Re Biden Backs Down below, one can only hope that every one of President Obama’s cabinet picks will bring the same experience and gravitas to his team as his shrewd and far-sighted vice-presidential selection:

“If you want to know where Al Qaeda lives, you want to know where Bin Laden is, come back to Afghanistan with me,” Biden said. “Come back to the area where my helicopter was forced down, with a three-star general and three senators at 10,500 feet in the middle of those mountains. I can tell you where they are…” Biden said he would ask Palin about “The superhighway of terror between Pakistan and Afghanistan where my helicopter was forced down…John McCain wants to know where Bin Laden and the gates of Hell are? I can tell him where…” In February 2008, Biden — along with Sens. John Kerry, D-Mass., and Chuck Hagel, R-Neb. — was on a chopper that made an emergency landing in the mountains of Afghanistan. A snowstorm had forced them down.

In fairness, in the weeks after 9/11, many experts cowered in terror before the soi-disant “brutal Afghan winter“. But I believe Senator Biden is the first to assert it’s under the direct control of Osama bin Laden.