Biden’s Mouth in China: The “Effin’ Big Deal” of a Gift That Just Keeps on Giving (video)
Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on August 25, 2011
Vice President Biden, here meeting a Mongolian wrestler in Ulan Bator while on his Asia goodwill trip, has angered many Americans with his condoning statement's on China's oppressive one-child policy
Vice president Joe Biden, aka White House Gaffe Machine, has been strangely, appreciatively quiet in the press these past months. We’ve had a nearly Biden-gaffe-free summer.
However, Crazy Uncle Joe has returned with a bang.
Biden, the “effin’ big deal” that just keeps on giving.
He told jokes, while on his five-day goodwill mission, in China that no one laughed at, as reported by Reuters:
On Thursday, China’s vice president and likely leader-in-waiting, Xi Jinping, met Biden at the Great Hall of the People.
“Good to see you again,” Xi said. “I know you are very busy with national affairs at home.”
“You ARE national affairs,” Biden told his counterpart from the United States’ largest creditor.
There was another odd quip about hair loss, and then, this one:
“I used to have an important job when I was chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee,” Biden told Wu. “I had a big office, large staff. Then I became vice president.”
Members of the press pool speculated that joke, at least, may have been lost in translation.
Far less funny, and far more disgusting and outrageous, has been the vice president’s condoning remarks that he “fully understands” China’s lack of human rights with the nation’s loathsome one-child-only mandate.
Its repressive birth limitation policies include forced abortion (especially of girl babies) and sterilization of China’s citizens. The coercive policy has been in place for a quarter of a century and doesn’t apply to all of China, only to the Han Chinese. The Han Chinese are the “native Chinese” people and the world’s largest ethnic group — Han Chinese comprise about 92% of the population of the People’s Republic of China. China’s one-child law doesn’t affect citizens living outside of the urban areas.
That the vice president could utter such a statement condoning a totalitarian, immoral policy is obscene.
Columnist and political commentator Charles Krauthammer spoke out against Biden in this interview with Bill O’Reilly.
Reported by George Neumayr at American Spectator:
Joe Biden can always be counted on to blurt out the true views of the left and didn’t disappoint when asked about China’s one-child policy. “Your policy has been one which I fully understand — I am not second-guessing — of one child per family,” said Biden during a university visit in Chengdu. Biden went on to criticize the policy, but only on utilitarian grounds, saying that “you’re in a position where one wage earner will be taking care of four retired people,” which is “not sustainable.”
Biden’s office has now revised and extended his remark. “The Obama administration strongly opposes all aspects of China’s coercive birth limitation policies, including forced abortion and sterilization,” said Biden spokeswoman Kendra Barkoff. “The vice president believes such practices are repugnant.”
From “I fully understand” the practice to considering it “repugnant” would seem to require more of an explanation. What makes it repugnant? That it involves poor planning for the care of seniors? The truth is that the left does “fully understand” the policy, especially since it played such a large role in spreading overpopulation fears to China in the 1970s that gave rise to the policy. Even today members of the Planned Parenthood crowd support China’s one-child policy.
From Maggie’s Notebook, Obama Biden Abortion Mentality: Understanding China, Tapping My Wallet:
Just thinking about the blow-back from Joe Biden saying he ‘understood’ China’s one-child policy. In China, mothers are often forced to abort after her first child is born. The thing to remember is, the idea of abortion is not troublesome to the Obama administration. They are all committed supporters of abortion.
From NewsBusters, NY Times Virtually Ignores Biden Condoning China’s One-Child Policy:
Vice President Joe Biden’s defense of China’s one-child policy has yet to be mentioned in the print edition of the New York Times, even though the paper has devoted several stories to Biden’s Asia trip.
Edward Wong on Monday quoted Biden’s remarks on human rights from a Q&A session at Sichuan University, but overlooked the vice president’s stunning comment on China’s policy of population control, which has resulted in forced abortion and sterilization: “You have no safety net. Your policy has been one which I fully understand — I’m not second-guessing — of one child per family. The result being that you’re in a position where one wage earner will be taking care of four retired people. Not sustainable.”
Despite the Times blackout, the quotes gained circulation, forcing Biden to backtrack. On Tuesday The Daily Caller reported his spokesman’s spin that the vice president was actually criticizing China’s policy: “He was arguing against the One Child Policy to a Chinese audience.”
The only Times mention of Biden’s remarks that Times Watch could find was a post on the paper’s “Caucus” blog Tuesday afternoon, when Republican candidate Mitt Romney attacked Biden for the remarks. But it didn’t make it into the paper on Wednesday. By contrast, Parker’s Monday afternoon post on the “Caucus” portraying Romney as hypocritical for expanding a seaside home made it into Tuesday’s print edition.
From NewsMax, Biden Retracts China Comment That Angered Abortion Foes:
Vice President Joe Biden traveled all the way to China on a goodwill mission, and ended up getting into a fight with abortion foes back home for sympathizing with the communist country’s one-child policy. The blowback prompted the vice president to retract his comments.
Concerned Women for America said, “Vice President Biden’s approval of China’s one-child policy, which uses forced abortion to enforce the law, crosses the lines of ignorant and wrong,” NPR’s It’s All Politics blog reported.
Biden’s comments came in response to a question about China’s holding $1 trillion in U.S. debt. The vice president, perhaps seeking common ground, explained that the United States and China share a problem in that there are fewer workers to support an aging population.
“But as I was talking to some of your leaders, you share a similar concern here in China. You have no safety net. Your policy has been one which I fully understand — I’m not second-guessing — of one child per family,” he said. “The result being that you’re in a position where one wage earner will be taking care of four retired people. Not sustainable.”
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney called the one-child policy “gruesome and barbaric” and said Biden should have condemned it, according to The Washington Post.
From Ed Morrissey at Hot Air, So much for “pro-choice”:
Yesterday, Joe Biden’s office tried walking back his stunning, toadying remarks on China’s one-child policy by claiming, as Allahpundit wrote, that he actually meant the exact opposite of his remarks. His remarks were clear enough to give comfort and support to a regime that forcibly aborts children and sterilizes women to support their Malthusian policies, as I argue in my column for The Week today. Biden and Barack Obama proudly campaigned on a pro-choice platform in 2008, but the China policy that Biden professes to “fully understand” allows no choice at all in the most intimate of human interactions.
On the importance of public speaking and speaking succinctly, Biden took 68 words to make his point.
Biden Pays Tribute to Brevity — In 68-Word Sentence
From Doug Powers @ Michelle Malkin’s blog, In China, Joe Biden Shared His Secrets to Succinct Communication:
From Terry Jeffrey at CNS News, here’s the meat of Biden’s summing up of the importance of brevity and clarity in public speaking:
“And so language, the ability not only to master the ability to put your ideas into words succinctly on a platform to communicate ideas to your own people, it is even more impressive when you have the capacity to do that and communicate your ideas, especially as future business and political and moral leaders of the world in the language of the people to whom you are speaking.”
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Another secret Biden shared with the Chinese leadership is that, in the American vocabulary, “fully understand” and “I’m not second guessing” translates to “I find it repugnant.” No wonder English is such a tough language to learn.
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