Good News: No Bad Guys in Iraq!

It ought to be a standing rule among Democrats to keep three people with duct tape and a big burlap sack in close proximity to Joe Biden all the time. When he gets around a microphone, which he does because he’s physically unable to pass one by without comment, it’s better than even odds that he’s going to try to make himself look a lot more important than he really is. When he starts the chest-thumping, you can almost bet that he’s going to say something really, really dumb.

Which brings us to yesterday and his suggestion that if John McCain wants some real knowledge about bad guys, he should hang around Joe Biden a lot more.

If John wants to know where the bad guys live, come back with me to Afghanistan…We know where they reside. And it’s not in Iraq.

It’s not?

Well, gosh! I suppose we can just bring all those soldiers home right now, then, since apparently they’re just hanging out in Iraq for no good reason at all. How nice of President Bush to keep our soldiers safe from harm by sending them off to Iraq instead of sending them where the bad guys really are!

And how nice of Senator Biden to erase al-Qaeda from the Bad Guy List, too. I don’t know that Obama (Hey, if Ted Kennedy can do it, why can’t I?) Osama bin Laden would agree to Biden’s characterization but who is he anyhow. We have Joe Biden to show us where the bad guys are!

Dean Barnett is similarly amazed:

I know Democrats get a certain tingling in their thighs when their politicos talk butch in such a manner. Still, this comment is so over the top, somewhere in America Wesley Clark is probably feeling much better about his public relations acumen. What’s more, Biden’s comment turns what ought to be a serious conversation about two vital foreign theatres into a juvenile schoolyard taunt.

Yes, that’s true. But what else should we expect? Joe Biden is just the latest in a long line of Demcorats who have chosen not to take Iraq or Afghanistan seriously. Outisde of Joe Lieberman, I’ve not seen a single Democratic member of Congress step up and propose anything even remotely resembling a plan with the word “victory” in it. The few I have seen who have publicly spoken against the vast majority of the party have done so sheepishly, afraid that they will draw the ire of the idiot leadership of their party.

But a plan? To win?

You’d have better luck getting Joe Biden to walk past a live television camera than you would getting a victory plan from a member of today’s Democratic party.

(via memeorandum)

Tags: Afghanistan, Democrats, Iraq, Joe Biden, Progressives