38 Ounces of Joe
Biden's kinda wacky.
Mental note: Next time you do early-morning breakfast with the vice president, BYO cup of coffee.
On Monday I got up at 6:30 a.m. — aka two hours earlier than normal — because the instructions were explicit: Media must be checked in by 8 a.m. No exceptions.
So bleary-eyed, shirt tucked in and press credentials around my neck, I met up with similarly under-caffeinated news editor Jeffrey Billman at 7:30 at the Bellevue for the Committee of Seventy's annual bigwig breakfast, this year featuring veep Joe Biden. We filed in with the city's pin-striped elite and took our seats in a corral in the back of the room and watched as representatives of the institutions and firms that bankrolled this event sipped coffee. For the record: I would have made a donation for a cup of coffee.
Because we're 21st-century kinds of guys (and on an early holiday deadline), I present to you our analysis/commentary of Vice President Joseph Biden's speech in Philadelphia Monday morning as it appeared live on Twitter (edited only slightly for style/grammar to keep our copy chief from barfing a scarf):
beegee73 Ruben Amaro and David Montgomery at Phillies table
jeffreybillman The Comm of 70 — "the catalyst for true reform"— brought to you by Bank of Amer. and Blue Cross
jeffreybillman UPenn a cappella group. So this Glee thing is big.
jeffreybillman Biden's supposed to speak for 15 mins, no questions. 15=27 mins in Bidenworld, I bet
beegee73 The mayor w/ Zack Stalberg http://twitpic.com/qmp2z.
beegee73 Glee club singing "Love Train." O'Jays in the house.
jeffreybillman Would it kill these ppl to let me have some coffee?
beegee73 Yeah, not to sound like that guy, but isn't the media coffee and pastry room in the Bill of Rights?
beegee73 Tom Knox chats up Pat Ciarrocchi.
beegee73 The a cappella group is called the Quaker Notes. Oy.
beegee73 Wishful thinking, Zack? "Mayor, er, Governor Rendell."
jeffreybillman Joey's not here yet. We get fast Eddie. Suntanned.
jeffreybillman Rendell predicts bigger Obama win in '12.
jeffreybillman Stim worked like whoa! Ed sez
beegee73 Rendell: I'm off to meet with Chris Christie. We'll make sure he pays the toll on his way out.
jeffreybillman Biden next pls
beegee73 Biden: Wife Jill is an insufferable Phillies fan
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jeffreybillman The Bears lost. Obama's not in great mood
jeffreybillman How many times will he use the phrase "literally not figuratively"? Two so far.
beegee73 Biden raises his voice: GDP net change of 10 percent in 10 months!
jeffreybillman Turn your phones off, assholes
beegee73 Biden quotes Franklin: Energy and persistence
beegee73 Now Biden quotes Yeats: All has changed.
jeffreybillman Nondecisions are decisions — Joe Biden
beegee73 Biden brings out exhibit A in proving stim works: NYT
beegee73 Have not heard what our opponents are FOR
jeffreybillman Calls GOP posturing disingenuous. No shit
jeffreybillman Stop yelling at me
beegee73 Barack was a nobel laureate, why not me? (Joke, joke)
jeffreybillman He's kinda wacky, sez reporter next to me
jeffreybillman He's way over 15 mins. Toldyaso
beegee73 Biden: Don't want to be buried by a freight train coming out of the far east
beegee73 Biden's seriously yell-y.
jeffreybillman 30 mins. I would have loved to see the prepared remarks
beegee73 Biden: It's not that a new energy policy has been tried, it's that it's been found difficult
jeffreybillman Not satisfied, no matter GDP, until parents can look kids in eye and say gonna be OK
beegee73 Just saying no is not going to get us there
jeffreybillman 38 mins for 15 min speech.
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