Sunday, March 29, 2009

Gaffe-tasmagoric

clipped from hotair.com

Barcepundit catches Joe Biden in Spain doing … well, what Joe Biden does best.  Joe Biden remembered to thank Spanish Prime Minister Jose Zapatero for all the help he gave us in Iraq, except that the only thing Zapatero gave us in Iraq was the finger:

MAN, BIDEN IS A GAFFE WITH LEGS: during his meeting with Spain’s primer minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero in Chile yesterday, Biden thanked Zapatero for his effort… in Iraq (link in Spanish, haven’t found this detail in any English-language media).

As everybody knows, the first decision Zapatero made after his unexpected win in 2004, right after the Madrid train terrorist attacks, was to abruptly and unilaterally pull out from Iraq. So either Biden made a gaffe, or he was thanking Zapatero for angering Bush…

Regarding Iraq, Biden should have said, “Thanks for nothing.”  But then again, no one but Barack Obama really thought Biden was a foreign-policy expert, anyway.

And this comment pretty well sums it up:

Good thing the press spent months looking through Palin’s trash, huh? Wouldn’t want a moron for a VP after all.

I’m not sure which is more risible, that the press turned Obama into some post-partisan secular messiah, or that they turned Biden into a foreign policy brainiac.

Is there anyone in Obama’s administration that isn’t a moron, a neophyte, or a crook?