Biden Says Kerry Can't Deal with Iraq

MSNBC ^ | 9/22/04

[Use It Or Lose It]

MATTHEWS: Do you have confidence that your colleague John Kerry can deal with the situation that exists in Iraq should he win with election?

BIDEN: No. Either is he, because he doesn‘t know what he‘s going to be left with.

[nikos1121]

This is a great bit of campaign strategy. They're all saying it now... Kerry cannot say what he will do because Bush has screwed things up so bad over there..

Pathetic..

nick the greek

[KJacob]

I think he is saying that if Kerry wins and things do not improve it will be Bush's fault.

[The G Man]

And after (God forbid) Kerry got into office we'd be treated to a daily assortment of MSM "feel good" stories out of Iraq about the new schools and hospitals, and how they now have all these new freedoms, blah, blah, blah.

[LB4BUSH]

I saw this pathetic blowhard last night on Hardball....
This one and also Tad Devine (spooksman for Kerry) makes you truly greatful for the mute button.

[rhombus]

e'd be treated to a daily assortment of MSM "feel good" stories out of Iraq about the new schools and hospitals, and how they now have all these new freedoms, blah, blah, blah.

All because of the wonderful help from our allies who came on-board due to the forceful leadership (aka payola) of President Kerry...

[EagleUSA]

Political maggots. The last thing the left wants to do is take any kind of responsibility for this country and the fight against its enemies. They are useless, empty, pure politicians.

And doubts? - review the Clinton admin. -- do nothing, say nothing, avoid any conflicts. Typical far-left libs. They have no business in the White House.

[oyez]

I think J Fn Kerry has problems dealing with breakfast. The things he says and the way he runs his campaign is a disaster. He is clueless how to manage anything much less the most powerful nation on earth.

[edweena]

I don't think the headline accurately represents what is going on in this interview.

"MATTHEWS: Do you have confidence that your colleague John Kerry can deal with the situation that exists in Iraq should he win with election?

BIDEN: No. Either is he, because he doesn‘t know what he‘s going to be left with. Let me explain what I mean by that.

He can deal with it better than Bush could possibly deal with it, but who knows what Bush will leave him? That‘s why he said in his speech repeatedly, Mr. President, do the following four things. And implied—and I said to the public, if you do them Mr. President, I will support you. What‘s the president‘s response? I‘m doing everything John Kerry recommended. Malarkey, Malarkey. Here he was up at the United Nations..."

[Avenger]

Kerry is such a moron. All he is offering on Iraq is pessimism, besides that he doesn't have anything different to say/do about Iraq that President Bush isn't already saying/doing. The terrorists must be glued to the tube watching Kerry's speeches. I wonder if one day Kerry's picture will hang in a museum dedicated to the "Heros of the Islamic Revolution?"

[vigilence]

I saw this interview last night. Baghdad Biden's act is getting very old. Essentially he says the whole thing was unnecessary but that now we're committed we need to finish the job but that the Bush administration has screwed up the whole operation and convey's the attitude that he is the only person who knows what to do but no one will listen to him...really egotistical. He (and the rest of the Democrats) prefer to attribute the events in Iraq as being a result of our inefficiency as opposed to the acts of the opposition...kind of Howard Cossell-escue in that bad news was always the fault of those being perpetrated on as opposed to placing the blame squarely on those doing the perpetrating.

[i_dont_chat]

Kerry admitted in one of his campaign stops that he has trouble deciding how to order sandwiches for lunch.

[Steve_Seattle]

"And after (God forbid) Kerry got into office we'd be treated to a daily assortment of MSM "feel good" stories out of Iraq about the new schools and hospitals, and how they now have all these new freedoms, blah, blah, blah."

That's absolutely true. All the good news that is now ignored will suddenly become fit for the front page.

[Prost1]

Joe Biden, who wanted be president until he was found out as a college plagerist, seems more and more quirky.

Long gone are his attempts at bipartisan foreign policy. Now, he has become as much anti-Bush as Kenney, Gore and the rest.

Now, he is just as despicable as the others.

[TheCrusader]

"I wonder if one day Kerry's picture will hang in a museum dedicated to the "Heros of the Islamic Revolution?"

I pray he never has the chance.

[oyez]

He should stick to quiche. He can't handle sandwiches either.

[The G Man]

Yep. Just like the sudden re-emergence of the nation's homeless whenever a Republican makes it into the WH.

[3AngelaD]

Just like when all the homeless people disappeared when Clinton was sworn in, and then reappeared the day Bush was sworn in.

[finnman69]

He wants to win with this strategy? Pat Caddell is right when he says this is the worst run campaign in modern history.

Kerry makes Al Gore look like a super star candidate.

[Use It Or Lose It]

I don't think the headline accurately represents what is going on in this interview.

Biden's immediate response to the question was "No." Kerry is trying to tell everyone he knows how to do things better. Biden just said he didn't.

Someone said of Kerry...Al Gore thinks he knows everything, and John Kerry thinks he knows more than Al Gore. Never forget that Kerry thought he knew better than everyone else in Vietnam, and said so. Kerry hasn't had the guts to travel to Iraq. Now he thinks he knows more than the Iraqi Prime Minister. Kerry is an arrogant elitist who will undercut our troops and our mission, just as he did before, in order to propel himself into a position of prominence.