Gaffe Master Joe Is Back!
Joe “Gaffe Master Joe” Biden is back – in a big way. He has come out swinging – against team Obama! To top things off, he revealed – undoubtedly to the Secret Services dismay – his upcoming travel plans to some hot spots.
Team Obama kept Biden under wraps immediately after the election, but with his Senate swearing-in and upcoming Iraq trip, he’s back in front of the microphones.
Chatting with reporters after he was sworn in for a seventh term in the Senate, Biden called it “a mistake” that the Obama transition selected Leon Panetta as CIA director without consulting the Senate intelligence committee.
“I’m still a Senate man and I always think this way. I think it’s always good to talk to the requisite members of Congress,” Biden said. “I think it was just a mistake.”
Biden then went on to reveal the key stops on his upcoming overseas trip with a Senate delegation – without even being asked.
“This will be my God-knows-how-many trips, I guess my 10th or 11th trip into Iraq and I don’t know how many times in Afghanistan and Pakistan,” Biden told reporters who had questioned him about what he expects to accomplish on his South Asia trip.
Just yesterday Biden’s Senate office took care to conceal these destinations, declaring in news release announcing his travels: “For security reasons, details of the delegation’s itinerary will be released as the trip progresses.”
The old World War Two slogan “Loose Lips Sink Ships” comes to mind. One just cannot help but wonder how long it will be until the gaffemeister says something that he really, really, should not have. One doubts it will be long at all. This foreign policy “genius” can’t even keep his own travel plans secret – for his own safety.
By martian, January 8, 2009 @ 2:43 pm
It’s okay. He can just have all those American & French troops that pushed Hezbollah out of Lebanon watch his back.