Biden comes around to Palin's view

According to James Taranto [July 7, WSJ], the Israel viewpoint for which Palin was attacked and ridiculed during the recent campaign, is now that of the current administration, via Joe Biden.

"Over the weekend, as we noted yesterday, Vice President Biden said that if Israel decides it needs to take military action against the Iranian nuclear-weapons program, the U.S. will not "dictate" otherwise. A reader points out that Sarah Palin, who ran against Biden in last year's election, said much the same thing in a September interview with ABC's Charlie Gibson:

Gibson: What if Israel decided it felt threatened and needed to take out the Iranian nuclear facilities?
Palin: Well, first, we are friends with Israel and I don't think that we should second-guess the measures that Israel has to take to defend themselves and for their security.
Gibson: So if we wouldn't second-guess it and they decided they needed to do it because Iran was an existential threat, we would cooperative or agree with that.
Palin: I don't think we can second-guess what Israel has to do to secure its nation.
Gibson: So if it felt necessary, if it felt the need to defend itself by taking out Iranian nuclear facilities, that would be all right.
Palin: We cannot second-guess the steps that Israel has to take to defend itself.
Palin reiterated the point in a later interview with CBS's Katie Couric."

Reviewing Charlie's interview I wonder if he would have been so intent on tripping up a male ethnic Democrat running for president, or if race trumps gender in the diversity wars. The male dominated, owned and controlled media were certainly intent on assuring that no woman occupy the White House except as First Lady. Taranto goes on to point out that for this steady hand and unwillingness to cave, she was called stupid, robotic, repeating pro-Israel buzz words, and a puppet of the pro-Jewish Cabal. But those same critics, supporters of the Obama-Biden dog and pony apology tour, are saying Biden's response is subtle--most Americans aren't smart enough to even understand--or that he doesn't reflect Obama's thinking, or they just don't say anything in the range of stupid or robotic. Ah, freedom of the press. We folks enjoying democracy are certainly lucky we don't have a media that parrot the party in power.