Biden’s embarrassing habit of blurting out the truth is finally put to good use;
“[The Israelis have] said, ‘Here you go. You’re in the Mediterranean. This ship — if you divert slightly north you can unload it and we’ll get the stuff into Gaza.’ So what’s the big deal here? What’s the big deal of insisting it go straight to Gaza? Well, it’s legitimate for Israel to say, ‘I don’t know what’s on that ship. These guys are dropping eight — 3,000 rockets on my people,'”
What’s The One gonna do about that? Blub. Blub. Blub. Loose lips and the already sinking ship.
Time for a round of golf, I guess.
Joe is correct. And there is a good article in the Globe today discussing Law of The Sea. It also indicates that Israel is correct, given that there was a blockade.
It boils the issue down to what happened on the boat.
But Joe is corrcet…my bet, calculated good cop bad cop technique
Was Joe into the sauce again? A drunken man’s words are a sober man’s thoughts.
Something else tells me the O ring’s score is probably never what it really is.
I thought Zero made it all better when he went to the Middle East and bowed to the King of Saudi.
You mean when it comes down to it, it’s way more complicated than bowing and saying flower power slogans?
Amazing.
Who knew Biden was a “neocon”? Good for him. I would have added the possibility of docking in Egypt. Look at a map.
US will side with Israel becaus if they don’t it emboldens Turkey to do this again.
I’m proud of Joe. Canuckistan media update: this morning’s CityTV report granted an interview to a “friend” of one of the Canadian Einsatzgruppen (there were 3, not 1 as mistakenly reported earlier) from here in Van, claiming he was “brutalized and menaced with automatic rifles.”
To a hippie ponce like this guy, “brutalized” probably meant “lack of access to a laptop so I can blog about my expoloits against the Jooooos.” Certainly he couldn’t have been as brutalized as I would persionally like to see.
The friend further went on to say they would never rest until “justice was brought to Gaza.” Good, say I – we need more attrition of the Einsatzgruppen membership.
The time has come to give Mr Biden the Dan Quayle test:
Mr Vice President – How do you spell that common vegetable that grows underground and goes well with meat? You know ….. as in meat and _____?
Well, the POTUS was recently able to get by with (repeatedly) pronouncing Corpsman as “corpse-man” and only the conservative commentators made fun of it. Dan Quayle, on the other hand, will still never live down a simple spelling error (though it was technically a correct, if archaic, spelling).
Plausable deniability…..
The O ring knew that legally, ethically that Isreal was correct and proper…. the O couldn’t come right out and say the opposite. They are fully aware that a repeat of “The Police acted stupidly” would not be helpful. Diplomatically or politically……
re VP Quayle’s spelling:
I recently learned the VP only corrected the lad’s spelling because the SCHOOL SUPPLIED ANSWER LIST had it spelled with the”e”.
MSM; omit embarrasing factoids.
The CBC report on the lone Canadian in the “aid’ convoy described him as a 53 year old retired government employee. How can he retire at 53 on the gold plated public service pension? What are we …Greece?
Interesting Q&A with the author of a a book that purports the Left and radical Islam have much in common.
This guy has plenty of credibility. He was the prosecutor in the case against the blink sheik, who was behind the WTC bombing in 1995.
It’s something most of us here have intuitively known for some time.
I know there are some here who can only gain deluded superiority by name-calling their opponents, but this segment will be much more beneficial.
http://bigjournalism.com/mwalsh/2010/05/31/ten-questions-about-the-grand-jihad-for-author-andrew-mccarthy/
Posted by: Norm at June 3, 2010 1:01 PM
Correct, Norm. Also, the spelling with the “e” is a correct alternative, although archaic, form of the word.
Joe Biden has spoken the truth. Wowser.
I bet it burned in his mouth.
I’m thinking Arizona Governor, Jan Brewer, ought to be able to use Biden’s statement to advantage.
April 1st? Flashback from my ill-spent youth? A high ranking Democrat grasping the blatantly obvious? Me wanting to sincerely praise a liberal? This is too much; I am taking the rest of the day off to figure this out.
Barry’s gonna have to take Joe to the wood shed again. Tsk, tsk.
Good one there Michael; To a hippie ponce like this guy, “brutalized” probably meant “lack of access to a laptop so I can blog about my expoloits against the Jooooos.”
cooool observation.
Who thought Joe was the bright one?
Even a broken clock manages to be right twice a day. Scanning the comments, it’s obvious that facts just do not matter to those who are against Israel. Poor starving Gazans. No right to blockade. Pathetic wankers!
I’m stunned.
True words were spoken.
You know the old saying, never bring a baby to a gunfight.
Why did they have a one year old baby along if they were intending to confront the supposedly kill crazy IDF?
Ask the loons in the media that.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/middle_east/10206802.stm
“Turkish activist Nilufer Cetin told reporters she hid with her baby in the bathroom of her cabin aboard the Mavi Marmara.
“When the Mavi Marmara continued on its course, the harassment [from Israeli ships] turned into an attack,” she said.
“They used smoke bombs followed by gas canisters. They started to descend on to the ship with helicopters.
“It [the violence] was extremely bad and brutal. The ship turned into a lake of blood.
“I was one of the first victims to be released because I had a child.”
This is serious business and we need to be much more open and strong in defense of Israel and the Israeli and Egyptian Blockade which is there for a VERY GOOD REASON. Joe Biden is an idiot so he gets plain facts easily. This is plain as the nose on your face. Israel made only ONE mistake:
They should have landed all their personnel at once and they should have come armed to the teeth. Enough of this dilly dallying with murderers arming the IDF with paintball guns, for heaven’s sake. When did Israel decide being politically correct was the right way to defend itself?
I think Bibi should put an end to that nonsense.
Ya know, I think Biden is starting to grow on me.
But that would put Pelosi one heartbeat away.
And I had not heard about gas,all I heard about was paintball guns.
Look at the video, the terrorists trying for the end run past the Israelis precipitated the attack on themselves.
They are the authors of their own misfortune, fortunately they can take comfort in their ascension to paradise and all those virgins.
Take on the Israeli commandos?
You gotta be suicidal.
They make paint balls filled with pepper for “less lethal” police use. That may be what the commandos were initially trying to use. They made every effort to avoid violence, even at great risk to themselves as shown in the video. If the commandos were truly kill-happy like the left wing echo chamber claims, they would have come in with much better firepower.
As for the woman who brought a 1 year old with her, that is disgusting. Any parent who uses a child as a prop for the purpose of scoring political points is a real cretin, especially bringing a child into a situation which they had clearly anticipated would turn violent.
I have to say, on a personal level, Joe’s my favorite of the prominent Dems. I’d probably rather hang with him than McCain also.
Thanks Rob. Events like this get me in the mood for a pithy turn of phrase. 🙂
Stan @ 2:55 PM, never put it past a Pal or their supporters to sacrifice a child to the cause. Think of the screaming headlines that would make. H#ll, Hamas would be in seventh heaven if they could orchestrate that sort of martyrdom.
I have to confess that, in my opinion, the Israelis acted inappropriately. Helicopters and commandos …. a totally unnecessary response. All this commitment of manpower and equipment when a single torpedo would have defused the situation.