Time out from arguing - It's time to laugh
Joe Biden brought down the house at Gridiron
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For that matter, as Biden saw it, it wouldn’t hurt for Rahm Emanuel a fellow attendee whose foul mouthed reputation has followed him from Congress to the White House to master some house breaking skills as well.
The walls between his office and that of Obama’s chief of staff "are paper thin," Biden noted, likening the experience to "listening to ‘Sesame Street’ where every day is brought to you by the letter ‘F.’"
Some other zingers from Joe
Washington hotel that newspapers still have a vital role to play. "You can’t house break a puppy on the Internet," he said, citing "Champ," the Biden family’s newly acquired German Sheppard.
"Axelrod really wanted me to do this on teleprompter -- but I told him I’m much better when I wing it. ... I know these evenings run long, so I’m going to be brief. Talk about the audacity of hope. ... President Obama does send his greetings, though. He can’t be here tonight -- because he’s busy getting ready for Easter. (Whisper) He thinks it’s about him. ...
"Now let’s see: we have a Republican speaker who was born in Austria, and tonight’s Democratic speaker was born in Canada. Folks, this is Lou Dobbs’ worst nightmare. ...
"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 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.
Schwarzenegger
For his part, Schwarzenegger alleged that Emanuel "is concerned that some ninth graders are cursing only at the fifth grade level."