The Onion's Joe Biden - in pictures

Biden Working His Way Through Scratch-Off Tickets During Obama's Swearing-In."There were many aspects of Biden you could cover from that day," Nackers said. "That seemed the moment that was most important to us – that he had scored a bunch of lottery tickets and was getting pretty excited about them"
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Biden To Cool His Heels In Mexico For A While. "That showed this whole other side of him," Nackers said. "That kind of gave a glimpse into the whole seedy underworld he’s involved in and why he so often has to take off to Mexico”
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Biden Now A Purple Belt. Nackers said he liked the stories that showed Diamond Joe Biden's interests. "In a weird way, he’s largely opposite to our portrayal at times," Nackers said. "He tends to be a little more clean cut, but it’s sort of a vibe that comes off him”
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Biden Pins Up Guitar Lesson Flyers On White House Bulletin Board. Nackers said The Onion's Biden has a few money-making schemes. "It’s probably because all that other stuff he does gets him into a bunch of trouble and then he has to find a way out,” he said
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Obama Asks Biden Not To Stand So Close. "It’s very bare bones but it has this total creepiness about it," Nackers said. "I feel like those stories are really nice, they seem to have so much in them, but they’re small little things”
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Shirtless Biden washes Trans Am in White House driveway. "That’s where Biden, he really formed into this multi-faceted character who is part dirtball metal-head guy, part creepy uncle,” Nackers said
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Joe Biden tweeted back at The Onion to say that he prefers Corvettes, not Trans Ams. Barack Obama's official Twitter account retweeted the image shortly after. "I don’t really know who the Vette guy is," Nackers said. "There are a lot of figures online, from all our sources we’ve heard it’s a Trans Am"
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