Joe Biden drops the f-word during health care signing
Ah, Joe Biden. If you didn’t exist, we’d have to invent you.
In the middle of the elaborate ceremony surrounding the signing of the health care bill, the vice president gave a fulsome introduction to President Barack Obama.
Biden then embraced the president and said in his ear – loud enough for the mikes to pick up – “This is a big [expletive] deal.” And he didn’t say Fargo.
You have to listen very carefully:
White House press secretary Robert Gibbs didn’t bother to deny Biden’s assessment. This what he sent out via Twitter:
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Mountainman57
March 23rd, 2010
4:30 pm
Jesus said, “You have heard that it was said, Love your neighbor and hate your enemy. But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.” (Matthew 5:43-44)
I’m sorry Lord, but your above command doesn’t seem to mean to mean much to anyone here. The only equality I see here is in the anger and hatred by both Liberals and Conservatives. None of us deserve God’s love and forgiveness.
TeaPartier
March 23rd, 2010
4:31 pm
Dave, you are delusional if you think this program will “pay for itself” as you state. Name a single federal program that has come close not to saving money but even staying within its original financial projections. And yes, Jesus Christ said “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength and Love your neighbor as yourself.” Words to live by or at least try to. Last I checked however, He was not part of the government and His Word did not levy a fine if you didn’t comply. Jesus Christ understood the separation of church and state, why don’t you?
Jaded
March 23rd, 2010
4:35 pm
No one bothered by the two hugging each other? Maybe he was anatomically bragging? Did he grab his package when he spoke? Ya’ll are way to tolerant. Where is the morality? Does he really prefer Oblama to Hillary? Is Barney Frank jealous? Is Bill jealous?
What Do You Expect?
March 23rd, 2010
4:39 pm
This should surprise no one. Obama continually surrounds himself with classless people like Biden and Rahm. Hmmmm ….. birds of a feather flock together.
Bubba
March 23rd, 2010
4:42 pm
Good heavens! Don’t y’all understand that God and Jesus are not members of any political party?
Bubba
March 23rd, 2010
4:43 pm
How does this weigh against Nixon’s (expletives deleted)?
songbird
March 23rd, 2010
4:43 pm
F…. all of you. lol.
EL
March 23rd, 2010
4:46 pm
Reading these comments only furthers my belief that one cannot be a Republican and a Christian. F’ Ya’ll.
Dave
March 23rd, 2010
4:49 pm
Dick,
Your comment was ill founded. You aren’t in a position to determine whether or not someone else is a Christian. I know plenty of Christians who cuss and who have said, yes, the unmentionable word. Also, I’m a Christian minister and frankly, find it extraordinarily difficult to belief that saying a cuss word makes you not a Christian.
Little Richard
March 23rd, 2010
4:55 pm
BO must be really happy that this FBomb flap is upstaging his historic signing event!!! Just unbelievable.
BiteMe
March 23rd, 2010
5:00 pm
Geez. All of you are idiots.
Liberallily
March 23rd, 2010
5:00 pm
Anybody with at least half a brain knows/understands that (Quayle is dumber than Biden) Joe Biden dropping the F bomb is No Big Deal and that goes for anybody who says it. If you feel like Republicans get more heat for swearing, you may be right but understand that it’s b/c most Republicans are self-righteous and think they are better than everyone else. With that said, I’d like to thank “thinker25″ for his hilarious reply, “Ah dick your name says it all..How fitting.Also, “ZJ” for your “gosh darned, dang it”! Funny! And best of all, *M*-I too am tired of ppl talking to dead ppl and buying into the biggest scam of mankind! I’m at a dreary job doing dreary work so reading these hilarious posts is a nice distraction.
Barack Obama
March 23rd, 2010
5:04 pm
Joe Biden is a big “effing” idiot.
patrick
March 23rd, 2010
5:05 pm
Three weeks ago, at the White House Health Care Summit, President Barack Obama gave Congress six weeks to consider his proposal and chart a course forward. The Democrats are now using every dirty and undemocratic trick in the book to ram this health care bill through Congress. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and House Democrats have even decided that they will “deem” the Senate bill as having passed the House without directly voting on it, trying to hide the fact they will have blessed the backroom deals and kickbacks included in the Senate-passed bill. More importantly, however, their use of this maneuver reflects the fact that this flawed bill has been rejected by the American people because it costs too much, spends too much and taxes too much.
In a speech last week, Speaker Pelosi stated, “We have to pass the [health care] bill so that you can find out what is in it.” But why wait? Below is a glimpse of what Speaker Pelosi does not want you to see in her government-run health care bill, at least not until it is signed into law:
Spends nearly $1 trillion. If the Democrats were really interested in controlling costs, they should not spend more than $1 trillion. We cannot spend our way out of a problem.
