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So-o-o-o-…. So Joe Biden is lecturing Mitt Romney on foreign policy. That’s rich. Next up, Bobby Petrino or Gregg Williams on coaching ethics. After that, Newt Gingrich on humility, and George McGovern on the virtues of hawkishness.
Biden’s list of foreign policy blunders, or self-contradictions, is long. He advised against the bin Laden raid. He was wrongly against the first Gulf War. He was wrong for more than a decade on the Cold War. He even harmed national security by blurting out the secret location of the Veep’s emergency bunker.
As Foreign Policy writer Thomas Ricks once asked, “When was the last time Biden was right about anything?”
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albert constantine jr.| 4.26.12 @ 1:18PM
I thought I had an example, but it turns out he plagiarized it.
Occam's Tool| 4.26.12 @ 1:23PM
Thomas Ricks, by the way, is a moderate. But I do wish Biden would issue stock picks so I would know what to avoid.
Donald Ward| 4.26.12 @ 2:24PM
Biden's speeches and predictions give blithering a bad name!
WB| 4.26.12 @ 6:01PM
Yes, but they give "idiot" a good one ...
aware| 4.26.12 @ 4:35PM
You vastly underestimate Biden. In the right circumstances he has the potential to easily be the worst president ever. Ever!
FeFe| 4.26.12 @ 5:09PM
>>"If you are looking for a bumper sticker to sum up how President Obama has handled what we inherited, it's pretty simple: Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive," VP Joe Biden will say, according to excerpts.
Catchy. It will play well over martinis or James Bond's new beverage of choice, German beer, for the most important Obama statist coalition: the European, crony corruption gentry.
I can't fathom Romney would have use of a bumper sticker for when you have such an array of automobiles that your literally beaming in stump speeches your wife has two Cadillacs from which to chose to drive her to the riding academy, one doubts Mitt ever sees the boot of a vehicle. One rightly assumes Romney now employs a manservant to not only wash said vehicles but to load the trunk regardless of the occasion. (Let it not be said Seamus wasn't a learning curve.) However, let's play along with the Stuff White People Like/Know Your Internet Meme rival presidential campaigns' efforts in voter herding, shall we. For the Obama and Romney target voter demographic: affluent, highly-educated suburbanite hipsters plugged into the (new studio) system -- internet driven culture as movie, music, TV, clothing, etc. all as one global product tie-in via the most race-conscious country in the world hyping unions, black caucuses, evil capitalism, misogynist music, violence, too big to fail, punishment is ecstasy (MDMA) ... conformity:
__Romney: Bear Sterns is dead and AIG is alive (bonus sharia finance, too).
What, you don't count the United States government now engaged in institutionalizing sharia finance within our nation and the Frank-Dodd financial services harmonization with the EU morphing FU as having foreign policy implications? Okay. These are serious times and a statesman is needed, and since Sarkozy and Merkel are conducting their "you're either with or against us" FU (!) axis harmonization en Francais, and Mitt Romney speaks fluent French, let's try this one on for size:
__Romney: Massachusetts helmsman Ted Kennedy is dead and his course direction for America is alive.
Too soon? But just as the US debt numbers don't lie about our financial cliff up ahead, so too the rules of mathematics apply, the lowest common denominator is squared, for Romney would make the same call on OBL and Obamacare is but Romneycare writ large:
__Romney: Osama bin Laden is still dead and Romneycare(2) is alive.
Status quo. I can hardly wait for the bread and circus offerings from the "best and the brightest" with student loan debt of commercials, jingles, and viral videos to name but a few of their poisons. The beltway industry has ways of making political product profitable! Freedom? Can't monetize that, move along.
Zbigniew Mazurak | 4.27.12 @ 7:49AM
Biden is also dead wrong about CURRENT issues and and about Mitt Romney's foreign policy, and I'm shocked that Mr Hillyer has not bothered to point this out or to analyze Obama's current FP.
I'll just use one issue to illustrate the point: Russia.
Biden alleges that the Obama Admin's reset (read: appeasement) policy towards Russia has been a success, whereas Romney's tough policy would lead to war and would be a return to Cold War days. But that is a blatant lie.
Firstly, Romney is NOT advocating a return to the Cold War years. He's merely assessing Russia on the basis of its actual ACTIONS, not Medvedev's pretty words. And Russia's actions have been extremely hostile to the US: supplying Syria, Iran, and Venezuela with arms; publicly feting Assad, Ahmadinejad, Khamenei, Chavez, Ortega, the Castro brothers, and Kim Jong Il; building a nuclear reactor in Iran and supplying Iran with tons of nuclear fuel that the IRI is using to build nuclear weapons; shielding Iran, NK, and Syria from sanctions at the UNSC; threatening America's allies such as Poland with a preemptive nuclear strike; threatening to aim BMs at all European countries if the US provides a BMD shield to Europe; and even bombing the US Embassy in Tbilisi in 2009, a direct terrorist attack against the US for which the Kremlin STILL hasn't been accountable. (During the Cold War, the Soviet Union never dared to do this.)
Secondly, Romney knows that most of Russia's top leaders, including Putin and Lavrov, are KGB thugs.
Thirdly, Romney is not proposing to start a war with Russia or even cut off all contacts with it. He merely proposes to act TOUGH with Russia: hold it accountable for its disastrous human rights record and arms sales to America's enemies, pursue missile defense in Europe without regard for Russia's threats, and withdraw from any treaties unfavorable for the US, including the disastrous New START treaty.
Fourthly, a tough policy of the kind that Romney is advocating is exactly what won, and ended, the Cold War (on America's terms). And as Senator, Biden opposed it. He was dead wrong about Moscow then, and he's dead wrong about Moscow now. If it had been up to Biden, the USSR would've still existed.
Oldefarte| 4.27.12 @ 11:03AM
It's not surprising that some idiot like Biden would say such things, but instead that anyone with common sense would LISTEN TO HIM!!!!!!!!!!