Bottom line I’m going to cut Joe “some” (not total) slack... your wife an kid get killed in an accident, I can understand some long term bitter trash talk about the guy that caused it even when you know better
“Bottom line I’m going to cut Joe “some” (not total) slack...”
Why? People die in auto accidents every day. If the other part involved wasn’t drunk, and the article actually says there wasn’t even any finding of fault, why slander the name of someone who has apparently passed on since then and can’t even defend himself? So Biden is bitter? So what? How do you suppose the other man’s family feels hearing this a-hole’s constant repeating of this lie? Bitter, maybe?
It’s been 36 years, Joe. Get over it and get over yourself, you shameless clown.
So will you retract your implication that the truck driver was drunk, but somehow got away with not blowing drunk at the scene?
Oh really? And how about the family of the truck driver who until his death had to live with Biden's accusation that their father was "drunk" and had to live with that?
Two days after the crash, Herlihy, a neighbor of the Bidens in the late 1960s who still considers the senator "a friend," told the paper that there was no evidence that Dunn "was speeding, drinking or driving a truck with faulty brakes."
No criminal charges related to the crash were ever filed against Dunn, who lived in North East, Md.
Hamill, one of seven children, was 8 years old at the time of the accident. She remembers her father watching news reports of the crash while wearing a sling to support a shoulder injury he suffered in the accident.
She said Dunn was always "solemn" around the Christmas holidays. Years later, when her brother planned to get married on Dec. 18, Dunn told the family "I don't celebrate on that day," Hamill said.
"We're not trying to equate Sen. Biden's loss to my father's heartache," Hamill said. "But we wanted it to be known that our father never forgot that tragic day."
Hamill said it wasn't until the Inside Edition report that she became aware that the Delaware senator had said alcohol played a role in the accident. Dunn did not consume any alcohol the day of the crash, Hamill said.
She said she immediately called Biden's office after being contacted by Inside Edition and is waiting for the senator's response.
"The family feels these statements are both hurtful and untrue and we didn't know where they originated from," Hamill said.
As Hamill watched a recording of the Inside Edition report Wednesday, she gasped when the clip of Biden's comments from Iowa came on screen.
After reading a News Journal account of Biden's 2001 speech at UD, Hamill sent Biden a letter on behalf of her father. The newspaper story included Biden's description of getting the call that his wife and daughter had died, but not his comments about Dunn.
Hamill said her note to the senator described how Dunn was affected by the accident.
Printed on the senator's letter head and dated Oct. 11, 2001, the response from Biden reads:
"I apologize for taking so long to acknowledge your thoughtful and heartfelt note," Biden wrote. "All that I can say is I am sorry for all of us and please know that neither I nor my sons feel any animosity whatsoever."
Contact Rachel Kipp at 324-2386 or rkipp@delawareonline.com.