BIDEN ANNOUNCES, AND WE WAIT FOR THE RETRACTION – AT 8:33 A.M. ET:  The White House is keenly aware that the nation's remaining liberals, all 12 of them, are seriously disappointed in the Obama administration.  One source of their disappointment – we are still in Afghanistan. 

The decadent Democratic left, whose members haven't bought a calendar since the early 1970s, dreams of another Vietnam, and an ignominious American collapse.  Now Joe Biden is trying to soften their anger, as Fox reports:

WASHINGTON -- Despite uneven progress in Afghanistan, Vice President Joe Biden said next summer's planned withdrawal would be more than a token reduction and that the U.S. would be out of the country by 2014 "come hell or high water."

And we can hear the cheering from the lovely caves of Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Biden's prediction appeared to go further than statements by his boss, President Barack Obama, who just last month said there would be a reduced U.S. footprint in Afghanistan by 2014 but that the number of troops that would remain was still in question.

Obama has discussed maintaining a counterterrorism capability in Afghanistan after 2014. As recently as Dec. 16, he said the U.S. and its NATO allies would have an enduring presence there after 2014, although the details of that were unclear.

You know, it's really very important that Joe Biden get a copy of every Obama statement, with the key points underlined.  Or, maybe a reader can be sent to Joe every morning to read him the latest news.  He seems a bit out of the loop.

The Obama administration has said repeatedly that July would mark the beginning of the troop withdrawals and that their size would depend on military conditions.

"We're starting it in July of 2011, and we're going to be totally out of there, come hell or high water, by 2014," Biden told NBC's "Meet the Press" in an interview broadcast Sunday.

Biden will probably pull a Clinton and now say that it depends on the definition of "hell" and maybe "high water" as well.  Reasonable people can differ.

Maybe the Obamans should get smart and realize the next election will not be decided by how Michael Moore or Code Pink vote. 

December 20, 2010