Vice President Joe Biden went after presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney in a campaign address at New York University, questioning the former Massachusetts governor’s chops on foreign policy.
And, he was there to try to prop up his boss’ credentials.
“I promise you the president has a big stick. I promise you,” Biden said in reference to Teddy Roosevelt’s mantra.
Biden again credited President Obama for going after Osama bin Laden in Pakistan while questioning whether Romney would have made the same move. “This guy’s got a backbone like a ramrod. No, no, for real,” Biden said. “We can’t say for certain what Gov. Romney would have done.”
The vice president accused Romney of wanting to go “back to the future” on foreign policy.
“Back to a foreign policy that would have America go it alone — shout to the world you’re either with us or against us, lash out first and ask the hard questions later, if they get asked at all, isolate America instead of isolating our enemies, waste hundreds of billions of dollars and risk thousands of Americans’ lives on a war that’s unnecessary,” he said.
“Governor Romney, I think, is counting on collective amnesia of the American people,” Biden said.
It was the fifth in a series of Biden speeches that have put campaign issues such as Social Security in front of key audiences.
He charged that Romney would come into office with a “profound — a profound — misunderstanding” of a commander in chief’s responsibilities and a Cold War mentality “that is totally out of touch with the realities of the 21st century.”
“That kind of thinking may work for a CEO but it will not and cannot work for a president,” Biden said. “And it will not work for a commander in chief.”
John Wayne on liberals
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btvSE6tVHzQ&feature=related
– shot his wad long ago.
And what is he refering to when he says “Big Stick?” Boy is Jay Leno going to have fun with that one.
And Palin was supposed to be the village idiot VP?
I think Biden misstated – he obviously meant “Limp D**k.”
I believe you are correct. The only stick he has is the one used to poke the US people in the eye every moment of every day.
And of course it is also a “clean” and “articulate” big stick.
Uncle Joe on Petticoat Junction has more on the ball than the current VP.
The only big Biden knows is talk, and mouth.
He has a big stick all right, it’s called Muslim Brotherhood.
“This guy’s got a backbone like a ramrod. No, no, for real,” Biden said.
What does he have to say about the restrictive Rules of Engagement that not only prevent our guys from getting the job done but are getting our guys killed?
Obama seems rather limp even when it comes to dealing with two-bit Somali pirates. I recall one incident where Naval personnel did nothing but “monitor” a captured yacht until the pirates had killed the Americans on-board. (ROE again.) A strong leader wouldn’t put up with such crap.
I hope Joe keeps on talking right up to the election. He’s providing the RNC and Romney’s campaign with a wealth of material if they have the wit to use it. Based on no evidence whatsoever he accuses Romney of having a “profound misunderstanding” of the duties of a commander in chief as compared to what? The profundity of his boss the community organizer in chief (who’s never held a real job in his life)? It’s obvious tone deaf Joe doesn’t realize that bragging about Obama’s “big stick” sounds not only threatening but vaguely obscene.
“I promise you the president has a big stick. I promise you.”
Only if Biden saw him in the shower could this possibly be true. It certainly has nothing to do with Obama’s foreign policy. Tell the Iranians in 2009 who revolted against the mullahs that Obama has a backbone. All those dead people who counted on us to do something didn’t see any backbone, let alone any help.
As the old saying goes, Obama has the backbone of a Chocolate eclair.
Frankly, I rather have a tough-minded CEO in charge than a metrosexual community organizer.
Biden is sticking his foot in his mouth, as usual. The “big stick” thing is fodder for lots of jokes. In fact, Biden misinterprets what he sees in Obama, which should surprise none of us. It is not a backbone, it’s pure stubornness, something he has been allowed to cultivate growing up. He shows it in many ways, like bypassing the Congress and ignoring advisors.
Biden fails to recall that Panetta tried for a week to get Obama to make a decision on bin Laden, before he finally gave the green light to our brave Special Forces and intelligence people, who had been working for years to pinpoint him.
As usual, Democrats would rather re-write history instead of telling it like it is. Biden is a disgrace to the Vice Presidency. He is a dim light bulb at best. God help us should anyhthing happen to Obama before Jan. 2013. At least Obama has an IQ of more than two numbers.
