{"id":28795,"date":"2014-07-21T15:01:56","date_gmt":"2014-07-21T23:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/?p=28795"},"modified":"2014-09-05T10:16:55","modified_gmt":"2014-09-05T18:16:55","slug":"joe-biden-soul-assessor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/?p=28795","title":{"rendered":"Joe Biden, Soul Assessor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-28804\" href=\"http:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=28804\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28804\" title=\"US President George W. Bush (L) whispers to his Ru\" src=\"http:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Esq-111113-Bush-Putin.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"393\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Esq-111113-Bush-Putin.jpg 614w, https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Esq-111113-Bush-Putin-300x204.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 393px) 100vw, 393px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you get a chance, read the profile of Joe Biden<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2014\/07\/28\/biden-agenda\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"> in the New Yorker today<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">.<\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"> <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong>Biden\u2019s riff on George W. Bush\u2019s soul-reading performance in 2001 (when the idiot in chief looked deeply into Vladimir Putin&#8217;s eyes and got \u201ca sense of his <em>soul<\/em>&#8220;), is genius. Biden tells New Yorker reporter Evan Osnos this anecdote about meeting Putin in 2011:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cAs I turned, I was this close to him.\u201d Biden held his hand a few inches from his nose. \u201cI said, \u2018Mr. Prime Minister, I\u2019m looking into your eyes, and I don\u2019t think you have a soul.\u2019 \u201d<br \/>\n\u201cYou said that?\u201d I asked. It sounded like a movie line.<br \/>\n\u201cAbsolutely, positively,\u201d Biden said, and continued, \u201cAnd he looked back at me, and he smiled, and he said, \u2018We understand one another.\u2019 \u201d Biden sat back, and said, \u201cThis is who this guy is!\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Then there&#8217;s another anecdote, back in 1979 when Biden was a young Senator and the son of a Welsh coal miner:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;on one of his first trips to the Soviet Union, he listened to an argument from his Soviet counterpart, and replied, \u201cWhere I come from, we have a saying: You can\u2019t shit a shitter.\u201d Bill Bradley, then a fellow-senator on the delegation, later asked the American interpreter how he had translated Biden\u2019s comment into Russian. \u201cNot literally,\u201d the interpreter said.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Classic Joe.<\/p>\n<p>More classic Joe:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;His smile has been rejuvenated to such a gleam that it inspired a popular tweet during the last campaign: \u201cBiden\u2019s teeth are so white they\u2019re voting for Romney.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Joe and Barack were having lunch, and Obama said to Biden, \u2018You and I are becoming good friends! I find that very surprising.\u2019 And Joe says, \u2018<em>You\u2019re<\/em> fucking surprised!\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you get a chance, read the profile of Joe Biden in the New Yorker today. Biden\u2019s riff on George W. Bush\u2019s soul-reading performance in 2001 (when the idiot in chief looked deeply into Vladimir Putin&#8217;s eyes and got \u201ca sense of his soul&#8220;), is genius. 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