We’re in the very best of hands…
Vice President Joe Biden wandered a little off course on a trip down memory lane today.
“Fifteen years ago, I was honored, as the chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, to lead the fight for Poland’s admission into NATO,” Biden said in Warsaw during a visit designed to reassure America’s Eastern European allies in the wake of Russia’s move to take control of Crimea.
The only problem: Biden wasn’t chairman back then.
It was Sen. Jesse Helms, a North Carolina Republican, who guided the committee and launched the floor debate on granting NATO accession to Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic. Biden did lead minority Democrats in approving the treaty resolution, after having initially expressed doubts about the political viability of expanding NATO.
“If we are really going to alienate the Russians,” Biden asked in January 1997, according to New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, “what are we going to get for it?”
His initial skepticism was overcome and he ended up supporting it. But Biden was not chairman and did not lead the effort to extend NATO to the country he was visiting, so either he was knowingly lying or just doesn’t remember very much about his own life and career. Neither possibility speaks very well of him. He’s either dishonest or about as sharp as a marble.
America’s diplomatic A team, the group now going up against the KGB-trained Vlad Putin, consists of a community organizer/adjunct professor, an addle-brained plagiarist who has gotten every major foreign policy issue of the last 30 years wrong, a senator who built his career by smearing American troops, and a muppet named Chuck who flubbed his way through an embarrassing confirmation hearing. Behind them, among other useless officials, a man who thinks the Muslim Brotherhood is “mostly secular.”
Sleep tight…
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