Kudos to Joe Biden

[reality_hammer]

Joe Biden stopped by a homeless shelter and helped serve lunch to the residents.
Vice President Biden made a surprise visit to a homeless shelter in Washington DC on Friday to help serve lunch to dozens of homeless men.

Comments

[sp23]

Did he wear his Home Depot apron?

[reality_hammer]

I think he's learned his lesson about that! Go there first, then claim you've been there. :D

[izuko]

Why does a photo op get kudos?

[reality_hammer]

My first instinct was that this was a mere photo-op but if that were the case I think they would have done it during the week and in conjunction with a push for "free" health care so people wouldn't go bankrupt in the evil for-profit system.

[luprand]

By the tone of the article, it sounds kinda like he was trying to avoid a photo op. Which in itself is rather refreshing.

[izuko]

Which, of course, is the spin of the story. Come on, do you really buy it? Especially from Biden?

[luprand]

I'd say that's rather the way I'd prefer the government help the needy.

Having not been in that situation, of course, there's not much else I can say.

Kudos indeed

[carbonelle]

According to my mom, who says she's read up about this, Mr. Biden and his wife are the kind of people who do, in their private life, volunteer in soup kitchens. It's entirely possible to be an ignorant fool, chock-full of asinine ideas, and still be a decent human being.

One day people will look back at our quaint cultural parochialism that assumed that only cleverness (and cleverness of a certain glib stripe) was a virtue.