So I'm over at the Drudge Report, a daily stop I make so that I know full well what the other half is up to. And lo and behold, there's a link to a New Yorker story about Joe Biden and how he's of the opinion that John Kerry screwed up the election by not listening to LieberBiden on national security. MBNA's VP of Slavery goes on and on about how strong he is, how weak Kerry is, and about how he knew how to win but Kerry just wouldn't listen... but hey, why not let the
fine article speak for itself:
"I'm listening to the radio," Biden said. "`Today'"--here he adopted a radio announcer's voice--"`the President of the U.S. said dah-dah, dah-dah, dah-dah, and he said he's sure Senator Kerry agrees with him. Senator Kerry, unable to resist a dig'--that's what the announcer said, that was the phrase--`said today had we acted'--I'm paraphrasing--`had we acted properly in Tora Bora, we wouldn't have this problem.'"
Biden continued, "I'm on the phone, I e-mail, I say, `John, please, say three things: "How dare bin Laden speak of our President this way." No. 2, "I know how to deal with preventing another 9/11." No. 3, "Kill him."' Now, that's harsh. Kerry needed to be harsh. And it was--Jesus Christ." Here Biden threw up his hands. "He didn't make any of it. Let's get it straight. None of it. None of those three points were made."
This was not quite the case. In Kerry's first comment, made during an interview with a Milwaukee television station, he criticized Bush for missing an opportunity to kill bin Laden at Tora Bora, as he often had during the campaign. But, not long after that, Kerry spoke to the press, saying, "As Americans, we are absolutely united in our determination to hunt down and destroy Osama bin Laden and the terrorists. They're barbarians, and I will stop at absolutely nothing to hunt down, capture, or kill the terrorists wherever they are, whatever it takes, period."
Biden, apparently, did not actually reach Kerry until that night, so Kerry made this statement without Biden's help. In any case, Biden failed to recount the dénouement; leaving it out better served the point of his story, which concerned the troubles that faced the Kerry campaign and, by extension, the Democratic Party--a party that Biden hopes to see revived. It was then, Biden went on, that he realized Kerry would lose the election.
"That night, I got off that trip, from Scranton, I got off the plane, Wilmington airport, only private aircraft, get off, pick up a phone, call a local place called the Charcoal Pit before it closes. They have great steak sandwiches and a milkshake. Triple-thick milkshake. And I hadn't eaten. I'm going to pass it on the way home. They're literally sweeping the floors. A woman, overweight, forty years old, a little unkempt, had a tooth missing in the side, not in the front"--he showed his flashing white teeth, to demonstrate--"walks up to me to give me my steak sandwich. `Senator Biden, I'm so glad you're here. I've got a problem.' And I take out a piece of paper, maybe Social Security for her mother, and she said, `I heard you're for Kerry.' And she said, `You're so strong and he's so weak.'"
Now, I don't know how disgusting Joe Biden needs to be before he's set on fire and driven off a proverbial bridge by the Democratic leadership, but the passage above demonstrates exactly why, and where, he has become a liability.
First, if Kerry had EVER said "how dare Bin Laden say this about our President", I would have voted Nader. Such disgusting cowtowery has no place in an election campaign, and would only have helped Bush maintain that God-like air he smears himself with at every opportunity.
Second, what the HELL is Biden doing going to the New Yorker and slamming his own party, and the nominee he stood behind, when there is so much the Republicans are doing that should be drawing slams instead? Where does he get off talking about Kerry's weaknesses when Lieberbiden just got through SELLING US OUT to his corporate masters at MBNA and Citibank?
Lastly, even the writer himself makes note of how Biden warps the story to make himself sound better, even if, unfairly, he makes Kerry look worse in doing so.
This douchebag doesn't deserve our spit, and instead of coming to us on bended knee, acknowledging he sold us out and pledging to make good, he goes the other way:
He told me that he won't make a decision on a Presidential run for at least two years. "My honest-to-God answer is, I'm not going to go on a fool's errand," he said. "If I think I'm the horse that can pull the sleigh, I'll do it. But if there's someone else out there ..." He trailed off. But he didn't leave the impression that he sees an overly crowded field.
Let me save Osama Bin Biden a little time in 2008... Joe, if you have any desire to not see yourself slammed and sledged from pillar to post, to be insulted and abused and cursed by millioins, retire now. The MBNA sell-out will not go away, the Citibank slavery bill will not be forgotten. You sold out the people to your highest financial contributors and if you think you can ignore that and play the "9/11 changed everything" card and that we'll all buy into it, I have news for you.
You're done.