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Human
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Joe
Biden’s China Walkback
Don’t let him out in public if you’re
not ready to stand by what he says.
by John Hayward
08/24/2011
Vice
President Joe Biden’s office is
making one of the most desperate and hilarious walkback attempts in
recent
history, claiming that his remarks in support of China’s forced
abortion policy
actually meant the exact opposite of what he actually said. From a Fox News report:
“The
Obama administration strongly
opposes all aspects of China’s coercive birth limitation policies,
including
forced abortion and sterilization,” Biden spokeswoman Kendra Barkoff
said in a
statement late Tuesday.
“The
vice president believes such
practices are repugnant. He also pointed out, in China, that the policy
is, as
a practical matter, unsustainable. He was arguing against the one-child
policy
to a Chinese audience,” Barkoff added.
Here’s
what Biden said in his address
to Sichuan University:
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. The result being that
you’re in a position
where one wage earner will be taking care of four retired people. Not sustainable.
So
hopefully we can act in a way on a
problem that’s much less severe than yours, and maybe we can learn
together
from how we can do that.
But
in the meantime, the concern that
we will not make good on the investments that people have made - in
your case
up to $1.7 trillion total out of a very large economy is not to worry
about. We could not
afford - we could
not afford not to make good on that requirement.
So
something Biden “fully understands”
and is “not second-guessing” is actually “repugnant.”
Even by the tricksy “as I have always said”
straw-man standards of the Obama Administration, that’s some Category 5
spin.
From
this defense, we may draw only
one of three logical conclusions:
1.
Joe Biden has a very weak grasp of
the English language, and does not understand the meaning of phrases
like
“second guessing” or “repugnant.”
2.
The Obama Administration is
composed of craven moral cowards, afraid to openly tell the Chinese
government
how “repugnant” they find its population control policies.
3.
The Obama Administration actually
has no great problem with China’s abortion policies, but finds it
necessary to
lie to domestic audiences and claim they see it as “repugnant,” to
suppress
public outrage.
None
of those three possibilities is
pretty. If the
Administration isn’t
prepared to stand by what Joe Biden says, they shouldn’t let him out in
public,
much less send him on an important diplomatic mission to one of Uncle
Sam’s
biggest creditors.
Read
it at Human Events
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