This actually appeared in Politico today:
He’s No. 2 on the ticket but No. 1 in their hearts.
Women born before the baby boom generation seem to have a collective crush on a handsome vice presidential candidate with piercing blue eyes and a wide smile who likes to talk about government benefits for seniors. No, not Paul Ryan.
Joe Biden’s bringing sexy back — to the Medicare-eligible set — and that could be valuable for a president who trails Republican rival Mitt Romney with women of a certain age despite having a wide advantage with their 18- to 65-year-old counterparts.
I actually am at a loss for words.
Did Drudge link to it? Or has he been to busy making himself look comical, again.
I can totally see it. He’s a bit old for me but have you seen pictures of him when he was younger, or of his son? Hot!
Like I said recently, he should be touring the retirement communities of Arizona and Florida. I just didn’t mention this factor, but since you bring it up…
Lissen up…
He and his wife most obviously have a real sexual connection. Old-timey, a little…but…what wrong wid dat, exactly? I mean…she made a mistaken double-entendre on the speech platform while introducing her husband and was still both ladylike enough (Yes, that’s what I said, ladylike. Deal wid it.) and funky enough to be simultaneously a little embarrassed and also a little turned on by it all. Joe too. They’re real people. More “real” than the talking point-obsessed Obamas, for sure.
Check it out.
No uptight shit.
No “Ooops!!! I shloudn’t have said/done that!!!”
Just real-life mistake on a real-folks level.
Let Mitt and his magic underwear equal that shit. Or Barack, Michelle and their “Make no mistakes while bantering with the talk show hosts!!! It might mean the end of the world!!!” crap.
Good folks, these two.
How’d he get so far?
Is a puzzlement.
AG
I agree with your comments on the Bidens. That is one the best political YouTubes ever. As for how Joe got so far, I don’t know. But the devil took more than his due.
I dunno about the “devil took more han his due” idea, but Joe? He’s a Celtic stud. Bet on it. I’ve got lots of them in my family and…dumb, smart or somewhere in between…I like the act.
Yes I do.
AG
I’d really be pleased to have people like that for neighbors and friends. They seem quite comfortable with themselves and each other. Anybody who can laugh at themselves like they did when the big eye is upon them are more than ok with me. They’re the genuine article.
Regarding the devil, there is a detail in here:
Biden’s a Scorpio? Hmmmmmmm!!!
Finnegan is a great name!
It’s a surname in Ireland
There’s plenty of younger** ladies that like Handsome Old Joe also. Too.
Ryan? {shudder}
**Define as you see fit.
Okay! Back to serious thoughts!
Haha, at Wonkette, they call him Old Handsome Joe Biden. And I have to agree, he is still a good-looking man. What I find appealing about Old Handsome Joe is that he radiates honesty and charm. He’s sweet and kind, but he can be steely and tough, especially when talking about causes that he believes in.
So, don’t be too dismissive of the thought that Joe’s just another old politician. He’s pretty damned cool.
North Carolina Poll: Obama By 2 Points, 20-Point Advantage Among Early Voters
Would love to hear Kay or Zandar’s take on this. It sounds promising.
Turnout for first day of early voting nearly double that of 2008
darn, disregard first sentence. that’s what I get for cutting and pasting…lol
My 75 year old Mom is definitely crushing on Joe Biden–but she has a picture of the President on her wall. My grandmother had a picture of FDR on her wall too.
There is a LOT to admire about Jill Biden.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jill_Biden
She is the real deal. And you can admire Joe Biden because he managed to get a women like her to love him.
And THAT is where all this comes from. Don’t think for a minute that women don’t know the attributes of Mrs. Biden, and admire Joe by proxy.
I would be proud as hell to have such a woman as FLOTUS.
BTW, have you noticed that the replicans just cannot come up with a pair that matches Michelle and Jill?
nalbar
Lot’s to respect, and she is also
Hot
Did you lose your breath as you were trying to embrace your feelings – so much so that it required a second comment for you to put it out there?
Umm, he actually is the vice president, not just a candidate. Just sayin’.
they were trying to convince you that they were talking about Ryan.
Fox and Drudge have been teasing a shocking video of Obama from several years back. “Obama’s OTHER race speech!!!” ONLY on Hannity!
What a dud. Big surprise, huh?
I saw that “shocking” video 4 years ago and it fell flat even then. Tucker Carlson (then on MSNBC) used it at around the time Fox was playing out-of-context clips of Rev. Wright’s sermons. In the secret video they found on YouTube where it has been for like 6 years, then Senator (or candidate for Senate) Obama makes a speech to a BLACK audience and he sounds… BLACK! You know, the way BLACK people talk at their BLACK churches! And he pays tribute to his pastor, Jeremiah Wright! ZOMG!!!!111!
