--- title: Start Your Summer With Joe Biden and a Super-Soaker description: The Vice President seems more thrilled than anyone else to wield a super soaker canonical: https://time.com/2908706/joe-biden-super-soaker/ author: Sam Frizell article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-06-21T19:57:59.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:11:00.805Z og:title: Start Your Summer With Joe Biden and a Super-Soaker og:description: The Vice President seems more thrilled than anyone else to wield a super soaker og:url: https://time.com/2908706/joe-biden-super-soaker/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Start Your Summer With Joe Biden and a Super-Soaker twitter:description: The Vice President seems more thrilled than anyone else to wield a super soaker twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Start Your Summer With Joe Biden and a Super-Soaker by [Sam Frizell](https://time.com/author/sam-frizell/) ## Sam Frizell Jun 21, 2014 7:57 PM UTC by [Sam Frizell](https://time.com/author/sam-frizell/) ## Sam Frizell Jun 21, 2014 7:57 PM UTC Almost every year, Vice President Joe Biden hosts a first-day-of-summer party with reporters, bouncy castles and a whole lot of kids. There’s face painting, lounging on the lawn, and super soaker battles that the Vice President does not shy away from. In fact, Biden seems more enthusiastic than many of the kids and reporters he’s super-soaking. The party at the Naval Observatory has included guests like then-White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, CNN’s Wolf Blitzer and Candy Crowley, MSNBC’s Chris Matthews and Rachel Maddow among others, Politico [reported](http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2013/06/biden-cancels-annual-summer-beach-party-165261.html) last year. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/2908706/joe-biden-super-soaker/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/2908706/joe-biden-super-soaker/"},"headline":"Start Your Summer With Joe Biden and a Super-Soaker","datePublished":"2014-06-21T19:57:59.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:11:00.805Z","description":"Joe Biden's Day Off","url":"https://time.com/2908706/joe-biden-super-soaker/","keywords":["Newsfeed","politics","White House"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Sam Frizell","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/sam-frizell/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/2908706/joe-biden-super-soaker/","name":"Start Your Summer With Joe Biden and a Super-Soaker"}}]}] ```