{"id":1074,"date":"2008-10-24T16:32:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-24T16:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1074"},"modified":"2008-10-24T16:32:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-24T16:32:00","slug":"joe-biden-freaked-by-naked-goddess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1074","title":{"rendered":"Joe Biden Freaked by Naked Goddess"},"content":{"rendered":"

This happened just down the road from me, but I had to read The Wild Hunt to learn about it<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Vice-presidential candidate Joe Biden was apparently unable to give his standard speech in the presence of a statue of the goddess Diana in downtown Pueblo, so the goddess was covered by black cloth and hidden by a flag.<\/p>\n

“Is he just as bad as Palin?” M. asked.<\/p>\n

Pathetic.<\/p>\n

UPDATE:<\/span> Joe Biden as channeled by Iowahawk.<\/a><\/p>\n

“I’m not going to lie to you – it doesn’t take a weatherman to know that hey, Mr. Tambourine Man, a hard rain is gonna fall, all along the watchtower,” said the Delaware Senator, strumming on a pantomime guitar. “There will be a point — maybe one week, maybe two weeks after the inauguration — when the opinion polls will look bad. Really horribly bad. Despite our best efforts, a couple of mid-size cities will inevitably be vaporized. People will be complaining. ‘Why are you nationalizing the Safeway?’ ‘When is Omaha going to stop glowing?’ ‘Why do the Chinese soldiers keep asking for my papers?’ When this happens, we will need you to keep supporting us because, trust me, you really won’t want to be observed not supporting us.”<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This happened just down the road from me, but I had to read The Wild Hunt to learn about it. Vice-presidential candidate Joe Biden was apparently unable to give his standard speech in the presence of a statue of the goddess Diana in downtown Pueblo, so the goddess was covered by black cloth and hidden […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[10,22],"class_list":["post-1074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-american-religion","tag-weirdness"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-hk","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":563,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=563","url_meta":{"origin":1074,"position":0},"title":"The White GoddessLee Gilmore writes\u2026","author":"Chas S. 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