Remember when Joe Biden was selected to campaign with Barack Obama to give the team foreign policy statesman credits? Over the past six years we have heard gaffe after gaffe come from the mouth of Biden, and the response is always, “Oh, that’s just old Joe being Joe.”
While the new Defense Secretary Ashton Carrter was speaking, Vice President Joe Biden placed his hands on the shoulders of Carter’s wife, Stephanie, and whispered in her ear. (Evan Vucci for AP)
Enough with the excuses. Two separate awkward moments involving Biden this week were inexcusable. The first incident took place during the swearing-in ceremony of the new Defense Secretary Ashton Carter. While Carter was at the lectern speaking, Biden placed both hands on the shoulders of Carter’s wife, Stephanie, for a period of about 20 awkward seconds before leaning over and whispering something in her ear. Biden supporters brushed it off as, “Biden being Biden.”
Later in the day, appearing before a group of religious and community leaders, including some of Muslim and African descent, Biden attempted to draw a parallel between the Somali community in Minneapolis to that of his hometown of Wilmington, Delaware, which “has a large, very identifiable Somali community.”
“I might add, if you ever come to the train station you may notice that I have great relations with them, because an awful lot of them are driving cabs, and are friends of mine,” he stated. Click here to hear.
Some time ago, Biden said, “You cannot go into a 7-Eleven or Dunkin Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent.” That, too, was laughed off.
Incidentally, PolitiFacts reported that while there are some 35,000 Somalis in Minneapolis, there are just 15 (fifteen) in the entire state of Delaware.
The only thing worse than Biden being Biden is seeing the president demean the office of the presidency while appearing for an interview with a woman who wears green lipstick and eats Fruit Loops while in a bathtub filled with milk?
Where’s the outrage?
