Biden Visits Ukraine: "So Many Beautiful Women"

Vice President Joe Biden met with Ukraine President Viktor Yushchenko In Kiev Tuesday to voice support for the country's NATO bid and its embrace of the West, but the conversation was not all serious geo-political business, judging by the pool report. While sitting around a pub in the late afternoon the conversation drifted--inevitably?-to the topic of churches... and beautiful women.

VPOTUS and Yushchenko were seated a table in the back of the pub with their two translators, the mayor and vice mayor of Kiev, and the head of the presidential secretariat. Pool joined conversation in the middle, but Yushchenko was talking about Ukrainian churches. VPOTUS overheard saying: "I cannot believe that a Frenchman visiting Kiev went back home and told his colleagues he discovered something and didn't say he discovered the most beautiful women in the world. That's my observation." Unclear who Frenchman VPOTUS was referring to. "It's certain you have so many beautiful women."

Comments

[rtblues]

04:59 AM on 07/22/2009

Joe speaks the truth.
Amen...

[SeriousBlack]

03:56 AM on 07/22/2009

Maybe not too smart a thing for our VP to say, but... come on. He's old, not dead (as the saying goes).

[LiamR]

01:56 AM on 07/22/2009

What is happening to the Huffington Post? And what in the world is wrong with Joe Biden's comment? If Jill Biden commented that there are a lot of handsome men in the Ukraine would that be a story? Come on people. Focus on health care, Afghanistan, anything but this.

[SparkyDash]

12:23 PM on 07/22/2009

Nothing wrong with Mr. Biden's comment, and HP seems to be going the direction of TMZ. This is posted in the "World" section for crying out loud. Biden is, IMHO, the best foreign policy guy we have and I wanted to read substance on his visit. HP posts this tr@sh. I did a quick search and found numerous and very good articles on our vice president's trip.

[PrincipiaChamp]

12:29 PM on 07/22/2009

This seems to be the sad direction of HuPo; finding a side "overheard" utterance like this, blasting it on the "politics" or "world' section and let the commenters feast on nothingness. I do believe the site is helping many have idjit brains. As Sparky says, if you want REAL information, go elsewhere. I also find myself doing that more and more as HP posts this kind of stuff.

This is actually more in line with FOX fodder, eh?

[My-Two-Cents]

01:44 AM on 07/22/2009

The man is a politician, he has a beautiful wife. And the women in the USA are GORGEOUS.

[ModernTimes1]

01:07 AM on 07/22/2009

More and more Biden is beginning to resemble clueless Dan Quayle.
THE most important union legislation is stuck in Congress.
Why the fk this alleged defender of labor is doing photo-ops in Ukraine???!

[IlooklikeGeorgeWyner]

11:14 PM on 07/21/2009

Maybe he was just doing his world famous, “Doc on the Love Boat” impression.

[BigAl72]

10:06 PM on 07/21/2009

I was in Germany during the 2006 World Cup to watch Italy play the Ukraine and I remember seeing hundreds of beautiful Ukrainian women.

[MissyPat]

10:04 PM on 07/21/2009

As my husband always says, mens brains are between their legs. If VPOTUS actually said that aloud ..... He should know better.

[Proxy11]

10:10 PM on 07/21/2009

Seriously a man can't complement a nation's women....?....

[GAPeach99]

11:21 PM on 07/21/2009

Good question for Dr. Jill Biden, perhaps.

[emncaity]

09:44 PM on 07/23/2009

Cripes. Get over it. No wonder so many people keep voting against their interests by voting Republican over and over--too many progressives, Dems, etc., are just oversensitive sticks.

[GZLives]

10:03 PM on 07/21/2009

Biden's got it exactly right.
Kiev (Kyviv) the ancient city that was the cradle of Russia - capitol of the Rus Kingdom, has both beautiful women and the most beautiful and historical churches.
A city very much like a combination of San Francisco and Paris

[EducatedObserver]

09:54 PM on 07/21/2009

Could it be that the vice-president has been studying Sacha Baron Cohen?

For it is ironic, given the adorable Mr Biden's trip to a country not too far from Kazakhstan, that he should begin to exhibit characteristics of the renowned journalist from that nation.

[FirstBiteBooks]

09:55 PM on 07/21/2009

LOL!

[Ukrainian]

10:43 PM on 07/21/2009

Hi!
Not a nice comment.... I am offended.... And fyi: Russia is near by Kazakhstan, not Ukraine. check the map....

[LizM]

12:23 AM on 07/22/2009

...but Ukraine is nearby Russia...oh, never mind.

[SangZe]

09:24 PM on 07/21/2009

Awe, come-on, he was just being a nice guy.

[Baculus]

09:22 PM on 07/21/2009

I'm with you, Biden. From what I have seen, the Ukraine has a lot of lovely women!

[takeyourballandgohome]

08:55 PM on 07/21/2009

It is true! The people are beautiful there, esp. the women. If you have ever travelled to Ukraine it is the most obvious impression you come away with.

[FirstBiteBooks]

09:02 PM on 07/21/2009

"If you have ever travelled to Ukraine it is the most obvious impression you come away with."

Unless you are Jewish or any racial/ethnic minority.

[takeyourballandgohome]

09:54 PM on 07/21/2009

Why, are they ugly?

[SparkyDash]

08:49 PM on 07/21/2009

The Vice President met with President Viktor Yushchenko

Biden gave a statement to the press with Yushchenko

VP Biden attended a ceremony at the Holodomor Memorial

The Vice President met with Prime Minister Yuliya Tymoshenko.

Biden met with Speaker Volodymyr Lytvyn.

Mr. Biden met with Party of Regions leader Viktor Yanukovych.

The Vice President Biden met with Arseniy Yatsenyuk

[MED1025]

07:54 PM on 07/21/2009

Watch it Joe. Jill might greet you at the front door with a frying pan.