what are the odds that Biden will be the V-P choice in 2012?

I'd say something under 50%...

Here's Rich Galen at TownHall.com with Joe's latest faux-pas (or should that be Jaux-pax?)...

It was just a matter of time. Joe Biden has disappointed all of official Washington with his lack of really juicy quotes.

On Thursday morning, for reasons I would like to better understand, the Administration stuck Biden on the Today Show to discuss … Swine Flu.

Joe came through. On the same day that Chrysler went bankrupt because people stopped buying cars, Biden suggested people stay off airplanes to avoid the risk of, well, dying.

"I would tell members of my family, and I have, I wouldn't go anywhere in confined places now. It's not that it's going to Mexico, it's you're in a confined aircraft when one person sneezes it goes all the way through the aircraft. That's me. I would not be, at this point, if they had another way of transportation suggesting they ride the subway."

...Biden's press office, of course, pretended Biden hadn't said anything of the sort. His spokeswoman said

"The advice he is giving family members is the same advice the administration is giving all Americans: That they should avoid unnecessary air travel to and from Mexico. If they are sick, they should avoid airplanes and other confined public spaces, such as subways."

Biden also said, "If you're out in the middle of a field and someone sneezes that's one thing. If you're in a closed aircraft or a closed container or closed car or closed classroom it's a different thing."...

Robert Gibbs the White House press secretary didn't want any part of that "same advice the administration is giving all Americans" horse hockey. The White House wanted Obama as far away from Biden as the last seat in coach is from the bulkhead in first...: "Obviously, if anybody was unduly alarmed for whatever reason, we would apologize for that," Gibbs said.

Translation? "Biden is a moron. You know it. We know it. Let's move on."