Claptrap

Poor Joe Biden is just not getting the attention he deserves, so remarks that he makes go essentially unnoticed. You knew it would be just a matter of time before Biden stepped on his own...tongue.

Biden attended a fundraiser Tuesday night and made the following comment. He was talking about the tough questions he would like to ask Sarah Palin and said he would ask her about this,  

"the superhighway of terror between Pakistan and Afghanistan where my helicopter was forced down...John McCain wants to know where Bin Ladin and the gates of Hell are? I can tell him where. That's where Al Quaida is. That's where Bin Ladin is. It's not in the country of Iraq."

Sounds scary and like he made quite the sacrifice.

Here is the account as reported by USA Today following CNN's lead at the moment in time that it was occurring.

Update at 3:33 p.m. ET: CNN says a Kerry spokesman has told the network that the helicopter landed because of impending bad weather, that none of the three are hurt — and that all three now are out of Afghanistan.

Update at 3:43 p.m. ET: A Biden spokesperson also is characterizing the landing to CNN as more of an "unscheduled," instead of "emergency," event because of unexpected bad weather.

Joe Biden has a reputation as a claptrap and he earned it the easy way with these type of remarks.