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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsVP: “You see this fella next to me? What a goddamn joke.”
?w=584&h=413Mary Elizabeth Williams: Bidens laugh is utterly brutal because it takes Paul Ryan, the marathon-exaggerating, dumbbell-curling, wannabe manly man and does the absolute worst thing imaginable to a guy like that. It points at him and makes him a fool. It says, Yeah, tell me another one, Backwards Baseball Cap. Its at once furious and dismissive. It understands that at the heart of humor theres a howl of pain. That why its the favorite weapon of choice of the trod-upon. And it says to the American voters the most undermining thing imaginable: You see this fella next to me? What a goddamn joke.
http://www.salon.com/2012/10/12/joe_bidens_secret_weapon_laughter/
Frustratedlady
(16,254 posts)Those photos were taken in a studio. Sheesh! Put that ego in a bushel basket!!!
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)P.S. My 72-year-old husband can best this twerp.
BumRushDaShow
(129,041 posts)for their " Whatever) of the Year" issue last year...
emulatorloo
(44,127 posts)Contrary1
(12,629 posts)I think the weight that he is holding is marked 40, not 90.
Didn't get it at first
calimary
(81,281 posts)emulatorloo
(44,127 posts)roguevalley
(40,656 posts)because if they ever decided to mock them, they were toast. If you want to take power and position away from someone, you mock them. The Pugs have been doing it for eons. They smirk, they mock, they condescend. When it happens to them, they whine. In the Celtic world, all you had to do was sit down outside someone's house if you had a grudge and stay there telling anyone who passed by what your grudge was, the mockingly the better. It usually got settled. Fast.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)PearliePoo2
(7,768 posts)"Big Bird called and he wants his legs back!"
flamingdem
(39,313 posts)matt819
(10,749 posts)or are they photoshopped.
Indpndnt
(2,391 posts)janx
(24,128 posts)Are they photoshopped? They can't be real...?
onehandle
(51,122 posts)Ryan is that much of an egotistical douchebag.
Holy shit!!!
Is this part of the campaign or what? I mean, what possible occasion could have inspired these pictures?! It is one of the stupidest things I've ever seen in politics!!
savannah43
(575 posts)Same ego type. God's gift to women.
DarleenMB
(408 posts)last election was right here on DU when a woman posted that she and her husband had been watching Palin on TV and her DH turned to her and asked if they really thought he was going to vote for her with a beer in one hand and his d*ck in the other.
Well, we now have the male version of Palin. Us wimmenfolk are supposed to daintily swoon at his manliness, his purty blue eyes and thus enchanted will pull the proverbial lever for the Rmoney/lyin' Ryan ticket.
So we have it. The rethugs believe that the majority of Americans, male AND female, vote with their gonads not their brains. It's just more of the same ol.
Lyin' Ryan = Dan Quayle 2.0
Indpndnt
(2,391 posts)savannah43
(575 posts)Indpndnt
(2,391 posts)And they did!
NickB79
(19,246 posts)He was actually in one of their promotional DVD's, from what I've read.
onehandle
(51,122 posts)Indpndnt
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99Forever
(14,524 posts)Glimmer of Hope
(5,823 posts)Control-Z
(15,682 posts)They seem to have trouble that way so it's quite possible they'll help spread this one around.
(just a side note: I was married to a body builder. That dumbbell is the size he used to make me use when I trained with him - and I'm a girl.)
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)speedoo
(11,229 posts)But he is also dangerous and we have to remember that.
Lars39
(26,109 posts)It's that he had the incredibly bad judgement to have had them taken in the first place.
NickB79
(19,246 posts)Nice arms, but man those are some twiggy legs.
malaise
(269,008 posts)a pathological LIAR and an effing featherweight
onethatcares
(16,168 posts)I'm 61 and have a better set of pipes than he does, and I don't have a congressional gym either.
malaise
(269,008 posts)EC
(12,287 posts)he looked cool in those pics? He posed for a major magazine. Geezz.....
ewagner
(18,964 posts)dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)NOT.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)revolutioncoming
(1 post)ooooo ooooo oooo Mr Koter, Mr Koter....
Maybe I can be VP
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Welcome to DU, revolutioncoming!