Gah. Here it is Wednesday — hump day, no less – and we’re feeling pretty good about the state of Fat America. The primaries Tuesday were fun; a doofus, philandering, holier-than-thou, abstinence-only education turd burglar got caught boning someone on his staff and was forced to resign; and there was a two-for-one at Costco on mayonnaise (joke!).
Then we read this little nugget on CNN’s Political Ticker:
It was the F-word heard around the world and now Vice President Biden has expressed regret to a Kentucky teenager for using the crude language during the signing ceremony of the health care reform legislation in March.
“I should have expressed my excitement in a more appropriate manner,” Biden wrote in a two-paragraph letter to high school student Brandon Halcomb. The letter comes after the 16-year old penned an open letter to the vice president criticizing his choice of language, according to Kentucky’s WYMT News.
Cuh-rist. Vice President Joe Biden finally commits a gaffe that he doesn’t need to apologize for and then he apologizes for it. The gaffe that has inspired White House-condoned T-shirts!
And why? So some mouth-breathing nerd teen who’s probably practicing abstinence because no cheerleader will touch him can feel better about himself. Except he doesn’t! Check it:
But Holcomb, who says he’s not sure if he is a Republican or a Democrat, isn’t completely satisfied with the response.
“It was not really an apology, but that’s as close to an apology as I will be receiving,” he said.
Let’s make something clear. This kid is a Republican. We know because 1) Both Republicans and Democrats would have the thought, “Gee, maybe the V.P. shouldn’t say stuff like that,” and 2) Only a Republican would demand an apology. Also: The Vice President of the United States addressed your dumb demand directly, kid. Show a little respect.
The Kentucky teenager also said he will continue to make sure politicians are responsible for their actions.
“They are role models,” he said. “They need to watch what they say in front of people and realize they influence other people’s lives.”
OK! We’re sure the kid is drafting letters of admonition and demands for apology from John Edwards, John McCain, Michael Steele, Mark Sanford, John Ensign, and…God, this list could go on forever.
And Joe, don’t apologize for saying the coolest thing any V.P. has said since Aaron Burr said, “Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done.” Of course, he went ahead and shot Alexander Hamilton anyway, something that definitely could have used another day’s deliberation, but that’s not the point.
The point is that you’ve uttered one for the history books, Joe, and you’ve continued to be you despite fears that you’d become less than you. So well done! And huzzah!
What I don’t understand is: the ceremony was on a Tuesday morning, and this kid was presumably in school. I’m guessing that he didn’t watch it live in class considering everyone was all pissy about Obama’s socialist stay-in-school video earlier this year, and as I recall, what Biden said was bleeped after the live feed.
Did Mr. My-Ears-Hurt-From-Hearing-Bad-Words go out of his way to hear the word “fucking”? Because I’m pretty sure that’s what he did.
Now he owes me an apology for making me think.
Hey Brandon! Fuck you! Now go get writer’s cramp writing to your Rethuglican heroes! Zoom to ten years from now when this shithead is in a Kentucky school board asking for history to be re-written in school books. Little bastard!
Then zoom to 20 years when he’s sitting in the Congress as the first black woman president gives the State of the Union address and he calls up his Rethuglican hero and yells You lie! Turdhead.
Wow, I guess it is people like you all who never fail to amaze me. Just like you all are assuming what you are assuming about this teen, I’m assuming also: you all are classless! What is wrong with morals and values; oh, I get it–you have no clue what they are. Why is it that people who don’t bow down to our leaders today are Republicans? I’m a Democrat and I’m still appalled that the VP said that word at such a historic moment. I guess I was raised during a time when people were held accountable for what they said or did.
Wow, need I say more?
Nope! Your half-witted reduction of everything has suited you this far in life, so why change or bother to think now?
makes me wonder if she meant to name herself Sadie …
Well Dave, while we sit and wait for the day that Dick Cheney apologizes for his Fuck You! which was directed at a PERSON and not an exclamation, we can enjoy the fact that local, state and national Repubs in Indiana, California, South Carolina, et al are saying F-you! to the man upstairs, their wives and children while they sow their oats with other women and men! Even those who claim to be the most religious and conservative but not politicians like Rekers do it!