“At least Obama has an IQ of more than two numbers.”
Can you back that up as I haven’t seen any evidence of that.
yeah, two numbers and a minus sign…
What are you basing your estimation of Obama’s intelligence on? It can’t be his school records because he won’t release them. It can’t be his legal writings because he doesn’t have any. It can’t possibly refer to his economic acumen because every time he opens his mouth he shows that he has absolutely no idea how the economy works.
I suppose you must be basing your opinion on his speaking ability. In which case you clearly haven’t been paying attention because the man makes more (and more serious) gaffes than both Bushes and Dan Quayle combined.
If you’re saying he’s smarter than Biden I suppose I’d be willing to grant that. But to simply say that Obama is smart is nothing more than wishful thinking.
Sorry, post #12 is mine. At 76 years old, I am sometimes forgetful.
So…Obama is supposed to be Teddy Roosevelt and Romney is…who? George W. Bush=Adolf Hitler?
God, Biden needs to shut his pork-trap. I mean, even if his babbling is good for our side it’s just embarassing to hear a Vice President saying stuff like this. He should ask Jon Stewart to write some material for him.
I think Biden’s the one who’s providing material for Jon Stewart, not the other way around.
Is there anybody in this country – other than rabid partisan hacks – that is not embarrassed by this plagiarist meat suit.
The bizarre thing about touting Obama’s putatively courageous decision to take out bin Laden is that it would have taken a hell of a lot more political chutzpah not to do it. I suspect the only thing that came close to stiffening his spine was a paralyzing vision of Carter redux, when one of the two helicopters bit the dust.
It took no spine for Obama to do it. He probably lamented it the whole time, but he knew he needed it. He also knew, just like Clinton bombing Serbs, that the complicit media wouldn’t give him anything but glowing accolades.
Had Bush pulled that trigger the narrative would have been. “Bush violates International law by sending death squad into allied and sovereign nation Pakistan to conduct state sponsored assassination.” The talking heads would have yammered for weeks about American jurisprudence and Osama’s rights.
The only big stick Obama has is the one shoved up his a$$ by the Chinese while he was bowing to every dictator on the planet.
The problem with the stupid un-governable American people is they would rather believe their own lying eyes and cheating ears than the pronouncements of the Teleprompteur, his side-kick, or his MSM propagandists.
Too bad he doesn’t have the balls to go with it.
He’s got a big schtick. He lays it on thick and never apologizes when people start leaving the theater.
“Hey, didja hear the one about…..?”
As more people get up to leave.
“Don’t forget to tip your union leader…I’ll be here til January, folks!”
Quite a schtick indeed.
I think Biden said it on purpose. Liberals think it’s “sexy” to have a “cool” President and make his weak-minded immature sheeple fantasize about his genitals (one form of profiling I’ve noticed most Black men don’t mind).
One more example of Biden playing his part as the stupid white man in contrast to Obama’s suave Black man by bending over and letting Obama “stick” it to him.
It might be Joe’s fantasy about Barak. Very disturbing. Yet he’s right in a way – Obama clubs his allies repeatedly.
Speak ad nauseum and make sure nothing sticks.
If I’d have wanted a cheap Henny Youngman as VP I’d have voted for the real thing. I mean, this jerk is a national embarrassment. As someone recently said, it look like his hair plugs are growing inward.
P.S.–Anyone catch the recent news item that old Plugs daily round trip commute in Amtrak, back and forth to Delaware–yeah, he’s a real “man of the people,”is Plugs, costs taxpayers something like $1,400 clams per week, at an annual cost to taxpayers of more than $53,000, this amount alone more than the total gross income of the average American family.
You could not make this up…a complete embarrassment. The pair of them.
It’s called a golf club it’s not a stick.
Wonder if Secret Service will be questioning Uncle Joe?
Rome’s Bureaucrats Better than the EPA’s at Increasing Prosperity!A comparison, with graphics, of how Rome’s takeovers left areas prosperous, whereas Obama/Government interference has the opposite effect. For example, PAX ROMANA vs POX OBAMA. In conclusion — Rome knew how to create wealth. And, despite the fact that Roman soldiers had little qualms about inflicting pain, I would also argue they showed more compassion during their crucifixions than the EPA does during theirs.
