NYC Letter: Pants On Fire VI

Day 105 of CHOPE

What's humbled me, as you walk out, I mean, everywhere I go, crowds spontaneously assemble. They start to cheer, whether I go to a play on Broadway or I'm going home to Wilmington, Delaware. I walk on the train. People stand up and clap. I mean, it's humbled me. It's not about me. It's about, I think, the hope and expectation they have for our administration. But it's spontaneous everywhere I've gone around the country. And it really is humbling. And it makes you realize that people are really banking on us, you know, changing the day. And it really it is humbling.

Joe "Hi-Q" Biden,
VP and crowd magnet,
spontaneously bursting into self-adulation
answering the 100 days "enchanted" question
GOOD MORNING AMERICA
April 30, 2009 (ABC)

And that, gentle skimmer, is the difference between being the VP and being the VP-elect.

JOE BIDEN GETS TURNED AWAY FROM SOLD-OUT MOVIE

January 6, 2009 (current.com) - Employees at the Regal Brandywine Cinemas say the vice president-elect and his wife, Jill, tried to attend the 7:45 showing of "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" at the theater on Concord Pike but left after they were told the movie was sold out.

... Remarkably, none of the other moviegoers appeared to notice. Employees said nobody mobbed Biden or called his name or asked for an autograph. Employee Becky Gingrich:

It didn't seem many people recognized him. Honestly, I think people were just too wrapped up in themselves to notice.

We scoured the news wires* for Joe Biden sightings with accounts of spontaneous assembly. But so commonplace is this remarkable phenomenon that it goes unremarked by the press.

If you find yourself spontaneously coagulating with those around you into a fawning mob, it's a sure bet Mr. Biden is near. Remember. Clap like a seal.

CHOPE.

Self-adoring. Self-applauding. Humble.

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* Mr. Biden is occasionally hidden from the press by design. Occasionally he is spirited away to distant no-news zones.