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Caption This! smile in Thursday’s VP debate

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What’s Joe thinking as Paul Ryan is going on in last night’s debate, folks?

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54 COMMENTS

  1. Suzie | October 12, 2012 at 12:03 pm

    “I hope to God this Adderall lasts the full 90 minutes”

  2. matt | October 12, 2012 at 12:14 pm

    Well if politics don’t end up working out for ol’ Joe after Nov 6th, he would always make a great Joker in the next Batman flick…

  3. Frank | October 12, 2012 at 12:14 pm

    pre-debate, ol’ joe must be thinking, “oh boy, I am goonna REALLY have my base loving THIS angry, white, old, guy…”!

    post-debate, ol’ joe must be thinking, “ah ohh, the RTs made no mention of me even SMILING during the debate”. Sheesh, didn’t those folks even watch? I’m worried now, because if those type of folks ignore my antics of last night….must mean they don’t want to emphasize them….must mean they don’t think it played well in Peoria…which is also in Kentucky, ya know”!

  4. Sandi Saunders | October 12, 2012 at 12:19 pm

    “What would you expect out of a pig but a grunt?”

    An old Irish saying.

  5. dave | October 12, 2012 at 12:20 pm

    Jeez! I can’t wait until SNL and Jon Stewart get to lampoon that lie. I can just see it now!

  6. terps | October 12, 2012 at 12:20 pm

    It’s no fun making fun of the senile. I spend most of my days with old folks and Biden displays the unfiltered, uncontrolled aberrant behavior typical of seniors with early dementia. They always interupt because they know they can’t respond to even pedestrian dialogue.
    If I thought Biden was capable of controlling his behavior, I would comment. But he is just a sad spectacle who will go down as the rudest, most unhinged debator of all time.

  7. Debbie | October 12, 2012 at 12:25 pm

    I rememeber the Munsters. What a fun show that was! Pretty cool that Eddie is standing right beside me.

  8. Debbie | October 12, 2012 at 12:26 pm

    Make that remember.

  9. carl rosen | October 12, 2012 at 12:29 pm

    this smile thing works for the boss, now if i point my finger @ someone & give a “shout out” i’ll be presidential

  10. Another Chuck | October 12, 2012 at 12:41 pm

    Is that a rhetorical question? The empty bubble is quite accurate!

  11. Dr. Sheldon Cooper | October 12, 2012 at 12:47 pm

    “Scissors cuts paper, paper covers rock, rock crushes lizard, lizard poisons Spock, Spock smashes scissors, scissors decapitates lizard, lizard eats paper, paper disproves Spock, Spock vaporizes rock, and as it always has, rock crushes scissors.”

  12. Maloof | October 12, 2012 at 12:53 pm

    3 letter word J O B S

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWlSX9TT2eo

    Joe’s the man!

  13. dave | October 12, 2012 at 1:10 pm

    Wonder how he’d look in leather and chains handcuffed to Suzie;s bedpost?

  14. Hootiefish | October 12, 2012 at 1:45 pm

    Cookies!

  15. Contrasuzie | October 12, 2012 at 1:54 pm

    “Oh, to be young, dumb, and full of…..crap.”

  16. Justin True | October 12, 2012 at 2:07 pm

    Well, if I were a misogynist, racist, tax evading, liar, who did everything in his power to subjugate women and the poor; who believed an illiterate felon (Joseph Smith) translated his own bible with “Magic Glasses” in the nineteenth century in a seventeenth century English dialect from a “golden bible” purportedly written in Hebrew… with confidence I could say, I wouldn’t like me neither. If only, John Stuart Mill, were here to see this!

  17. pistol pete | October 12, 2012 at 2:18 pm

    “I hope they get Craig T. Nelson to play me in my movie biography”

  18. pistol pete | October 12, 2012 at 2:51 pm

    “Oh God give me strength not to faceplant this punk through the table”

  19. Jimbob | October 12, 2012 at 2:59 pm

    Biden: Hey Paul Knock Knock…

    Ryan: Who’s there Joe?

    Biden: An interrupting Vice President.

    Ryan: An interru…. Biden: HA HA HA You Can’t Talk You Can’t Talk!

