Biden: Be Patriotic and Pass the Pork

Say it ain’t so Joe.  The VP-elect has been released from the attic for this weekend before Christmas, when virtually nobody pays attention to news.

In an interview with George Stephanapolous, Biden effectively admits that after 35 years in the Senate, he knows absolutely nothing about the country’s economic condition. He’s just finding out now, that the economy has some serious problems:

Vice President-Elect Joe Biden said the U.S. economy is in danger of “absolutely tanking” and will need a second stimulus package in the $600-billion to $700-billion range.

“The economy is in much worse shape than we thought it was in,” Biden told me during an exclusive interview — his first since becoming vice president-elect– to air this Sunday on “This Week with George Stephanopoulos.”

“There is no short run other than keeping the economy from absolutely tanking. That’s the only short run,” Biden told me.  Biden said he has canvassed Republican and Democratic members of Congress about a second “big” and “bold” stimulus package . He said the Obama team is focused on creating jobs and spending on energy and information technology infrastructure.

“Every single person I’ve spoken to agrees with every major economist. There is going to be real significant investment, whether it’s $600 billion or more, or $700 billion, the clear notion is, it’s a number no one thought about a year ago,” he said.

The future vice president said the struggling economy will be the number one priority for the Obama Administration next year.  

“The single most important thing we have to do as a new administration, to have — to be able to have impact on all of the other things we want to do, from foreign policy to domestic policy, is we’ve got to begin to stem this bleeding here and begin to stop the loss of jobs in the creation of jobs,” he said.

Biden apparently got the Democratic talking points memo that says to exaggerate every problem the country has to “crisis” mode and resolve to fix every domestic and foreign policy we have, because that’s just what Democrats do is fix things.  And, according to Biden, passing Obama’s multi-billion-soon-to-be-trillion-dollar package of pork is the way to go.  So, let’s roll up our sleeves, it’s time to be patriotic, and suck it up, America.  We’re in for a long four years.

Say It Ain’t So, Joe…

Barack Obama is constantly telling us that as President, he will “restore” the image of the United States in the world and that he and Joe Biden have enough experience to see us through any potential crisis. 

Don’t say we weren’t warned.   In a stump speech on Sunday, Joe Biden more or less acknowledges what we’ve always known about foreign policy: weakness incites aggression.  And the United States will appear weak indeed, if Barack Obama is elected President:

“Mark my words,” the Democratic vice presidential nominee warned at the second of his two Seattle fundraisers Sunday. “It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking. We’re about to elect a brilliant 47-year-old senator president of the United States of America. Remember I said it standing here if you don’t remember anything else I said. Watch, we’re gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy.”

Wouldn’t it be prudent to elect a candidate who already has the foreign policy experience in order to avoid any sort of international incident in the first place? What’s more disturbing from is that Biden  sounds more concerned about falling poll numbers than anything having to do with foreign policy issues:

“I can give you at least four or five scenarios from where it might originate,” Biden said to Emerald City supporters, mentioning the Middle East and Russia as possibilities. “And he’s gonna need help. And the kind of help he’s gonna need is, he’s gonna need you – not financially to help him – we’re gonna need you to use your influence, your influence within the community, to stand with him. Because it’s not gonna be apparent initially, it’s not gonna be apparent that we’re right.”

Here we have Joe Biden telling us to ignore potentially unfavorable polling numbers, because it will not be “apparent that we’re right”. 

Say it ain’t so, Joe. You mean like proposing an unpopular troop surge in Iraq?  This is the same Joe Biden who has been wrong on so many foreign policy issues over nearly three decades.

We mention the troop surge as a perfect example.  While Biden was bloviating about the benefits of “triangulization” in Iraq, John McCain was practically a lone voice in the Senate pushing for the change in strategy; this depsite polls and pundits criticizing the move.  True leadership requires experience and forsaking polling data for convictions and principles.  These are qualities in which the Obama/Biden ticket are seriously lacking.  We hope the American people realize this as well. 

 We don’t expect Biden’s remarks to get much attention from the media; they’d rather not raise any questions about Obama’s lack of experience and Joe Biden’s ineptitude in foreign affairs this close to the election.  But as others are noting, and we agree - the McCain campaign should make good use of Biden’s comments and put a new ad together.

Bubba Stumps With Biden

Its no secret that Bill Clinton is not exactly fond of Barack Obama. But of course he will stump for him….with Joe Biden.

Which only begs the question: If Bill Clinton stumps for Obama at a rally with Joe Biden, does he make a sound?

Maybe Joe Biden IS That Dumb

Startling new evidence that Joe Biden, is NOT just a gaffe machine, but could actually be as dumb as a doornail.  As the media and Charlie Gibson wait to pounce all over John McCain and Sarah Palin for ANY misstep, they’ve conveniently ignored the latest idiocy by Joe Biden.  The latest buffoonery from Biden came in an interview with CBS mouthpiece Katie Couric.    Talking about what leaders should do in a time of financial crisis, he quickly pointed out that:

“When the stock market crashed Franklin Roosvelt got on television and….”

The rest of the quote is irrelevant, you get the idea.  Imagine if Sarah Palin made such a comment in Charlie Bibson’s interview.  Or at the convention.  Or at a press conference.  Or on the campaign trail.  The media would have a field day.  Looking at the left wing bloggers, they’ve apparently ignored the idiocy coming from Biden as well.

And that’s not all.  He also acknowledged the Obama campaign ad ridiculing McCain’s not using a  computer (his war injuries limit his ability to type) as “terrible…..I would not have approved it…” 

But Joe, its YOUR campaign too….or maybe its just Obama’s.  Oh well…