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Vice President Joe Biden sounded more like Ronald Reagan than Barack Obama on his recent trip to Russia.
From Fox News
White House Press Secretary Roberts Gibbs on Monday called Vice President Biden an “enormous asset to the administration,” insisting that the loose-lipped No. 2 is not a distraction even after the State Department had to walk back his thorny comments on Russia.
The vice president is known for his blunt, and sometimes off-color, commentary on issues ranging from swine flu to immigrants to President Obama’s teleprompter. The latest surprise came when he suggested that Russia will cooperate with the United States on a range of issues because the country is a mess.
“I think we vastly underestimate the hand that we hold,” Biden said during an interview with The Wall Street Journal at the end of his trip to Georgia and Ukraine. “Russia has to make some very difficult, calculated decisions. They have a shrinking population base, they have a withering economy, they have a banking sector and structure that is not likely to be able to withstand the next 15 years, they’re in a situation where the world is changing before them and they’re clinging to something in the past that is not sustainable.”
This drew a swift rebuke from the Kremlin, as the Obama administration has repeatedly said it wants to “reset” relations with Russia. The two countries produced a string of agreements on nuclear stockpile reduction and other matters following Obama’s recent trip to Moscow.
Sergei Prikhodko, an aide to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, was quoted in the Interfax news agency calling Biden’s remarks perplexing.
“The U.S. vice president’s intention to tie this serious work (on cutting nuclear weapons stockpiles) to economic reasons rather than to the responsibility that Russia and the U.S. bear to the international community are absolutely incomprehensible,” he said.
Prikhodko acknowledged Russia’s economic problems, but blamed them on “reckless” behavior by U.S. institutions.
Just like the Russian government to try and absolve themselves by shifting the blame to the U.S.
As for Biden he is racking up the gaffes and we are only six months into this administration and is proving to be a major distraction for the White House.
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3 Comments for Biden Channels Reagan
Dan Quayle sure took the heat for the one error he made. Potatoe. But this bafoon Biden is an absolute embarrasment to this country. But, the main stream media will not even come close to this live wire. Thanks to AIM and FOX we get the stories and most importantly the follow up of the effects of these blunders.
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Joe Biden’s misstatements or malaprops are no worse nor any more frequent – nor any more embarrassing – than those of George W. Bush.
Plenty of past presidents and vice-presidents were prone to verbal muffery – including the last pair! (Cheney certainly had his moments of “distraction” from the White House line.)
Based on my understanding of Biden and his politics – I would have to guess that the absolute last thing he would want to do is “channel Ronald Reagan”.