The Dems Coddle the FARC & Chavez and Joe's Memory Lapse

Happy Monday infidels. Two interesting reads today. The first one is on how Madam Pelosi and Jim McGovern and their leftist posse have been and are coddling Chavez and helping the FARC undermine democratic Colombia through, inter alia, their association with Left-wing Colombian Sen. Piedad Córdoba who is a close friend of Mr. Chávez and a frequent visitor to the Venezuelan presidential palace. She is also trusted by the FARC and is often photographed with its leaders.

U.S. Rep. Jim McGovern's name is all over the captured FARC documents and when a Wall Street Journal editorial reported as much in March, the Massachusetts Democrat didn't deny it. But he howled in protest when this column reported that the FARC leaders wrote that Mrs. Pelosi had "designated" him to work on hostage negotiations. The FARC also expressed faith in Mrs. Pelosi as someone who "helps" in its effort to undermine Colombian President Alvaro Uribe. Mr. McGovern said in a letter to this newspaper that the FARC was engaging in fantasy. But maybe instead the rebels put their faith in Mrs. Pelosi because they perceive a common friend in the radicalized Ms. Córdoba, who can do their bidding in Washington.

Yep folks, the lefties are just dying to have tea with these cretins to discuss Garcia Marquez novels and assisting El Burro Chavez with his nuclear ambitions no doubt. Read it here

Finally, we all love Senator Joe. He kept ranting how McCain did not "get it" but how he and Obama did. And while I'm sure we'll surely find Senator Joe at Home Depot (Hey Val, How many times have you seen Sen. Joe at Home Depot?), perhaps Sen. Joe should start to hang out at Whole Foods with Obama at the Vitamin aisle so they can pick up some memory pills along with some uña de gato, cause the Senator is slipping:

Start with Lebanon, where Mr. Biden asserted that "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."

The U.S. never kicked Hezbollah out of Lebanon, and no one else has either. Perhaps Mr. Biden meant to say Syria, except that the U.S. also didn't do that. The Lebanese ousted Syria's military in 2005. As for NATO, Messrs. Biden and Obama may have proposed sending alliance troops in, but if they did that was also a fantasy. The U.S. has had all it can handle trying to convince NATO countries to deploy to Afghanistan.

Speaking of which, Mr. Biden also averred that "Our commanding general in Afghanistan said the surge principle in Iraq will not work in Afghanistan." In trying to correct him, Mrs. Palin mispronounced the general's name -- saying "General McClellan" instead of General David McKiernan. But Mr. Biden's claim was the bigger error, because General McKiernan said that while "Afghanistan is not Iraq," he also said a "sustained commitment" to counterinsurgency would be required. That is consistent with Mr. McCain's point that the "surge principles" of Iraq could work in Afghanistan.

Then there's the Senator's astonishing claim that Mr. Obama "did not say he'd sit down with Ahmadinejad" without preconditions. Yet Mr. Biden himself criticized Mr. Obama on this point in 2007 at the National Press Club: "Would I make a blanket commitment to meet unconditionally with the leaders of each of those countries within the first year I was elected President? Absolutely, positively no."

Or how about his rewriting of Bosnia history to assert that John McCain didn't support President Clinton in the 1990s. "My recommendations on Bosnia, I admit I was the first one to recommend it. They saved tens of thousands of lives. And initially John McCain opposed it along with a lot of other people. But the end result was it worked." Mr. Biden's immodesty aside, Mr. McCain supported Mr. Clinton on Bosnia, as did Bob Dole even as he was running against him for President in 1996 -- in contrast to the way Mr. Biden and Democratic leaders have tried to undermine President Bush on Iraq.

Closer to home, the Delaware blarney stone also invited Americans to join him at "Katie's restaurant" in Wilmington to witness middle-class struggles. Just one problem: Katie's closed in the 1980s. The mistake is more than a memory lapse because it exposes how phony is Mr. Biden's attempt to pose for this campaign as Lunchbucket Joe.

Read it all here and enjoy your Monday folks. Hopefully I'll get some decent photos of Palin tonight.

Posted by Cigar Mike at October 6, 2008 09:21 AM

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