The Wisdom of Joe Biden

If I had the time I would create a blog dedicated to all of the stupid things that Joe Biden says, but that would suck up my time even more than talking about conspiracy theorists.

But let me move for a second to what I was supposed to talk about. I was asked to talk about foreign policy. You know that old joke, you know, an expert is anyone from out of town with a briefcase? I'm out of town, but I don't have a briefcase, and I know a lot of you know as much and more about foreign policy as I do, but it's like that old joke, I hope you Texans aren't offended, but in Delaware that old joke about the Texan who said ‘I don't now much about art but I know what I like?’ Well, I may not know much about it, but I know what I think, and I know what I think we have to do.

It has got so bad that even the One is starting to give him the smackdown.  He should lock him in a closet, but then again He picked him to be VP.

Can We Question Their Patriotism Yet?

Vice President Joe Biden, back during the campaign:

Noting that wealthier Americans would indeed pay more, Biden said: "It's time to be patriotic ... time to jump in, time to be part of the deal, time to help get America out of the rut."

Which makes all their appointments interesting:

The failure by the former Senate majority leader to pay taxes on the free use of a car and driver for several years, first reported Friday by ABC News, complicates Daschle's nomination and erodes the chances that it will sail through the Senate.

Daschle said tonight he did not realize his car service was income and not a gift from a good friend.

After the closed-door session, the Democratic senators on the Finance Committee expressed support en masse for their former colleague.

"There is a completely understandable, rational, reasonable and acceptable explanation" for his mistakes," Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., said.

As I said earlier, how scary is it for a $700 billion bailout being run by a guy who can't figure out how to use TurboTax.

Joe the Dumber Speaks, Again

I had thought, well, I had hoped that Obama still had him locked in a closet somewhere, but apparently they still let him speak occasionally. Economist Gregory Mankiw, or as I call him, the anti-Krugman, takes him to task for his recent statement on the stimulus bill:

In a TV interview last month, Vice President Joe Biden said the following:

Every economist, as I've said, from conservative to liberal, acknowledges that direct government spending on a direct program now is the best way to infuse economic growth and create jobs.

That statement is clearly false. As I have documented on this blog in recent weeks, skeptics about a spending stimulus include quite a few well-known economists, such as (in alphabetical order) Alberto Alesina, Robert Barro, Gary Becker, John Cochrane, Eugene Fama, Robert Lucas, Greg Mankiw, Kevin Murphy, Thomas Sargent, Harald Uhlig, and Luigi Zingales--and I am sure there many others as well. Regardless of whether one agrees with them on the merits of the case, it is hard to dispute that this list is pretty impressive, as judged by the standard objective criteria by which economists evaluate one another. If any university managed to hire all of them, it would immediately have a top ranked economics department.

Ouch. It well worth reading the rest. I didn't realize that Mankiw had a blog. It is not on my to read list.

More On The Moron

The idiotic thing, his warning of a Obama presidency wasn't even the stupidest thing he said in that speech.

"I've forgotten more about foreign policy than most of my colleagues know, so I'm not being falsely humble with you. I think I can be value added, but this guy has it," the Senate Foreign Relations chairman said of Obama. "This guy has it. But he's gonna need your help. Because I promise you, you all are gonna be sitting here a year from now going, 'Oh my God, why are they there in the polls? Why is the polling so down? Why is this thing so tough?' We're gonna have to make some incredibly tough decisions in the first two years. So I'm asking you now, I'm asking you now, be prepared to stick with us. Remember the faith you had at this point because you're going to have to reinforce us."

I would agree that he has forgotten a lot, this is the guy after all, who thinks that we kicked Hezbollah out of Lebanon.

"Joe the Dumber" Speaks

Earlier I asked just how dumb Joe Biden is, Joe apparently didn't realize that was a rhetorical question.

"Mark my words," the Democratic vice presidential nominee warned at the second of his two Seattle fundraisers Sunday. "It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking. We're about to elect a brilliant 47-year-old senator president of the United States of America. Remember I said it standing here if you don't remember anything else I said. Watch, we're gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy."

OK, so if we elect this young an inexperienced guy, that will guarantee an international incident on the scale of the Cuban Missile Crisis? And this is supposed to a reason to vote for him?

Just How Dumb is Joe Biden?

Sarah Palin may not have a graduate degree, but there is no way she could be as dumb as this moron. You would expect better from someone who (didn't) graduate from the top half of his law school.

Joe Biden’s denunciation of his own campaign’s ad to Katie Couric got so much attention last night that another odd note in the interview slipped by.

He was speaking about the role of the White House in a financial crisis.

“When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn’t just talk about the princes of greed,” Biden told Couric.

“He said, ‘Look, here’s what happened.’”