While meeting the woman who has labored over the past few years to keep the European Union from falling into the economic abyss, Vice President Joe Biden quipped that America’s own “so-called” fiscal crisis isn’t that bad.
Biden met with German Chancellor Angela Merkel on the first day of a five-day swing through her country, France, and the United Kingdom.
In remarks at the chancellery in Berlin, Biden praised Germany as an “absolutely essential, critical partner.”
“Without a strong Europe, close ties to Europe, it is not conceivable how American interests can be met around the world,” he said. “…I’m anxious to tell you how we’re going to — why I think we’re in the very good shape in terms of our so-called fiscal crisis, as it’s always characterized. I think it’s less of a crisis than people think.”
Merkel has championed a long-term approach to bring the Eurozone back to fiscal stability, including tough austerity measures that haven’t been well received by leftist members of the EU.
Tomorrow, Biden delivers remarks at the Munich Security Conference. In the afternoon he’ll meet with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov — it’s unknown what kind of flexibility he may convey on behalf of President Obama here.
Biden will also meet with Joint Arab League–United Nations Special Representative for Syria Lakhdar Brahimi and President of the Syrian Opposition Coalition Moaz al-Khatib.
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Slow Joe right. The Washington DC area has 7 of the 10 richest counties in the country. Anybody living there is living in a boom town that makes the 1849 gold rush look like a modest uptick.
And Slow Joe himself, of course, can look forward to becoming a billionaire in a few years for carrying the marxist water for the last 30 years of so.
Hey Joe. Good to see you too. Whats up? Whats next? Whats happening?
You got the gold you owe us motherf—–?!
Perhaps the historians can compare Uncle Joe with Dan Quayle. I bet Dan will come out looking like a Rhodes Scholar compared to the a$$ clown.
But Joe got it right in the end, though: you can accurately shoot a tomato-e with a double barrel shotgun.
Biden embodies buffoon with German precision.
Superficial, incoherent, ignorant. With leaders like this, no wonder our country is in trouble.
I can only imagine what Merkel’s thinking: “Does he really think I’m as stupid as the US media? What an idiot!