'He's crazy’: Joe Biden's attempt to smooth things over with Benjamin Netanyahu is 'an embarrassment'

Not long ago, a senior Obama administration official was quoted as referring to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a “chickensh*t.”

Speaking to the Jewish Federation of North America today, the VP apparently tried to smooth things over, Biden-style:

.@VP says he signed photo to Netanyahu: "Bibi I don’t agree with a damn thing you say but I love you." "We really are good friends," he adds

— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) November 10, 2014

Biden recalls telling Netanyahu that he doesn't agree with a word he says but he still loves him #JFNAGA

— Chemi Shalev (@ChemiShalev) November 10, 2014

Now that ought to patch things up. Or maybe not.

The word of the day is “embarrassment”:

@jaketapper How embarassing….

— @SNYC (@4SNYC) November 10, 2014

@jaketapper @VP what an embarrassment.

— JoAnn_Miller (@J_B_Miller) November 10, 2014

https://twitter.com/feeling_bueno/status/531841495796834305

@jaketapper @VP This administration is such an embarrassment.

— ClassicalLibMOT (@CygnusA81) November 10, 2014

https://twitter.com/Shan1419/status/531841582757314560
https://twitter.com/Cliff_Sims/status/531844660881522689
https://twitter.com/LCellini/status/531846871862767617

Biden not agreeing "with a damn thing" Netanyahu says is a laugh line? https://t.co/id2VphqUZd

— Karol Markowicz (@karol) November 10, 2014

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Biden made Obama’s relationship with Netanyahu sound like the script for a re-make of The Odd Couple:

Biden on Obama/Netanyahu" "We love one another and we drive one another crazy. That's what friends do. We are straight with one another."

— Jacob Kornbluh (@jacobkornbluh) November 10, 2014

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