Comments on: Panicked Biden: Avoid Planes, Subways

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 01 May 2009 21:15:35 +0000

““I think the vice president misrepresented what the vice president wanted to say,” said White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs.”

That really is a classic.

By: JohnMG

JohnMG — Fri, 01 May 2009 17:18:31 +0000

He looked vaguely like Boris Yeltzen in this video.

By: Enthalpy

Enthalpy — Fri, 01 May 2009 17:10:20 +0000

It seems that with each passing day( or is it with each surgical procedure) Joe is looking more and more Chinese. Is this an omen, or is there simply a need for a better plastic surgeon?

By: caligirl9

caligirl9 — Fri, 01 May 2009 14:01:38 +0000

Uh, uh, uh, he “misrepresented what he wanted to say.” Good job!
From the LA Times.

White House adjusts Biden’s swine flu advice

Officials seek to undo the damage after the vice president goes his own way, saying he’d tell family members to avoid planes, trains and other enclosed spaces.

A crack appeared Thursday in a White House communications operation known for staying on message — in the form of a vice president with a habit of speaking his mind.

It happened when Joe Biden went on a morning talk show and, almost as if he hadn’t gotten talking points, veered off the team’s message about how to avoid swine flu.

Biden said he was telling his family members to avoid confined spaces such as planes and subway trains. The trouble is, the administration is trying to tamp down alarm over the flu with a message about skipping only unnecessary travel to Mexico and simply staying home when feeling sick…

I removed Biden’s remarks for space

The U.S. travel industry was quick to complain about the comments, and the White House scrambled to respond. It first issued a statement repackaging the vice president’s words, and later offered a shrug and an apology.

The gaffe was a reminder of Biden’s penchant for the impolitic comment, a sometimes embarrassing habit that can have greater consequences now that he is vice president.

Noting in a letter to President Obama that Biden is a “very senior administration official,’ Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Vista) said that the vice president’s words “could do unnecessary and irreparable harm to the airline and travel industries.”

Industry officials agreed.

“Elected officials must strike a delicate balance of accurately and adequately informing citizens of health concerns without unduly discouraging travel and other important economic activity,” said Roger Dow, president of the U.S. Travel Assn.

The State Department has issued an advisory warning against travel to Mexico, but the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is not suggesting that people shun public transportation.

Instead of seeking to rebut the travel industry’s criticism, the White House admitted error and tried to move on.

“I think the vice president misrepresented what the vice president wanted to say,” said White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs.

“The advice he is giving family members is the same advice the administration is giving to all Americans: That they should avoid unnecessary air travel to and from Mexico,” said Elizabeth Alexander, the vice president’s spokeswoman, rewriting Biden’s words a bit.

“If they are sick, they should avoid airplanes and other confined public spaces, such as subways,” she said.

Later in the day, Gibbs was pressed about the discrepancy between Biden’s original words and the White House’s.

“I understand what he said. I’m telling you what he meant to say,” Gibbs said.

“Obviously, if anyone was alarmed, we apologize for that.”

http://www.latimes.com/news/na.....4907.story

The whole bunch of ‘em, no muffler between brain and mouth!

By: canary

canary — Fri, 01 May 2009 05:08:18 +0000

Well, birds of a feather flock together. Dont’ forget Hillary’s dodging bullets and 9/11 Central park jog, Al Gore.

Obama’s first 100 lies

http://redblueamerica.com/blog.....-lies-4098

150 more Obama’s lies. Scroll down a bit, and they are different then the others.
http://obamawtf.blogspot.com/2.....e-had.html

By: Liberals Demise

Liberals Demise — Fri, 01 May 2009 01:15:34 +0000

Would that be considered a “Man Made Disaster?”

By: BatK

BatK — Fri, 01 May 2009 00:18:50 +0000

It’s still appalling to me how EASILY Biden, Obama, Pelosi, Reid, etc just lie. and lie. And it’s not even little lies. Huge, ridiculous, lies. Lies that anybody actually paying attention will immediately pick up… Like our president conveniently “not knowing” anything that makes him look bad (Wright, Air Force 1, Blago, Rezko, Soros, Ayers, etc etc etc). Like our Vice President claiming he had all of those opportunities to stick it to President Bush. Like the Speaker of the House claiming she knew nothing about waterboarding even though she was briefed on it back in 2002. It’s not even the blind leading the blind. It’s the liars purposefully leading the blind into a ditch…but fleecing their pockets first.

By: Barbie

Barbie — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 23:41:27 +0000

So what does the WH expect when they let Biden go out in public without a leash (or muzzle in this case)?

By: proreason

proreason — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 23:05:36 +0000

LD: We aren’t talking about “Scare Force One”

The pea moves under a new shell every day.

The chaos is deliberate. It distracts the serfs from the main agenda…..making sure we stay serfs forever.

Something major happened with the budget designed to squash 3 generations in the last few days, but I can’t even find out what it was. Think about it, the plan to impoverish your grandchildren can’t crack through Biden’s whoop of the day, the 100 day nonsense, torture with catepillars, and the puppies.

And then there is the end of civilization looming in Pakistan.

But I do know there is a magazine cover is coming out soon with the Moron with his shirt off.

Amazing.

By: canary

canary — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 23:01:37 +0000

Biden contradicts himself twice.
He says no blocking borders or “classrooms”
then slips in announcing his examples in the gategory of enclosed places to avoid, …”subways, airplanes” and …..”classrooms”.

Biden said Sphincter did not leave the Republican Party, but it was the Right that “left” his “friend”. Biden describing Sphincter as his “longtime”, close, personal, friend & “confident!” Sphincter “left” the right people. He never was the right person.

By: Liberals Demise

Liberals Demise — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 22:51:26 +0000

We aren’t talking about “Scare Force One” and the Angry Negro in the White House anymore.
“Hey look over there….it’s Superman!”

By: Liberals Demise

Liberals Demise — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 19:38:47 +0000

If not this “CRISIS” then there would be some other “CRISIS”.
Notice how many we’ve been through in the past 101 days…….
If everyone watches the airships, noone notices the pickpockets!!

By: catie

catie — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 19:35:55 +0000

You know LD, I was in 4th grade and they made the entire school get those shots. One of the boys who was in second grade wound up almost dying from it. For almost a month we were in Mass everyday praying for Blaine. I’m afraid we’re heading down this road again and the answer will be no for my kiddos.
My late paternal grandmother’s first husband died in that 1918 flu epidemic on Christmas Eve of all days (just like old Marley she used to say). But even then she wasn’t interested in either my grandfather or her getting the shots.
BatK, just wait a few days, they’ll blame the Jews.

By: BatK

BatK — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 19:14:52 +0000

I believe it… I’m just wondering WHY they are hyping this so much? Is it to distract from the socialist economic agenda they’re trying to push, or simply a way to convince panicked people about the “need” for some sort universal healthcare/big brother to “take care” of us? Unlike the black plague, thankfully they can’t blame this one on the Jews… though I wouldn’t put it past the UN to try

By: JohnMG

JohnMG — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 17:34:16 +0000

…..“I have been working on that in earnest for the past four years and double time for the past 100 days (as vice president),”

Poor Joe. If it took him four years and 100 days, what does that say for his capabilities? Most of us could have persuaded Arlen Sphincter to jump ship with a ‘ten-dollars-off-your-next-abortion’ certificate and a Hershey bar. How hard is that?