Increasing taxes by one-half trillion dollars threatens jobs, hurts families. Increasing taxes on small businesses will jeopardize job creation and put millions of others at risk of losing their current job. In December, the National Federation of Independent Businesses cited the prospect of the Democrats’ policy initiatives as one of the leading reasons for not expanding their payrolls. Moreover, in this weak economy, American families can’t afford to send even more of their income to Washington.
Increases the cost of health insurance premiums. The second-highest ranking Senate Democrat, Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois, last week said: “Anyone who would stand before you and say ‘well, if you pass health care reform, next year’s health care premiums are going down,’ I don’t think is telling the truth. I think it is likely they would go up.” If enacted, it is not only likely costs will go up, it is definite. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office stated that under the Democrats’ bill, premiums would increase for millions of families by $2,100 more than if Congress did nothing.
Cuts one-half trillion dollars from Medicare. These cuts are so drastic that the Obama administration’s own actuaries predict that hospitals and doctors “might end their participation in the program (possibly jeopardizing access to care for beneficiaries).”
Breaks pledge of transparency. Instead of working to lower the cost of health insurance for the American people and developing this important legislation in public and on C-SPAN, Democrats have spent the last year negotiating behind-closed-doors deals for special interests such as the Cornhusker Kickback, Louisiana Purchase, Gator Aid, as well as a multibillion-dollar deal with the big drug makers. This is not the kind of change the American people were promised.
Massively expands unaffordable entitlements. The Democrats’ bill dumps 15 million people onto Medicaid, a government health program that is already bankrupting state budgets and is a false promise to enrollees who are unable to find a doctor or hospital willing to see them. Entitlement expansion is not health care reform.
Forces Americans to buy insurance they don’t want and can’t afford. The American people are telling their elected representatives that the individual mandate — a requirement to buy insurance approved by the federal government or pay a new tax — is something that they want us to scrap. That is why we are seeing state legislatures across the country passing resolutions exempting their citizens from these unprecedented federal mandates.
From the beginning, Republicans have listened to the people and offered step-by-step reforms that lower health care premiums for families and small businesses. Lowering the cost of health care will ensure that it is affordable and accessible for all Americans.
The bill I and House Republicans proposed last fall reduces premiums, ensures nobody will be denied access to affordable coverage on the basis of a pre-existing condition and gives states the tools to implement their own innovative reforms to bring down costs and expand coverage. CBO projects this plan would lower insurance premiums for millions of families, on average, by up to 10 percent — about $2,000 per year.
Just as important, Republicans get the job done without cutting Medicare, without raising taxes and without piling more debt on our kids and grandkids. All the details of our plan are available at healthcare.gop.gov.
Americans’ health care is much too complex and too important to risk on a massive 2,000-page bill that puts federal bureaucrats in charge of your personal health care decisions. We need to start over with a step-by-step, common-sense approach to reducing costs for all Americans. Republicans want health care reform, but we need to do it the right way and we need to start right now.
Rep. Dave Camp, R-Mich., is the ranking Republican on the House Ways and Means Committee.
Filed under: Opinion
Nancy Pilates
March 23rd, 2010
5:07 pm
I’m jealous that everyone left me out. I amd f&*(& bigger than all of you put together.
sugarfoot
March 23rd, 2010
5:23 pm
Welcome to the end of our nation as we know it. What else would you expect from these low-lifes?
disgusted
March 23rd, 2010
5:24 pm
wow… It’s no wonder you people don’t give your real names…
Just me
March 23rd, 2010
5:31 pm
Denver, San Francisco, New York and Chicago have all prospered under “Black liberal” leadership. Just the facts, man, just the facts.
jmk
March 23rd, 2010
5:33 pm
It was a F bomb deal thank god and you will see the results. Like you have never dropped the F word being named Dick!
Blue
March 23rd, 2010
5:35 pm
Not a Hypocrite: yeah, exactly. There was no coverage or propaganda on Bush and Cheney while they were in office. You almost never heard anything about them. “Better to keep your mouth closed and be thought a fool than to open it and remove all doubt”. Thanks for removing the doubt.
Blue
March 23rd, 2010
5:38 pm
Liberal lilly: categorizing a group of people such as “most Republicans are self-righteous” is kind of like someone categorizing a group of people as “most democrats are too lazy, too dumb and too dependent on others who have achieved more”. Same same…
lisa
March 23rd, 2010
5:55 pm
Potty mouth dem’s! If they control their mouths, they sure cant control the country. What a shame to have to listen to that. Kids watch tv to, anyone tell them that? I dont think it is right for little kids to have to listen to that language. Biden watch your mouth, you should have it washed out with soap!!!
Who do you think you are. Its a shame your the vice-president, i think you should apologize to all!
Steve Bean
March 23rd, 2010
6:14 pm
In the words of Rodney King “can’t we all just get along?” There is so much yelling I can’t hear what anyone is really saying.
