Vice President Biden was caught on camera dozing off for the better part of a minute during President Obama’s much-hyped deficit speech Wednesday.
Biden’s eyes were firmly closed and his head bobbed several times – often the tell-tale signs of a good snooze.
He eventually jolt awaked – and looked into his lap as if taking notes or in deep thought.
Biden’s nap, first noticed by ABC’s The Note blog, was particularly noticeable as he was seated next to the seemingly engaged Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner.
The gaffe-prone Vice President did not seem to be the only one struggling to stay awake. A woman seated behind him in glasses was also caught on tape fighting droopy eyelids.
Perhaps the napping epidemic in the audience was a side effect of Obama’s preference for warmer temperatures, known to cause drowsiness.
The President famously cranked up the heat in the Oval Office so high in 2009 that adviser David Axelrod joked, “You could grow orchids in there.”
“He’s from Hawaii, O.K.?” Axelrod said at the time. “He likes it warm.”
(Source: NY Daily News)
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To be fair, this happens to most of us at one time or another.
LOL. I don’t blame Biden for falling asleep. I probably would too.
Hey David, whether he was born in Chicago or not is subject to discussion, but he’s not “from” there. The dude lives in Chicago, Illinois – a cold city.
And apparently he likes wastin’ our dough.
We can’t drive our SUVs and, you know, eat as much as we want and keep our homes on, you know, 72 degrees at all times, whether we’re living in the desert or we’re living in the tundra and then just expect every other country is going to say OK, you know, you guys go ahead keep on using 25 percent of the world’s energy, even though you only account for 3 percent of the population, and we’ll be fine. Don’t worry about us. That’s not leadership
Our respect for him should increase. If he had taken it more seriously, it would show poor judgement.
so he’s not so dumb after all!!
What’s the big deal – it’s not like Biden’s in shul on Shabbos, napping during Torah reading or dvar Torah. And none of you folks complaining about Mr. Biden never did that, right?
And speaking of waste: President Richard “E.” Nixon liked the room extremely cold, so that he would not visibly sweat the way he did when he lost the debates in 1960 to Kennedy, and so the air conditioning was always cranked up very high for him. Additionally, Nixon liked the appearance of a nice fire in the fireplace, so the air conditioning had to be extra-high to compensate for that. I personally think Nixon needed it so cold because he was actually Satan, and my belief is supported by the fact that he never produced his birth certificate.
Now he can work in the air traffic control tower!!
This is what happens when senior citizens run the country—-nap time!!!
Maybe Biden should work for the Air Traffic Control..
Perhaps he was tired from pre Pesach cleaning!?!?!?
nfgo3, but Nixon never told the public that they must sacrifice and regulate their tempuratures to “protect the planet.”
Seems like Obama is truly an electrifying speaker. He sends thrills up their brains…
8, gee whiz you really are a fool. of course he did! like every other president before the almighty obama did!
If you were sitting there listening to all the lies and deceit etc not to mention all the stutter stutter uh uh uh em er, you would also fall asleep OR shoot yourself!
No. 13: I am pretty sure that following the oil crisis of 1973-74, President Nixon suggested that the public should turn down the thermostats and seek more fuel-efficient cars. My point is that by his own fossil-fuel burning profligacy, he did not lead by example. Are you suggesting that although Nixon was a liar and crook, he was not a hypocrite? I respectfully disagree. (And check your cliches: it is “thrills up brains”, not “chills up spines”. Better yet, omit the cliches.)
No. 14: If you honestly believe that I am a fool, you would not rely on my reading of your comment to supply the antecedent of the first third-person pronoun in your comment. Regrettably, your lack of antecedents infects your reasoning as well as your grammar. And just to be clear, I was engaging in hyperbolic humor (perhaps not up to your standards) when I said that Nixon was Satan and that he lacked a birth certificate.
And, No. 14, your certainty that all presidents have supplied birth certificates to authenticate their lawful qualification to run for, or be, president raises an interesting question: Where in the process of running for president is a candidate required to produce a birth certificate? I would have guessed that state election officials would require some proof of “natural-born” citizenship to be supplied when a candidate applies for listing on a primary ballot or, at the latest, on the election-day ballot. I would also expect some federal authority to require similar proof, e.g., the Electoral College. Does anyone actually know when, if ever, a presidential candidate must present a birth certificate or other proof of age and natural-born citizenship? This was never an issue when the candidates were from the former American ethnic mainstream of Anglo-Saxons, Scotch-Irish and Dutch. It was not even an issue for the ethnic-Irish Kennedy, or the ethnic-Greek Dukakis.