Although he may have taken Biden aboard as VP in some deal with the DNC, it appears that the opportunistic Obama at least initially had no problem with it- insecure narcissists like and need to be surrounded by fake suck-ups. The ever-calculating Obama also likely sensed that such an appointment increased his job security... since the nation would cringe at the surreal thought of a gaffe-prone and confused President Joe replacing him.
He was presented to us last year as a seasoned asset for a future Obama Administration, yet the sad fact is that Biden has been consistently on the wrong side of history over the last 30 years... so his DNC-vaunted foreign policy “experience” has little value… this partisan hack doesn’t appear to have learned a thing.
Like Obama, he vehemently opposed the highly-successful Iraq Surge strategy- instead, Biden favored what amounted to surrender, and came-up with a harebrained proposal to split the country 3-ways. In 2006 he was still calling the Surge "a tragic mistake". What is clear is that if the Obama Administration were in-charge 4 years ago, Iraq today would be an Al Qaida Caliphate that makes 2001 Kabul look like Disneyland.
In the 1980s, alleged foreign-policy expert Biden opposed every element of Reagan’s defense buildup that peacefully toppled the USSR as “dangerous”- in particular, the vital Pershing II missles to match the Soviets' in Europe. The Delaware Senator later voted against the first Gulf War in 1991, which would have allowed Saddam to keep Kuwait and control a large chunk of the world’s oil supplies.
In the 1987 presidential primaries, he not only had plagiarized British Labour leader Neil Kinnock’s speeches wholesale… but actually adopted his entire life story(!), falsely claiming to have been the “first in his family to go to college” and a “coal-miner’s son”. Back in reality, Biden’s father was a car salesman (no surprise there, Biden looks like the sales manager at a Buick dealer).
And when it comes to gaffes, Biden says incredible things that Sarah Palin would have surely been pilloried mercilessly for... while Joe gets yet another mulligan from the O-bots of the MSM. Typical was how the Biden schooled us all in the presidential campaign last fall regarding how FDR came on television in 1929 to discuss the Depression, as he suggested President Bush should have done- But unfortunately, 1929 was a year in which there was no President Roosevelt... no Depression... and no television.
At the height of uncertainty regarding the unfolding financial crisis earlier this year -when the nation was yearning for a confident voice from this new administration- Biden said on camera that the economy was "in danger of really tanking". Was Obama using him to stir panic in order to pass his reckless stimulus spending package? Then when met with an uproar, it's "oh, that's just Joe" again? I wouldn't put it past him-
Inexplicably, Biden is allowed racist slurs, too- like when he called Obama in the early primaries the first "clean" black politician who "speaks well" to run for president... before he went-on to state that Obama was unqualified. Biden also said something about not being able to go into a 7-11 convenience store "without an Indian accent"..... and like his boss, Biden finds it appropriate to mock the disabled in public for a few chuckles.
He delivered a nonsensical tirade on Dick Cheney's alleged abuse of power and violation of The Constitution while betraying a shocking, comprehensive ignorance of the Articles himself. This supposed foreign-policy guru has claimed that we "kicked Hezbollah out of Lebanon" somehow- which of course never happened. And he warned us a few months back that the new president would be "tested" by foreign adversaries, and that we should "gird our loins" for the Obama presidency... huh?.
Some of Biden's most grevious howlers were compiled (below) by the McCain campaign last year. While Biden's oafishness is often a convenient excuse for this administration, many of these statements appear to be calculated, politically useful prevarication- as it's hard to believe he's actually this ignorant and/or loose with the facts:
1. TAX VOTE:
Biden said McCain voted “the exact same way” as Obama to increase taxes on Americans earning just $42,000, but McCain DID NOT VOTE THAT WAY.
2. AHMEDINIJAD MEETING:
Joe Biden lied when he said that Barack Obama never said that he would sit down unconditionally with Mahmoud Ahmedinijad of Iran. Barack Obama did say specifically, and Joe Biden attacked him for it.
3. OFFSHORE OIL DRILLING:
Biden said, “Drill we must.” But Biden has opposed offshore drilling and even compared offshore drilling to “raping” the Outer Continental Shelf.”
4. TROOP FUNDING:
Joe Biden lied when he indicated that John McCain and Barack Obama voted the same way against funding the troops in the field. John McCain opposed a bill that included a timeline, that the President of the United States had already said he would veto regardless of it’s passage.
5. OPPOSING CLEAN COAL:
Biden says he’s always been for clean coal, but he just told a voter that he is against clean coal and any new coal plants in America and has a record of voting against clean coal and coal in the U.S. Senate.
6. ALERNATIVE ENERGY VOTES:
According to FactCheck.org, Biden is exaggerating and overstating John McCain’s record voting for alternative energy when he says he voted against it 23 times.
7. HEALTH INSURANCE:
Biden falsely said McCain will raise taxes on people’s health insurance coverage — they get a tax credit to offset any tax hike. Independent fact checkers have confirmed this attack is false
8. OIL TAXES:
Biden falsely said Palin supported a windfall profits tax in Alaska — she reformed the state tax and revenue system, it’s not a windfall profits tax.
9. AFGHANISTAN / GEN. MCKIERNAN COMMENTS:
Biden said that top military commander in Iraq said the principles of the surge could not be applied to Afghanistan, but the commander of NATO’s International Security Assistance Force Gen. David D. McKiernan said that there were principles of the surge strategy, including working with tribes, that could be applied in Afghanistan.
10. REGULATION:
Biden falsely said McCain weakened regulation — he actually called for more regulation on Fannie and Freddie.
11. IRAQ:
When Joe Biden lied when he said that John McCain was “dead wrong on Iraq”, because Joe Biden shared the same vote to authorize the war and differed on the surge strategy where they John McCain has been proven right.
12. TAX INCREASES:
Biden said Americans earning less than $250,000 wouldn’t see higher taxes, but the Obama-Biden tax plan would raise taxes on individuals making $200,000 or more.
13. BAILOUT:
Biden said the economic rescue legislation matches the four principles that Obama laid out, but in reality it doesn’t meet two of the four principles that Obama outlined on Sept. 19, which were that it include an emergency economic stimulus package, and that it be part of “part of a globally coordinated effort with our partners in the G-20.”
14. REAGAN TAX RATES:
Biden is wrong in saying that under Obama, Americans won’t pay any more in taxes then they did under Reagan.
Joey Plugs is a reckless clown who often says things that betray a major disconnect with reality– and it's not easy to shut him up. Truly this was a ridiculous choice for Vice-President of the United States, where a few loose words can start wars or crash markets- but like most of Obama's picks, was made for the opportunist's own political security, above all. As with the appointments of potential 2012 rivals Hillary and Bill Richardson -or obedient partisan toadies like Napolitano- the nation's interests don't weigh very heavy in this president's descision-making process, to say the least. And Biden was no exception.
Now that we're all stuck with him for awhile, best chain this national embarrassment to a teleprompter every time he heads out the door- before he causes us some real trouble.
Now that we're all stuck with him for awhile, best chain this national embarrassment to a teleprompter every time he heads out the door- before he causes us some real trouble.
