The Issue: Vice President Joe Biden’s reference to fiscal conservatives in the Tea Party as “terrorists.”
Motor-mouth Vice President Joe Biden did it again, referring to his adversaries as “terrorists” (“Biden’s Big Mouth,” Editorial, Aug. 2).
This is the same guy who, along with the rest of the White House and left-wing Democrats, refuses to even utter the word “terrorist” about the Islamic extremists who have attacked and continue to attack the United States.
Can you imagine the outcry from much of the media if a Republican used that term to describe his adversaries? Biden should not get a pass on this.
Walter Murray
Clearwater, Fla.
The Post cleverly points out the irony and hypocrisy in Biden referring to Tea Party people as terrorists while his party has balked at using the term to describe bona fide killers of innocent women and children.
Biden should have instead used the term coined by Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, and called those troublesome members of Congress “man-caused disasters.”
Jim Soviero
E. Setauket
Biden’s statement is just the beginning.
As President Obama’s numbers drop and his re-election looks uncertain, he and his staff will really resort to calling Republicans names.
That’s the way they operate — like whining babies. R. Smith
Brooklyn
Obama’s debt-crisis performance was Amateur Night in Washington, and he deserves to be pulled off the world stage in 2012.
And Biden, a Grade Z performer, never fails to use outrageous material that has no relationship to fact.
I cringed when he used the F-word on national television, and I cry for my country when a sitting vice president labels mainstream Americans “terrorists” because he doesn’t agree with them.
Patricia O’Hanlon
The Bronx
Biden calls Tea Party members terrorists, but it is in fact the White House that was employing terroristic techniques by warning of a fictional doomsday when the government would shut down and no Social Security checks would be issued.
B. Bovasso
Saugerties
Let me tell you something, Mr. Vice President: I’m no terrorist, but, unlike you, my family knows the horrors and devastation of terrorism far too intimately.
How dare you compare mass murderers sworn to destroy our country to regular Americans who are so committed to restoring our greatness that they are willing to endure this kind of treatment from the likes of you?
Biden’s statement confirms that he has no understanding of who Americans are. Nor does he understand what terrorism really is and how it affects the very Americans he has been elected to serve — and who he so flippantly dismisses.
Joseph Connor
Glen Rock, NJ
I read with interest your outstanding editorial “Biden’s Big Mouth.”
Our vice president continues to use intemperate language when it comes to describing political opponents.
As your editorial notes, Biden erroneously alleged that Tea Party Republicans resemble terrorists.
He further maintained the Republicans held “guns to [Democratic] heads during negotiations.”
Sadly, it seems that Biden is incapable of conducting a meaningful dialogue on any major political issue where honest and sincere people have fundamental differences about their deeply-held beliefs.
Thomas Dennelly
Sayville
With the $2,200 he gets from taxpayers every month for housing his Secret Service detail, Biden might be able to afford a dictionary.
First, he should look up the definition of “chutzpah.”
Second, there is a better word to describe people who still believe in the values that have always defined our beloved country. They aren’t terrorists; they’re called “patriots.”
David Rosenberg
Monticello