Yes, it turns out that Barack Obama is even blacker than he’s been letting on, guys. That’s totally gonna disqualify him for the office of President. Oh, wait.
That’s Sean Hannity’s big scoop that’s supposed to take the pressure off of Mitt before the big debate. Pathetic.
President Obama is Black??? OMG!! Does his family know?
I’m very interested in this. No, not the video … the reaction.
First, does the MSM treat this as THE MOST IMPORTANT CAMPAIGN ISSUE EVER and run it on a 24×7 loop? Somehow I think they would have in 2000 or 2004, but in 2012 things are different and furthermore I think even the MSM has trouble jumping on the bandwagon when the bandwagon is obviously racist. They did do the Rev Wright thing for a while, but Wright was saying some stupid shit. This time they are explicitly making fun of Obamas skin color and speech.
Second, how does Obama react? I was indifferent between him and Clinton until I saw his reaction to Rev Wright. Right now he has a great opportunity to address this – be great if he can sneak in a bit of that response to Rev Wright speech at the debate tomorrow then directly ask Romney what he thinks of it – Romney is trying to be Mr Empathetic – how’s he going to deal with the contradiction of wanting to appeal to independents while his base is going apeshit about a video and sounding like Gabby Johnson shouting “He’s a NI…BONG!”
Thirdly, how do the middle voters react? Part of me still has PTSD from 2004 and fears that the middle voters will do a Swift Boats and think “where there’s smoke there’s fire”. Of course, Kerry was silent that August because of the campaign finance gap that month and the MSM was lapping it up – that won’t happen here.
But given recent development’s I’m very hopeful that this will backfire BIG TIME on the GOP. Their base is already as fired up as they are going to be (I live with them – trust me). You could literally get a video of Obama admitting that he was born in Kenya and his secret goal is to force every Christian woman to have abortions every year forever and they wouldn’t be more fired up than they are now.
But the middle voters – if this is handled right this could spark a backlash that will lead to a landslide. Middle voters voted for Obama in 2008. Middle voters don’t like racism – and even when they have some racist feelings, they love to counteract them – and white voters who voted for Obama loved that they could vote for a black man with pride. This might be the event that paints the GOP as racist for even the centrists to see.
You got me. I’m just a white guy who happily voted for him. But I would like to think that other white people who like to think of themselves as forward-looking people but did not vote for him for whatever reason could be upset by this and might be inclined to come to his defense if the topic comes up at the water cooler. He has earned their respect, whether they like his policies or not and he is everyone’s president.
I’m thinking of when Lush Rimjob used to have a part-time gig announcing football on some network and got fired for making some racist statement. I don’t recall there being alot of sympathy for him.
Of course there’s no hope for the hardcore racists out there. But Sean Hannity could get some blowback over this. Maybe from viewers, maybe from sponsors who don’t want to be associated with this ugliness. And wouldn’t it be nice if Mitt were asked to renounce Fox News for doing it?
There must have been a lot of white guys who voted for McCain because he was a war hero or a “maverick” who must disdain Romney and be thinking about voting Obama – who in their eyes was an inexperienced newbie then but who has earned his stripes and their respect since.
There is a lot of talk about Romney trying to win disenchanted Obama 2008 voters. What about Obama winning over some 2008 McCain voters now that McCain is no longer on the ticket?
I’m surprised about this myself because I know a small number of people who are historically Republican, of the Rockefeller-Eisenhower-Chafee mode, who were disgusted with Bush but who rallied behind McCain – and now see Romney as yet another Bush. Each of those people has basically given up on their party and is grudingly voting for Obama.
I guess that maybe 1% of the voting population fits that bill – but with so few swing voters that has to be significant.
More of the “women vote for men because they think they’re cute” crap. I seem to be seeing this everywhere.
I think a good look at most of the men in Congress would prove that they don’t.
Marketing rarely appeals to the logical rational side of the brain. It uses sexual desire, emotional needs, and aspirational envy to associate a product with what people (sometimes secretly or discretely) want, rather than what logic or rationality tell them is in their best interests. How else do the GOP get people to vote against their economic interests except by appeal to their sexual repression and religious mania?
Liberals think Romney sucks because of this policies. Conservatives think he sucks because he doesn’t embody their Christian puritanism.
Personality with a walk, personality with a talk, personality with a smile—-what twisted crap. Ask the Palestinians what they might think of Mr. Joe Biden.
Now don’t get me wrong, I like Joe Biden… but I think I just threw up in my mouth a little.