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July 06, 2009
Joe Biden Says It's "Corny" To Be Proud of Being An America
Questioning Joe Biden’s ‘Corny’ Patriotism
by Ned Rice
For those of you who take it as an article of faith that Dan Quayle was the dumbest, most out-of-touch vice president who ever served this nation, I’m afraid I have some bad news for you.
Yesterday, Independence Day, Vice President Joe Biden attended a naturalization ceremony at Camp Victory in Baghdad, Iraq. During the ceremony 237 U.S. servicemen from 59 countries, including Iraq, were sworn in as citizens of the United States of America.
At the conclusion of this solemn, undoubtedly moving and inspirational occasion, and in the presence of his own son Beau (currently serving in the 261st Theater Tactical Signal Brigade, Delaware Army National Guard), this is what the Vice President of the United States had to say:
”As corny as it sounds,” he told the troops, “Damn, I’m proud to be an American!”
Where to begin?
OK, if you were really proud to be an American, Mr. Vice President, you wouldn’t find it necessary to preface that declaration with the words, “as corny as it sounds”. If you were really proud to be an American those words wouldn’t sound corny to you. Then again, if you were really proud to be an American you wouldn’t be serving under a President who spent his last trip overseas apologizing to the world on behalf of America. You wouldn’t be serving under a President who either doesn’t recognize or simply doesn’t understand the concept of American exceptionalism. You wouldn’t, it could be reasonably argued, be a member of the current Democrat Party.
Joe Biden is known in Democratic circles as a “shoot-from-the-hip” type of guy, which means he’s known for shooting his mouth off on subjects he knows nothing about without the slightest regard for where he is or who he’s speaking to. You might say that’s his trademark, along with the serial plagiarism and the hair plugs. Well, yesterday’s outburst was vintage Biden. It simply never occurred to America’s Number Two (as he’s known around my house) that it might be sort of…oh, I don’t know, moronic?…to stand up in front of hundreds of U.S. soldiers in a combat theater and tell them you think it’s corny to feel proud of your country. Then again, Biden knows virtually nothing about the military despite his (much boasted-about) service on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, as any English-speaking adult who’s analyzed Biden’s, uh, “thoughts” on Iraq could tell you. Like Vice President Dick Cheney (who I’m sure doesn’t think it’s corny to be proud to be an American), Vice President Biden sought and was granted five military deferments during the Vietnam War. So like Senator Barbara Boxer, who recently scolded a brigadier general for (correctly and properly, as it turns out) addressing her as “M’am”, Biden might be forgiven for the stupidity of today’s remarks on the grounds that’s he’s simply ignorant of military culture. Which I guess would be something else for him not to be proud of. Then again, it could be worse. Michelle Obama only started being proud of her country about a year and a half ago, and she’s the First Lady!
But let’s say a reasonable person might, under certain circumstances, be feeling somewhat reticent, somewhat bashful about a full-throated declaration of pride in being an American. Like, say, after visiting the Bill Clinton Presidential Library or attending a deceased senator’s memorial service with Al Franken or something like that. OK, fair enough. Personally I don’t get it, but I suppose that, in some hypothetical situation, the words, “I’m proud to be an American” might strike some hypothetical person as being somewhat corny. But if there’s one person, in one scenario, who should never, ever feel that it’s corny to be proud to be an American, it would be:
- The Vice President of the United States.
- Surrounded by hundreds of U.S. servicemen and women.
- Who have just become U.S. citizens.
- In a war zone.
- On Independence Day.
- You stupid moron, you.
So on this July the Fourth weekend, please take a moment to contemplate the implications of Joe Biden’s casual, unscripted (thus, highly revealing) thoughts on what it means to him to be an American. And after careful consideration if you still think an arrogant, grinning, eye-blinking, speech-stealing simpleton like Joe Biden is qualified to be Vice President of the United States– and Sarah Palin is not!– I’d love to hear from you in care of this website.
As for the rest of you: at the risk of sounding too corny, happy Independence Day to you all, and may God continue to bless the United States of America.
Wild Thing's comment.......
I love what the writer said, great article.
"As corny as it sounds," Biden said at the ceremony, "Damn I'm proud to be an American."
Then send a thank-you note to the former Commander in Chief, George W. Bush, won't you Joe? You know, the guy that you and your bossed trashed for sending American troops to liberate the Iraqi people?
Joe Biden and Michelle Obama please leave our country for good asap thank you very much.
......Thank you RAC for sending this to me.
RAC has a website that is awesome. 336th Assault Helicopter Company
13th Combat Aviation Battalion - 1st Aviation Brigade - Soc Trang, Republic of Vietnam
Posted by Wild Thing at July 6, 2009 07:55 AM
Comments
Keep talking Joe. As long as Biden and Michelle obama keep making off the cuff remarks and Hussein obama is umbilical corded to his teleprompter, we have lots verbal reasons for Americans to gradually wake up to the inept POTUS and administration they voted for. Biden is a goofy laugh a minute as he talks. What a dolt.
Posted by: TomR at July 6, 2009 10:37 AM
Corny? What is he--Hee Haw now? It's not corny to be patriotic. The more he opens his mouth, the more I know he was picked because he is the dumbest man on the planet and to impeach Obama for not being a citizen of the US, we will never do because Buttplug Biden would be in charge. Even Homer Simpson is smarter!
Posted by: Lynn at July 6, 2009 01:50 PM
For God's sake Biden speak up!!! If Bush was the "cowboy" Joe, what are you, Obama's Klondike?
Hot damn great news just flashed across the screen at FOX, old lizard dick himself has just died, how many Americans did he kill? I'm off to the kitchen for a celebratory drink. Good things come in threes, got my fingers and toes crossed, Carter and Ramsey Clark for instance. Rot In Hell MCNamara. As for the Klondike above, make it a threesome O Merciful God.
Posted by: Jack at July 6, 2009 02:02 PM
Could we be that lucky ?
Biden is Asshole, 100 % AH. He even had to embarass his own son. Eh...maybe not the apple don't fall far from the tree.
Posted by: Mark at July 6, 2009 02:31 PM
Tom, I hope our troops know what an idiot
he is so he does not make them feel badly
with his stupid comments.
Posted by: Wild Thing at July 6, 2009 11:48 PM
Lynn, hahaha good one.
Posted by: Wild Thing at July 6, 2009 11:48 PM
Jack, thanks for the information.
What a horrible person!!!!
Posted by: Wild Thing at July 6, 2009 11:50 PM
Mark, sheesh, he can't even be careful in
front of his own son.
Posted by: Wild Thing at July 6, 2009 11:51 PM
