Thank You, Joe Biden

Thank you, Joe Biden, for not running for President in 2016!  We deeply sympathize with the terrible loss of your son, and that of your first wife and daughter decades ago.  You had a long, generally distinguished career in the Senate.  We think you've been a loyal Vice President.  We think you're basically a good and decent man.  But ...

Let's put it this way:  we've never been terribly impressed with your political skills, your occasional tin ear and your periodic obtuseness.  This was all put on vivid display the other day at the unveiling of the bust of former Vice President Dick "Dick" Cheney, by most measures one of the worst human beings ever to gain high office in the United States.  As the only Democrat who attended the event at the Capitol, you had a few things to say about the Dick, none of it even remotely true:

“I can say without fear of contradiction there’s not one single time there’s been a harsh word in our relationship,” Biden said. “And that’s what I think is most desperately missing today in Washington, D.C. I don’t remember, Dick, you questioning anybody’s motive.”  [snip]

“You have been a great asset to this country and the way you have conducted yourself is a model to anyone in high public office,” Biden said, at the end of a lengthy tribute to Cheney.  (our emphasis)

LOL WTF?! You mean potential war crimes defendant Dick Cheney?  The guy who sold the war in Iraq as going after the perpetrators of 9/11?  The guy who frequently and viciously attacks President Obama (your boss) and Democrats as wanting to weaken/ take down America?  That guy?  A "great asset to this country" and "a model to anyone in high public office?"  Never "questioning anybody's motives?" Again, LOL WTF?!

Ann Telnaes shows us the busts of the Dick that should be on display (click on image to enlarge):

(Ann Telnaes, Washington Post)

That's the real Dick Cheney.