If Joe Biden didn’t exist, some stand up comic would have to invent him.
During this morning’s round of questions, Senator Biden (in 08!) prattled on about the NSA intercept program, wondering aloud whether or not the President had the authority to carry it out when all of a sudden out of the clear blue sky he asked Albert Gonzalez, the Attorney General of the United States, “When will this war be over.”
I half expected Gonzalez to start singing that old Civil War campfire tune, “When This Cruel War is Over:”
Dearest love, do you remember
When we last did meet,
How you told me that you loved me
Kneeling at my feet ?
Oh! how proud you stood before me
ln your suit of blue,
When you vowed to me and country
Ever to be true.
(Chorus) Weeping, sad and lonely,
Hopes and fears, how vain! (Yet praying)
When this cruel war is over,
Praying that we meet again.
The AG looked a little perplexed. He must have first wondered if the Senator had mistaken him for some 5-Star, gold braided yip-yip from the Pentagon. Then he must have considered the possibility that the Senator was pulling his leg since the smile on Biden’s face only seemed to get broader and toothier – the Senator’s facial cue that he was being very, very serious and that he was asking a very, very important question.
Finally, Gonzalez decided that Biden wasn’t kidding and had not mistaken him for the Secretary of the Army and gave a simple, declarative sentence that any boob could understand:
When al Qaeda is destroyed and it no longer poses a threat to us.
Not. Good. Enough. What? No specific date?
Andy McCarty at the Corner has this prescient comment:
The same, one imagines, might have been said about the Nazis in 1941 or 1942. Biden’s point, of course, is the oft-stated complaint that the war on terror has no definite end-date. Has there ever been a war that has?Yes, as long as al Qaeda is still a threat, there will never be a time when we would not want to know what its operatives are saying when they communicate into and out of the U.S. Why is that an offensive concept?
The problem, Andy, is that in order to understand that concept, the interlocutor has to acknowledge the fact that we are at war in the first place, something that most Democrats like Biden either fail to acknowledge or don’t really believe.
And this guy wants to be President?
4:37 pm
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8:36 pm
Translation of Biden’s Fraudian Outburst:
How the Hell are We supposed to win elections on Gay issues against National Security issues??
12:10 am
ACLU Condemns Gonzales For Protecting National Security
ACLU Press Release
Appearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee today, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales failed to answer direct, yet simple questions from senators surrounding the warrantless surveillance of Americans by the National Security Age…
3:45 am
What, no word from Insanetor Swimmer? Senator Biden doin’ the biddin alone…..What of the other Ululators?
OOOh, they’re all just soooo precious!
11:44 am
No war in the past had an end date .. so why this one ? Well said.
5:38 pm
mynewsbot:
Perhaps it’s due to his esteem for the President of the United States-you know George being responsible for everything-surely that Gitchi Manitou status has some perks, like knowing when the sky is falling and such.
12:17 pm
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