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Impeached Prez Speaks to Dems-- Biden Talks Long- Messiah Appears
Gateway Pundit — ... from giving him a top speaking slot in the convention this year. Tonight Bubba addressed the nation. Stephen Green liveblogged at Pajamas Media, via Glenn. It was a nice touch that they played "Addicted to Love" after his talk. Later Joe Biden spoke too long and bashed McCain-- the man he'd be honored to run with. He also confused battalions with brigades. And, the surprise ...

Brigades, Joe - not battalions
QandO — I noticed during Joe Biden’s speech that he got his military units all wrong. It didn’t come as a particular surprise. The Democratic ticket is comprised of two senators with no military experience whatsoever (but 38 years in the Senate - 36 for Biden and 2 for Obama). So when Biden was trying to prop up Obama last night by claiming he was right about Afghanistan, Biden incorrectly claimed it was an additional "2 combat battalions" Obama called for: ...

Obama’s gravitas man confuses military terms
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... Barack Obama added Joe Biden to the ticket to give him some much-needed gravitas on foreign policy and military affairs.  Biden gave an indication of how successful this might be by managing to confuse the terms battalion and brigade in his acceptance speech at the convention last night.  Most amusingly, it came while Biden attempted to argue that it was John McCain who was militarily incompetent: Speaking at the Democratic National Convention about Sen. Barack Obama’s foreign policy judgment, Biden stated that Obama has advocated for two additional battalions in ...

Wed. Night at the Convention Races
The Moderate Voice — ... McCain. (Something which has been totally lacking during the first two nights of the convention.) Personally I thought he could have done even more - where were the mentions of Dick Cheney? Guantanamo? - but his delivery was spot on and hit all the right notes. If Obama was looking for an effective attack dog who could do the job without looking like a scowling, unpleasant Cheney type figure, he may well have found that person in Joe Biden. Yes, there will be those who will try to focus on inconsequential details such as mixing up “brigade” with ...

Iceberg, Goldberg, What's the difference?
COUNTERCOLUMN: All Your Bias Are Belong to Us — Brigade, battalion, what's the difference? More than that, why is someone from the Senate and a nominee for president getting so far down in the weeds that he's arguing operations at the brigade level? Don't we have about a gazillion layers of generals to allocate force structure and assign missions to divisions and separate brigades? Are we going to go back to the days of Lyndon B. Johnson issuing orders directly to captains and battalion commanders from the White House? Now THAT guy knew how to fight a war! Splash, out Jason

Links for 2008-08-28 [del.icio.us]
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog — ... The McCain campaign Wednesday released a memo mockingly titled, “Proper Attire for the Temple of Obama (The Barackopolis),” a reference to the classical stage design in place for his speech. The campaign is already prepared to pull the trigger on ads spun out of the Invesco Field event, perhaps rolling out ads similar to the notorious spot featuring Paris Hilton and Britney Spears. “We’ll put it in play against him,” said McCain spokesman Brian Rogers. The Hill's Blog Briefing Room » Biden Fumbles Military Terms For the GOP, the mistake is sure to be ...

links for 2008-08-29
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog — ... (tags: hannah-beth_jackson tony_strickland) RedState: Introducing FRED PAC (tags: Fred_Thompson) The Hill's Blog Briefing Room » Biden Fumbles Military Terms For the GOP, the mistake is ...

Obama/Biden The Chickenhawk and The Draft Dodger
Flopping Aces — ... from service in Vietnam as Dick Cheney, and despite claims of vast foreign policy experience, Joe Biden can’t seem to tell the difference between a battalion and a brigade (the difference is 1:3 in size and power respectively). ...