Hardball: Joe Biden On Bush's Appeasement Comments

[vala09]

two ass holes

[ahc25wn6]

C heart heart X

[wang0fett]

biden is against helping helping the WTC first responders and he is against re-investigating the WTC attack

[jlaz89]

I love this guy!

OBAMA/BIDEN '08

[talllikelurchis]

Now Obama has at least one person on his ticket that can qualify to be president however it should be the other way around.....Biden/Obama

[jehushaphat]

right you are, burbon! and hopefully he will be our next vp!

[burbonboy]

Biden uncovers the fact that Bush is a hypocrite and a liar!!!!

[Vinney23]

Lets drill our own oil and make America rich again. These Socialist Democrats are going to destroy us all! They hate Bush so much that they would burn this country to the ground. American Media makes me SICK! Mr. Biden HEAR THIS, the only part of the government hated more than Bush is the CONGRESS.

[argyle28]

Your own department of energy has said if you drill now you wont get any benefits if any until 20 years from now. The amount of oil you may have is not enough to make you rich again. It is your Bush and McCain policy of oil dependant foreign policy that has ruined your country.

And please, socialists? What is this the 1950's??? If in doubt throw the socialist card.

[talllikelurchis]

20 years? LOL! Do your research!

[argyle28]

Yep 20 years.

[talllikelurchis]

Argyle26 before you embarrass yourself any further do your research! I'm trying to help you! Look up Nobel Drilling and how fast they were able to get oil out of the ground in WW2...Now that was almost 70 years ago, has technology not gotten even better since then?

[argyle28]

Let me help you understand what I said. You can drill immediately, that isnt in question. You wont get BENEFITS for 20 years.

From Fox News

"According to the federal government's own Department of Energy, drilling off America's coasts would not have a significant impact on domestic oil production or prices before 2030. And off-shore leasing wouldn't even begin before 2012. "

So as Obama says, why drill off shore, to get effects 20 years from now, when you can invest in clean energy now?

[talllikelurchis]

So Obama says? No benefits in bringing jobs in America? Yea' let's keep sending Arab's billions and billions of dollars! That's what Obama's energy plan will do! Obama isn't even thinking about people who won't be able to afford to buy new cars and will still have to rely on their cars that run off gasoline...It's not all about money, it's about America being self reliant! We will always need oil even twenty years from now even one hundred years from now, So Why Not Drill Now?

[argyle28]

Yes its an attractive prospect isnt it. However if you look at the facts,

- you wont get any benefits if any until 20 years from now.

- 90% of your oil will still be from the middle east.

-And at your current rate of consumption the biggest amount of oil you have off the coast of California will be used up in 16 months! ( I can get you the quote for your energy department if you want)

[argyle28]

Obamas plan isnt about sending money to Arabs,  that is McCains plan. McCain is funded by the big oil corps who deal with the Saudis.

Obama wants America to get the rights to building new technologies for clean energy -creating jobs. And getting away from you dependance on oil.

[arkadyka]

Thats pretty horribly incorrect. 10 years AT THE LEAST and that is only because of stiff regulations that could be ammended.

[FerrariBell]

Hey, vinney. America is still rich, it's just that it's wealth is now in the hands of much fewer Americans than ever, many of whom are oil people. This is since Bush became president. Barack/Joe '08!!!!!

[karpuzul]

I WISH MIDDLE EAST never had ANY OIL.SOME dogs wouldnt bark and looking for ecxuse to get something.

[Jhubes84]

Iran is the head of the snake, a cause of instability and death in Iraq, Lebanon, and Israel.

Iran's army trained and supplied Hezbulla, which then waged terrorism on the democracies of Israel and Lebanon. Furthermore, Iran has supplied the insurgents in Iraq with bombs to kill American soldiers.

[KappenandFriends]

Biden was the most qualified to be the democratic candidate. He has the most experiance and the best ideas. i dont see why the media didnt focus on him.

[Peekaypee]

Joe B has such an amazing clarity of thought and understanding of foreign policy. Hope whoever the next POTUS will use this man's brain and analysis

[tom500k]

Bush himself is apeasser #1, licking the boots of the weapons makers the pentagon brass and the oil lobby! The criminal prez needs to be impeached immediately!

[basketdiary]

As you can see no mention of wiping israel of the map but talks about the oppressive regime that needs to go period. Sounds like Bush when he referred to someone in the senate(Obama) but not mentioning his name. One might argue that sounds like Israel who wants to be the center of world and as if the world should revolve around them.

[tubetex]

basketdiary-thanks for the translation, before that I thought he was talking about chicken farming.

Oh and the comparison of ahmadinejad speech to bush's speech is reasonable in a country that has to search our 80 year old grandmothers in airports so as not to appear as racial profiling

[basketdiary]

To the lazy bigot UnAmericans ought to research the lies they hear from their leaders before jumping to conclusions and follow as the herds that are led to slaughter houses.

