You’ve surely read the story of Joe Biden leaning over to President Obama and saying, “This is f@ckin’ big” during Tuesday’s ObamaCare signing ceremony.
But c’mon, man, this is Joe Biden. The man is too big to screw up just once a day.
Top of the Ticket reveals Joe’s other special moment:
Biden is fond of quoting poets in public, usually Irish ones and often in the Mideast for some reason. But today the man who was a senator while Obama was in the sixth grade chose another nationality.
Here’s what he said, according to the White House transcript:
As I said just before the president signed the healthcare bill, I quoted Virgil, the classic Greek poet, who once said, ‘The greatest wealth is health.’ The greatest wealth is health. Mr. President, you’ve made us a nobler and wealthier nation by providing for the health of your fellow citizens.
Here’s the problem, as loyal Ticket reader Mike points out:
Virgil wasn’t Greek. He was Roman. Very Roman. So Roman, in fact, that the author (70 BC-19 BC) of the “Aeneid,” among other famous works, is buried in Naples.
“Stand up, Virgil, let ‘em see you. Oh, what am I talking about?”
Source: Top of the Ticket
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you know, you think it would stop there, but sometimes we forget... Dumb people REPRODUCE.
heard a caller say Biden was 2/3 right :
it's not a big effin' deal, just a big effin' (of us).
So was the point of this piece to poke fun at Biden saying silly things or to agree that health is wealth?
BTW the use of "Sitar" player was intentional...A gag that would go over the heads of some Democrats/Biden fans I know...
As the Roman sitarist Juvenal wrote:
"“In times like these it is difficult not to write satire”
Men like Biden give lots of material to work with... Daily it seems.
Funny too that the article points out how Biden was in Government when Barry was still a kid (though I do think Obama is about 2-3 years older then his official age. Some Birth Certificate Fraud and whatnot). That brings about another quote from Juvenal:
“No one ever became extremely wicked suddenly.”
Greek? Roman? Excuse me while I go and fire up God of War 3 on the PS3 or that God of War rip off Dante's Inferno game. Who needs real history these days? I gots me some Video Games!
Fact checks? Nah! No need for those... Right? Right Biden?
“All want to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price”
Just stop it, Juvenal! You made your point... Smart ass dead writers... Accurate and mildly poignant quotes for everything...