You probably get dozens of Internet chuckles forwarded to you every week, I do. Mostly I enjoy and delete them, a few I forward. Today one showed up that was good enough to share on COTTonLINE. As is typical, the authorship is unreported.
During a dull DNC dinner, Dr. Biden leaned over to chat with Chuck Schumer.
"I bought Joe a parrot for his birthday. That bird is so smart, Joe has already taught him to say over two hundred words!"
"Very impressive," said Chuck, "but, you do realize he just speaks the words. He doesn't really understand what the words mean.”
"Oh, I know," replied Dr. Biden, "but neither does the parrot."
Somewhere, the ghost of Edith Wilson nods in sympathy.