So what did Ahmadinejad actually say? Word by word Farsi (English) translation:

Imam (Khomeini) ghoft (said) een (this) rezhim-e (regime) ishghalgar-e (occupying) qods (Jerusalem) bayad (must) az safheh-ye ruzgar (from page of time) mahv shavad(vanish from)

[kadene2]

If the American people sit idly by and allow Bush to manipulate them with his fear tactics, then they deserve to suffer through another term of his poison politics and policies. He is hastening the demise of the great American nation, and is the real threat to its security!

[KoreyAusTex]

The only reason Bush considers Iran a terrorist nation is that his mouth is watering to invade and he can't do that unless he vilifies Iran. I buy no means support Iran, I am purely talking of intent and this administration already planned to occupy the Middle East even before it took office!

[cvjucla3]

Bush, the only thing that you need to be thinking about right now is shoveling SHIT back in Crawford, Texas.

[SinoYank]

Didn't he mispronounce the word, "noo-kyoo-ler?" For the correct pronunciation, listen to Bush's old speeches.

[agentaerick]

obama/biden.

nuff said

[tubetex]

dont you love it when biden says

biden: "the only thing that keeps this iranian authority in power, with a population that hates them, is the fact that we never make our voice known, to the iranian people. what we do is we stand out there and rattle the sabre, against guys who are not good guys and unite the iranian people.

chris - "in fainess, did hillary clinton rattle the sabre when she said she would obliverate them if they attacked israel"

biden - "no"

classic!

[frc1968]

tubetex- No. Not classic. Biden knows more about foreign policy than you, George Bush (both of them), Dick cheney, and John McCain combined. I do, however, love it when Biden speaks because he speaks from knowledge as he's been in the US Senate since 1972. He simply clarified the same position we had as a foreign policy with the Soviets... MAD... Mutually Assured Destruction. Albeit there would be less of a chance we would be destroyed in a nuclear exchange but they certainly would be.

[tubetex]

frc1968-he knows more than me and that makes him right.

Didn't they teach us foreign policy with Giligans island.

I learned so much from watching that show, it was very educational

chris - "in fainess, did hillary clinton rattle the sabre when she said she would obliverate them if they attacked israel"

biden - "no"

Then what the hell was he saying in prior statment

[47f0]

We have been screwing up Iran since the fifties, when Mossadeq wouldn't roll over and let British Petroleum bleed Iran dry. We bribed and intimidated religious leaders, to the extent of house-bombing, financed phony rallies and installed our man, the Shah. BP, and the companies that would become ExxonMobile and ChevronTexaco (our price to the Brits for creating the coup) grew fat off the profits, and the Shah crushed any dissenters.

Wouldn't we be a little pissed if someone did that to us?

[ultratuba]

You got your bases covered. Thanks for connecting the dots! Your informed outlook makes you a powerful weapon in the people's war on tyranny!!

[ClassicFIHD]

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So Ahmadinejad was not a terrorist when he said he wanted to blow Isreal off the map.

[frellthat]

Ahmadinejad didn't say that. There's no equivalent for the phrase "off the map" in Arabic. That's just a widely repeated misquote.

Besides, our own CIA says they're only pursuing peaceful applications of nuclear technology and they have no weapons program, just as they've said all along. Bush and his crew are just trying to start another oil war... I can't believe anyone could possibly be fooled by them AGAIN.

[louis4louis]

Bush did this on purpose, a calculated scheme to go to Israel in front of lawmakers, politicians, and say such stupid things to attract problems to the eventual nominee of the Democratic election - Obama. You now have Mccain and Bush teaming up and attacking the Democratic party and you have the shameless Hillary adding insults to injury to keep going against her own candidate Obama. Its bullshit. Now is the time Democrats should unite strongly and kick the asses of these dumbass republicans!

[hippieCy08]

Biden....few of our current politicians who says exactly what he thinks without cowering from anyone.

the Bush administration have made our country and the world less save with their failed foreign policies.

[gateley]

Biden is DISGUSTED with Bush's pandering. Go Joe!

[ImaScotsman]

If the republican party was wiped off the face of the earth not many people would be upset.

[tubetex]

to quote a true american. We are 2 parties, but 1 country

[jgrig2]

Bring back Calvin Coolidge and change the Republican party back to when it was small government and non-interventionist foreign policy. There was a time when Democrats were the party of war (johnson, kennedy, Jackson, Roosevelt, Truman, ect...)

[RomeoMD25]

Iran is a country whose defense spending is less than 1% of our own; spends less on its military than countries such as the Netherlands and Sweden; has never invaded another country in modern history, and could not possibly threaten us

[tubetex]

We have the moral authority to protect our interest around the world, so our defense budget is reflective of that obligation.

As for Iran aggression, it wasn't until after the peaceful Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein attacked Iran that Iran decided to push into Iraq. This was a 6 year war until the UN negotiated a truce

As for 1% comment, the Iran defense is secret, so where you get that fact from is a guess?

[jgrig2]

well lets not forget the iran-iraq war.