December 01, 2008

All quiet on the Biden front

Over the last few years, we've heard joke after joke (and they've been hilarious) about Dick Cheney staying in an "undisclosed location." Well, now people are starting to ask the question (which I'm pretty sure has nothing to do with Paul Anka) "Where's Joe?"

More than three weeks into the transition, and Vice-President elect Joe Biden generates less buzz than the non-existent first puppy.

The vice president-elect has not spoken publicly since the election, and was at Barack Obama's side just once this week as the president-elect delivered a series of grim news conferences on the economy.

...Amid reports that Obama will name Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State the question swirled: What about Biden? Foreign policy was supposed to be his domain.

"You think he wasn't in on that conversation?" a source involved with the transition asked rhetorically.

Yet in a column last week The Washington Post's David Ignatius called Biden "the incredible shrinking vice president-elect."

"Where is he these days?" Ignatius wonders. "Do they have him in a box? He can't be happy at the idea of considering Clinton as foreign policy tsarina — wasn't Biden's foreign policy savvy the reason he was picked?"
I'm guessing that they have him comfortably sedated somewhere, with guards outside of his room making sure that nobody with a microphone and/or a video camera gets in.

Oh, and no, Biden wasn't picked for his "foreign policy savvy," though that's the spin the Democrat Party and the MSM (but I repeat myself) gave the country about his nomination. He was picked because he's got experience serving in a post in the Federal Government (or any job, really) for more than a couple of years, unlike his new boss.

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