Lyin' Biden

Today, Charles Krauthammer notes that Barack Hussein Obama's made a gaffe concerning meeting Iran's leaders without preconditions and now, "realizing it is too egregious to take back without suffering humiliation," has decided "to make it a centerpiece of his foreign policy."

The Democrats know Obama has serious problems with his foreign policy, and, not willing to admit it, have resorted to lying about it. Of course, Sen. Joe Biden, the most dishonest person in the U.S. Senate, has taken a lead role in mischaracterizing Obama's gaffe.

On CNN this morning, Biden had just started into his litany of falsehoods when the McCain campaign challenged the Delaware senator. "Senator, we just got this statement in," said CNN correspondent John Robert. "It was just handed to me from the McCain campaign. They claim that 'you're missing the point' about the unconditional summit saying that the actual issue is whether the office of the president of the United States should lend its prestige and legitimacy to a dictator like Ahmadinejad saying, 'When a tyrant or dictator is afforded the promotion of an equal footing, unconditional summit with the president of the United States, those bad actors are emboldened and it threatens the security of the United States and our allies.'"

"The fact of the matter is Barack Obama did not say he'd sit down with Ahmadinejad," Biden responded. "He said he'd sit down with the Iranian leadership."

That is a flat-out lie. (Or maybe Obama would merely stand if he were to meet with Ahmadinejad.)

First, Ahmadinejad is part of the Iranian leadership. Second, Obama clearly said that he would meet with Ahmadinejad without preconditions. According to USA Today in 2007, "Democrat Barack Obama says he probably wouldn't have invited Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to speak at Columbia University but would be willing as president to meet with the Iranian leader as a way to protect U.S. interests."

CBS News also reported last year that Obama said he would meet with Ahmadinejad.

Biden also said that Republicans such as Bush and McCain "ought to read history." He said this shortly after asking, "Can you -- my question is, can you imagine JFK, Franklin Roosevelt, or Harry Truman getting this into the mess we're in in Iraq?"

That would be the same JFK who got us into Vietnam and the Bay of Pigs (JFK did not sit down with Castro, did he?) and the same Harry Truman who got us into Korea. And, of course, Biden voted to authorize the use of force against Saddam Hussein in Iraq.