Posted on 08/29/2008 11:42:16 AM PDT by Perdogg
We have been told that Biden has had a lot of experience and expertise in Foreign Policy, but what are his accomplishments?
Can some one list them for me?
Does stealing a speech from a British politician count as “foriegn policy”?
He’s held some hearings as chmn of the Sen. Foreign Affairs Committee.
Shortly after 9/11 he suggested buying Muslim good will by cutting a $200 million check for Iran.
That’s it.
I’d really like to know this as well. The media keeps hammering this talking point every chance they get, but I’m not sure exactly what Biden has done during his career that had an noticeable impact of any sort. Someone needs to challenge this and make them lay out his qualifications in concrete terms.
If being on a committee where you get to hear speeches for couple of decades makes you an expert then I must be overqualified for a VP position, since I subscribe and regularly read Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs, The Economist, and American Spectator.
He plagarized a quote from a british politician.
He probably opposed the Gulf Wars and Gitmo. That is all that is required on the left.
I admit it, I'm at a loss to name anything.
Well, he did just claim he was pregnant with a baby with Down’s Syndrome and he went ahead and gave birth to child the child. And this is while he was a prisoner in North Vietnam, so that counts for something!
He once made fun of some people from India owning 7/11 does that count.
As a long time sufferer by Duke Biden’s malevolent rule, I am in a unique position to weigh in on his foreign policy qualifications. There are too many to list in this short posting. However, there are a few most worthy of note: 1) he went to Mexico on Spring Break, 2)his favorite place for skiing is the Swiss Alps and 3)he can insult foreign people in several languages.
With that hair, he must be an albino Oompa-Loompa.
Wikipedia isn’t much help...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Biden
He has chaired the Senate foreign relations committee for a year & a half and was on the committee prior to that. He helped Klinton get the USA involved in the Balkans and wrote the most idiotic proposal I’ve heard of that called for Iraq: “...federalizing Iraq and giving Kurds, Shiites, and Sunnis “breathing room” in their own regions.” That would have been a mess!
Biden basically has a gift for forming long winded syntheses of whatever the latest calls for blaming America and for appeasement are from the left-wing elite.
Does plagiarizing ones own autobiography count ?
# Regrets his war vote because Bush misused war authority. (Apr 2007)
# Vote for war allowed war only after all else failed. (Apr 2007)
# Vote for Iraq War was mistake; assumed Bush competence. (Feb 2007)
# Voted for Iraq war in 2002, but now a war critic. (Nov 2006)
# Voted NO on designating Iran’s Revolutionary Guards as terrorists. (Sep 2007)
# Voted YES on redeploying US troops out of Iraq by March 2008. (Mar 2007)
# Voted NO on redeploying troops out of Iraq by July 2007. (Jun 2006)
# Voted YES on investigating contract awards in Iraq & Afghanistan. (Nov 2005)
# Voted YES on $86 billion for military operations in Iraq & Afghanistan. (Oct 2003)
# Voted YES on authorizing use of military force against Iraq. (Oct 2002)
# Voted NO on allowing all necessary force in Kosovo. (May 1999)
# Voted YES on authorizing air strikes in Kosovo. (Mar 1999)
# Voted YES on ending the Bosnian arms embargo. (Jul 1995)
# Condemns anti-Muslim bigotry in name of anti-terrorism. (Oct 2001)
# Move the US Embassy to Jerusalem. (Nov 1995)
He’s on record that GEN Petraeus was “dead wrong” about the surge.
I saw him go to China twice and speak nonstop for 1.5 hours. I thought my head was going to explode with his droning, but it was an ACHIEVEMENT any human could prattle on for that long, and it was in a FOREIGN country.
I saw him go to China twice and speak nonstop for 1.5 hours. I thought my head was going to explode with his droning, but it was an ACHIEVEMENT any human could prattle on for that long, and it was in a FOREIGN country.
Normally, being chair of the Sen. Foreign Affairs Committee would provide one with in depth info and background about what is going on.
However, the important point is what one does with this info. Experience is never a substitute for bad judgement or character flaws.
Since Biden voted against every war since the Punic, he will have a hard time crawling out of the whole.
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