my friend, faithful and just to me:
But Brutus says he was ambitious;
And Brutus is an honourable man.
He hath brought many captives home to Rome
Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill:
Did this in Caesar seem ambitious?
When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept:
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff:
Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;
And Brutus is an honourable man.
You all did see that on the Lupercal
I thrice presented him a kingly crown,
Which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition?
Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;
And, sure, he is an honourable man.
I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke,
But here I am to speak what I do know.
You all did love him once, not without cause:
What cause withholds you then, to mourn for him?
O judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason. Bear with me;
My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar,
And I must pause till it come back to me.

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8. +1 We need a Duzy-type contest for the most literary posts.

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4. you may not get this

. . . but it's just not going to work for the President (or Joe) to make the campaign against the republican rival appear to be a personal grudge match.

Besides, that was just the opening handshake. Joe is a gentleman, and most folks will recognize that little nicety as nothing more than a set-up for the knockout punch.

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5. cool shirt

[Matariki]

7. OMG just look at that shirt!