Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on July 6, 2009

Joe Biden. What a scary, ignorant chuckle head… and a non-patriotic buffoon to boot. Faking patriotism isn’t as easy as it may appear.

It would be easy to ignore you, Joe, and your dependable diarrhea of the mouth whenever in front of a mic if only you weren’t second in line to run this country. Carrot Top or Bozo the Clown would be better alternatives… any middle-aged stooge found hanging around outside a Los Angeles comedy club could do no worse than you have since January 20.

Ben Franklin once wryly observed, “Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don’t have brains enough to be honest.” Franklin’s right-on advice has been lost on our dithering vice president.

On Biden’s latest stupid gaffe in Iraq: An excellent piece by Ned Rice on Big Hollywood: Questioning Joe Biden’s ‘Corny’ Patriotism; here’s an excerpt:

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…

Now compare Biden’s quip to this quote from American founding father John Hancock… notice the lack of apology for being a patriotic American:

We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these united Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States, that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. — And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.

And now from former President Theodore Roosevelt, clearing up that misunderstanding that Obama worshippers have about, well, worshipping Obama:

Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the President or any other public official save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. …Every man who parrots the cry of "stand by the President" without adding the proviso "so far as he serves the Republic" takes an attitude as essentially unmanly as that of any Stuart royalist who championed the doctrine that the King could do no wrong. No self-respecting and intelligent free man could take such an attitude.

Excellent commentary by Joseph C. Phillips, Big Hollywood: Why Do You Love America? Here’s a portion:

…But it is not what we have in America that continues to lure people across our borders, it is what we believe.

Americans are the most idealistic people on the planet. By that I do not mean a belief in some squishy utopianism. I mean that Americans are still committed to making real the ideals articulated in the principles of our founding.

It’s a shame that some American children are being taught to despise their country; that is folly for which their parents will have to answer in the future. They are, however, decidedly in the minority. Most Americans love America not because she is perfect but because most Americans esteem liberty, believe in the promise of equality and maintain a regard for private property…

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The Other McCain: ‘Questions that any sane person would ask’
Curtis Lowe: Why Don’t You Just Give Them The Nuke Codes, Joe?
This Ain’t Hell: MoveOn and Acorn Meet Patriots
Fire Andrea Mitchell!: Joe Biden thinks its “corny” to be proud to be an American
Pam Meister, Big Hollywood: Mellencamp: First Amendment More of a ‘Collective’ Thing
Hot Air: Obamateurism of the Day (Joe Biden) and Who put Joe in charge of the lights?
Greg Gutfeld, Big Hollywood: Daily Gut: America Ranks 114th on the ‘Happy Planet Index’
Jeremy D. Boreing, Big Hollywood: Encroaching Government Ensures We’re Not Free
Hot Air Green Room: Chuck Schumer is better than you…
Big Hollywood: James Cameron’s ‘Avatar’ Slams America
Braincast: Figures. Obama Gives Bumbling Joe Biden Iraq Assignment
Leo Grin, Big Hollywood: NBC: National Broadcasters Against Conservatives
Frugal Café Blog Zone: Patriotism, Flag Burning, Right to Bear Arms: Penn & Teller (Video) and Alaska’s Sarah Palin Huge Hit in Small New York Town: Crowd of 20,000 Excited to See Palin and Obama’s Presidency: 128 Days Later: It Can Always Get Worse (video) and Crazy Joe Biden and His 334th Gaffe While Vice President… This Time, New Jersey Transit Tunnel
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