The American Pundit

While Republicans and John McCain suspended political operations in the middle of the party’s very convention because of Hurricane Gustav, Joe Biden can’t even stick to what he’s asking everyone else to do. Obama’s running mate called for people to refrain from political attacks, going on to attack John McCain on drilling and judgment.

This morning, Joe Biden said today was not a day for national politics. He said it again during a roundtable discussion outside his childhood home here this afternoon. But before long, he couldn’t help himself, criticizing McCain for his views on offshore drilling and questioning his foreign policy judgment.

“The only guy in America in a position of some authority who is out of sync with the whole rest of the world is John McCain,” he told a small group of relatives and old family friends. “This Administration, the Iraqis, NATO, the Europeans, our friends around the world, the vast majority of the American people, the Democratic-controlled Congress, Republicans in Congress — they all agree. Barack Obama was right, and John McCain was wrong.”

To begin with, what the hell is he talking about? The only person in a position of some authority in America that’s out of touch with America is John McCain? So President Bush is, according to Joe Biden, totally in touch with Americans and the world? How about Dick Cheney? They’re just dandy now? This from a guy that voted against the first Gulf War but voted for the war in Iraq? And how have Congressional Republicans agreed that Obama and McCain was wrong?

We’re in a position of victory now because we ignored the likes of Barack Obama and Joe Biden. We infused 20,000 troops into Iraq and kicked up counter-insurgency efforts. They wanted withdrawal while we were losing the war. Withdrawing from Europe in 1944 and withdrawing in 1946 isn’t the same thing, folks.