I have to give my brother credit for this one.\u00a0 He came up with the phrase a couple of weeks ago, before the current Sunday talk show shots by the former VP and the twit who currently holds the office.<\/p>\n
First off, let us review some history. How did Dick Cheney become Vice-President of the United States of America? Well, while George W. Bush was cleaning up in the GOP primaries for the 2000 Presidential election, his team started thinking about a VP pick. First they looked at the man at the top of the ticket. A popular governor of one the largest and most populous states, a successful business career in the private sector, a former fighter pilot (flying an all weather interceptor, with a reputation for being tricky to fly, in the Gulf of Mexico during the Cold War), and was the son of former Vice-President and President, George H.W. Bush. Given all that, the thought was that he could be stronger in foreign policy, so the decision was made to shore that up with the VP pick.\u00a0 That leads us to Dick Cheney, with a very impressive foreign policy resume, including serving as Secretary of Defense.<\/p>\n
Ok, now let us skip ahead about eight years.\u00a0 The democrats are about to turn the conventional wisdom on its ear and nominate, not Hillary Rodham Clinton, but some unknown first term Senator from a fly over state, as their Presidential candidate.\u00a0 Let\u2019s review the resume of Barack Hussein Obama. \u00a0Harvard Law, pretty good there, but what did he do with it? Well, he never held a private sector job.\u00a0 He was elected to the Illinois state senate after getting his two opponents in the primary removed on a technicality at the last minute. Once in the state senate, his most common vote by far was \u201cpresent.\u201d Then he was elected to the US Senate after the sealed divorce records of his opponent were \u201csomehow\u201d obtained and leaked to a pro-Obama journalist.\u00a0 Once in the Senate, he immediately started his run for the President\u2019s office, spending less than 200 days actually performing his $175,000 a year job as a US Senator.\u00a0\u00a0 The democrats had a candidate with a painfully thin resume, and absolutely zero foreign policy experience. \u00a0So who did they pick for his running mate? Yup, Joey Biden.\u00a0 The Senator who was washed out of the primaries as soon as the first batch of voters got to express their views on the subject. The same Senator Biden whose last run for the President\u2019s office was derailed when his history of plagiarism was exposed.\u00a0 Joe Biden, the one US Senator who only served in the leadership roles he could not be denied because of his time in office.<\/p>\n
Joe Biden, who has singular reputation in Washington, D.C. for embarrassing himself, and his party, pretty much every time he opens his mouth (although the teleprompter <\/a>adlib at the Air Force Academy was pretty good<\/a>). Joe Biden, who as a long and spectacular career of being flat out wrong on just about anything he opens his mouth about<\/a>.<\/p>\n