Biden’s “experience . . . impressive!!
In response some pre-VP-debate trash talk from Sean Braisted, I was reminded of a splendid analysis (here) of Joe Biden’s much-ballyhooed (by the Left) foreign policy “experience.” The conclusion any objective observer would reach after reading Andy McCarthy’s extensive report, is summed up in this sentence:
For all Biden’s twaddle about doctrines and concepts, there is a simple technique for divining this foreign-policy solon’s bobs and weaves: Consult the polls and the calendar.
We’ll have to wait and see if any “foreign policy” questions during the debate go beyond, “how many years have you been sitting in on foreign policy discussions?”
As Thomas Sowell asserts in a recent op/ed“experience”:
[Biden] has had a front-row seat as an observer of foreign policy. But Senator Biden has never had any real experience of making foreign policy and taking the consequences of the results.The difference between being a spectator and being a participant, with responsibility for the consequences of what you say and do, is fundamental./blockquote>You ought to read the whole article. And feel free to attempt a rebuttal.
In response some pre-VP-debate trash talk from Sean Braisted,
Sadly, according to Sharon Cobb, those under 25 years of age do not have fully formed brains. So the “brainstem”, isn’t quite mature enough yet to be an oracle, according to some.
When I was 25 I had already owned a business. Must have been ahead of the liberal curve. Liberalism, why waste a young mind?
According to your definition only the president has “foreign policy experience” since he is the only one who directly “makes foreign policy.” And actually, THAT’s not true either, since the President often doesn’t have to live with the result. If you’re a soldier you have to live with the result of the foreign policy, but you don’t make it. So if you define it right, I guess no one has foreign policy experience of the type you seek.
Sure a president has to live with his/her decisions, and you probably ought to read Sowell’s entire article rather than rely on this excerpt. This paragraph simply emphasizes that “experience”–as Liberals are choosing to define it at this historical juncture, can be pretty hollow or inconsequential.
But the McCarthy article is the meat of the criticism of Biden’s “experience” . . . in sum, it is long on spectating, and short on credibility.
BTW, Sowell points out that Secretaries of State are an example of persons who would have relevant “foreign policy experience.”