Iran may be trying to get nukes, but President Obama is the one with the biggest missile.
Blunder-prone Vice President Joe Biden delivered a bizarre foreign policy speech at NYU today in which he made a joke by bringing up up an old Teddy Roosevelt quote, saying Obama has “a big stick.”
“Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far,” said Biden in regards to Obama’s stance on Iran. “I promise you, the president has a big stick. I promise you.”
The crowd erupted into snickers and laughter.
In another instance, Biden also praised the president’s decision to order the raid on bin Laden’s Pakistan compound, calling it “one of the most courageous decisions I have seen in my lifetime.”
“This guy’s got a backbone like a ramrod,” he added.
During the the speech, Biden laid out a defense of the president’s foreign policy accomplishments, such as his withdrawal of US forces from Iraq, “smart and tough” diplomacy with Iran and the killing of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.
The event marked Biden’s fifth in a series of speeches laying out the administration’s views on key issues of the day.
The vice president repeatedly assailed Mitt Romney, accusing him of being “mired in a Cold War mindset.”
“Governor Romney’s national security policy would return us to a past we have worked so hard to move beyond,” he told the audience. “And in this regard, there’s no difference in what Governor Romney has proposed for our economy — taking us back to the failed policies that got us into the mess President Obama has dug us out of.”
He also accused Romney of trying to play up differences between the two parties on dealing with the Iranian nuclear threat.
“He says we need crippling sanctions, apparently unaware that under President Obama’s leadership, we have done just that,” Biden said.
He added that Romney’s tough talk on Iran was “just talk,” and “counterproductive talk” at that, saying the Republican nominee should explain or justify why he thinks an attack on the Islamic regime is necessary.
Prior to Biden’s speech, the Romney campaign hosted a conference call in which his foreign policy advisers accused the administration of not taking a tough enough line with Iran.
“The administration has gone out of its way to project that the military option in Iran is off the table,” Romney adviser Dan Senor said. He also accused the administration of having to be “dragged” toward putting sanctions in place.
Biden compared the president’s decision to take out the al Qaeda leader with remarks Romney made in 2007 when he said it was “not worth moving heaven and earth, spending billions of dollars just to catch one person.”
The vice president also declared that the administration has “taken far more terrorists off the battlefield in the last three years than in the previous eight.”
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