I just caught the end of Hardball, Chris Matthews played a snippet of a speech Joe Biden made at a Irish shindig. Here is what Biden said.
"we were telling stories I guess that what Irish do when they get together. And I was reminded of a time by my sister when me and my grandpops were up in Scranton and I was out in the back alley and I got the living hell kicked out of me by a guy named Johhny Finstamaucher a little bit bigger than me. And I came walking in holding my head my mother said "I saw what happened Joey" I was expecting her to put her arms around me. This is god's true story. She said "I want you to go back out there and...listen to me...bloody his nose" And I looked at her and she said "so you can walk down the alley tommorow"
So I have to ask. How thick is the irony?