He really is an idiot.
(CNS News) — Speaking at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit in Istanbul, Turkey, on Saturday, Vice President Joe Biden offered high praise for the revolutions that have broken out in the Arab world this year.
Biden likened the Arab uprisings to the American revolution and at one point describing them by quoting Easter 1916, a poem written by William Butler Yeats as he reflected on the Irish Rising against the British that took place during World War I.
“Ladies and gentlemen, there is a quote I often use — and if you excuse me for quoting an Irish poet — I quoted this to the speaker when we had breakfast,” said Biden.
“It was an Irish poet named William Butler Yeats, who describing the transition taking place in his Ireland in 1916, wrote a poem that had the following line in it, a line that was intended to describe his Ireland at the moment,” said Biden. “But I would respectfully suggest it describes the Middle East and the world today even better than it described his country at the moment. And here’s the line from that poem. He said, ‘All has changed, changed utterly. A terrible beauty has been born.’”