Post and Courier questions Bidens "alternate universe"
For all Joe Biden's supposed foreign policy expertise, it's a little puzzling how such a seasoned politico has managed to come up with some of the really strange whoppers he's put out there over the years. Yesterday, the Post and Courier nailed two of his latest big ones.
Al Gore may have invented the Internet, but in a recent interview, Joe Biden told us FDR was on television decades before it was invented and years before he was elected to address the nation:
Al Gore may have invented the Internet, but in a recent interview, Joe Biden told us FDR was on television decades before it was invented and years before he was elected to address the nation:
This brings to mind Sen. Biden's remarkable comment to Katie Couric on Sept. 22 describing how President Franklin D. Roosevelt went on national television after the October 1929 stock market crash to explain what needed to be done. Never mind that he wasn't president at the time, and that television wasn't in use until 20 years later.
Joe Biden speaks of the recent days of peace and brotherhood in Lebanon after the liberation of that country by the invasion of US and French forces (it never happened, but if it did and the French were involved, wouldn't they have lost?):
BIDEN: 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 ... Hezbollah will control it.'
P&C: In the real world, Hezbollah was never "kicked out" of Lebanon, so there was never an opportunity to move any foreign forces — NATO or otherwise — to Lebanon to "fill the vacuum."
... and Palin's critics call HER kooky?
Take this example and see if you can make sense of it.
I'm thankful the Constitution would allow a bit more authority given to the vice president if that vice president so chose to exert it in working with the Senate and making sure that we are supportive of the president's policies and making sure too that our president understands what our strengths are. [...] Well, our founding fathers were very wise there in allowing through the Constitution much flexibility there in the office of the vice president. And we will do what is best for the American people in tapping into that position and ushering in an agenda that is supportive and cooperative with the president's agenda in that position. Yeah, so I do agree with him that we have a lot of flexibility in there, and we'll do what we have to do to administer very appropriately the plans that are needed for this nation.
All of that means nothing.
And then there was this whopper of a lie when she was responding to a heckler: "You know, bless your heart, sir. My son's over in Iraq, fighting for your right to protest right now."
LOL! No he isn't fighting for our rights over there. Nothing in Iraq has anything to do with the freedoms in America. What a lie!
I guess only Joe Sixpack Hockeymoms can fake admiring this clownish woman! LOL
As to why someone would be over in Iraq, I suppose you're entitled to your opinion. But I'm glad that French citizes like Lafayette, Poles like Kosciusko and others didn't feel have your mindset about our country's independence.
If they did, old chap, you'd probably be an English subject right about now.
Lefties like to see world as an interconnected community, but fail to see how Iraq can affect positive changes in the region, which would benefit us, just as they once failed to see how a free and democratic western Europe would help stop the threat we faced from the Soviet empire.
Of course they believed the Soviets were as much a threat as terrorists are now. Or at least they figure we can just sit back and let them fester abroad without it ever affecting us.
We used to think that containment was a swell way to handle the Japanese empire too and that non-interference and our oceans were adequate security. We saw how well that worked.
What you consider a "lie", I would simply call your opinion.