Biden Probably Won't Be Mentioning Obama's 'Big Stick' Again

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Alexander Abad-Santos 5,214 Views Apr 26, 2012

"I promise you, the president has a big stick. I promise you," said Joe Biden in New York today in a speech that was supposed to hit back at Mitt Romney's foreign policy plans. Cue Twitter giggles at the vice president's Teddy Roosevelt reference that, per every kid in Junior High history class ever, might have some naughty double entendre. Every bad Twitter joke you can imagine ensued. We can only wait to see which of these jokes find their way to the late night comedians and Saturday Night Live. Actually, we'll wait. Really.

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