Biden’s ‘terrorist’ gaffe
On Monday, Politico reported that Joe Biden had made a deeply unfortunate comment. In response to the remarks of Rep. Mike Doyle (D-Penn.) about the Tea Party and fiscal conservatives that “We have negotiated with terrorists,” Biden reportedly agreed that “They have acted like terrorists.”
See, the problem I have is with the word "gaffe". Dan Quayle insisting that potato has an "e" at the end was a gaffe. George H.W. Bush throwing up on the Japanese Prime Minister was a gaffe. Biden absolutely intended to call Tea Party members "terrorists" with all the connotations of the word. That's not a gaffe.
And this isn't a new thing, not by any stretch. Bill Clinton blamed the OK City bombing on right wing talk radio some fifteen years ago. The left has been equating "those with whom I disagree with politically" with "those whose actions by their very nature are horrific and inexcusable" for quite some time now - Biden's hardly the first to make the parallel between a political opponent and those who would murder women and children to make a political point.
Then again, we'd expect no less for ol' Plugs, would we?
That is all.
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“But at a time when our discourse has become so sharply polarized -– at a time when we are far too eager to lay the blame for all that ails the world at the feet of those who happen to think differently than we do -– it's important for us to pause for a moment and make sure that we're talking with each other in a way that heals, not in a way that wounds.”
Howz that workin' out for you Mr. Biden?
Forest Gump said it best.
I want to comment. I really do. Its just that I try not to work blue... on the other hand, for some of us at least, we now have several different agencies/entities of the government that consider us traitors and terrorists for a collection of different perfectly suitable beliefs... I'm up to at least 3, myself, probably more... when do we get to start excommunicating each other, a la 1534. Who volunteers to be Henry VIII and who to be Clement VII?
Just think, he's one bullet or plane crash away from becoming President.
I'm pretty sure I'd equate a whole lot of what I see going on in Washington now as terrorism.
Just like when they were trying to pass TARP, terrorize us into accepting they had no other choice. I don't give into terrorism, you're all out by my vote! Now if I can only find someone worth voting for.
It's not a gaffe, it is what he actually BELIEVES!!!
OldNFO, exactly. It's a Kinsley Gaffe -- a politician accidentally says what he or she really believes.
Larry Correia has a meditation/rant about Biden, the poster boy for hoof-in-mouth-disease.
And I love the word verification today: "monister" as in the far left/progressives think normal, rational Americans are monisters.
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