On Being Jack Kennedy
Biden’s use of the famous Lloyd Bentsen put-down of Dan Quail—“Senator, you’re no Jack Kennedy”—is getting pretty good play among the punditry. (Yay!) Now, hopefully, Obama and Biden will educate the public about the tax rates on the wealthy and on capital gains in, say, 1963.
And on whether, y’know, America was a European-style socialist country back then because of that—as Romney actually has claimed on several occasions during the last year.
And, in case you missed my update to my last post: The Washington Post’s Dana Milbank is the first pundit I know of thus far to GET IT.
Go, Dana!
joe biden is no bill clinton,he is like my drunk,rude,lying uncle at christmas .we put up with him because he is family.
Biden most definitely didn’t pass the “I’d-like-to-have-beer-with” test.
david you tossed in “lying” along with “rude”. They are not similar. I note that I have found no specific claims that Biden lied during the debate.
Sammy, I’d love to have a beer with Biden.
Robert,
Nightmare Scenario:
You’re in the hospital…… in traction….. and Joe Biden is in the next bed.
sammy,
eddie munster ain’t even sarah palin
he is more deluded
ryanster thinks a $250B a year navy is smallest since 1917
ryanster needs reasons to leave a quagmire
must be he clips coupons on Lockheed and Boeing notes
he want to rattle sword to win hearts and minds of martyr loving ayatollahs
the financial collapse is nothing like the mess reagan left GHW Bush
i’d have a beer with you, you buy
i’d have a beer with biden, too
i knew what malarky meant long b4 thursday
The mythology of Pres. Kennedy is much greater than the reality of Pres. Kennedy…. and I still regard November 1963 as the worst month of my life.
I agree with you, rusty, that the mythology of Kennedy is much greater than the reality. But he was in office only for less than three years, so ….