Per NYMag:
… America’s spry great-uncle was in his element at his annual picnic for members of the media and their families. On this first day of summer, reporters brought their children over to Biden’s residence at the U.S. Naval Observatory for live music, an inflatable obstacle course, and a water-gun fight with the vice president, who just returned from a fun-looking trip to Rio…
(There’s video at the link of Biden congratulating the U.S. soccer team, in his best Uncle Joe mode.)
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What’s on the agenda as we wrap up the weekend?
satby
I’m meltingggg…
tybee
he appears to be thoroughly enjoying his role as VP.
HelloRochester
Why does Her Royal Inevitable Majesty have to eff our chances of having that handsome kind well intended salt of the earth sonofagun as our next President?
lol
Super soakers are the new tire swings I guess.
Betty Cracker
Drinking a fine claret on the porch and watching the mister compost the remnants of Garden I 2014 in preparation for the planting of Garden II. There’s something so relaxing about indolently watching someone else’s toil from a shady spot.
Violet
Love Joe Biden. Can he be President next, please?
Which of those kids in the pictures is the next nepotism hire by our Village media betters?
Violet
@Betty Cracker: Did you figure out something nice to make him for dinner? How’s he doing after visiting his dad?
Anne Laurie
@Betty Cracker: My favorite Spanish proverb: How wonderful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterwards.
Villago Delenda Est
“Stupid people are ruining America”
I agree. The stupid people are voting for shitstains like Herman Cain, and are teabaggers.
James E. Powell
Let’s say it breaks like this. Hillary says “no” – for health reasons or something else not political. Joe Biden steps up and says, “I’m your man.”
A) What are the downsides?
B) Does he win the nomination in a walk or face a hotly contested primary season?
C) Who is on the ticket with him? (Names or descriptions)
Corner Stone
@Violet:
Dinner? Sounds nice, but there’s one surefire way to lift his spirits.
Violet
@Corner Stone: In an earlier thread Betty mentioned cooking dinner.
Corner Stone
@Violet: Yes, I am aware. Steak Diane is nice, and all. But it’s a poor second to what would really make him happy/lift spirits.
Violet
@James E. Powell:
A Trans Am. Biden/Trans Am 2016!
gene108
@HelloRochester:
Joe “I did everything in my power to make Anita Hill look bad” Biden, when he was chair of the Senate Judiciary committee during the Clarence Thomas nomination process?
Joe “Senator MBNA” Biden, who overhauled the bankruptcy rules making discharging debts in personal bankruptcy harder?
I’m sorry, but he’s a lot less pure than he appears to be as Vice President. He’s probably a nice guy, but he does have as much or more baggage, with regards to liberal purity as Hillary.
EDIT: Biden also voted for going to war in Iraq, in the fall of 2002, along with Hillary and most Congressional Democrats.
@tybee:
Who wouldn’t like to be Vice President?
You have one job: break ties in the Senate.
Otherwise you get a swank residence, nice pay check and technically you do not have to do diddly squat.
All you have to do is keep tabs on the President being young and healthy enough to complete the term, the Secret Service is on the ball and Air Force One gets the necessary maintenance.
NotMax
Posted a link sometime earlier and nary a peep about it then.
But as still fuming with revulsion from reading about this grim harbinger of first-generation corporate airborne repression, will mention it again.
The veneer of anonymity currently afforded by reference to an “international mining company” cannot – must not – be given leeway to continue hiding the extensive rot beneath.
catclub
@Anne Laurie: Hobbes ( of Calvin and )put as:
“Sometimes I’m sitting and thinking,.. and then I wake up.”
catclub
@gene108: Too bad Dick Cheney never heard that job description. The world and Iraq would be better places.
YellowJournalism
So POTUS is having the EPA do a study on the bee population decline. And wingnuts are freaking out (of course). I just don’t see Hillary doing these types of things in office.
mai naem
I like Biden and would be perfectly happy to vote for him. I do think the GOP will have a field day with his verbal flubs but they’re going to pull crap on anybody the Dems run so whatever.
I’ve been watching HGTV a little too much and I swear to god I will smack somebody up the head if I hear “open concept” room again. Also too, these people buying/fixing their places up are seriously idiotic. Ooooh, the granite is dated – the perfectly good cabinets are dated – stainless steel appliances are dated – a buyer is just not “feeling” it with a massive pool. WTF is wrong with you? And who puts small mosaic tiles on the damn backsplash? Are you serious? Whose idea is to put mosaic tile on a shower wall? Does anybody care about how you keep this stuff clean? Dumbasses.
catclub
@Violet: There was just a post I read somewhere about Obama doing lots of good things for Transgender folks. I did not know they had a candidate, yet.
mai naem
@YellowJournalism: I heard that and I have to say why has this not already been done? The bee stuff has been going on for several years. Even the rural farmer teabaggers actually truly would understand that bees are essential for a lot of their work.
