Our vice president, Joe Biden, makes his country proud in another distant corner of the world, this time Ukraine: “I cannot believe that a Frenchman visiting Kiev went back home and told his colleagues he discovered something and didn’t say he discovered the most beautiful women in the world. That’s my observation . . . It’s certain you have so many beautiful women.”

Perhaps we can let him off the hook if he had just met with Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko.