by Ann Coulter (more by this author) Posted 10/08/2008 ET Updated 10/08/2008 ET
If Sarah Palin had made just one of the wildly inaccurate statements smugly uttered by Sen. Joe Biden in last week's vice presidential debate, there would have been 3-inch headlines in newspapers across America. (I can almost hear Katie Couric asking me, "Which newspapers?")
These weren't insignificant errors, such as when Biden said, "Look, all you have to do is go down Union Street with me in Wilmington or go to Katie's restaurant or walk into Home Depot with me where I spend a lot of time, and you ask anybody in there whether or not the economic and foreign policy of this administration has made them better off in the last eight years."
It turns out that Katie's restaurant, where Biden gets his feel for the average American, closed 20 years ago. The only evidence that he spends any time in Home Depot is that it appears that a pipe wrench fell on his head one too many times.
Palin would surely have been forced to withdraw from the ticket had she said something like that, but most of Biden's errors were not trifling mistakes like these. They were lengthy Lyndon LaRouche-like disquisitions that were pure fantasy from beginning to end.
For example, Biden said about Hezbollah: "When we kicked -- along with France -- we kicked Hezbollah out of Lebanon." Hezbollah was never kicked out of Lebanon.
He continued: "I said and Barack said, 'Move NATO forces in there. Fill the vacuum, because if you don't, Hezbollah will control it.'" This is madness -- Lebanon is not a NATO country, nor had any NATO country been attacked by Lebanon.
Somebody please tell me that Biden wasn't picked for the Democrat ticket based on his knowledge of foreign policy.
Biden also stoutly denied that Obama ever said he would sit down with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Liberals find it hilarious that McCain can't use a computer keyboard on account of his war injuries, but Biden is apparently unaware of the Internet, because there are clips all over the Internet of Obama saying exactly that during the CNN/YouTube debate last year.
Biden might have remembered that debate since: (1) He was there, and (2) he later attacked Obama's answer, telling the National Press Club in August 2007: "Would I make a blanket commitment to meet unconditionally with the leaders of each of those countries within the first year I was elected president? Absolutely, positively, no."
And that's still not all! Obama's own Web site says: "Obama supports tough, direct presidential diplomacy with Iran without preconditions."
Somebody please tell me that Biden wasn't picked for the Democrat ticket based on his ability to remember well-known facts.
Biden also gave a long speech at the debate on vice president Dick Cheney's "dangerous" belief that "he's part of the legislative branch." The great constitutional scholar Biden cited Article I of the Constitution as proof that Cheney "works in the executive branch" and has "no authority relative to the Congress." Biden huffily added: "He should understand that. Everyone should understand that."
Palin would have had to deny that Alaska is a state in the union in order to say something comparably stupid.
Article II, not I, describes the executive branch. Someone tell Biden, who is supposed to be a lawyer. Apart from getting the Articles of the Constitution mixed up, what on earth does Biden mean when he says that the vice president "has no authority relative to Congress," apart from breaking ties?
The Constitution makes him president of the senate every day of the week. I realize that Biden may not be able to count to two, but Article I says the vice president is president of one of the two houses of Congress -- the one Biden is in, for crying out loud -- which is what you might call "authority relative to Congress."
Somebody please tell me that Biden wasn't picked for the Democrat ticket based on his knowledge of the Constitution.
In one especially hallucinatory answer, Biden authoritatively stated: "With Afghanistan, facts matter, Gwen. ... We spend more money in three weeks on combat in Iraq than we spent on the entirety of the last seven years that we have been in Afghanistan building that country."
According to the Congressional Research Service, since 9/11, we've spent $172 billion in Afghanistan and $653 billion in Iraq. The most money spent in Iraq came in 2008, when we have been spending less than $3 billion a week. So by Biden's calculations, we've spent only about $9 billion "on the entirety of the last seven years that we have been in Afghanistan building that country." There isn't even a "9" in $172 billion.
Somebody please tell me that Biden wasn't picked for the Democrat ticket based on his knowledge of math.
In the same answer, Biden went on to claim that "John McCain voted against a comprehensive nuclear test ban treaty that every Republican has supported."
The last nuclear test ban treaty the Senate voted on was the one Clinton signed in the '90s. As The New York Times editorialized on the Senate vote a few years later: "Last week, Senate Republicans thundered 'no' to the nuclear test ban treaty, handing the White House its biggest defeat since health care in 1994." Forty-nine Republicans voted against the treaty; only four liberal Republicans voted for it. That's the treaty Biden says "every Republican has supported."
Somebody please tell me that Biden wasn't picked for the Democrat ticket based on his ability to function as vice president.
ELECTION 2008 Farrakhan on Obama: 'The Messiah is absolutely speaking' 'Barack has captured the youth,' will bring about 'universal change' Posted: October 09, 2008 8:03 pm Eastern
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
A bill introduced by Sen. Barack Obma is on the fast track for passage in Congress, and if it passes you (and I) will be paying United Nations taxes. The bill is called the Global Poverty Act (S24330) and it will give the United Nations billions of American taxpayer dollars in a typical U.N. “rob from the rich” poverty scheme. The bill has already passed the House and is now on fast track to pass the Senate any day. Let me tell you about the international agreement that created it. This is not a bill that Obama dreamed up as a way to help stop poverty. This was literally written by the United Nations. It will give the United Nations 0.7 percent of the U.S. gross national product ($845 billion over a 13-year period) to spend on so-called poverty programs. This tells you exactly what we are in for if Obama wins the presidency. This would be in addition to the billions the United States already spends on global poverty programs.
Let us not forget that the members of the UN, our friends[not], Germany. France, Russia, and the rest of the thieves who were involved in the sale of illegal oil from Iraq behind the backs of the world. We should disband the UN not pump billions of dollars into it to pay for their debts while they stab us in the back every chance they get.
I don't know the statistics, but the U.S. already pays out TONS to other countries. We rebuild them, give them our businesses, send medicine, send doctors, send money and help during a natural disaster. More than any other county does for us.
Not to mention all of the the religious organizations that dole out money and supplies and medical personnel through missionaries. And of course there is also the Hollywood elite who also donate time and money.
It will be disastrous if obama is elected!
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
Wow bumble. I really can't believe that in 2008 you can still be so ignorant and racist. It is absolutly mind blowing that people would consider electing another republican that is basically the same as what we have had for the past 8 years. I find Obama to be extemely refreshing and exciting. When ignorant, white, republican, suburbanites (basically everybody on this sight) post bullsh*t like these youtube videos it's very sad and it's just another reminder of how racist people are. The world is much bigger than Rotterdam NY and when you take prejudice, ignorant people and allow them to "mix it up" on sights like this it's scarey. And please don't try and say "it's not about race"... bullsh*t.. you know that the majority of the people that blog here tell racist jokes, make racist comments and support racist politicians. For example, that racist psychopath Rhinesmith was defended on this web site. Last year she publicaly labeled a political rival a fat N word. Anyone that supports her is therefore racist, because her platform is based on personal ideals and beliefs.
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Racist: (A) 1. a belief or doctrine that inherent differences among the various human races determine cultural or individual achievement, usually involving the idea that one's own race is superior and has the right to rule others. 2. a policy, system of government, etc., based upon or fostering such a doctrine; discrimination. 3. hatred or intolerance of another race or other races.
Racism (Noun) 1. The belief that race accounts for differences in human character or ability and that a particular race is superior to others. 2. Discrimination or prejudice based on race.
I don't like Obama because I don't like his tax policy, his plan is based on Marxist ideals, and I don't like the people he hangs around with even if he says he doesn't know them. He's no better than any other politician who will say anything to get elected. McCain is no better but he doesn't plan on making government bigger like Obama does.
you know what MT, get real. If you are telling me that you don't make your little comments around the water cooler or make jokes etc.. etc.. then you are a liar. My point is that you can go sit in the stands at a Mohonasen or Schalmont sporting event. The crowd there will give you a good litmus test of the average Rotterdam resident. Listen to what they say to each other when a black person walks near them. Or god forbid there is more than one of them. MT get real. Shadow great response, it's articulate and I respect your opinion. I agree that all politicians will say and do anything to get elected. But shadow, do you really think McCain isn't going to make government bigger.. come on. Let's not even get started on the war in Iraq. MT, I like how you ignored the example I provided. All the people who support Rhinesmith, what no comment?
Wow bumble. I really can't believe that in 2008 you can still be so ignorant and racist. It is absolutly mind blowing that people would consider electing another republican that is basically the same as what we have had for the past 8 years. I find Obama to be extemely refreshing and exciting. When ignorant, white, republican, suburbanites (basically everybody on this sight) post bullsh*t like these youtube videos it's very sad and it's just another reminder of how racist people are. The world is much bigger than Rotterdam NY and when you take prejudice, ignorant people and allow them to "mix it up" on sights like this it's scarey. And please don't try and say "it's not about race"... bullsh*t.. you know that the majority of the people that blog here tell racist jokes, make racist comments and support racist politicians. For example, that racist psychopath Rhinesmith was defended on this web site. Last year she publicaly labeled a political rival a fat N word. Anyone that supports her is therefore racist, because her platform is based on personal ideals and beliefs.
Geezzzzzz.....where the heck did this come from? You are starting to sound more like Sal 'over here'!
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
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