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The Spectacle Blog
Politico reported on the written condolences Vice President Joe Biden offered yesterday at the Polish Embassy in Washington, but didn’t include Biden’s comments to reporters afterward. I haven’t seen them mentioned anywhere in the English-language press, but here they are translated from what’s reported in Poland’s Gazeta Wyborcza:
“This tragedy is hard to comprehend. I’d like to tell all people in Poland: our love, admiration, and support are with you. I can only imagine what would be going on in the United States if — God forbid — our president, First Lady, along with a group of highest government dignitaries and most respected citizens, had lost their lives in this manner. This is a moment of mourning for Poles all over the world.”
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Rick V.| 4.15.10 @ 8:43AM
And to think that the liberals compared Cheney to Darth Vader. The vacuity of Biden's mind is, well, mind-boggling. Which of course leaves our current VP undaunted.
DAC| 4.15.10 @ 9:15AM
Newsflash, folks--the Russians orchestrated the plane crash, and likely our own Dear Leader and his organ-grinding monkey VP knew about it either in advance, or immediately afterwards from our new buddies, Putin and Medvedev. Remember who Putin is--KGB, through and through. Despises the Poles and considers them natural slaves of the Russians, consistent with the Russian attitude towards Poles for centuries.
Much like the poisoning of the Russian defector in England a few years back, the reality that Russia murdered 94 Poles, and not coincidentally a former Solidarity leader and strong conservative, will trickle out eventually. When it does, it will be very interesting to hear our World Citizen President's lies about it--most likely he'll ignore the facts, hoping everyone forgets his many ahole-lickings of Putin and Medvedev--and when the facts can no longer be ignored, he'll stick his arrogant face up in the air and say we all must not rush to judgment.
If anyone in Poland thinks the US remains an ally, they are on crack. If anyone of Polish descent in the US votes for this administration or any Democrat, they are mocking their ancestors and Poles generally. They know better than to think that this was an accident. It was no more an accident than the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact that divided Poland between Hitler and Stalin in 1939.
Anyone want to give me odds on how long it will take for the ugly reality to become public?
Jim Hlavac | 4.15.10 @ 11:15AM
So no normal condolences -- instead a reference to Obama? Who goes to a funeral for someone, say a mother, and says, "yes, well, terrible, and can you imagine how bad it would have been if our mother died?" Something's not quite right in Bidenland. And what can he imagine if it happened to Obama and wife? Somehow I don't think that when JFK was shot the Polish president at the time said "Oh, terrible -- I can imagine what it would be like if our president was shot." The man is a putz.
KingCranium| 4.15.10 @ 11:16AM
Seriously? I have no problem with this. It shows empathy without trying to find some smaller tragedy to compare it and hence diminishing it, and tells Poland exactly how we feel. Biden gets deserved criticism, but for off-the-cuff comments, I think this is pretty much exactly right.
Charles Martel| 4.15.10 @ 11:46AM
Cranium, you've missed the point: Biden DID find a smaller tragedy with which to compare it.
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Dai Alanye | 4.15.10 @ 12:03PM
I fail to see anything seriously wrong with Biden's comment. He was simply saying that the tragedy was almost incomprehensible, which is accurate. Reagan, of course, might have said it better, but let's not jump all over poor old Joe on the one occasion when he manages to avoid putting his foot into his mouth.
Roscoe| 4.15.10 @ 12:20PM
Dai Alanye, you should have put a period after "I fail to see anything", and gone no further with your post, just as Biden should have gone no further after saying the word "you." His mouth was running - as usual - without brain in gear; just like you were typing without brain in gear. Do you see now?
Dai Alanye | 4.15.10 @ 4:25PM
The question that now pops into my mind is who might be the bigger fool—Joe Biden or this "Roscoe" nitwit who can't find anything better to offer than a gratuitous insult.
The site would profit from some sort of IQ minimum being met before a person is allowed to comment.
Frog in Uniform| 4.15.10 @ 11:32AM
Right on DAC! Putin saw that ceremony as the ultimate humiliation for Russia and for the FSB (current name for KGB). Propaganda relies heavily on symbols and their effects on subconcience. Let the Poles make their point in Katyn and Putin and his henchmen become buffoons for the rest of their lives, on another hand, kill all your foes on the same plane just like you did in 1943 with the Polish government in exile airplane, and you strike your opponents with fear, you reaffirm your might :"No apology on this 70th anniversary, you can fly but you can't hide, you don't want to mess with us like your pitiful attempt to have the US provide you with an anti-missile shield, and we are still your lords, dumb catholic peasants, and by the way we have another Tupolev to sell you, we just inspected it ourselves, buy now."
todd sheen| 4.22.10 @ 4:05AM
it is nice to see the Vice President at Poland giving his condolences at the family of the casualities.
Todd