PO'd in AL
March 23rd, 2010
6:24 pm
First of all, real class there Joe!!!… you are such a shining example for our youth. Yes, I understand your excitement about this great leap to Socialism, but try and think before you speak…after all, you do represent your party (which explains quite a lot). By the way, anyone who really believes that this “Obamacare” will actually save money must have been sleeping during their economics class!
Joe Schmoe
March 23rd, 2010
6:26 pm
If you can’t spell or formulate a gramatically correct sentence, your opinion isn’t worth dookey.
GOD
March 23rd, 2010
6:43 pm
God speaking, hey, I curse sometimes. If you had to listen to all the whining I hear you’d curse too. Earlier today when some ‘Dick’ summoned me I said “Jesus Christ, Mother of Me” are all Democrats idiots or what? They don’t call Democrats “liberal” for nothing. If you think Little Joey Biden has a liberal lip wait until you get here. And by the way, most of the things you read about me was written by guys my son (er, um, me) never met. So, don’t believe it all.
Ed
March 23rd, 2010
7:20 pm
Just watched the national news on NBC and noticed not one word of Biden’s “F” word was even talked about. Had it been Bush it would have been all over the place. Typical of the ultra-liberal news media. Just wondered what other individual rights and freedoms these two clowns in the White House will be taking away from us next. Big Brother at it’s best.
chris
March 23rd, 2010
7:22 pm
Biden is irrelevant. Stupid is as stupid does. Do you morons realize the authors of this health socialist bill have managed to exempt themselves from participating in it? Why would that be???
DDANIELS
March 23rd, 2010
7:33 pm
som what he is human and they got exactly what they were listening for
patrick
March 23rd, 2010
7:51 pm
name a single black leader of a country that has been successful. Notice that when the whites left South Africa. They now have skyscrappers that do not have electricity. Slavery is back
JES
March 23rd, 2010
8:52 pm
What you say when you think others aren’t listening reveals your real character…and we do have a couple of real characters here…Maybe what he could have more appropriately said was this is a big raping deal. Especially when Obama says he’s going to sell it to we americans after he signs it!
Bry
March 23rd, 2010
9:15 pm
After reading some of these comments I can see why people need the government to do everything for them…. Oh wait that is an insult to the real poor and truly needy among us.
Scanned the bible didn’t find one reference saying, the government should help the poor, it say we need to help them..if one is forced to “give” is that giving?
jake
March 23rd, 2010
9:28 pm
Just saying, god help us all. These people leading our country are socialist nitwits, none have ever managed a business, now they are trying to tell us how we need to manage our own business. Take care and stay alert, this is the first step of many to take our freedom away. My father fought in WWII for freedom with 5 brothers all of who were wounded. Two were hero’s with many medals. Now I find the power mad officials in office doing everything they can to take our right to choose away from us. Everything our forefathers fought for is being taken away by these idiots in office. I say fire them all. I do not think any of them served in the armed forces to protect our nation. Yet, here they are there to tear it apart. The same people that put these socialist in office need to stand up and vote them out the next election. How you guys who voted for Obama, liking the change so far??? I do not ever remember this country being so divided over leadership or lack of in my lifetime. Something is wrong here and America needs to stand up and defend itself from the most invasive attacks from government we have ever seen.
free gas
March 23rd, 2010
9:35 pm
Come on … it all about the shirt
http://www.off2url.com/dDdoJ2
Hal2012
March 23rd, 2010
9:45 pm
FACT: The “obamanation Factor in the “Black House” sat in the pew of a so called church (probably a muslim one) where the so called preacher Rev Wright spoke hate speak for 20 years.
FACT: obamanation factor was a lawyer for the “ACORN” organization which was just shut down for massive corruption. FACT: obamination factor is pushing the USA into Socialism/Communism & and NWO faster than both Bush”s combined.
FACT: obamanation factor is negotiating with terrorists in Iran. The main one being the so called Prez who won a fraudulent election. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad who is a phycopath and will have NUKES and use them on Israel if given a chance. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahmoud_Ahmadinejad
FACT: obamanation factor said he wouldn’t use an “up or down voting” process like the Republicans do during his election campaign and that’s exactly what he did to pass obamanationCare.
Fact: No true Christian votes for people who are pro-choice (translation pro-abortion), and say that they wouldn’t want their daughter inconvenienced by a baby like obamanation said before he got elected. It’s on tape I heard it with my own ears on kkla radio 99.5FM kkla dot com. So there you have it. Capeesh? (yes Capeesh is spelled different, but I like my spelling better ok?) “Wise Men argue over the facts, fools argue over opinion.” Hal2012
TI
March 23rd, 2010
9:46 pm
You’re a dick, DICK.
hello.life
March 23rd, 2010
9:50 pm
Hal2012
So are you a fool or a man?
