From the transcript at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
Judge, look, I want to try to cut through some stuff here, if I can. I said yesterday this shouldn’t be a game of Gotcha, you know. We shouldn’t be playing a game. The folks have a right to know what you think. You’re there for life. They don’t get to — this is the democratic moment. They don’t get a chance to say, You know, I wish I’d known that about that guy. I would have picked up the phone and called my senator sand said, ‘Vote no,’ or, ‘vote yes.’ Whichever.
And so what I’d like to do is stick with your analogy a little bit, because everybody’s used it: baseball. By the way, to continue that metaphor, you hit a home run yesterday. I mean, everybody — I got home and I got on the train and people saying, Oh, he likes baseball, huh? Seriously. The conductors, people on the train. And it’s an apt metaphor, because you just call balls and strikes, call them as you see them, straight up.
Biden then goes on to prove he doesn’t understand the what the strike zone is. Not that I know what the strike zone is, but then I don’t go lecturing people about it on national television. This has been much written about in the blogosphere, and while I don’t care about it (except that any time Biden makes an ass of himself in public, he undermines people’s faith in the Senate, which is a good thing), there IS something in the transcript that caught my eye and pissed me off: does Biden seriously expect us to think he takes the TRAIN anywhere?? That he’s a regular guy who rubs shoulders with regular guys? And what, is he in the passenger compartment, or up in the cab with the conductor? Do they let people in there, or only Senators?
Please.
Unless… it was a slip up, and he was alluding to the taxpayer-funded gravy train he and his fellow parasites are riding.
What a loser.