Biden fit for VP? (OP-ed)

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Biden fit for VP? (OP-ed)
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Sat, 10-11-2008 - 9:25am
October 08, 2008
Pull The Hair Plug On This Guy

If Sarah Palin had made just one of the wildly inaccurate statements smugly uttered by Sen. Joe Biden in last week's vice presidential debate, there would have been 3-inch headlines in newspapers across America. (I can almost hear Katie Couric asking me, "Which newspapers?")


These weren't insignificant errors, such as when Biden said, "Look, all you have to do is go down Union Street with me in Wilmington or go to Katie's restaurant or walk into Home Depot with me where I spend a lot of time, and you ask anybody in there whether or not the economic and foreign policy of this administration has made them better off in the last eight years."


It turns out that Katie's restaurant, where Biden gets his feel for the average American, closed 20 years ago. The only evidence that he spends any time in Home Depot is that it appears that a pipe wrench fell on his head one too many times.


Palin would surely have been forced to withdraw from the ticket had she said something like that, but most of Biden's errors were not trifling mistakes like these. They were lengthy Lyndon LaRouche-like disquisitions that were pure fantasy from beginning to end.


For example, Biden said about Hezbollah: "When we kicked -- along with France -- we kicked Hezbollah out of Lebanon." Hezbollah was never kicked out of Lebanon.


He continued: "I said and Barack said, 'Move NATO forces in there. Fill the vacuum, because if you don't, Hezbollah will control it.'" This is madness -- Lebanon is not a NATO country, nor had any NATO country been attacked by Lebanon.




Somebody please tell me that Biden wasn't picked for the Democrat ticket based on his knowledge of foreign policy.


Biden also stoutly denied that Obama ever said he would sit down with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Liberals find it hilarious that McCain can't use a computer keyboard on account of his war injuries, but Biden is apparently unaware of the Internet, because there are clips all over the Internet of Obama saying exactly that during the CNN/YouTube debate last year.


Biden might have remembered that debate since: (1) He was there, and (2) he later attacked Obama's answer, telling the National Press Club in August 2007: "Would I make a blanket commitment to meet unconditionally with the leaders of each of those countries within the first year I was elected president? Absolutely, positively, no."


And that's still not all! Obama's own Web site says: "Obama supports tough, direct presidential diplomacy with Iran without preconditions."


Somebody please tell me that Biden wasn't picked for the Democrat ticket based on his ability to remember well-known facts.


Biden also gave a long speech at the debate on vice president Dick Cheney's "dangerous" belief that "he's part of the legislative branch." The great constitutional scholar Biden cited Article I of the Constitution as proof that Cheney "works in the executive branch" and has "no authority relative to the Congress." Biden huffily added: "He should understand that. Everyone should understand that."


Palin would have had to deny that Alaska is a state in the union in order to say something comparably stupid.


Article II, not I, describes the executive branch. Someone tell Biden, who is supposed to be a lawyer. Apart from getting the Articles of the Constitution mixed up, what on earth does Biden mean when he says that the vice president "has no authority relative to Congress," apart from breaking ties?


The Constitution makes him president of the senate every day of the week. I realize that Biden may not be able to count to two, but Article I says the vice president is president of one of the two houses of Congress -- the one Biden is in, for crying out loud -- which is what you might call "authority relative to Congress."


Somebody please tell me that Biden wasn't picked for the Democrat ticket based on his knowledge of the Constitution.


In one especially hallucinatory answer, Biden authoritatively stated: "With Afghanistan, facts matter, Gwen. ... We spend more money in three weeks on combat in Iraq than we spent on the entirety of the last seven years that we have been in Afghanistan building that country."


According to the Congressional Research Service, since 9/11, we've spent $172 billion in Afghanistan and $653 billion in Iraq. The most money spent in Iraq came in 2008, when we have been spending less than $3 billion a week. So by Biden's calculations, we've spent only about $9 billion "on the entirety of the last seven years that we have been in Afghanistan building that country." There isn't even a "9" in $172 billion.


Somebody please tell me that Biden wasn't picked for the Democrat ticket based on his knowledge of math.


In the same answer, Biden went on to claim that "John McCain voted against a comprehensive nuclear test ban treaty that every Republican has supported."


The last nuclear test ban treaty the Senate voted on was the one Clinton signed in the '90s. As The New York Times editorialized on the Senate vote a few years later: "Last week, Senate Republicans thundered 'no' to the nuclear test ban treaty, handing the White House its biggest defeat since health care in 1994." Forty-nine Republicans voted against the treaty; only four liberal Republicans voted for it. That's the treaty Biden says "every Republican has supported."


Somebody please tell me that Biden wasn't picked for the Democrat ticket based on his ability to function as vice president.


Ann Coulter http://www.redstatesusa.com/archives/2008/10/pull_the_hair_p.html

Djie

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iVillage Member
Registered: 08-29-2008
Mon, 10-13-2008 - 1:56pm
I just read what you write...
iVillage Member
Registered: 10-10-2008
Mon, 10-13-2008 - 2:11pm
We've already seen the kind of people Obama surrounds himself with...terrorists...racists...felons...anti-Americans...the sad part is that Biden is only getting sucked up into the fray because he's ambitious. After all, Biden did say that Barry was unqualified to be President.
iVillage Member
Registered: 10-10-2008
Mon, 10-13-2008 - 2:14pm
Did you see the clown on television this morning? After designing his own Presidential Seal the fop even has his own "American" flag! Obamaland! ROFL!!!
iVillage Member
Registered: 08-29-2008
Mon, 10-13-2008 - 2:37pm
I didn't see it, but that doesn't surprise me. I'll look it up.
iVillage Member
Registered: 08-29-2008
Mon, 10-13-2008 - 2:40pm
Aren't you the one who posts and DEFENDS propaganda from the Daily Kos and Huffington Post? And then you have the nerve to try to knock the Wall Street Journal. You've got to be kidding.
iVillage Member
Registered: 08-29-2008
Mon, 10-13-2008 - 3:02pm
I've been looking for a picture of it but I can't find it. Do you think he'll put his hand on his heart when facing THAT flag? LOL!
iVillage Member
Registered: 10-10-2008
Mon, 10-13-2008 - 3:56pm
Knowing his ego...absolutely. Obama loves Obama.
iVillage Member
Registered: 10-08-2008
Mon, 10-13-2008 - 3:59pm

While I agree that Wikipedia, like anywhere else, can be incorrect, are you seriously suggesting that my own anecdotal evidence that the WSJ's editorial page is conservative AND the same statement on Wikipedia are both incorrect?

If so, please provide evidence which suggests that the WSJ EDITORIAL PAGE (note: not the main paper) is NOT conservative-focused.

iVillage Member
Registered: 10-08-2008
Mon, 10-13-2008 - 4:00pm

You sure do.....incorrectly.

Here's an idea: if you ever want to know whether I actually believe something -- ask me whether I do, and I'll let you know. Otherwise, if you go assuming, you're likely to be wrong - again.

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Registered: 08-29-2008
Tue, 10-14-2008 - 7:28pm
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