'Bidenisms' and Dog Named 'Melon' Turn Up in International Pool Report

While you slept, Tribune White House Correspondent Mike Memoli attended press events with V.P. Biden in Sendai, Japan, the city most closely affected by the March earthquake and tsunami (see before and after pictures above).

Thankfully Biden is hardly ever boring.

They made what Memoli curiously called two “OTR” stops, but the reporter thoroughly reported each neighborhood stop. There were “Bidenisms,” an elderly woman the VP took a fancy to and a dog named Melon.

“The VP used the best and brightest of his Bidenisms, including but not limited to, ‘If I had hair like you I’d be president,’ and to the parent of a young girl, ‘No boys until she’s 30 years old.’