“Look what’s going on in Venezuela right now, what are we doing? Being irresponsible,” Biden said.
“I’m the guy that put together the plan in Colombia, straightening that government out for a long while. Now what’s happening? Millions of people are crossing the border and destabilizing Bolivia. Already destabilizing the Amazon, but, you know, Brazil. Dealing with what’s going on in Colombia.”
“Look what’s going on in Venezuela right now…
Millions of people are crossing the border destabilizing Bolivia.”
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@JoeBiden
Bolivia does not share a border with Venezuela, the two are separated by 700 miles of the Amazon rainforest.
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— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer)
January 10, 2020
The gaffe is Biden’s second major geo-political miscue in recent days. Last week, he confused
Iran and Iraq in speaking about the Iraqi parliament’s decision to boot American troops form the conflict-plagued nation.
Even a liberal columnist like the Washington Post’s
Dana Milbank, many gaffes ago, recorded some of his favorite Biden-isms. “He confused ‘Margaret Thatcher’ with Theresa May and Angela Merkel, referred to the Second Amendment as the First, tripled the number of casualties of the 1970 Kent State shooting and mixed up his campaign website with a text-message code. At the Iowa State Fair, he thundered: ‘We choose truth over facts!'” Milbank wrote.
“Biden once said to a paralyzed man in a wheelchair: ‘Stand up, Chuck.’ He mourned one woman (‘God rest her soul’) who hadn’t died. He described Obama as ‘the first mainstream African American who is articulate and bright and clean.’
“He disclosed that Franklin D. Roosevelt went on television in 1929, before TV existed. He predicted that if Obama were elected, ‘we’re going to have an international crisis.’ He declared that Hillary Clinton ‘might have been a better pick than me’ for vice president. He reported that ‘you cannot go to a 7-Eleven . . . unless you have a slight Indian accent.’ He frankly told one audience: ‘You all look dull as hell,'” Milbank wrote.
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