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XANA O’NEILL Updated 9:19 AM EDT, Thu, Apr 30, 2009AP
Vice president Joe Biden said today he would tell his family members not to use subways in the U.S. and implied schools should be shuttered.
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“I wouldn’t go anywhere in confined places now,” Biden said when asked whether he would advise family members to use public transportation.
Biden made his comments during a brief interview on NBC’s “Today” show during an interview with Matt Lauer.
“I would tell members of my family, and I have, I wouldn’t go anywhere in confined places now. It’s not that it’s going to Mexico, it’s you’re in a confined aircraft when one person sneezes it goes all the way through the aircraft. That’s me. I would not be, at this point, if they had another way of transportation suggesting they ride the subway. ”
The vice president also implied that schools should be closed as the threat of swine flu increases.
“The point being made by the World Health Organization is that this is in other countries, too… which borders do we close? Do we close the Canadian border?… This is not an efficacious use of our efforts.”
The government and various government organizations are indeed driving the urgency and panic …and yet if they were consistent, they would act to staunch the flow and close the border to Mexico. His disingenuous stance reveals what an an idiot he is: driven by his own sense of political correctness he refuses to admit that common sense informs us that even the horse may be out of the barn, there are still thousands of horses following. One person infects 10, how many can 100 people infect, etc. This isn’t rocket science but it is insisting upon a political dogma at the risk of public safety. At least we know where we stand.
Biden spells the tuber from the earth Poe-Tay-Toe
Joe Biden is pure politician. He played at the practice of law briefly before going into public office and he has had his snout in the trough ever since. Why expect wisdom from him? He is a superb campaigner. He knows how to work a crowd. He is also good at stealing the words of others but has never been seen as any source of deep thought.
This is a trait of far too many of our elected officials.
Perhaps we should take his advice and shut down mass transportation until the threat of the Mexican Flu has passed.
Motorcycles might be the best form of transport if you fear what you can contract from other travelers.
Biden is a dangerous fool- his advice and a quarter will get you a cup of coffee at 7-11 (small).He has been on the wrong side of history forever, so his DNC-vaunted “experience” has little value… he doesn’t appear to have learned a thing.
Like Obama, he vehemently opposed the highly-successful Iraq “Surge” strategy- instead, Biden favored surrender and came-up with a harebrained proposal to split the country 3-ways. The reality is that if the current administration was in-charge 4 years ago, Iraq today would be an Al Qaida Caliphate that makes Kabul of 2001 look like Disneyland.
Biden opposed every element of Reagan’s defense buildup that toppled the USSR as “dangerous”- and even opposed the first Gulf war, which would have allowed Sadam to keep Kuwait and control a large chunk of the world’s oil supplies.
In the 1987 presidential primaries, he not only plaguerized British Labor leader Neil Kinnock’s speeches wholesale… but actually co-opted his entire life story, falsely claiming to have been the “first in his family to go to college” and a “coal-miner’s son”… when in fact Biden’s father was a car salesman (no surprise there, Biden looks like one too).
And Joey Plugs often says things that betray a major disconnect with reality– best chain him to a telemprompter every time he heads-out the door.
And Joey Plugs often says things that betray a major disconnect with reality– best chain him to a telemprompter every time he heads-out the door.
Speaking of TelePrompTers, I saw a bumper sticker on a truck from Maine that said, “Save Energy, Unplug Obama’s TelePrompTer.”