And now, the Mother of all Biden Gaffes (updated)

AMERICAN THINKER ^ | October 03, 2008 | Rick Moran

[kellynla]

My jaw hit the floor when I heard Biden say this:

Here's what the president said when we said no. He insisted on elections on the West Bank, when I said, and others said, and Barack Obama said, "Big mistake. Hamas will win. You'll legitimize them." What happened? Hamas won. When we kicked -- along with France, we kicked Hezbollah out of Lebanon, I said and Barack said, "Move NATO forces in there. Fill the vacuum, because if you don't know -- if you don't, Hezbollah will control it."

Now what's happened? Hezbollah is a legitimate part of the government in the country immediately to the north of Israel.

Wha? Who? Kicked Hezb'allah out of where? Urged we send who into what? This is really an incredible gaffe - far more serious than anything Sarah Palin has ever said anywhere.

Let's allow a "Foreign Policy Insider" quoted at The Corner, to try and untangle this web of lies, misstatements, and downright loony contentions:

[EagleUSA]

Gaffes are evidence the slimey DimoRATS have never been held accountable for their behavior, actions for crimes. Lies are evidence that the DimoRATS are worried about an election outcome....it is all you will hear from ALL OF THEM until after Nov. 4th -— and then beyond.

After listening to Biden lie his rotten head off last night was the closer for me. These reprobates want to literally take over this country and turn it into a socialist den of corruption, thuggery and crime that only favors a growing, cancerous socialist government that is for the sole benefit of their empowerment.

It will have no other purpose. The constant lies prove the sham that they are.

[Lorianne]

Good find! Circulate, circulate, circulate.

[marron]

Biden makes it up as he goes along.

Hamas won in Gaza, not West Bank. No one, certainly not Biden, opposed holding elections there.

No one kicked Hezbollah out of Lebanon. Some of us here in the peanut gallery were begging, pleading, for Israel to finish the job, but I certainly don’t remember Obama calling for Israel to drive Hezbollah out of the Bekaa Valley. If I missed it, maybe he could repeat it. Is it Obama and Biden’s position that Israel should drive Hezbollah into Syria? Into the sea? Exterminate them? Maybe Obama should clarify Biden’s position or Biden should clarify Obama’s position on this. Maybe if we are leaving Iraq they could relocate there.

Does that even sound like something Obama would say? No?

No. Not a chance.

[muleskinner]

Here's another - when Biden was listing off the different groups in the Balkans, he said, "...the Serbians, the Croations and the Bozniaks..."

BOZNIAKS?!?

Who else heard that one?

[Terry Mross]

I think of what Biden says as gaffes. They’re not even lies. It’s just crap that Biden makes up because there’s no brain up there to control his mouth.

[marron]

Bosniak is sometimes used in reference to Bosnian muslims.

[KoRn]

One gaffe that Biden let out that I haven’t heard anyone mention today is when Biden referred to Lebanon as “the country directly north of Israel”. He forgot the name of Lebanon for God’s sake. LOL!!!

[etradervic]

When we kicked -- along with France, we kicked Hezbollah out of Lebanon, I said and Barack said, "Move NATO forces in there.

Barack said??? When? When B.O. was in High School?

[Terry Mross]

Bosniak means Bosnian? If Bosnian describes them, why do we need Bosniak? I think Biden made it up.

[Logical me]

After listening to Biden lie his rotten head off last night was the closer for me.

I always thought Biden a bobble head fool. His demeanor gives him away. Know it all nitwit. The real problem is 2/3 of Americans believe in these fools and nothing will change the vast majority of their minds. Looks like as it stands now we will have to put up with these communists and Obama the leader.

I used to call them Socialists, but that has changed since they destroy all opposition with lies and are trying to kill any media that opposes them.

[bray]

Watched Krauthammer say that Joe won on points but Gov Palin won on style. Is it new math that you get points if your points are wrong?? How do you win on points if your wrong? Pathetic Kraut.

Pray for W, McCuda and Our Troops

[beelzepug]

My wife and I decided that the folks in neighboring Romania must be Romaniacs.

[LiberalsSpendYourMoney]

It’s not made up. It’s an authentic term. Google it.

[EagleUSA]

I think of what Biden says as gaffes. They’re not even lies. It’s just crap that Biden makes up because there’s no brain up there to control his mouth.
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That is true to some extent, I am sure. But the problem is the criminally-complicit treasonous MSM will print every mindless bit of crap that these maggots say — which would not be any problem onto itself, if there were not mindless droids out there that cannot drink enough of the DemoRAT Kool-Aid....therein lies the problem with their lies, so to speak.

[Cyropaedia]

This was a huge gaffe; not quite the magnitude of Ford's "Poland" gaffe, but close. I can't believe that more hasn't been made of this.

Considering that Joe is the Senate's designated foreign policy "expert" and all.

[Hawthorn]

What about Biden’s claim that three weeks’ worth of spending in Iraq equals everything we’ve spent in Afghanistan over seven years? Medved said today that Biden’s math is off by a factor of twenty! Where’s the McCain campaign on this point? Or even the conservative blogosphere?

[marron]

Bosnian refers more to the nationality; bosniak to the ethnicity.

I don’t hear bosniak much in the US press, but you do occasionally hear it. Its more something someone in the region would say, I think.

[Cicero]

Thanks, I hadn't heard that one, but you're right.

"The Bosniaks or Bosniacs[25] (Bosnian: Bošnjak, pl: Bošnjaci, IPA: [bɔ'ʃɲaːt͡si]) are a South Slavic people, living mainly in Bosnia and Herzegovina ("Bosnia") and the Sandžak region of Serbia and Montenegro, with a smaller autochthonous population also present in Croatia, Kosovo and the Republic of Macedonia. Bosniaks are typically characterized by their tie to the Bosnian historical region, traditional adherence to Islam, and common culture and language.

"In the English-speaking world, Bosniaks are most commonly known as Bosnian Muslims, although Bosniaks make up 48% of the population while only 40% of the population (of B&H) is Muslim.[26] The term "Bosnians", also used interchangeably, can also be used to denote all inhabitants of Bosnia regardless of ethnic origin (i.e. not only Bosniaks, but also Bosnian Serbs, Bosnian Croats or any other group in the country).[27]"

--Wikipedia

[Ramius]

Great piece. It truly does put the lie to what everybody in the MSM just assumes about Biden’s “foreign policy expertise”. He simply doesn’t know what he’s talking about, quite a bit of the time.