Biden was for the bin Laden raid before he was against it
Joe “Bite Me” Biden is planning on jumping into the Democrat campaign for the nomination for President this week, so he had some things to clean up before that leap. Beginning with his reported opposition to the raid on the Osama bin Laden compound in 2011. He described his participation in the discussion to execute the raid in 2012;
“Every single person in that room hedged their bet except Leon Panetta. Leon said, ‘Go,’” Biden said.
“[Obama] got to me. He said, ‘Joe, what do you think?’ And I said, ‘You know, I didn’t know we had so many economists around the table.’ I said, ‘We owe the man a direct answer. Mr. President, my suggestion is, don’t go. We have to do two more things to see if he’s there,’” Biden said at the time.
But now, because he wants to be your president, he was for the raid;
“Everybody went around the room, and there were only two people who were definitive,” Biden said. Leon Panetta, the CIA director at the time, “said, ‘Go,’” while then-Defense Secretary Bob Gates “said, ‘Don’t go.’” Clinton, in this account, would have been among those on the fence.
Biden said he raised a third option. “I said, ‘Well,’ I said, ‘I think we should make one more pass’” with an unmanned aerial vehicle to be sure the al-Qaida leader was at the target site. But that wasn’t his real preference, he told the forum. Moments after the meeting wrapped up, and he and Obama were alone, “I told him my opinion, that I thought he should go, but to follow his own instincts,” the vice president said. “I never, on a difficult issue, never say what I think finally until I go up in the Oval with him alone.”
Biden has been on the wrong side of history on every single foreign policy issue since he began his political career in 1973. It’s difficult for me to believe that he wasn’t wrong on this decision, too.
Category: Barack Obama/Joe Biden
“I never, on a difficult issue, never say what I think finally until I go up in the Oval with him alone [and I am told what to think.]”
Gosh, I do so hope he runs. I really do. What a moron.
Most politicians are just like Stolen Valor thieves… They easily forget what lies they have told and to whom they have told them.
Just as bad as the slovenly sniveling liberals in the snooze media that whitewash and cover for them every chance they get!!
Remember they don’t lie they mis-speak themselves…of course some of these lying motherfuckers mis-speak more than a kid with Tourette’s at a spelling bee….
Joe Biden Makes Dan Quayle look like Einstein and Shakespeare put together!
Well, that just proves what I’ve thought for a long time: Biden has short-term memory loss, AND he changes his mind with the way the wind blows.
AND he has less class than a public school on Sunday!!
MSNBC’s Jose Diaz Balart took a dig at Biden for changing/shifting his story…an “evolution” lol.
Jesus, if this guy gets any traction among the Democrats, it shows 1–how shallow their bench truly is, 2–how much people REALLY hate Hillary.
They might as well host the next Democratic debate on Saturday Night Live. Between Biden, Bernie, and Hillary, there’s no way that comedians would be able to hold a candle to the actual shit that will come out their mouths.
Sounds to me like there’s a whole lot of conflatin going on.
Biden is a lying prick. Remember the debate he had with Paul Ryan? “I didn’t vote to go to war and pay for it with a credit card” he said. But he did. He’s a shameless lying prick. To some people, apparently, that’s character.
I’ve always loved that picture. The expression on the LEO’s face is fantastic.
If only he’d pepper-sprayed Biden.
sj, I bet that big Officer was thinking, “If it weren’t for the Secret Service, I’d take you out back and wear your ass out with my night stick.”
Bad Touch! 😀
“Son, you’re fixin to pull back a bloody stump…”
Or swatted him with the paper he’s holding.
That aint paper he’s holding…. 🙂
“I told him my opinion, that I thought he should go, but to follow his own instincts,” the vice president said. “I never, on a difficult issue, never say what I think finally until I go up in the Oval with him alone.” I think I could write a dissertation on liberal politics from that statement alone. Two significant things there. First, “but to follow his own instincts,”. Yea right. Obama following his own instincts may work on a tough lay up shot on the gold course, but in anything regarding running the government and especially the Special Operations take down of the highest value target in our recent history his instincts are to make fucking sure he has at least six layers of people to blame if it goes south. Second, “I never, on a difficult issue, never say what I think finally until I go up in the Oval with him alone.” Of course he never says anything without two holing Obama first but especially until after he has been into the privacy of the “Oval”. (Just too many double entendres in that phrase to deal with here folks.) I am sure in the “Oval” he licks, palms, fingers, then licks some more until Obama finally is happy enough to tell him what to think and what to say. I can hear it now, “(Uncontrolled laughter and giggling can be heard by the secretary in the outer office) Okay, okay now Joe, that’s enough, get your tongue out of my ass. I can feel it in my throat almost. Now then, here’s what you’re going to say and if that doesn’t work out, you understand I will say you leaned hard on me for the decision and it was your fault along with State, the Pentagon and the CIA. Now before you get out of my ass be sure and slurp up any mess you left. I got a meeting with Hilary in five and she likes a clean ass to lick. Now get outta here and go do something Vice Presidential or something that looks like it.… Read more »
I wonder if he walks around DC with a clipboard to look official & busy…that always worked for me.
come out, come out, where ever you are.. I smell Lars around here somewhere….
Joe’s not running, “the window is closed”. Meanwhile, free college, free stuff, free childcare.
How to pay for it all, limit deductions for everyone, except those that don’t pay taxes, give them more money.
this also means Hillary will not be facing any charges for her wrong doing. off Scot free…
Yeah, well, it is Biden so just b/c he now says he is not running…
I think this story had a lot to do with his decision. He floated it to see if the media would let him change his actual record little-by-little, but even MSNBC wouldn’t let him get away with it. So…we get this non-announcement today.
His “announcement” sounded a whole lot more Bernie than it did Hillzy. He rang all of Bernie’s socialist bells, free stuff, higher taxes, and he hit Hillzy pretty hard over her declaration that R’s are her enemy.
I think you’re right, Jonn, he wanted to see if the lie would fly, it didn’t.
Well the latest is that Drunkle Joe has decided NOT to enter the race for 2016.
So here’s a little blast from the past: Who else remembers the 1980 election cycle and how much furrowed-brow “concern” was expressed about how Reagan (69 at the time) was “too old” to be president?
Well, Biden is 72 this year, Hillary is 67, Crazy old Bernie is 74 (!) and these are the Dem front runners? LMAO. Meanwhile the two R front runners, Trump and Carson, are 69 and 64 respectively.
FWIW, Rubio, Cruz and Jindal are all 44 but they also seem to be lagging in the rear of the R pack.
So much for the “too old to be president” argument, I guess.
Don’t forget about the Dems claiming Romney was too rich even though they ran a guy in 2004 with a higher net worth.
“Too rich” if he earned it. If he married it, then it is just right.
At 59, Dick Cheney was too old to be VP in 2000.
Kinda like when the Dems and the liberal media screeched about how GW Bush should step down from being POTUS because his daughters were caught *GASP!* drinking while underage after doing their damnedest to stay hushed about Al Gore III being arrested for doing @160 MPH through some town on a “Rice Rocket”.