What Is This World Coming To?

Vice President Joe Biden made history yesterday when he withheld a comment that was on his mind.

“I have doubts, but withhold comment,” Biden said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

But don’t freak out — Biden only said he was planning withhold comment, and not that he actually intended to.

Later, he told CNN that the Iranian government has suppressed crowds and limited free speech, which he said raised questions. He also called the strong showing by Ahmadinejad “unlikely,” based on pre-election analysis.

“Is this the response, is this the accurate response, is this the wish of the Iranian people?” Biden said.

Ok. Knowing that Ahmadinejad is a dictator who probably stole the election, what will be the White House response?    “The decision has been made to talk,” says Biden. “And we’re signed on to that.”

On October 28, Biden had this to day about his boss-to-be.

“Mark my words. It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking. We’re about to elect a brilliant 47-year-old senator president of the United States of America.

“Watch. We’re going to have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy.

“And he’s going to need help . . . to stand with him. Because it’s not going to be apparent initially; it’s not going to be apparent that we’re right.”

I have to give ol’ Joe points on that one.  It ISN’T apparent that they’re right.  Not even to them.

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is the third most powerful person in America’s political line of succession, after Barack Hussein Obama, President of the 57 States of America and VP Joe “It’s Patriotic To Pay Higher Taxes” Biden.

But Speaker Pelosi is worried about how those 57 states will be able to pay higher taxes when five hundred million Americans are losing their jobs every month.   I would be too.  At that rate, three weeks from now, there won’t be a job left in the whole country.

Senator Barack Obama proclaimed last week that properly inflated tires and well-maintained engines “will produce all the savings we’ll need” - presumably as much as all the oil we could hope to obtain by all the drilling offshore, onshore, ANWR, and from shale.

“There are things that you can do individually though to save energy; making sure your tires are properly inflated, simple thing, but we could save all the oil that they’re talking about getting off drilling, if everybody was just inflating their tires and getting regular tune-ups,’ Obama said. “You could actually save just as much.”

The media, so mesmerized by Obama-speak that they didn’t notice how stupid that was until after they arrived home, and free from his charismatic spell, read what they had written in their notes. That’s right.

Could Obama’s national energy strategy really be mandatory tuneups and new tire gauges for all? Unsure if they had transcribed what they had heard, they put a lid on it and hoped Their Guy would come up with something a bit more, er, meaningful if they gave him time. Read the rest of this entry »