It is good that Joe Biden is going to the Republican National Convention to hold high the flag of his party. People make fun of his gaffes, of his embarrassing verbal forays, but he’s no fool and he knows how to take it to the other guy. The speech he is working on, to be given in the heart of downtown, just across from the convention site, will be stirring and stentorian: “All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Tampa, and, therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words, ‘Ich bin ein Tampon.'”
I wish that were mine. It came in the mail from a Hollywood screenwriter, one of the gifted conservatives who quietly toil there.
Runner up.
HEH: Reader Arthur Barie writes: “The best snark on Biden going to Tampa that I’ve heard is, ‘If the Dems send Biden to Tampa, the GOP will punch back twice as hard and send Biden to Charlotte.’”
August 24, 2012 at 5:28 pm
Amusing.
But, by the way, if the screenwriter is talented he is certainly not working in Hollywood these days.
August 25, 2012 at 3:59 pm
@Aged parent: not necessarily. Directors, producers, focus groups, and even actors have as much to do with what gets put into a movie as the people who write it. Many a writer can tell you a horror story about something they wrote being gutted because some semi-literate who thought he had a better idea.
August 25, 2012 at 4:32 pm
I hear the hilarious VP bowed out. He's afraid he might be struck by lightening.