vice president joe biden presided over the ceremony. a group of senate pages carried two mahogany boxes holding certificates of vote mailed in from around the country. they found president obama won the election with 332 electoral votes. it s the first time since eisenhower that a president won 51% of the popular vote twice. and we re learning more about the inauguration. chief justice ron roberts will swear the president is just like he did the first time around. but let s remember who will be right there next to the president, vice president joe biden. he will be sworn in by supreme court justice sonya sotomayor, the first hispanic person to administer an inaugural oath of office. but yesterday, it was joe being joe. classic biden.
had no problem with biden even though it was not accurate to say he, alone, barack obama, met that positive description for african-americans biden had given him. by the way, he picked that fellow as his vice president and running mate. there was when biden said he told members of his family during the swine flu threat he didn t want them going into confined spaces. when he kidded justice roberts about getting the presidential oath off on inaugural day or yesterday when he used a locker room idiom, he wanted the president to know and feel what a historic moment they were sharing. one this president had achieved to downright demark bli. it was a classic biden. innocent embarrassment with no malice intended. with all the chuckles about the vp s bad language, nobody pointed out the most obvious. when the president came out yesterday to sign the health care bill, he had vice president biden at his side, just as he did when the bill passed sunday.
though it was not accurate to say that he alone, barack obama, met that positive description for african-americans that biden had given him. oh, by the way, he picked that fellow as his vice president and running mate. then there was when biden said he told members of his family during the swine flu threat that he didn t want them going out into confined spaces. and when he kidded justice roberts about getting the presidential oath a bit off that day on inaugural day, or, yesterday when he used a locker room idiom he wanted the president to know what an historic moment they were sharing, the one this president had achieved remark abably. classic biden, no malice intended, indeed the opposite. with all the chuckles with the vp s bad language yesterday, nobody pointed out the most obvious. when the president came out yesterday to sign the health care bill, he had vice president biden at his side, just as he did when the bill passed sunday. other presidents didn t do that. they were somew
let me finish tonight with a serious comment on vice president joe biden. a serious one. last week at the annual dinner of tv and radio correspondents, he joked that, quote, at least when i get caught with my foot in my mouth it s my own foot. it was a wonderful shot at one critic who was discovered several years back to have purchased a somewhat unusual service from a washington, d.c., sex worker. it was of course an admission by the vice president of his own past embarrassments that tended to land in the area of that, personal embarrasses. the great thing about his gaffes is their lack of malice. if no harm no foul were the rule of the day, he wouldn t have suffered so much grief. there was that time when he said the articulate, bright, clean and nice looking guy, i mean, that s a story book, man. well, the man whose story that was, barack obama, got him off the hook on that one saying he had no problem with biden, even