From: sp23	Date: November 14th, 2009 09:50 pm (UTC)		(Link to this entry)

Did he wear his Home Depot apron?

	From: reality_hammer	Date: November 14th, 2009 09:57 pm (UTC)		(Link to this entry)

I think he's learned his lesson about that! Go there first, then claim you've been there. :D

	From: izuko	Date: November 14th, 2009 09:51 pm (UTC)		(Link to this entry)

Why does a photo op get kudos?

	From: reality_hammer	Date: November 14th, 2009 09:58 pm (UTC)		(Link to this entry)

My first instinct was that this was a mere photo-op but if that were the case I think they would have done it during the week and in conjunction with a push for "free" health care so people wouldn't go bankrupt in the evil for-profit system.

	From: luprand	Date: November 16th, 2009 03:10 am (UTC)		(Link to this entry)

By the tone of the article, it sounds kinda like he was trying to avoid a photo op. Which in itself is rather refreshing.

	From: izuko	Date: November 16th, 2009 10:51 am (UTC)		(Link to this entry)

Which, of course, is the spin of the story. Come on, do you really buy it? Especially from Biden?

	From: luprand	Date: November 17th, 2009 04:42 am (UTC)		(Link to this entry)

I guess I'm willing to believe it, for the sake of optimism.

	From: luprand	Date: November 16th, 2009 03:11 am (UTC)		(Link to this entry)

I'd say that's rather the way I'd prefer the government help the needy.

Having not been in that situation, of course, there's not much else I can say.

	From: carbonelle	Date: November 16th, 2009 03:39 am (UTC)		(Link to this entry)
	Kudos indeed

According to my mom, who says she's read up about this, Mr. Biden and his wife are the kind of people who do, in their private life, volunteer in soup kitchens. It's entirely possible to be an ignorant fool, chock-full of asinine ideas, and still be a decent human being.

One day people will look back at our quaint cultural parochialism that assumed that only cleverness (and cleverness of a certain glib stripe) was a virtue.