Joe Biden's mouth

The president got in a lot of trouble last week for using the phrase, “acted stupidly.” In truth, he just misdirected it. Instead of aiming at the Cambridge, Mass., police, he should have used the phrase to describe his vice president.
International diplomacy is a delicate dance. I’m sure the Obama people have been talking behind the scenes about Russia’s internal difficulties and about how those give the United States an upper hand.
But it’s a good bet the administration didn’t authorize Biden to talk to the Wall Street Journal and say:
“I think we vastly underestimate the hand that we hold. Russia has to make some very difficult, calculated decisions. They have a shrinking population base, they have a withering economy, they have a banking sector and structure that is not likely to be able to withstand the next 15 years, they’re in a situation where the world is changing before them and they’re clinging to something in the past that is not sustainable.”(Read about it here.)
Maybe a KGB agent stuck him with a pen filled with truth serum. Or maybe Biden just can’t keep his mouth shut.
The story was front page news in Russia Monday.
Look, what Biden said was true. I like honesty. But diplomacy is kind of like a card game. If you’ve got a good hand, you don’t want to tell everyone about it.
If this was a deliberately calculated move, the Obama administration is terribly clumsy and naive. If it was just Biden being Biden, the president has to have a long heart-to-heart with his veep — in the White House woodshed.