Lipstick on a pig

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I really would like to write about something besides Joe Biden, but it seems there’s so much to be said. Everyone is trying to dress this up like some kind of bold decision by Obama, and I just don’t see how it’s bold or hopey or changey. Take this paragraph from the Washington Post this morning;

The Democrats end up with a ticket short on executive experience. But given that a President Obama would have to deal with the realities of an often-recalcitrant and gridlocked Senate, having a vice president with a feel for the quirky institution can only be a positive.

I can imagine the Post said the same thing about the Kennedy/Johnson ticket in 1960 – that lack of executive experience can explain why Johnson, as president used the Gulf of Tonkin incident to disprove charges that he was “soft on communism” and led to his invasion of Vietnam for purely political reasons.

In his introduction of Biden yesterday, Obama said this (Washington Times link);

“Joe Biden is that rare mix,” the Illinois Democrat said. “For decades, he has brought change to Washington, but Washington hasn’t changed him. He’s an expert on foreign policy whose heart and values are rooted firmly in the middle class.”

When did Joe Biden change anything in Washington? Point to one thing he’s changed. And what makes him an “expert” on foreign policy? The fact that he says so? Where has he ever been right about anything. That doesn’t matter to the Post, though;

We haven’t always agreed with his judgment, such as his advocacy of de facto partition of Iraq when the war was going badly. Mr. Biden stuck to that plan long after it was convincingly debunked as impractical by U.S. military commanders and Iraqi political leaders, and, like Mr. Obama, he wrongly bet against last year’s troop surge. But he is a committed internationalist, and he has used his chairmanship of the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee to promote intelligent U.S. engagement.

So he’s an expert because he tenaciously clung to an ill-conceived plan. Yeah, that’s what we need-an executive branch that won’t let go of bad ideas. He’s a foreign policy expert because he promotes intelligent US engagement…what the hell does that mean?

More from the Post;

With a knack for self-defeating and insensitive verbosity, Mr. Biden at times has been his own worst enemy. It has been said that, having been lampooned for this filibustering, he became more disciplined.

Since when? His short-lived campaign this year was chocked full of gaffes and his ignorant blather. SO did he become more disciplined after January? Hardly.

From the Ace of Spades yesterday, a piece on the media’s attempt to clean up after Biden;

There is spin, and then there is spin: a CNBC/NYT reporter claims that Joe Biden’s occasional bursts of old-school dumb-but-not-hateful racism are actually “refreshing” and “an asset.”

Need I remind anyone that for months the left has been DaVinci Codebreaking every John McCain advertisement for so-called “coded racism.” And they were not praising such “coded racism” as “refreshing” or charming in the least.

Rather the opposite.

But when Joe Biden is genuinely, pleasantly surprised that an African-American manages to wash himself on occasion, it’s a good thing!

I picture the media like that poor guy with the broom and dust pan following behind the elephants in a circus parade, only the media will be scooping up elephant-sized turds behind Biden and making them presentable for the voters.

Yeah, if this decision by Obama was supposed to make the American voter value his judgment, I think he failed miserably. Biden has already had an impact on Obama;

And the PUMAs are loving it.

Category: Politics