Gentleman Jim
March 23rd, 2010
10:08 pm
Hal…one usually does not use the words “FACT” and “probably” in the same sentence. Muslims go to mosques, not churches. Have you ever heard of a mosque called “Trinity Church of Christ”? That is the mosque Obama attended.
I hope the rapture comes tomorrow so you, Dick, Sean, and Neal can go to heaven and leave the rest of us alone!
Mellow Mood
March 23rd, 2010
10:17 pm
LMAO Thinker25 & Dave wow, well put…Don’t know what Christianity has to do with the initial topic?? And why do people have to bring religion into the mix? Countries are fighting everyday using ‘religion’ as their excuse for rape, slaughter and genocide. The topic is about the VP cursing. I love the fact that we finally have a Vice President that tells it like it is, his ass (oops I cursed) grew up poor in Delaware, one of the poorest states, don’t we want someone that’s ‘one of us’ representing? Obama’s mother died because she didn’t have health care this man takes it personal it’s not a joke to him has anyone listened to his speeches? Biden’s real and that’s what we need right about now. These men have inherited a war and economic oppression give them a chance. And the reality is that it is a big fuc*ing deal.
Mellow Mood
March 23rd, 2010
10:18 pm
And I quote Obama: “I remember my mother. She was 52 years old when she died of ovarian cancer, and you know what she was thinking about in the last months of her life? She wasn’t thinking about getting well. She wasn’t thinking about coming to terms with her own mortality. She had been diagnosed just as she was transitioning between jobs. And she wasn’t sure whether insurance was going to cover the medical expenses because they might consider this a preexisting condition. I remember just being heartbroken, seeing her struggle through the paperwork and the medical bills and the insurance forms. So, I have seen what it’s like when somebody you love is suffering because of a broken health care system. And it’s wrong. It’s not who we are as a people.”
Mellow Mood
March 23rd, 2010
10:32 pm
Okay I’m almost done: Dick, you spelled HEAVEN wrong, how are you gonna talk about it and misspell it? To all of you that made all the fuc*ked up comments about black people running jacked up cities, Obama’s half White, he was raised by a White mother, White grandparents in a lily white world, so um yea what the fuc* are you talking about?? Guess that doesn’t count huh? See that’s that slave mentality, back in the day they came up with the rule that if you have one drop of black blood in you, you’re black. Technically Obama can check ‘White’ on his applications if he wanted to, he just so happened to have fallen in love with a black woman. I can’t believe this is America. Everybody’s ancestors came over here on a damn boat be it by choice or by force and at the end of the day white people came over here to practice ‘religious’ freedom and escape from the dictatorship and rules of their native country. Only to turn around and basically create the same jacked up laws they ran from. Smart! Let’s keep it real Europeans conquered this country it never belonged to you or to black people for that matter did Anyone pay attention in any of their history classes back in the school days? But we seem to celebrate that shi* and I don’t get it. So watch what you say and keep that racist stuff out of it I’m stating fact some of ya’ll are talking nonsense. Come on now how did we go from Biden a White man saying a curse word to this? Okay Now I’m done…that is until someone else says something stupid.
DHD
March 23rd, 2010
10:40 pm
Dick tricked (like tricky Dick) most all of you in. He was a plant to make Christians look bad and distract you from the subject and you all bought it. You are so easily distracted just like you were during the election.
Gen Neyland
March 23rd, 2010
10:47 pm
Republicans get drilled for this type of behavior. Sadly, we expect it from Democrats. Joe Biden is a pitiful VP and will be voted into retirement from politics in 2012. Awaiting the next Obama-Biden goof up. Won’t have to wait long cause they open their mouths every day…
GW
March 23rd, 2010
11:32 pm
Suck it!!!
GW
March 23rd, 2010
11:33 pm
Life is good!
GW
March 23rd, 2010
11:33 pm
I destroyed america and blamed the black guy!!
Jumbo G is the king of conventional thinking
March 24th, 2010
12:16 am
I have a theory ’bout why The Obama, peace be upon him, picked Joe “Plugs” Biden for Veep. Here ya go. You know how kinda hot chicks always have a couple of fatties in tow? You know, it makes the kinda hot chick look super hot. We all know that Obama thinks he is the smartest cat in the room, but has some doubt. Enter VP Plugs. He is by far the biggest gaffer and tool in all of American history. Obama knows that Biden is a fool and picked Biden to make him look smarter. In short, Biden is Obama’s mental fat chick.
American
March 24th, 2010
7:51 am
Biden – what an ass.
American
March 24th, 2010
7:53 am
Biden always looks like he’s lost or on drugs.
HOLY
March 24th, 2010
8:29 am
President Obama and VP Biden has made a wrong choice. This bill is going to destroy the next genertaion!