Posted on 02/06/2015 12:30:05 PM PST by Dave346
Joe Biden won’t be there to welcome Benjamin Netanyahu to a joint session of Congress — or even shake his hand.
The vice president will miss only his second address by a foreign leader to a joint session of Congress next month, when he’ll be out of the country while Netanyahu makes what’s become an increasingly controversial speech warning against the Iran nuclear deal.
The vice president’s office on Friday confirmed the plans to skip the March 3 speech.
“We are not ready to announce details of his trip yet, and normally our office wouldn’t announce this early, but the planning process has been underway for a while,” a spokesperson for the office said.
Biden’s absence heads off some awkwardness — the White House deeply opposes the politics of this speech, as well as the allegedly violated protocol, so not having the vice president sit behind Netanyahu avoids what could be taken as a symbolic show of support. His facial expressions won’t be parsed, nor will anyone be counting which lines he applauds, and for how long.
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IQ.Damned auto correct
Greta is awesome. She will do it.
Exactly what I was thinking. Joe probably wouldn’t understand the difficult concepts anyway.
How ‘bout asking Ted Cruz to sit in that seat. That would send all sorts of messages.
Interesting that leading up to, and during the address, it is more important to know about “who” is not going to be there for this address...
Than what is actually said...
We got weeks of leaks from the WH, and its media arm of the mainstream type, telling us ALL about what Obama was going to say before he said it the other night, whoch made it one of the lowest watched SOTU addresses ever...
Maybe that’s the way they wanted it...
This certainly falls into the scope of what the administration and its media arm doesn’t want you to hear...
So what may be important is how little will be hyped to get people to watch, if it is even broadcast for anyone to watch...
I would find it really telling if the receiving audience found a way to come close to matching, or even eclipsing, the number of viewers of Obama’s recent address of lies and deceit...
That would be a real story, all by itself...
They should leave the chair empty. What a great visual representation of this admistration that the MSM can not hide.
“Joe Biden skipping Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech”
Like he could comprehend it anyways.
So much for the left's professed belief in strength through diversity. For them, it's, "Our way, or the highway."
And they didn't really believe in adherence to proper protocol and etiquette when Bush was President, for example:
Not to mentioned horseface's meetings with the North Vietnamese during Nixon's presidency.
HF
Oh noes! SloJo’s scheduled to send his brain out for its annual steam cleaning and sanitizing, so he can’t attend Netanyahu’s speech. What a shame!
I heard that Idiot Biden and idiot Kerry is going to be in Israel campaigning for Netanyahu rival while BiBi speaks to congress..I can’t find it in the news papers but FOX AND FRIENDS the blonde guy Peter Dosey said it.i am not sure about the spelling of his last name.
Good!!!
Since he’s not coming to the speech, can I please have his seat??? I’ll bring my own cushion....
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