‘I want your point of view, Joe,’ Barack Obama once told his vice-president Joe Biden. ‘I just want it in ten-minute increments, not 60-minute increments.’
Obama understood Biden’s biggest flaw – his mouth runs away with him. He’s a verbal firebomb always threatening to go off.
Last night, oops Biden did it again. As he rounded off his fiery speech in Poland against Vladimir Putin and autocracy, he concluded: ‘For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power.’
The onset of senility had reduced the dangerousness of Biden’s loquacity
The White House, in what is now a familiar routine, issued a quick clarification. The President was not demanding ‘regime change’ in Moscow. It just sounded a lot like he did. ‘The President’s point was that Putin cannot be allowed to exercise power over his neighbours or the region,’ said the statement. Ah.
Yet this was Biden’s third potentially world war three-triggering blunder in as many days.
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