Joe Biden’s ‘Gates of Hell’ ISIS Remark Sounds Familiar Because It Is

Posted by | September 4, 2014 16:33 | Filed under: Contributors Politics Tommy Christopher Top Stories War & Peace

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The latest atrocity by ISIS, the murder of Steven Sotloff, has many Americans losing patience with President Obama’s measured approach to the group, even those who completely agree with it. While the President has called ISIS a “cancer,” and said that our objective is to “destroy” the group, his necessarily deliberate approach to the policy has left a gaping bloodlust vacuum.

On Wednesday, Vice President Joe Biden gave Americans the anti-ISIS rallying cry they’ve been craving when he told a crowd at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard that the United States will “follow them to the gates of Hell.”

“As a nation, we’re united, and when people harm Americans, we don’t retreat. We don’t forget. We take care of those who are grieving, and when that’s finished, they should know we will follow them to the gates of Hell, until they are brought to justice. Because Hell is where they will reside. Hell is where they will reside.”

That felt good, didn’t it? Joe Biden is nothing if not President Pro Tempore of America’s Heart. Already, people are using the contrast between Biden’s remarks and the President’s as a way to knock Obama, but this dynamic, Joe Biden as the cop with the phone book, and Obama with the rule book, is actually helpful to the United States’ policy goals. We will be much more successful at getting other nations to contribute to the anti-ISIS effort if they take the President’s cautious strategy seriously, while Biden and others whip up support at home for whatever action we eventually take.

This isn’t the first time, though, that Biden has promised to pursue terrorists to the gates of Hell. In 2012, during the presidential campaign, the Vice President related the story of a much earlier invocation of the phrase…READ MORE

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By: Tommy Christopher

Tommy Christopher is The Daily Banter's White House Correspondent and Political Analyst. He's been a political reporter and liberal commentator since 2007, and has covered the White House since the beginning of the Obama administration, first for PoliticsDaily, and then for Mediaite. Christopher is a frequent guest on a variety of television, radio, and online programs, and was the villain in the documentaries The Audacity of Democracy and Hating Breitbart. He's also That Guy Who Live-Tweeted His Own Heart Attack, and the only person to have ever received public apologies from both Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck.

16 responses to Joe Biden’s ‘Gates of Hell’ ISIS Remark Sounds Familiar Because It Is

  1. Booya Bible September 4th, 2014 at 16:43

    Bloodlust is not what we need. Intelligence and measuredness is.

  2. Booya Bible September 4th, 2014 at 16:43

    Bloodlust is not what we need. Intelligence and measuredness is.

  3. juicyfruityyy September 4th, 2014 at 17:01

    I like VP Biden. But I prefer the President’s approach. When the world leaders hear his patients, calm, and strategic approach. They will follow his lead. They would sound and look more professional and in control of the situation.

  4. juicyfruityyy September 4th, 2014 at 17:01

    I like VP Biden. But I prefer the President’s approach. When the world leaders hear his patients, calm, and strategic approach. They will follow his lead. They would sound and look more professional and in control of the situation.

  5. edmeyer_able September 4th, 2014 at 17:11

    Obama may be patient but it doesn’t compare to the calm demeanor georgie displayed….

    http://youtu.be/bATjvty5p8k

  6. edmeyer_able September 4th, 2014 at 17:11

    Obama may be patient but it doesn’t compare to the calm demeanor georgie displayed….

    http://youtu.be/bATjvty5p8k

  7. Peter G. September 4th, 2014 at 18:27

    But we won’t follow them into Syria.

    • edmeyer_able September 4th, 2014 at 18:48

      Honest question……if the Kurds enter Syria to battle isis and are met by Syrian forces what action does the US take?

  8. Peter G. September 4th, 2014 at 18:27

    But we won’t follow them into Syria.

    • edmeyer_able September 4th, 2014 at 18:48

      Honest question……if the Kurds enter Syria to battle isis and are met by Syrian forces what action does the US take?

  9. Bunya September 5th, 2014 at 14:26

    The “gates of hell” remark: is that the new “smokin’ gun/mushroom cloud”? Is ISIS “a cancer” because they hates us fer our freedumbs?
    Something big must be in the works. Otherwise, why are we dusting off the “be very afraid” hype?

  10. Bunya September 5th, 2014 at 14:26

    The “gates of hell” remark: is that the new “smokin’ gun/mushroom cloud”? Is ISIS “a cancer” because they hates us fer our freedumbs?
    Something big must be in the works. Otherwise, why are we dusting off the “be very afraid” hype?

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