Dueling quotes: Joe Biden on Egypt vs. Joe Biden on Egypt

You can count on Joe Biden for consistency. Well, maybe not consistency as much as stupidity. Let’s just let the Vice President explain in his own contradictory words.

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You can count on Joe Biden for consistency. Well, maybe not consistency as much as stupidity. Let’s just let the Vice President explain in his own contradictory words.

joe biden on Hosni Mubarak
Joe "I Can See Both Sides of the Issue" Biden

Here’s Joe on January 27 when Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak looked like he might cling to power:

“I think the time has come for President Mubarak to begin to move in the direction that – to be more responsive to some of the – some – some of the needs of the people out there,” Biden said…. “Mubarak has been an ally of ours in a number of things…. And I think that it would be – I would not refer to him as a dictator.”

And now let’s move forward to Joe on February 11 as soon as Mubarak resigned:

Vice President Joe Biden said Friday that the resignation of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak “is a pivotal moment in history” and that it is America’s hope it will bring “a path toward democracy.”

Thanks, Joe. We always know we can count on you for the straight story.

Source: OutsideTheBeltway.com, Miami Herald

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