I Promise You the President Has a Big Stick’
This guy’s got a backbone like a ramrod
does this mean obama has a stick or rod up his butt?? sure sounds like Joe knows something..
And Joe Biden spends all day polishing it.
““This guy’s got a backbone like a ramrod. No, no, for real,” Biden said. ”
I’ve known a lot of guys with solid backbones in my life and I’ve never had it about one of them. It’s just self-evident. A good rule of thumb is that if you have to proclaim you’re a badass then you most likely aren’t one.
Also… “big stick”? “Ramrod”? For the side that’s been making snide remarks about various peoples’ sexuality that’s an awful lot of homoerotically charged imagery in a short paragraph.
All I got to say is Biden ought to know how big Obama stick is. He is a walking p**is.
Speak ad nauseum and make sure nothing sticks.
Best post, I think. Make a great comeback line for Romney.
As for the Assistant Village Idiot: The last VP shot a lawyer in the face, an accident that has some redeeming value. Biden would just shoot off his own foot.
Wait a second! Timeout! I’m called Biden out as a racist. Everyone knows that all black dudes have big sticks.
Should be “I’m calling Biden . . . .” Dang, typos make you look like an idiot.
He’s got a big stick, but Sarah Palin’s got the balls!
Big Sticks and Big Boobs
There are many truisms in life–realities that need no further explanations or elaborations to be understood. For example, we all agree that ducks quack and dogs bark and cats retain humans only as pets.
There are also truisms in the entertainment and political worlds that reasonable people fully grasp as almost biblical truth. For example, we know that most entertainers hail from the liberal side of the political spectrum and that most politicians lie. Ok, to be generous, pols tend to dissemble.
Anyone who expects Dirty Dave Letterman to be objective in his political “humor” has to be very confused when Letterman inaccurately and consistently mocks Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney for being cruel to the family dog while never making even a passing, comical reference to Barack Hussein Obama’s eating dogs whose meat was “tough.”
Likewise, anyone who believes White House press flack, Jay Carney, when he says with a straight face that he “never” lies in the face of multiple and proven prevarications in defense of his boss must be bewildered over the serious possibility that virtually everything the Obama administration says and does is a lie.
Sometimes, perceived truisms merge in the entertainment and political universes when politicians inadvertently become entertainers.
All but the most braindead Democrats realize that Vice President Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr. was chosen for that position because he was guaranteed to play the role of the administration’s entertaining clown prince in order to deflect attention from Obama’s frequent gaffes and outright deceptions which make GWB look like a genius.
Senator Biden’s surpassed his pre-nomination ”storybook” description of Obama as ”the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy,” a classic put-down of blacks, when he lauded Obamacare on a live mic as “a big, #$%@-ing deal,” without the #$%@.
The clown prince may have outdone himself once again and established himself as the biggest boob ever to hold the office that John Nance Garner called “not worth a bucket of warm spit.”
This time, Biden didn’t just come across as obliviously stupid as much as he reflected the oblivious stupidity of the Obama Team who picked him in the first place. . . (Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=22765.)
Remember when such a statement was read for any interior meanings as offensive by those intended on taking offense at even the most banal comment. Who managed to make such comment unlawfully unlawful because “someone” might or did take offense. Comments that could be spun into any malevolence required by the offended party or parties. Dressed in cant (can’t) words like racism they became no-nos. For example the belief propagated that “whites” were bothered by “blacks” for fear or envy of the “black man’s big stick”.
Such a comment coming from the Vice President to the first “black” President is especially telling. Even with all tolerance for the source of the comment.
Similar comments made unlawfully unlawful by those of the same political party as this Vice Presient and his President with their members and allies in the Congress. One law for them, another law for thee and me, the “little people”.
Despite the First Amendment of the Bill of Rights of the Constitution of the USA : Congress SHALL make NO law … abridging the freedom of speech…
Just for fun remember or look up the meaning of the word constitution.