[mkboyce]

Au contrair, Monsieur Biden. Libya is 10 times the size of Syria, while having only 1/3 the population. You're ass-backward by a factor of 2.

Though, imagine if a Republican had said this.

[cookcounty]

What's crazy is that Biden has a long long record of mangling geography and history. Because he is able to deliver stupidities with apparent utter sincerity, everybody gives him a pass (known from now on as a "raddatz").

[Brad from Tennessee]

Barack Obama chose Joe Biden as VP because of his “foreign policy experience.”

[cookcounty]

Joe Biden says Syria is geographically the biggest country in the world!

Joe said Syria is geographically 10 times larger than Libya:

According to Wickedpedia, Libya is 679,000 square miles, while Russia, with the largest landmass of any country, is 6,590,000 square miles. Syria is 185,000 square miles.

"When I speak, I say what I mean and I mean what I say!" ---Joe Biden, 10/11/2012, 9:42 pm.
Repeated, 10:16 pm: "When I speak, I say what I mean and I mean what I say!" ---Joe Biden, 10/11/2012.

[IronJack]

I caught this immediately last night. I about fell off my chair, and I was disappointed that neither the moderator nor Ryan nailed him on it. It was a typical Bidenism: utterly stupid and beyond reason to anyone who has the faintest inkling of African geography.

[tflabo]

Since when do facts matter with DemoRats or their morons as fawning voters? Biden bullied Ryan with arrogance, laughs and smirks.
And all the moron Dems rejoiced in exaltation—facts be damned and on with the leftist, feel-good agenda.

[faucetman]

“VICE PRESIDENT BIDEN: It’s a different country. It’s a different country. It is five times as large geographically. It has one-fifth the population that is Libya, one-fifth the population, five times as large geographically.

I didn't know which country was which last night when I heard it. Reading the transcript, I still don't.

“It has one-fifth the population THAT IS Libya,”?????

Syria has one-fifth the population of Libya?

or

Libya has one-fifth of the population of Syria, ?????

It depends what the meaning of “IT” is.

Maybe the moderator could have asked Biden to clear that up.

[faucetman]

“So why doesn’t the same logic apply in Syria? Vice President Biden.

VICE PRESIDENT BIDEN: It’s a different country. It’s a different country. It is five times as large geographically. It has one-fifth the population that is Libya, one-fifth the population, five times as large geographically.”

Area

Syria 185,180 (sq km) Libya 1,759,540 (sq km)

Population

Syria 20,178,485 Libya 6,310,434

Libya roughly 10 times the size of Syria

Syria roughly 3 times the population of Libya

[muleskinner]

I heard that last night. I’m surprised the Times, of all things, called him on it.