Joe cracks me up----

[jillan]

From the Gridiron Dinner -



“He can’t be here tonight, because he’s busy getting ready for Easter,” Biden told the crowd, “He thinks it’s about him.” (about Obama)

“I now realize that we have to be extra careful when we annunciate new policy ideas to make sure they don’t look like they’re personally motivated. For example, the other day there were a whole bunch of stories about the President’s hair going gray; the next day there’s a story about a Vice President who’s trying to grow new hair, and then the day after that, the two of us come out in favor of stem cell research. That looked bad.”

“You know, I never realized just how much power Dick Cheney had until my first day on the job. I walked into my office, and you know how the outgoing president always leaves the incoming president a note in his desk? I opened my drawer and Dick Cheney had left me Barack Obama’s birth certificate.”

I don't get this one -

“When I announced our stimulus package website, I was asked how you get to it: All I said was I didn’t know the website number. What I really meant to say was, ‘Ted Stevens didn’t tell me what tube the website is in.’”



:rofl: :rofl:

He's such a goofball...one of the many reasons why I'm a fan.

[Debi]

1. The Ted Stevens one or the Birth Certificate one?

I love that he doesn't take life so seriously - what a man.

[PatSeg]

2. I think he takes life seriously

but has the skill not to show it all the time.

[Debi]

4. I think I meant to say - himself

he has the ability to laugh...that's what I was trying to say.

[PatSeg]

5. Oh yes

I agree. I think life's hard knocks taught him a lot about humility and he's never afraid to poke fun at himself.

[jillan]

6. Oh - I get the birth certificate one. That was perfect.

But I have no clue about the Ted Stevens joke.

[Muttocracy]

8. I think Ted Stevens tried to explain the internet and said something

about it being a series of tubes for passing info? Something like that - I had no idea until I saw references to it on DU, and someone asked, and someone pointed them to a Wikipedia page about it.

[jillan]

9. ha - thanks for clearing that up for me.

Now the joke makes sense.

[Muttocracy]

10. there are worse analogies...here's the wiki thing

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_stevens#Internet_and_network_neutrality

[PatSeg]

11. Ted Stevens and the Internet Tubes

An all time classic!!! That's one video clip that never gets old.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ir_mKso_qc&feature=related
(very short version)

[PatSeg]

3. He was really funny

I hadn't heard the stem cell research one!

[jillan]

7. That's the best one :)