Well, that settles it. Here we thought Hosni Mubarak was a brutal dictator who had clung to power for 30 years through the use of brute power.
That’s why we’re grateful that a man like Joe Biden is around to correct our misconceptions and fill in the gaps in our knowledge.
Here’s the garrulous Veep on the PBS News Hour with the surprising news that Mubarak is not a dictator and shouldn’t step aside.
Lehrer: Has the time come for President Mubarak of Egypt to go, to stand aside?
Biden: No, 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 needs of the people out there…
Lehrer: The word—the word to describe the leadership of Mubarak and Egypt and also in Tunisia before was dictator. Should Mubarak be seen as a dictator?
Biden: Look, Mubarak has been an ally of ours in a number of things and he’s been very responsible on, relative to geopolitical interests in the region: Middle East peace efforts, the actions Egypt has taken relative to normalizing the relationship with Israel. And I think that it would be—I would not refer to him as a dictator.
Yeah, right, Joe. He’s been elected by acclamation by the Egyptian people for the last 30 years.
You know what? Dan Quayle may have been funny dumb, but this guy is dangerous dumb.
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If this happened under Bush's watch and Cheny said the same thing there would have been accusation that Mumbarak is a CIA plant to keep the people under his thumb for the benefit of oil companies and Israel.
That probably isn't THAT far from the truth but it irks me nobody calls out team O on it when they try to keep the cheap oil game going. Can't blame them. Modern life runs on energy.
A two week disruption in flow from the ME would be interesting. Lots of people here will die, thats for sure.
Mr. Biden,
You are a f-cking idiot. You should step aside and search for a life out of the public eye.
You embarass any and all Americans with a functioning Synapse.
Please resign.
JUST in case you are kind a wondering what will happen in the middle east (Egypt) and you would like a peek of the future. Here is the view from heaven written 2200 plus years ago. Ezekiel 37-38-39 look close at verse 38:5
http://www.godrules.net/library/kjv/kjveze38.htm
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ezekiel+38-39&version=NIVom
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_Ezekiel_38%E2%80%9339
Many more, plus books written before 1970s say the same thing – the middle east will rise up against Israel. That means that Egypt WILL be taken over by Hamas, Muslim brotherhood or other group. But not over night, it will take some time to set it all up.
ENJOY THE READING. now if you could only figure out what to do about it. Maybe remove all Americans from the area ?
I don't buy into your premise that Dan Quayle was dumb (funny or not) but this guy is bithering idiot dumb. At least his boss can read phonetically, isn't that right corpsman.
Shows you who his friends are.