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January 15, 2010
Joe Biden Practices Not Being Seen
Posted by The MaryHunter at January 15, 2010 6:28 AM
Vice President "Stealthy" Joe Biden was known for his impressive ability to fade completely into the backgorund during the last months of the 2008 presidential campaign and has maintained more or less below-the-radar status for most of Obama's first year in office. Recently, he displayed his expert skills, though perhaps not in the best of situations. To summarize:
Vice President Joe Biden's official agenda is the target of a Los Angeles Times article by Andrew Malcolm poking fun at the irony of the situation. It reads: "Today's Biden schedule highlight is a meeting with the chief of transparency for economic recovery. But, unfortunately, the transparency meeting is non-transparent -- closed to the press -- Which makes it -- what? -- Secret openness? Open secrecy?"
In fact most of the events on the vice president's schedule did not allow cameras. From his daily briefing, which was closed press, to a meeting with the transportation secretary, also closed press, to lunch with the president, still closed to press, and then a meeting with the Iraqi vice president that included a "pool spray," meaning a few cameras are shuffled past momentarily and rushed out of the room. Then it's that transparency meeting that, as we said, was closed press.
We here at Moonbattery are duly impressed with Cryptic Joe's ninja-like qualities. However, since the L.A. TImes broke his cover, we thought he might need some additional expert training.
