There's a big chewy profile of Old Handsome Joe Biden in the New Yorker today, and the pull quote that everyone's repeating is Biden's riff on George W. Bush's soul-reading performance in 2001, when he looked Vladimir Putin in the eye and got "a sense of his soul." Biden tells New Yorker reporter Evan Osnos this anecdote about meeting Putin in 2011, which we have no reason to think isn't 100% gospel truth:
Was it like <a href="http:\/\/www.englishforum.ch\/attachments\/daily-life\/32588d1316373249-three-kiss-greeting-between-opposite-sex-friends-same-sex-friends-strangers-brezniew_pocalunek.jpg" target="_blank">this</a>?
Last night my 88 yr old mother told me that a) none of what is happening in Ukraine is the Russians&#039; fault, and b) Putin&#039;s not so bad. As if any additional proof of her rapid descent into senility was necessary, she also believes that there is a direct link between the events in Ukraine and Gaza, and that somehow it&#039;s all a plot on the part of John Kerry.
Is this one of those <a href="http:\/\/jezebel.com\/knotting-is-the-weird-fanfic-sex-trend-that-cannot-be-u-1606931767" target="_blank">&quot;knotting&quot;</a> stories that I&#039;ve been hearing about?
House Elf Libel!!
Was it like <a href="http:\/\/www.englishforum.ch\/attachments\/daily-life\/32588d1316373249-three-kiss-greeting-between-opposite-sex-friends-same-sex-friends-strangers-brezniew_pocalunek.jpg" target="_blank">this</a>?
&quot;Uh-oh, Vlad. I think &#039;W&#039; here&#039;s taken a liking to you.&quot;
Last night my 88 yr old mother told me that a) none of what is happening in Ukraine is the Russians&#039; fault, and b) Putin&#039;s not so bad. As if any additional proof of her rapid descent into senility was necessary, she also believes that there is a direct link between the events in Ukraine and Gaza, and that somehow it&#039;s all a plot on the part of John Kerry.
Nah, they&#039;d blow out the back of each others&#039; skulls with their patented Death Glares.
OHJB Cilled a Bar on Tree in Year 1760.
I think Putin heart must have been heart broken that day. OHJB saying that would crush any mortal.
<i>Joe Biden is a filthy atheist.</i>
God bless Joe Biden! Um, wait a sec...
I think that&#039;s against the law in Russia.
must see TV
Is this one of those <a href="http:\/\/jezebel.com\/knotting-is-the-weird-fanfic-sex-trend-that-cannot-be-u-1606931767" target="_blank">&quot;knotting&quot;</a> stories that I&#039;ve been hearing about?
True fact: Dubya has no soul either. Or maybe no sole except for the one thrown at him by a grateful Iraqi.
That line could encourage Rick Perry.
a lot of Americans still think Bush was