This past weekend was an odd one on the campaign trail. First, as NPR's Don Gonyea reported on Morning Edition , a muscled pizza man was so excited to see President Obama, he hugged him and picked him up a full foot off the ground.
Then there's Vice President Joe Biden who, um, canoodled with a biker lady at a Seaman, Ohio, diner.
The picture captured by Carolyn Kaster of The Associated Press is priceless:
As The New York Times very astutely notes, the picture is almost The Onion parody of Joe Biden come to life .
One of the most popular parodies of Biden appeared in May of 2009 , when The Onion featured Biden washing his 1981 Trans Am in the White House driveway. And he was doing it shirtless with jean shorts and loafers.
The Times ran a story about the portrayals back in 2010 . They report that off and on the Onion has portrayed the vice president as a boozy womanizer and as a kind of administration screw-up who once brought bed bugs to the White House.
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