Just for a moment, I want to take a little trip back in time to the 2007 Iowa Republican Presidential Debate. It was there that Mitt Romney made the following statement about a certain democratic senator from Illinois. A statement which, in hindsight, could only be described as prescient.

Hell, downright clairvoyant:

I mean, in one week he went from saying he’s going to sit down, you know, for tea, with our enemies, but then he’s going to bomb our allies. He’s gone from Jane Fonda to Dr. Strangelove in one week.

Boy, Mittens sure had his finger on the pulse of that one! Really. I mean who — except, Romney, obviously — would ever have imagined that candidate Obama would go on to:

1. be America’s first black president
2. win the Nobel Peace Prize, and then
3. turn around and boost government spending on nuclear weapons?

Not me. And probably not those folks on the Nobel Peace Prize committee either. But that’s just a guess.

In his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, the President was unequivocal about his stance on nukes:

In the middle of the last century, nations agreed to be bound by a treaty whose bargain is clear: all will have access to peaceful nuclear power; those without nuclear weapons will forsake them; and those with nuclear weapons will work toward disarmament. I am committed to upholding this treaty. It is a centerpiece of my foreign policy. And I am working with President Medvedev to reduce America and Russia’s nuclear stockpiles.

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Poor Joe. Everybody keeps deriding the hapless old guy for a few lapses in memory. But come on — if you had a case of verbal diarrhea that began to rival the one Biden seems to be afflicted with, could you even begin to remember all the things you said?

I mean, really. No one has a memory like that.

Except, well, the press. Yeeeah. The press tends to keep track of all those embarrassing little contradictory statements. ‘Cause, you know, they record them.

That little habit might explain why Peter Roff of U.S. News & World Report was so quick to slam a statement Biden made at a Florida fundraiser on Sunday. Ol’ Joe was yapping about the Republicans’ disgraceful use of the filibuster. And guess what? Said yapping stands in direct opposition to a few other things Biden said once (or twice) long, long ago (or in 2005).

Let’s take a look, shall we? Just for old time’s sake?

This is how Politico quoted Biden on Sunday:

As long as I have served, I’ve never seen, as my uncle once said, the Constitution stood on its head as they’ve done. This is the first time every single solitary decision has required 60 senators … No democracy has survived needing a supermajority.

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