Posted on 08/30/2008 8:04:19 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
Joe Biden has been making much of having spent the first ten years of his life in Scranton, Pennsylvania to the extent that his first video ad is based on that city. So when Biden and Barack Obama made their first campaign appearance after the Democrat convention in Beaver, Pennsylvania, the subject of Scranton came up in Biden's speech. The problem is that he did some fibbing about Scranton. Biden claimed that he was 12 years younger than former PA governor, Bob Casey, and 12 years older than "Bobby" Casey, the son and current senator from that state. Actually Biden is only 10 years younger than the elder Casey, a minor error, but eighteen years older than "Bobby" Casey, not so minor. Even more important, Biden mentioned that he lived only a few blocks away from the Caseys. Since the Biden family moved to Delaware when Joe was 10 that would have been in 1952 or 1953, several years before "Bobby" was born in 1960. Here is the transcript of what Biden said but to get the full effect of Biden's "eccentric" speech pattern which makes one wonder what is in the drinking water of Beaver, watch the video:
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Terrified of losing the bitter clingers. I hope this election is a landslide.
I wonder what Obama was thinking during that speech. Joe Biden is so far away from Obama’s carefully groomed image.
To summarize: Biden’s story is a blatant lie.
a little fib here, a little fib there, nothing new.
Im sure the MSM backroom spin machine is in full swing to cover this.
I don't even buy that. He's such a d*ck, he had to be living right next to Scrotum, PA.
Making it up as they go along - pretty much the template of the Obama / Biden campaign.
Liar,liar,pants on fire!
Maybe he got his family history mixed up with someone else's, like he did in his famous stump speech in 1988.( Biden said he was the son of a Welsh coal miner.)
Biden is a walking gaffe machine.
Palin will expose him for the fraud that he is.
Wow. