--- description: The Vice President seems more thrilled than anyone else to wield a super soaker title: Start Your Summer With Joe Biden and a Super-Soaker image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Newsfeed](/tag/time-section-newsfeed/) ## Newsfeed Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Start Your Summer With Joe Biden and a Super-Soaker by [Sam Frizell](/author/sam-frizell/) ## Sam Frizell Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jun 21, 2014 7:57 PM CUT by [Sam Frizell](/author/sam-frizell/) ## Sam Frizell Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jun 21, 2014 7:57 PM CUT 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 "undefined") 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"}}]}] ```