Clueless Joe Jetting Off to Europe

Word has it the simpleton Vice President will be placed inside a plastic bubble and kept separate from other passengers for their own safety and to preserve their sanity.

Vice President Joe Biden -- who stuck his pig's foot in his mouth Thursday by saying he "wouldn't go anywhere in confined places right now" -- is jetting to Europe later this month.

Despite his swine flu hysteria, Biden probably won't be complaining about the flight. That's because, unlike commercial-plane passengers, he likely will be aboard Air Force Two for his trip to Bosnia, Serbia and Kosovo.

Biden -- who took the train home last night -- immediately drew the ire of the airline industry and caused backpedaling by the Obama administration when he dissed plane and subway travel in light of the swine flu surge.