Following the July 2007 Democratic debate during which Barack Obama said that as president he would meet with the leaders of Iran, Syria, Venezuela, Cuba, and North Korea without precondition, Joe Biden told National Review's Byron York that Obama's statement was "naive":
Sen. Joseph Biden, who has emerged as the clear-eyed antiwar realist in the Democratic race, told National Review Online that the idea of a president meeting with Ahmadinejad, Chavez, and others was "naïve." "World leaders should not meet with other world leaders unless they know what the agenda is, so you don't end up being used," Biden said. "When I went to meet with Milosevic before the war, the condition I met with him was that no press would be available, I'd only meet him in his office late at night, and I wouldn't dignify being seen with him."
The last 24 hours have amounted to Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day for Joe Biden, so I doubt anybody in the press corps would be so cruel as to ask Biden if he still stands by his words.
But hopefully John McCain will remind everyone of Biden's assessment of Obama's "naive" foreign policy during Friday night's debate.
