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Biden Reveals Location of Secret VP Bunker
Hugh Pickens writes "Fox News reports that 'Vice President Joe Biden, well-known for his verbal gaffes, may have finally outdone himself, divulging potentially classified information meant to save the life of a sitting vice president.' According to the report, while recently attending the Gridiron Club dinner in Washington, an annual event where powerful politicians and media elite get a chance to cozy up to one another, Biden told his dinnermates about the existence of a secret bunker under the old US Naval Observatory, which is now the home of the vice president. Although earlier reports had placed the Vice-Presidential hide-out in a highly secure complex of buildings inside Raven Rock Mountain near Blue Ridge Summit, Pennsylvania, Fox News reports that the Naval Observatory bunker is believed to be the secure, undisclosed location former Vice President Dick Cheney remained under protection in secret after the 9/11 attacks. According to the report, Biden 'said a young naval officer giving him a tour of the residence showed him the hideaway, which is behind a massive steel door secured by an elaborate lock with a narrow connecting hallway lined with shelves filled with communications equipment.' According to Eleanor Clift, Newsweek magazine's Washington contributing editor 'the officer explained that when Cheney was in lock down, this was where his most trusted aides were stationed, an image that Biden conveyed in a way that suggested we shouldn't be surprised that the policies that emerged were off the wall.' In December 2002, neighbors complained of loud construction work being done at the Naval Observatory, which has been used as a residence by vice presidents since 1974. The upset neighbors were sent a letter by the observatory's superintendent, calling the work 'sensitive in nature' and 'classified' and that it was urgent it be completed on a highly accelerated schedule."
"Tricky Dick" has been used, and it certainly doesn't fit this guy.
"What a fucking moron" fits, but it is too generic. You could be referring to almost everyone in the Federal government.
"Dopey" might be a nice fit. Maybe we can get Disney to sue him for copyright violation.
Suggestions?
Learning HOW to think is more important than learning WHAT to think.
I'm wondering when he'll give away something that actually matters.
I suspect it will matter to HIM if we're attacked again and he has to hide in a now disclosed location.
But maybe this is just part of Obama's "open and transparent government."
If you've never been modded as "flamebait" or "troll," you've never tried to argue a minority viewpoint here!
Plus, do you really think Sarah Palin would've been a better Veep than Biden? She probably would've tried to convince us to move the VP secret hideout to Wasilla, Alaska, because, you know, she can see Russia from there.
I seriously hope you were being sarcastic. I only bring it up not just because of your post, but because so many people actually believe that Sarah Palin actually said that when it was actually Tina Fey. Still, it's another fine example of, "if you repeat a lie often enough, it becomes true."
There is no "I disagree" mod for a reason. Flamebait, Troll, and Overrated are not substitutes.
Plame being a CIA agent was an open secret. Also, leaking her name was — whether legal or illegal — a deliberate act. Whoever did it, knew, what they were doing. On contrast, Biden did not mean to reveal the secret. He simply has demonstrated himself to be a fool again, who does not know, what he is doing or saying... His plagiarist prime is decades behind him — he is simply an old fool now, whose mind has long deteriorated either from health decline or just arrogance...
Its been clear since the vice-presidential debates last fall, that having Sarah Palin be "within heartbeat from presidency" would've been a lot safer for the US and the world... But hey, how much was spent on her clothing was deemed more important, than the giant errors in his foreign policy "experience" and other problems.
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
Judging from your statement, I'd assume the question "Do you bother reading ANYTHING" is better directed at you.
Do a search of the news circa 2006 re armitage and novak. See who the leaker really was and then look deep inside yourself and ask why you help perpetuation is false meme.
Still, it's another fine example of, "if you repeat a lie often enough, it becomes true."
Also known as "The Republican Campaign Platform, 1996-2024":
Reagan was a good president!
9/11 changed everything!
The following things are not torture: Beating someone (to death), waterboarding someone (to death), anally raping a boy in front of his parents, hanging someone upside down from the ceiling / walls via cords and hooks (until they lose limbs), putting someone in a 3' box/cage for weeks at a time, throwing poisonous insects and animals inside said cage, preventing someone from sleeping for weeks at a time...
It's still not torture, and it works, so that means it's vital that you let us keep doing this not-torture!
Ok, so it's torture, and it doesn't work, but it'd harm our CIA operatives if you investigate it!
We told Congress all about the Torture, so it's ok!
We actually got viable intel from torture, so it's ok!
It was all to prevent a smoking bomb, and totally NOT to try and get fake intel linking Iraq and Al Qaeda!
Iraq had something, anything to do with 9/11!
Saudi Arabia didn't have anything to do with 9/11!
It's not illegal if the president's lawyers say it isn't!
The Geneva Convention is not binding United States Law!
They're not prisoners of war, so the Geneva Convention doesn't apply!
You're either with [Bush] or against [The US]!
We're compassionate conservatives!
The United States is a Christian Nation!
We're the party of fiscal responsibility!
We're the party of family values!
We're the party of national security!
The estate tax isn't fair!
Obama's going to raise your taxes!
Teh GAYS are coming to steal yer marriages!!!!11
Did I miss anything? I'm not fully up to date on my Republican Talking Point lies lately, frankly ever since the election it's been just... too sad to bother giving them any attention.
I'm sorry man, but Sarah Palin was a terrible choice for VP. She was an obvious appeal to the conservative base, and an attempt to grab the female vote after Obama *didn't* choose Hillary as his running mate.
The woman has almost no political experience to speak of (the population of her entire state is less than many cities in the US--giving her command over fewer citizens than numerous mayors). This wouldn't have been a problem if her presidential candidate wasn't moderately likely to die during his term, but you had to realize when voting for the team that you were basically voting someone with no experience into the white house
And to top it off, she had a really unfortunate intersection of personal beliefs and personal circumstances. She doesn't believe in abortion, and she supports abstinence-only sex education, despite statistics that disagreed about its effectiveness. Combine that with the fact that her own daughter is a shining beacon of what abstinence-only education is more likely to cause, and there was a recipe for disaster.
McCain basically gave Obama the election. If he'd wanted to make it a race, he should've selected Ron Paul as his VP candidate. I'm not even a huge RP fan, but even I would've had to think twice about who I was voting for if he had.
I currently have no clever signature witicism to add here.