  20. pammala | October 12, 2012 at 3:04 pm

    I hope I don’t completely screw this up like I’ve done on most of my other speeches…remember, it is the 21st century and my boss is a communist.

  21. Bob H | October 12, 2012 at 3:30 pm

    “I can’t believe they agreed to this moderator when Barrie was at her wedding, this is 2 against 1 and I really need the help!”

  22. Jimbob | October 12, 2012 at 3:36 pm

    If I could be in a Netflix commercial… Mr. Biden, if you can’t hug with nuclear arms what can you do with them? Laugh at them.

    Correct!!!

    That would be cool.

  23. dave | October 12, 2012 at 3:50 pm

    A brawny young lad name of Ryan
    Had one special skill-that was lyin’
    And it’s now come to pass
    That he’s grabbin’ for his ass
    Cause the swill that he sells we’re not buyin’

    Thoughts of Joe biden while listening to Paul Ryan 10/11/2012

  24. Justin True | October 12, 2012 at 4:37 pm

    @#20 Define Communist.

  25. joe | October 12, 2012 at 4:40 pm

    I ate some cheese last week in Wisconsin..
    can u get a whiff of what kind it was sonny?

  26. Laura | October 12, 2012 at 5:01 pm

    “Dear Lord, forgive me for the a$$-whooping I am about to deliver.”

  27. Dan Casey | October 12, 2012 at 5:10 pm

    “@#20 Define Communist.”

    communist (n): 1. Anybody who’s not a warmed-over John Bircher now masquerading as a Tea Partyer.

  28. Jack | October 12, 2012 at 5:30 pm

    “Interrupted my friend here 82 times. And that’s not even counting those from the moderator.”

  29. Frank | October 12, 2012 at 5:33 pm

    ol’ joe was thinking to himself during the entire 90 minutes…,

    “conservatives think we libs are disengenuous, and, stupid! Well, tonight, I’m gonna show’em ALL that libs AREN’T disengenuous about our stupidity”!

  30. Dan Radmacher | October 12, 2012 at 5:50 pm

    I think I’ve uncovered pammala:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdgsRxnBNxA

  31. Marked Man | October 12, 2012 at 6:04 pm

    “For a black guy, obama sure is well-spoken and clean. I mean everything I say. Romney does too.”

  32. John Wilburn | October 12, 2012 at 7:29 pm

    I hope this diaper has 90 minutes left in it.

  33. Marked Man | October 12, 2012 at 7:47 pm

    Joe would be thinking:
    “Hmmm, Dan has the rules on the ‘Caption This’ threads to not insult other commenters here by name and also to only post possible captions for the balloons. Two clearly violated these and I know Dan will be a stand up guy and revoke their comments accordingly.”

  34. dave | October 12, 2012 at 8:41 pm

    Joe’s thinking:

    What a dummy! He doesn’t even know the old poker players tell. When a player gulps down water( or a drink) before making his bet he’s bluffing ( or in this case lying). I can read him like a dime novel.

  35. Dan Casey | October 12, 2012 at 8:50 pm

    “Joe’s thinking:

    What a dummy! He doesn’t even know the old poker players tell. When a player gulps down water( or a drink) before making his bet he’s bluffing ( or in this case lying). I can read him like a dime novel.”

    You know, I heard this thing about Ryan and his water gulping in a convenience store this evening. I hadn’t even noticed. It’s a meme that seems to be catching fire though.

    No question that Biden totally smoked him, btw.

  36. Art Hill | October 12, 2012 at 8:58 pm

    “There was a young punk from Nantucket…”

  37. joe | October 12, 2012 at 9:10 pm

    Joe says: “You can call it cheese till your eyes bug out..
    But the Politically Scientific and point of fact term
    is Malarkey.”

  38. John Wilburn | October 12, 2012 at 9:31 pm

    Dan:

    “No question that Biden totally smoked him, btw.”

    Where Biden went to debate school:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YOh-rpvjYg

  39. Art Hill | October 12, 2012 at 9:52 pm

    Don’t fret, John W. 92% of the Fox News faithful think Ryan won the debate.

  40. joe | October 13, 2012 at 3:48 am

    Fox news faithful would take Rush Limbaugh
    in a fight against Jesus.

