A bit of candor from the gentleman from Delaware

I'm often not sure what to make of Joe Biden -- like most Senators, he can come off as part blowhard, part opportunist, part guy you wouldn't trust your kids or pets with. But he's smart, and often pulls no punches when it comes to the current administration. Politicians are rarely seen in a bad mood, or having anything approaching the tempers of every day citizens. Simply put, they don't swear. Which is why I was once again laughing out loud on the train as I read a New Yorker article on Dems' attempts to reclaim some of the national defense credability for so long ceded to the other side:

By the mid-nineties, Biden had become more absorbed by foreign affairs, and he was deeply affected by the cruelty he saw on visits to Bosnia during the war there. He became a missionary in the cause of armed humanitarian intervention in Bosnia and, later, in Kosovo. I
came back to the Republicans and laid out the death camps in Kosovo, the rape camps in Bosnia, I laid it out in stark relief," he told me. "These guys, "the Republicans, said, 'It's not our business.' What is so transformational in the last four years is that these assholes who
wouldn't give President Clinton the authority to use force have now become', he said, moral interventionists. "Give me a fucking break."

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Tell us what you really think, Senator. Now if only people talked like that on Meet the Press, I'd watch it more often...