This article is from the archive of our partner 
.
Joe Biden's best line in the 2008 Democratic primary was that Rudy Giuliani's entire campaign was "a noun, a verb, and bin Laden 9/11." In the vice president's foreign policy speech Thursday, he attacked Mitt Romney as being unable to match President Obama's decisiveness as commander-in-chief. In doing so, he said "bin Laden" 12 times.
We expect "a noun, a verb, and bin Laden" to be a significant block of Biden's speeches from now until November. To give his speechwriters a little break, we've created Biden's bin Laden Mad Libs.
Three and a half years ago, when President Obama and I took office, and __(past tense verb)__ into that Oval Office, our __(noun)__ had been engaged in two __(plural noun)__ for the better part of a decade. __(Noun)__ was __(adjective)__ and Osama bin Laden was __(adjective)__...
If you’re looking for a bumper sticker to sum up how President Obama has __(past tense verb)__ what we inherited, it’s pretty __(adjective)__: Osama bin Laden is __(adjective)__ and General Motors is __(adjective)__...
But I think nothing speaks more __(adverb)__ to the differences between President Obama and Governor Romney than one of the defining __(noun)__ in the past __(number)__ years, the __(noun)__ for Osama bin Laden. In 2008, while campaigning for the __(noun)__, Governor Romney was asked what __(noun)__ would __(verb)__ about bin Laden.
