Politicians Embrace Swearing

“As he shook President Barack Obama’s hand and pulled him in for what he thought was a private aside, Vice President Joe Biden delivered an explicit message: ‘This is a big fucking deal.’ The remark, overheard on live microphones at a 2010 ceremony for the Affordable Care Act, caused a sensation because open profanity from a national leader was unusual at the time,” the AP reports.

“More than 15 years later, vulgarity is now in vogue… Leaders in both parties are seemingly in a race now to the verbal gutter.”