  41. pammala | October 13, 2012 at 9:08 am

    barry soetoro was raised with communist parents and then they had him ‘mentored’ by another one, all his friends in college were either communists or marxists or socialists so therefore…he proves it daily what he is

  42. pammala | October 13, 2012 at 9:10 am

    “Don’t fret, John W. 92% of the Fox News faithful think Ryan won the debate.

    Comment by Art Hill — October 12, 2012 @ 9:52 pm”

    along with most of the country, don’t you see cnn and msnbc dearie or do you just ignore all the news when it doesn’t fit your wishes..lol

  43. pammala | October 13, 2012 at 9:11 am

    “Fox news faithful would take Rush Limbaugh
    in a fight against Jesus.

    Comment by joe — October 13, 2012 @ 3:48 am”

    typical libbie com violent comment..neither one would submit to your kind of reactions like fighting

  44. John Wilburn | October 13, 2012 at 9:35 am

    Art Hill:

    39.”Don’t fret, John W. 92% of the Fox News faithful think Ryan won the debate.”

    Along with a slimmer majority of the CNN faithful.

    “Winning” a debate is such a subjective thing these days. The overwhelming majority of people who watch the debates know who they’re voting for and just watch to be entertained. Substantive debating died off a long time ago.

  45. joe | October 13, 2012 at 4:17 pm

    John W…u are so right..
    NPR yesterday was revisiting the Reagan debate vs Mondale in 84..
    Reagan had come under some criticism about his failing mental processes
    ..he was 73.
    He successfully turned it on Mondale when asked about being too old
    to be elected president..with the famous quip..”I’m not going to exploit
    for political purposes my opponents youth and inexperience.”
    It was a great line someone else likely wrote and fed to him..but he was an actor ..and his timing was dead on the mark. Reagan won in a landslide.
    …But most of us know especially in hindsight that Don Henley was right when he referred to the man as “The tired old man they elected king”
    …be careful to bank our next 4 years on a few quips , zingers , and sound bytes played until November…Or we will continue to operate our grand experiment like a game show.

  46. John Wilburn | October 14, 2012 at 11:01 am

    joe:

    “NPR yesterday was revisiting the Reagan debate vs Mondale in 84..”

    That was the first debate that came to mind, actually.

  47. Suzie | October 14, 2012 at 10:57 pm

    Here’s a 1987 video of Biden. He was an asshat then as now. In this clip, a journalist asked him where he went to law school and where in his class he finished. Listen to his classy response. Some people never change.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1j0FS0Z6ho

  48. gdad | October 14, 2012 at 11:07 pm

    #33 Biden: Hmm, I wonder why MMM hasn’t called for Dan to remove pammalamadingdong’s non-caption posts?

  49. Frank | October 15, 2012 at 9:09 am

    hey Suzie, yep, that video is spot on…he was a jerk then, and, he’s still a jerk.

  50. Justin True | October 15, 2012 at 9:24 am

    @#27, Dan Casey, that is what I figured. It is like defining a religion. It is what ever the user wants it to be at that very moment.

    I just watched a video of a woman who called, Obama, a communist. She couldn’t define what a communist was. http://www.opposingviews.com/i/politics/2012-election/video-woman-calls-pres-obama-communist-cant-say-why

  51. Jimbob | October 15, 2012 at 9:54 am

    “I’m not as think as you drunk I am.”

  52. John Wilburn | October 15, 2012 at 2:18 pm

    Suzie, that was an interesting video clip. What a classless response from Biden.

    The reporter said: “With the people we have elected to office in recent years, I think that we have to question their credentials very solidly”. Unreal! Who? Reagan?! I wonder what that same reporter thought four years ago about the candidate to which Biden lost in the primary? What a serious qualification deficit that was! Or the Obama/Biden ticket beating John McCain? Yeah, we should question credentials, but the general public couldn’t care less!

  53. Frank | October 15, 2012 at 5:12 pm

    john,

    i think if the main stream media better done their job by pressing a bit on the “credentials” aspect of reviewing the candidates, we might have a different slate of candidates….because the general public will have seen what’s what. However, you could certainly be right, the public might not care.

    joe biden? Slime.

  54. dave | November 19, 2012 at 5:55 pm

    OK Dan

    We had this one, three other caption contests, and an election contest that fell by the wayside. These used to be fun. What happened?

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