Reading some of the articles today (like in the NatPo at left) about V.P. Joe Biden’s humiliating failure in inspiring peace talks in the middle east between Israel and its haters, just by being there (because he certainly didn’t come armed with any new ideas, whatsoever), you’d think they expected some sort of Obama-magic success based solely on the fact that it was Obama’s man Joe Biden doing the talking. Which is just funny, in that Obama-mania suck-up media kind of way.
Speaking in bold colors, and with a firm grasp on reality in the fantastic Commentary magazine (online), writer and thinker Michael J. Trotten long ago summed-up one of the many reasons Vice President Biden and the Obama administration generally are a total failure in international affairs thus far: they are clueless, moral relativists. And moreover, the media doesn’t even realize it, making them at least as clueless; or they do know it and purposely fail to tell you (in contradistinction to their vast reportage on every “gaffe” or ramped-up malapropism coming from Sarah Palin or George Bush or any number of others on the right). And that makes them untrustworthy. It’s a great choice: clueless, or untrustworthy. Or maybe both.
Joe Biden’s Alternate Universe
Michael J. Totten – 10.03.2008 – 8:10 AMIn Thursday night’s vice presidential debate between Senator Joe Biden and Governor Sarah Palin, Biden said the strangest and most ill-informed thing I have ever heard about Lebanon in my life. “When we kicked — along with France, we kicked Hezbollah out of Lebanon, I said and Barack said, “Move NATO forces in there. Fill the vacuum, because if you don’t know — if you don’t, Hezbollah will control it.” Now what’s happened? Hezbollah is a legitimate part of the government in the country immediately to the north of Israel.” [Emphasis added.]
What on Earth is he talking about? The United States and France may have kicked Hezbollah out of Lebanon in an alternate universe, but nothing even remotely like that ever happened in this one.
Nobody – nobody – has ever kicked Hezbollah out of Lebanon. Not the United States. Not France. Not Israel. And not the Lebanese. Nobody.
Joe Biden has literally no idea what he’s talking about.
It’s too bad debate moderator Gwen Ifill didn’t catch him and ask a follow up question: When did the United States and France kick Hezbollah out of Lebanon?
The answer? Never. And did Biden and Senator Barack Obama really say NATO troops should be sent into Lebanon? When did they say that? Why would they say that? They certainly didn’t say it because NATO needed to prevent Hezbollah from returning — since Hezbollah never went anywhere.
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Like many who watched the debate, I was bracing myself for Palin to say something off-putting about foreign policy. She’s the one who needed the crash course, allegedly; Biden is supposedly Mr. Foreign Policy. He’s supposed to be the experienced elder statesman Senator Barack Obama chose to help him govern and fill in some of his knowledge and experience gaps. He’s supposed to know far more about foreign policy than she does.
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Biden, though, against all expectations and odds, managed to say something far more bizarre and off-planet than anything Palin has said on the topic to date.
And the misleading, biased news reports or lack of news reports on the actual stupidity of political candidates who actually weild great power, using actual, factual examples instead of bogus drive-by smears by the media, just continue.
For example, today the National Post uses its bash-all-conservatives pulpit to once again bash that evil and oh, ever so stupid Sarah Palin, for yet another media-trumped-up bit of media-driven BS, using the goofiest possible picture they could find in their archives, to make sure we all know they think she’s an “idiot”. No I’m sorry, “a complete idiot.” But Joe Biden? Well he’s just fantastic.
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