Biden's house of horrors

Wesley Pruden:

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But nobody is stalked like Barack Obama. He's terrorized every time Joe Biden opens his mouth, which is often. Even good old Joe can't wait to see what he'll say next. We were supposed to be worrying about the innocence and inexperience of Sarah Palin, but while she's drawing enormous crowds and staying resolutely on the message laid out by John McCain, like a good running mate should, there's good old Joe, who was recruited to give Mr. Obama heft and gravitas in foreign affairs, up in Seattle predicting catastrophe once the Obama administration is fixed firmly in place.

"Gird your loins," he told a fundraising rally. (For this they expect money?) "It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy." So far, this is only conventional wisdom. For decades it was the Soviets who wanted to see whether the new man was as tough as he ought to be, and in late October 1962, before the Great Society had had time to be great, opportunity appeared in Cuba. The rest is history.

The number of prospective villains has multiplied since, like mushrooms after a hard spring rain. But conventional wisdom stops short of specifics, and old Joe was just getting started. He could offer "at least four or five scenarios" about how and where [catastrophe] might originate. He offered only two. "And [President Obama] is gonna need help. And the kind of help he's gonna need is, he's gonna need you — not financially to help him — we're gonna need your influence, your influence within the community to stand with him. Because it's not gonna be apparent that we're right."

If all this loin-girding were not enough to frighten the horses and terrorize the perceptive members of the glassy-eyed cult of the anointed one, there was more: "I've forgotten more about foreign policy than most of my colleagues know, so I'm not being falsely humble with you. ... This guy has it. But he's gonna need your help. Because I promise you, you are all gonna be sitting here a year from now going, 'Oh, my God, 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, be prepared to stick with us. Remember the faith you had at this point because you're going to have to reinforce us."

If you're having trouble figuring out what Joe meant, you can imagine the confusion among friends and foes broad....

We now know who the airhead VP candidate is and he is not a Republican. We can bide or time to see Biden stumble and and tumble from the loft perch he thinks he has earned. Perhaps even the late night comics will start using him as the but of their jokes. They should. His pretensions of being intelligence are become quite transparent.