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Originally Posted by Whirlaway
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It always comes down to looking at all the information.
When whirly links to a 20 second video, I just naturally wonder what was said during the other 7 or 800 seconds of the speech.
Like this.
The vice president, who repeatedly disputed the Republican criticism that the administration has been "naïve" on Iran, also predicted that tensions between Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei would lead to Ahmadinejad's exit.
"They will not both be around two years from now. And on my bet, it's Ahmadinejad is gone," he said.
Biden looked ahead to Europe's embargo on oil imports from Iran, due to begin July 1, and predicted it "will have a devastating impact on the Iranian economy and force them to think even harder."
"We're not doing anything but tightening the screws," he said. "Unless Iran changes course, the pressure will keep increasing."
"And as the president has made clear, we take no option off the table as part of our determination to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon," he said.
Biden blamed George W. Bush's policies for international divisions that prevented the implementation of tough new sanctions on Iran--and argued that President Barack Obama's overtures to Tehran, quickly rebuffed, convinced the world to unite behind the current sanctions regime, the toughest yet.
"When we took office, let me remind you, there was virtually no international pressure on Iran," Biden said. "We were the problem. We were diplomatically isolated in the world, in the region, in Europe. The international pressure on Iran was stuck in neutral." (the 20 seconds of the video)
He went on to say: "By going the extra diplomatic mile, presenting Iran with a clear choice, we demonstrated to the region and to the world that Iran is the problem, not the United States. That's why China, that's why Europe, that's why the rest of the world has joined us in these sanctions."
Republicans immediately seized on Biden's "we were the problem" remarks and contended that the vice president was criticizing the country, not the previous president. The Weekly Standard put out a video clip of that section of the speech, dubbing it
"Biden Blames America." The Republican National Committee distributed the same clip by mass email. A Romney spokesman, Ryan Williams, tweeted a link to the video.
Biden may be dumb for saying something that could be isolated from the body of his speech and taken completely out of context and used to inflame people who eat what they are fed while ignoring the fact that misrepresentation (about 75% bullshit-15% malice, and 10%regurgitated bull cum) is major ingredient of their meal. And like the woman in "Hollywood Knights" who just drank from the punchbowl that Newbomb Turk had just pissed in, they smack their lips and say the same thing, "I've had this taste in my mouth before."
Anybody surprised by these actions in an attempt to turn a decent point into an aberration of the truth?
Me neither.
