Biden the buffoon and his seat at the wealthy table

Earlier today I watched live coverage of Senator Joe (Remember me?) Biden give a speech in Michigan, which was billed as an "attack address" against John McCain.

He delivered his lines well, Biden can be a very good speaker at times--although not as good as he thinks he is.

During that speech, the longtime Delaware senator bemoaned "a culture in Washington where the very few wealthy and powerful have a seat at the table and the rest of us are on the menu."

Oh really? Biden certainly knows about menus at expensive restaurants, as yesterday's New York Post Page Six Magazine explains:

Nello

696 MADISON AVE. (BETWEEN E. 62ND & 63RD STS.)

"[Nello is] more elevated than the other powerlunch places," says owner Nello Balan. "I am more expensive than the Four Seasons, and the prices here are 50 percent higher than at Da Silvano."

As the paparazzi know, when it comes to star-spotting, there is one sure thing in this town: Nello. The decade-old Italian hot spot offers up some of the best people-watching in town, in addition to $40 plates of pasta. "We have the coolest crowd, the best mix," owner Nello Balan says with confidence. Indeed, the Upper East Side restaurant does play host to everyone from old Hollywood to reality stars, royalty to bad boys (and girls).

Secret to success: While the rich and famous may play shy in public, they also want a safe place where they can see and be seen by their peers. Nello is an expert at juggling the celeb circus. "Leonardo DiCaprio is always here. He orders the lobster Marco Polo. Joe Biden is always here (emphasis mine)-he comes in with his wife and enjoys the lobster and blue crab ravioli and Dover sole-as well as [investor] Henry Kravis, [shipping tycoon] Stavros Niarchos, King Juan Carlos of Spain and his wife, Queen Sofia, and Paris Hilton. One night, Ivana Trump was at one table, [her ex-husband] Donald was at another, and [their son] Donald Jr. was at his own table. It was a little bit of a circus, but we handled it." Bill Clinton has been known to hang out after finishing his meal, even flirting with a bartender and asking her whether she thought one of the restaurant's homemade breadsticks was straight or bent.

Hey, Clinton the cad at least can laugh at himself, something Biden is incapable of, in my opinion.

And Biden, the self-appointed man-of-the-people, has made a fool of himself. Again.

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