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> BIDEN SECRET SERVICE CODE NAME: 'ASSASSINATION INSURANCE'
> by Ann Coulter
> October 1, 2008
>
> While Gov. Sarah Palin is being grilled on her position on mark-to-
> market
> accounting rules, the press can't bother to ask Joe Biden if he
> could give
> us a ballpark estimate on when Franklin D. Roosevelt was president
> -- or
> maybe take a stab at guessing the decade when televisions were first
> available to the public.
>
> Being interviewed by Katie Couric on the "CBS Evening News," Biden
> said:
> "When the stock market crashed, Franklin D. Roosevelt got on the
> television
> and didn't just talk about the, you know, the princes of greed. He
> said,
> 'Look, here's what happened.'"
>
> For those of you who aren't hard-core history buffs, Biden not only
> named
> the wrong president during the 1929 stock market crash, he also
> claimed a
> president who wasn't president during the stock market crash went on
> TV
> before Americans had TVs.
>
> Other than that, the statement holds up pretty well. At least Biden
> managed
> to avoid mentioning any "clean" Negroes he had met.
>
> Couric was nearly moved to tears by the brilliance of Biden's brain-
> damaged
> remark. She was especially intrigued by Biden's claim that FDR had
> said the
> new iPhone was the bomb!
>
> Here is Couric's full response to Biden's bizarre outburst about FDR
> (a)
> being president and (b) going on TV in 1929: "Relating to the fears
> of the
> average American is one of Biden's strong suits."
>
> But when our beauteous Sarah said that John McCain was a better
> leader on
> the economy than Barack Obama, Couric relentlessly badgered her for
> evidence. "Why do you say that?" Couric demanded. "Why are they
> waiting for
> John McCain and not Barack Obama? ... Can you give us any more
> examples of
> his leading the charge for more oversight?"
>
> The beauteous Sarah had cited McCain's prescient warnings about
> Fannie Mae
> and Freddie Mac. But Couric, the crackerjack journalist who didn't
> know FDR
> wasn't president in 1929, demanded more examples from Palin.
>
> We are currently in the middle of a massive financial crisis brought
> on by
> Fannie Mae. McCain was right on Fannie Mae; Obama was wrong. That's
> not
> enough?
>
> Not for the affable Eva Braun of evening TV! "I'm just going to ask
> you one
> more time," Couric snipped, "not to belabor the point. Specific
> examples in
> his 26 years of pushing for more regulation?"
>
> This would be like responding to someone who predicted the 9/11
> attacks by
> saying: OK, you got one thing right. Not to belabor the point, but
> what
> else?
>
> Obama was not merely wrong on Fannie Mae: He is owned by Fannie Mae.
> Somehow Obama managed to become the second biggest all-time
> recipient of
> Fannie Mae political money after only three years in the Senate. The
> biggest beneficiary, Democratic Sen. Chris Dodd, had a 30-year head
> start
> on receiving loot from Fannie Mae -- the government-backed institution
> behind our current crisis.
>
> How does the Democratic ticket stack up on other major issues facing
> the
> nation, say, gas prices?
>
> Shockingly, Sen. Joe Biden was one of only five senators to vote
> against
> the first Alaskan pipeline bill in 1973. This is like having been a
> Nazi
> sympathizer during World War II. If Sarah Palin does nothing else,
> she has
> got to tie that idiotic pipeline vote around Biden's neck.
>
> The Senate passed the 1973 Alaskan pipeline bill by an overwhelming
> 80-5
> vote. Only five senators voted against the pipeline on final
> passage. Sen.
> Biden is the only one who is still in the Senate -- the other four
> having
> been confined to mental institutions long ago.
>
> The stakes were clear: This was in the midst of the first Arab oil
> embargo.
> Liberal Democrats, such as senators Robert Byrd, Mike Mansfield, Frank
> Church and Hubert Humphrey, all voted for the pipeline.
>
> But Biden cast one of only five votes against the pipeline that has
> produced more than 15 billion barrels of oil, supplied nearly 20
> percent of
> this nation's oil, created tens of thousands of jobs, added hundreds
> of
> billions of dollars to the U.S. economy and reduced money transfers
> to the
> nation's enemies by about the same amount.
>
> The only argument against the pipeline was that it would harm the
> caribou,
> an argument that was both trivial and wrong. The caribou population
> near
> the pipeline increased from 5,000 in the 1970s to 32,000 by 2002.
>
> It would have been bad enough to vote against the pipeline bill even
> if it
> had hurt the caribou. A sane person would still say: Our enemies
> have us in
> a vice grip. Sorry, caribou, you've got to take one for the team.
> But when
> the pipeline goes through and the caribou population sextuples in
> the next
> 20 years, you really look like a moron.
>
> We couldn't possibly expect Couric to ask Biden about a vote that is
> the
> equivalent of voting against the invention of the wheel. But
> couldn't she
> have come up with just one follow-up question for Biden on FDR's
> magnificent handling of the 1929 stock market crash?
>
> Or here's a question the public is dying to know: "If Obama wanted a
> historically delusional vice president, why not Lyndon LaRouche?" At
> least
> LaRouche didn't vote against the Alaskan pipeline.