"I wish [critics of the administration's jobs bill] had some
notion of what it was like to be on the other side of a gun, or
[to have] a 200-pound man standing over you, telling you to
submit [to rape]." -- Vice President Joe Biden, Oct. 18,
University of Pennsylvania    In fairness, few vice presidents
matter, and Mr. Biden suffers by comparison to his immediate
predecessor, who mattered more than most.  As you know, the
current vice president says dumb things, funny things, weird
things. He talks like the sort of guy who sits right next to you
on the bus even though there are plenty of empty seats -- just
so he can explain how squirrels aren't mammals.  Indeed, in many
respects, he's as close as American politics gets to a wacky
sitcom character who's a couple fries short of a Happy Meal.
Remember when he told us how President Roosevelt went on TV to
reassure America after the 1929 stock market crash? It wasn't
until later that someone reminded him that no one had TVs in
1929, and that FDR wasn't president