Vice-President Joe Biden’s verbal gaffes may be considered par for the course, may often be dismissed as “amusing”, but the man now proves himself to be not only abhorrently ignorant but dangerous.
At the annual Gridiron Club dinner in Washington, Biden decided it was quite all right to use classified security information to amuse his tablemates. Eleanor Clift, Newsweek’s contributing Washington editor, aka left-wing media gossipmonger, was quick to pass on that Biden decided to talk about the “secret bunker” under the old U.S. Naval Observatory. The old U.S. Naval Observatory is, of course, the home of the Vice-President.
Ms. Clift is quoted as saying Biden told them, “… a young naval officer giving him a tour of the residence showed him the hideaway, which is behind a massive steel door secured by an elaborate lock with a narrow connecting hallway lined with shelves filled with communications equipment. The officer explained that when Cheney was in lock down, this was where his most trusted aides were stationed, an image that Biden conveyed in a way that suggested we shouldn’t be surprised that the policies that emerged were off the wall.”
This refers, of course, to the days after 9/11.
Since the Vice-President is second in line to the Presidency, it is quite proper that their well-being is secured in times of a national emergency, such as during the terrorist attacks of 9/11. Does Biden not understand that it’s HIS sorry ass that bunker is intended to protect, should the President’s strange and untenable foreign and domestic policies open up the United States to such a horrible thing again?
If he finds relaying classified security information the only worthwhile means by which to criticize the policies of his predecessors, perhaps the combination should be changed on the bunker’s “elaborate lock”.
The only problem is that the loss of both Obama and Biden would put Pelosi in charge, since the Speaker of the House is third in line to the Presidency. And I’m not sure which thought sickens me more – that possible terrorists now have a confirmed target at which to aim, or Pelosi sitting in the Oval Office as President of the United States.