Lunch Pail Joe is giving the working man a bad name. I have always read he makes gaffes. I believe Biden lacks focus. He seems comparitively scattered mentally to McCain’s sharpness. I worry that Biden would be the backup to the Jr. Senator Obama.
In what the campaign billed as a major foreign policy address, the Delaware senator said McCain had shown poor judgment in the war on terror, saying he was “dangerously wrong” to focus on Iraq rather than the mountainous Afghanistan-Pakistan border, where Osama bin Laden is believed to be hiding.
In contrast, he said, Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama opposed the Iraq war from the beginning, calling it a distraction from the fight against Al Qaeda, and he has shown willingness to meet with foreign leaders, including those from hostile nations.
“We need more than a great soldier, we need a wise leader, and that leader is Barack Obama,”
http://www.boston.com/news/politics/2008/articles/2008/09/25/biden_mccain_would_deepen_us_hole/
How ignorant is this statement? Let me count the ways:
- Franklin Roosevelt didn’t become president in 1929 during the crash. He won the 1932 election and took office in 1933, largely because of the 1929 crash and the incompetent protectionist policies that transformed it into a Great Depression.
- If FDR and President Herbert Hoover didn’t talk about the “princes of greed” in 1929, by the time FDR took over, that kind of populist rhetoric had certainly taken root. FDR greatly escalated the scope of federal government to institute the kind of redistributionism that Obama and Biden now champion.
- If Hoover or FDR appeared on television in 1929 or even 1933, only a few hundred people would have seen it. Television was still an experimental medium and wouldn’t be introduced to the public for at least another decade.
VIDEO http://hotair.com/archives/2008/09/23/biden-on-fdrs-management-of-the-1929-crash/ VIDEO
