Obama Defense Sec Simultaneously Insults the Irish and Throws Biden Under the Bus – Opinion

There was a lot of crazy effort from folks on the left to try to provide some cover for Joe Biden’s big gaffe seemingly pushing regime change as to Vladimir Putin.

We even saw Never Trumper “expert” Tom Nichols get upset with CNN because they finally had a truthful chyron — just quoting what Biden said about Putin.

The White House walked that back, claiming that Biden’s point was that “Putin cannot be allowed to exercise power over his neighbors or the region. He was not discussing Putin’s power in Russia, or regime change.” Then Biden messed that up, saying he wasn’t walking anything back but saying he wasn’t articulating a policy change and making things worse with his confusion.

Perhaps the most shocking take was by Leon Panetta, ex-defense secretary of Obama on Monday. Panetta was able to insult the Irish and also throw Biden under the bus.

“I can understand his emotional feel about Putin not staying in office. That is something I believe a majority of people would agree with. But at this point in the game, you really have to keep your messages very simple and very direct, and I think this created some confusion that wasn’t helpful,” Panetta said during an interview on CNN’s “Newsroom.” “I happen to think that Joe Biden, you know, he’s Irish, really has a great deal of compassion when he sees that people are suffering. And I think it overwhelmed him in the sense of seeing all of the horrors that were resulting from this war.”

“So, you know, from a personal point of view, I understand why he said it. But at the same time, when you’re President of the United States, you just have to be disciplined to make sure you don’t make comments that ultimately have to be clarified by the White House,” Panetta added.

First, that’s some Irish stereotype about being overemotional. Seriously, Leon Panetta? CNN would air 24/7 news coverage about this if it were a Republican. And Biden isn’t Irish, he’s American of Irish descent. But second, if that’s true that Biden just can’t contain himself and his emotions such that it can so hurt national security, then he really shouldn’t be in office. It has nothing to do at the moment with Biden’s Irish heritage and all to do his mental problems.

It should be noted that Panetta was one of the 51 who signed aboard the intel letter claiming that Hunter Biden’s laptop was likely “Russian disinformation” despite them admitting they had no evidence to support that claim. He is responsible for the mess we are in because Biden was in control.

People mocked Panetta’s claim.

New Republic associate editor Matt Ford pointed out how ridiculous this was as an excuse, “Our Irish-descent president simply cannot tame his reckless Celtic passions, claimed the former secretary of defense.”

Tara Reade — who previously leveled sexual allegations against Biden — also didn’t hold back.

Panetta was able to speak one truth. Biden doesn’t have any discipline about what he speaks. That’s an incredibly dangerous thing if he’s allowed to speak representing us on the world stage. Is it possible to go back and have him stay in the basement? Because what he’s doing now is going to walk us into a war.

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