Biden’s Fantasy World<\/a><\/p>\n…what are we to make of Mr. Biden’s fantastic debate voyage last week when he made factual claims that would have got Mrs. Palin mocked from New York to Los Angeles?<\/p>\n
Mr. Biden asserted that “When we kicked — along with France, we kicked Hezbollah out of Lebanon, I said and Barack said, ‘Move NATO forces in there. Fill the vacuum, because if you don’t know — if you don’t, Hezbollah will control it.’ Now what’s happened? Hezbollah is a legitimate part of the government in the country immediately to the north of Israel.”<\/p>\n
The U.S. never kicked Hezbollah out of Lebanon, and no one else has either. Perhaps Mr. Biden meant to say Syria, except that the U.S. also didn’t do that.<\/p>\n
Then there’s the Senator’s astonishing claim that Mr. Obama “did not say he’d sit down with Ahmadinejad” without preconditions. Yet Mr. Biden himself criticized Mr. Obama on this point in 2007 at the National Press Club<\/p>\n
Sarah Palin may not know as much about the world, but at least most of what she knows is true.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The conventional wisdom is that Senator Obama picked Joe Biden because he’s older, wiser, and serves to shore up Obama’s lack of foreign policy experience.<\/p>\n
Turns out, Joes’s just older.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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