No nuclear Holocaust or your money back. Uncle Joe Biden pinky swears. He’s putting his 42-year reputation on the line during which he was wrong about every major issue. Including Iran.
But this time he won’t be wrong. And if he is, then oops.
Vice President Joe Biden sought to smooth over U.S.-Israeli relations Monday in an address to the the Jewish Federations of North America.
Biden joked that he once signed a picture for “Bibi” that said, “I don’t agree with a damn thing you say, but I love ya.”
“We really are good friends,” Biden said of their relationship. “He has been a great, great friend.”
Biden needed to repeat that a few more times because it sounded unconvincing the first thirty times he said it.
“Were there not an Israel, US would have to invent one. We will never ever abandon Israel – out of our own self interest,” he said.
I don’t know what that sentence means and I’m afraid to find out.
How does one go about inventing an ancient country and a people… and then bringing them into being today? Then again that same exact process worked with “Palestine”.
“I have heard so much malarkey about our position on Iran,” Biden said. “We will not let Iran acquire a nuclear weapon, period. I would not put my 42-year reputation on the line if I were not certain when I say it. We mean it.”
Speaking of “malarkey” and Biden’s 42-year reputation
In 1979 Senator Biden shared President Jimmy Carter’s belief that the fall of the Shah in Iran and the advent of Ayatollah Khomeini’s rule represented progress for human rights in that country. Throughout the ensuing 444-day hostage crisis, during which Khomeini’s extremist acolytes routinely paraded the blindfolded American captives in front of television cameras and threatened them with execution, Biden opposed strong action against the mullahs and called for dialogue.
But then again Biden denounced Bush I for dialogue with China.
“President Bush and Secretary Baker have been seeking to engage the world’s last major Communist regime…. it is a regime marked by brutality at home and irresponsibility abroad, and it is a regime the United States should now cease to court.”
Let’s recap. Engaging China bad. Engaging Iranian terrorists good.
Except when Biden is engaging China on behalf of Hollywood.
During a luncheon two years ago in Los Angeles, Vice President Biden convinced China’s vice president to agree to a deal that would unlock new fortunes for Hollywood. Biden asked Xi Jinping to relax China’s quota of allowing only 20 foreign films to be shown at a time and to increase distribution fees for Hollywood firms.
That’s Joe. Always a man of principle. And his reputation is worth as much as his principles.






















