Posted on 10/21/2015 7:23:49 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
A funny thing happens when a candidate decides to run for president; embarrassing or controversial actions in the candidate's past are magically altered or reinvented entirely to make him look good.
And that's what happened when Joe Biden decided to give an alternative history account of his role in the decision to attack the compound in Abbottobad where Osama bin Laden was eventually killed.
Previously, several participants - including President Obama and then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton - said that Biden was opposed to the raid. But yesterday, we learn that Biden actually told the President (in private) to go for it.
His remarks come as he considers facing off against the former secretary of state in the 2016 presidential race, and they seem to signal that he sees his earlier stance on the raid as a potential liability.
At an event honoring former Vice President Walter Mondale, Biden said he had privately advised the President to pursue the raid on bin Laden's compound after initially advising a more cautious approach at a Cabinet meeting.
"We walked out of the room and walked upstairs," Biden said. "I told him my opinion: I thought he should go, but to follow his own instincts."
The new account is a significant departure from what he said at a Democratic retreat in January 2012.
"Mr. President, my suggestion is, 'Don't go,'" Biden said, according to an ABC News report from that time.
Vice presidents by the numbers
"'We have to do two more things to see if he's there,'" Biden recalled, though the story did not include what those two things were.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Well, I can only say that from my observation, jojo does indeed live in an alternate universe.
The Left has long accepted the Marxist principle that the past is mutable. History must serve the present and it is what we say it is.
Well, now we hear Biden was all in favor of the raid to get Bin Laden. Who knew????
So is Biden getting in the race??? Stay tuned.
With two known liars backing your story who is one to believe? were they lying then or are they lying now.
my take is this was a rare instance when the Hildebeast and Berry Soetero were on the same page and being honest regarding Biden
Joe likes to rewrite history
A fool and the truth are soon parted
Joe Biden isn’t a candidate, he’s an embarrassment.
I still believe that if Biden enters the race he’ll get the nomination. But this is a nice reminder of how chaotic the Dem race will become if (when) he gets in.
So...Biden now says he was for the raid, after saying he was against the raid.
Moments after...and, of course...in private.
Biden is a liberal liar just like the rest. Absolutely, completely, unequivocally untrustworthy.
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