Catching up on the news

One weird-ass weekend for news. We had Joe Biden, who had days previously taken credit for the relative calm in Iraq, attack his predecessor, Dick Cheney, for rewriting history. But, that’s what we’ve come to expect from plagerizing, tall-tale-telling Joe.

The Sam Wurzelbacher (Joe the Plumber) goes off on John McCain for “using” him. Somehow, Wurzelbacher, divorces himself from Sarah Palin simply because she’ll campaign for McCain in Arizona, and says of President Obama “I think his ideology is un-American, but he’s one of the more honest politicians. At least he told us what he wanted to do.” Have you been paying attention, Joe? I guess talking head is another thing you shouldn’t try at home.

Then this morning, the shocking headline that Hillary Clinton has, after thirty years, arrived at the conclusion that Iran is becoming a military dictatorship. What was all that shit last year when troops and militia took to the streets and beat the snot out protesters?

And, oh, did I mention – on the heels of Joe Biden telling us that there are no 9-11-style attacks in our future, John Brennan was out telling the public that the recidivism rate for released Guantanamo detainees is only 20% – “not that bad” compared to the rest of American prisoners – even though other American prisoners don’t blow themselves up in crowded marketplaces and fly airplanes into skyscrapers.

Category: Barack Obama/Joe Biden, Foreign Policy, Politics