NCGuido
Biden is 10x better than anyone the refugs can put up.
geg6
I just love that guy. He has had more fun as VP than anyone has a right to be.
WaterGirl
@gene108: I hope you are kidding. If not, you seem to have missed a lot of the past 5-6 years.
Schlemizel
John Nance Garner for one
TaMara (BHF)
Sigh. He is a handsome gentleman with a way of just saying it like it is. I’l play water gun fight with him anytime.
Schlemizel
@NotMax:
Sigh – I missed your earlier post I guess this is the first I heard of this. Its too depressing to contemplate. The folks behind it need to be identified and exposed for what they are. My guess is worse is yet to come.
Schlemizel
@YellowJournalism:
Why not? Studies are a cheap and ineffective way to get things done. It is literally the least one can do.
Jay C
@James E. Powell:
A) His age.
B) Would depend on the primary competition, but I’m still guessing “walk”
C) Kirsten Gillibrand
YellowJournalism
@mai naem: I hate-watch a lot of HGTV shows like House Hunters or that new flipping show with the vapid couple who have terrible taste and overdo their renos for the neighborhood. When I heard that marble tiles in a bathroom is now dated, so they put in travertine, I rolled my eyes so hard it hurt!
I used to love Property Virgins when the realtor Sandy was on because she would get to a point of subtly letting buyers they were full of shit and unrealistic in their expectations.
dan
@Schlemizel: Yeah! Why can’t Obama just take action without studying the problem! Makes you kinda miss The Decider.
WereBear
@YellowJournalism: My mother (who has lots of real estate experience) and I used to watch some show about preparing the house for sale. Which was always “move out half the furniture and paint everything beige.”
My mother concurred, saying that most people have zero visual imagination. They can’t mentally put their furniture in the new space, or “see” it in a different color, without considerable help.
Which astonishes me.
Mnemosyne
@WereBear:
As a knitter, I can tell you that there are a fair number of people who can’t “see” a pattern in a different color than the one the sample was knitted in, so they’ll skip past a sweater pattern because they don’t like yellow or whatever.
I don’t get it either, but it’s pretty common.
debbie
@dan: Or not.
WereBear
It blows my mind because my own mind does that sort of thing automatically. But it does point up how some people have sort of sub-par imaginations, and I believe this is a learned behavior, because I’ve raised teens, and the common phrase, “What were you thinking!?!” points up that they don’t know how yet.
And some of them never learn.
Higgs Boson's Mate
@NotMax:
This is just a use of technology that’s been around for a while. It will be interesting to see if the Parliament of South Africa will have the stones to endanger the flow of income from South Africa’s mines by forbidding this kind of remote-control strikebreaking. My guess is that after the outraged speeches the drones will fly on.
tybee
@Schlemizel:
doesn’t the 2nd amendment cover the purchase and use of Stingers?
Higgs Boson's Mate
@tybee:
Perhaps a better question to ask is why the post-apartheid government of South Africa hasn’t already intervened and settled the issues of wages and conditions. That South Africa’s notorious and innovative arms companies are seeing an opportunity here is telling.
lol
@gene108:
Not most Congressional Democrats, most Democratic Senators. Vast majority of House dems opposed, to their credit.
Wag
Joe is my hero.
Anne Laurie
@Violet:
Heck, he can just volunteer to keep his current job, enjoy all the VP perks & avoid the whinging about too old! not progressive enough! from all points of the compass. President Obama is forbidden a third term, but I don’t think the rules say anything about three-peating as Vice!
If HRC’s at the head of the ticket, this way there are no Dems in disarray! stories for the media villagers to invent. And if our candidate is Kirsten Gillibrand or Martin O’Malley or one of the other “young” Dems, he can be the “experienced in foreign policy, has eaten dinner with each & every head of state” guy for them
Ben Cisco
Wrapping up weekend one of having LittleMan and TinyDancer down for a fortnight while their mom works some double shifts. Every NeoConfederate that bitches about single mothers needs to get kicked in the nuts repeatedly because REASONS.
So, the toilet in the master bath goes kablooey. Enter one brand new American Standard high-riser, low-volume model complete with slow-lowering lid. All the GOTea-ers who bitched about this can also line up for a kick in the nuts.
Come to think of it, if I ruled the world, every GOPer would be BY DEFAULT be lined up for a kick in the junk. And a tumbrel ride.
Mnemosyne
@Ben Cisco:
That rant reminds me of the classic skit by the Frantics.
Ruckus
@Mnemosyne:
Fantastic. Goes great with a fine rant.
g
Ole handsome Joe!
xian
@Betty Cracker: since ms. xian is the gardener in the family, I experience this vaguely guilty bliss routinely, although i do miss my old hammock.
xian
@YellowJournalism: why wouldn’t she? do you think Obama comes up with every progressive idea personally?