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I am loving how the most interesting articles of this Administration are coming out of the UK. It seems that since Bush left office the media just can’t come up with any juicy headlines. Interesting, no?

Barack Obama throws Joe Biden under the bus

Posted By: Toby Harnden at Feb 10, 2009 at 02:30:33
Posted in: Foreign Correspondents

Pity poor Joe Biden. His “there’s still a 30 percent chance we’re going to get it wrong” quote is put straight to President Barack Obama during the White House press conference just now and his boss seemed to want to say: “Vice-President Who?”

As reporters started giggling, Obama came close to conceding that Biden was indeed a joke. “You know, I don’t remember exactly what Joe was referring to, not surprisingly.”

The President went on to say that “I think what Joe may have been suggesting, although I wouldn’t ascribe any numerical percentage to any of this, is that given the magnitude of the challenges that we have, any single thing that we do is going to be part of the solution, not all of the solution.”

Of course, Biden wasn’t saying anything of the sort – Obama knew that and all the rest of us did too.

Biden’s exact quote, read out by Fox’s Major Garrett at the presser was: “If we do everything right, if we do it with absolute certainty, if we stand up there and we really make the tough decisions, there’s still a 30 percent chance we’re going to get it wrong.” Read MORE

Which just goes to prove an old adage:

89.7% of all statistics are made up on the spot.