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Barack Obama @BarackObamaME: Joe, about halfway through the speech, Im gonna wish you a happy birth--
BIDEN: ITS MY BIRTHDAY!
ME: Joe.
Happy birthday to @JoeBiden, my brother and the best vice president anybody could have.
twitter.com/BarackObama/status/932685522820042754
2:02 PM - 20 Nov 2017
GeorgeHayduke
(1,227 posts)I just shit myself chuckling. I needed both, evidently.
MLAA
(17,310 posts)VMA131Marine
(4,142 posts)sandensea
(21,648 posts)Sure, Biden will be 78 in 2020 - but he'll be like a young whippersnapper compared to the dotard we have in power now.
onetexan
(13,050 posts)Biden is our best bet if the law can't install Hillary as the rightfil Potus.
Merlot
(9,696 posts)Installing anyone as POTUS is never a good idea.
Last time that happened we got gwdub.
onetexan
(13,050 posts)idiot colluded w russians to steal the electn from her. If she challenges there may be a chance she can & should be installed as resident.
sandensea
(21,648 posts)That's definitely what should happen. Unfortunately, there really is no remedy to a stolen election once the Electoral College votes (other than congressional impeachment, eventually).
Which makes it the second time Cheeto's profited from a bullshit college.
onetexan
(13,050 posts)it requires an unprecedented remedy. The wrong must be rightfully corrected and our Constitution and laws amended to ensure something like this never happens again. Otherwise it's free reign for the Repugs to do whatever the hell they want and screw the American people time and time again. They've been able to screw us three times now to 3 of our Dems candidates Gore, Kerry & now Hillary. Unless the law changes this will continue. They know they can't win unless they cheat so that's their modus operandi.
sandensea
(21,648 posts)and get two Marines to drag his larcenous orange ass kicking and screaming out of the White House (along with Dense Pence and the rest of the gang).
Ah. If wishes were horses, right?
onetexan
(13,050 posts)Americans do, and that if in the case it became absolutely necessary that a military coup would be better than the hell we're going through now. I hate to say that but this idiot in office is a danger to the etire world, not just the US.
sandensea
(21,648 posts)While it's true that Third world history is dotted with frequent military coups - many of them prompted by power struggles and other selfish motives - it's also true that numerous Third World dictators have fallen primarily thanks to massive demonstrations.
The Shah of Iran, Somoza, Argentina's 'Process' dictatorship (and the corrupt de la Rúa gov't. years later), Marcos, Duvalier, Pinochet, Eastern Europe's Communist dictatorships, Mobutu, Suharto, Mubarak, ben Ali (Tunisia), Yanukovich, and now, Mugabe, are just some of the dictators compelled to step aside not by a violent coup or foreign invasion; but above all because people stood united.
Unfortunately, in almost all these cases there was a common denominator as far as the respective peoples involved: economic desperation (some worse than others). It was, to some degree, a matter of life and death for them.
I pray we never get to that point. May this political crisis have a Nixon outcome, rather than a Ceaucescu one.
sakabatou
(42,165 posts)lillypaddle
(9,581 posts)samnsara
(17,625 posts)BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)My Vice President and President. They're the BEST!
Happy Birthday Joe!!
Mr. President, if you're reading here---I'd like to give you the biggest hug you ever had, even bigger than the hug you got from the guy who owns the pizza shop you stopped at. ☺️💙 🖖🏾
LakeArenal
(28,831 posts)BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)uponit7771
(90,348 posts)FirstLight
(13,362 posts)Love the one about the bottles....
Puzzler
(2,505 posts)-Puzzler
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)Hekate
(90,755 posts)SO MUCH
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)That was the time we had actual ADULTS in the WH. Good that they had each other, pitted against the useless gop representatives fighting them all the way. I hope this Russia investigation takes down many in the gop who received money from Russia.
nocalflea
(1,387 posts)The unmistakeable love and respect between these two men is beyond touching.
Their commitment to the greater good, over personal ambition, ego, and jealousy made this friendship possible .
What a great model for all of us to follow.
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,494 posts)longship
(40,416 posts)Joe was non-plused. He had no idea and broke out in tears. Yup! It was a mutual love fest. But this is what a president does in the best of times.
Here:
Always remember. For eight years we had these two guys at the top.
And now... Oh dear!
DemKittyNC
(743 posts)I think it is to an unhealthy degree on my part at how much I miss President Obama and Vice-President Biden!