Biden: How Can You Not Love This Guy?

Vice President Joe Biden was on the road in Texas yesterday, where he was the featured attraction at fund-raiser in Austin (which, for the record, happens to be one of your Gaggler’s favorite cities in the world). These events are mostly pep talks for the party faithful, but Biden, as usual, did a little bit of stand-up comedy. Verdict: Pretty funny. Here’s an excerpt from the pool report:

“Texas is the only place I know that turns a river into a lake,” Biden gibed to laughter, a reference to Lake Austin being in a chain of lakes broken up by dams along the Colorado River.

Biden went on: “You Texas guys are ugly as hell, but your women are beautiful. In southern Delaware, they would say y’all married up.”

And, taking note of guests not touching their bbq-rubbed tuna on jalapeno-ginger rice cakes: “Please eat your meat, please. I’m a former United States senator. I’m used to not being taken seriously.”