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Viral e-mail: is Joe Biden getting a pink slip?

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Posted by Mike 2008-09-19 15:40|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 health problems = complications from hair transplant

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2008-09-19 16:02|| 2008-09-19 16:02|| Front Page Top

#2 Yeah, well this is only about the fifth time I've read this scenario so it wouldn't exactly be hard to see through.

Posted by tu3031 2008-09-19 16:06|| 2008-09-19 16:06|| Front Page Top

#3 Okay, I believe that this is just one of those self perpetuating rumors.

BUT, what should / would the response be from:

A) Hillary
B) Bill
C) McCain / Palin
D) Pumas
E) MSM
F) MSDemos
G) Nutroots

Seems like a fun game to play to me.

Posted by AlanC 2008-09-19 16:10|| 2008-09-19 16:10|| Front Page Top

#4 Ok, AlanC, here's my half-a'd analysis.

Bill & Hill ain't gonna do it. There's nothing in it for them, except the blame if The One doesn't make it (can't be HIS fault!)

They'd have to pick someone else. Don't know who would want in on this sinking ship.

Just for fun, let's say Pelosi. (I think she can still hold on to her Speaker seat, right? Not like she's putting in any work there anyhow.) PUMA's still are pissed off at the O-man. No new support for him there. Axelrod starts an astroturf organization called COUGAR (acronym to be worked out later), but it gets swamped by horny Nutroots D&D fanatics into older women.

McCain and Palin get a bump from the people who just can't stomach San Fran Nan.

MSM tries to spin this as a new, brilliant maneuver that strengthens the ticket (with the obligatory "Sorry, Joe, sad to see you go!" stories for a day or so). Olbermann gets even more creepy and Matthews gets that tingle up his leg again.

The Nutroots develop even crazier theories about Republican superviruses that affected poor ol' Joe. They are easily identified at the polls since they are the only ones wearing surgical masks and gloves in fear of the deadly cooties.

Posted by Cornsilk Blondie 2008-09-19 19:43|| 2008-09-19 19:43|| Front Page Top

#5 I think you're (half) joking, Blondie, but it's too plausible to be really funny.

That said, can we point and laugh? ;-p

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2008-09-19 19:48|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/] 2008-09-19 19:48|| Front Page Top

#6 I'm not sure San Fran Nan can run for two Federal seats in the same election. Probably depends on Calif law.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-09-19 19:57|| 2008-09-19 19:57|| Front Page Top

#7 By all means, Barbara, please do. :P

(It would be even more fun with Howie "YEAAAAAAARRRRGH!" Dean, though.)

I'm not sure about California law, either, NS. I think they would allow it, but I'm not sure.

Posted by Cornsilk Blondie 2008-09-19 20:37|| 2008-09-19 20:37|| Front Page Top

#8 Intrade.com has the odds of Biden withdrawing at 7% today. But, that is up 1.9%. If you have a few bucks for a longshot bet....

Posted by Formerly Dan 2008-09-19 20:53|| 2008-09-19 20:53|| Front Page Top

#9 Gotta go with Blondie on this one, just cause he gives her the tap don't mean Shrillary is gonna hop to it. She and Bill are not the students, they're the professors, and like she said, what's in it for her/them? Nothing but blame.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-09-19 21:59|| 2008-09-19 21:59|| Front Page Top

#10 well he was remarking on some reporter's pecs today... a few more of those gaffs and he's toast....on the other hand, since it was a male reporter, maybe he gets a boost in the Alice B. Toklas (Gay SF Voters) club.

PS - ignore the nym - it's a coincidence - no really.... Fred, we need to talk.....

Posted by Jaiper the Scantily Clad2605 2008-09-19 22:05|| 2008-09-19 22:05|| Front Page Top

#11 I wonder when States start sending out absentee ballots? Seems that as much as the Dems use absentee ballots to stuff the ballot boxes that they wouldn't do anything to jeopardize that particularly lucrative form of voter fraud.

Posted by RWV 2008-09-19 22:26|| 2008-09-19 22:26|| Front Page Top

#12 The way Hillary will run as VP is if Obama is sure to lose. And the only way Obama is sure to lose is if he's found in bed with a live boy or a dead girl. Hillary doesn't want to wait 8 years to run again. She wants to run in 2012.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2008-09-19 22:32|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2008-09-19 22:32|| Front Page Top