WACKO OF THE WEEK

SEN. JOSPEH BIDEN

Don't get us wrong. No one here at ARBORETUM thinks he's a racist, but we admit this comment was pretty stupid:

“I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy,” he said. “I mean, that’s a storybook, man.”

It was, in our opinion, not only a wacky thing to say, but pretty typical of Biden.

Arboretum friend and frequent participant Dashman, asks: " Arguably the shortest Presidential campaign in history ???"
We suppose the answer to that is "yes."

Biden himself admits to being a blow-hard:
Mr. Biden, who ran an ill-fated campaign for President in 1988, is a man who believes his time has finally come, announcing this week that he was filing papers to make his 2008 Presidential bid official. Although he admits to a tendency to “bloviate,” he thinks that an aggressive advocate with rough edges might be just what the party needs right now. “Democrats nominated the perfect blow-dried candidates in 2000 and 2004,” he said, “and they couldn’t connect.”

Read more about his big-mouthery CLICK HERE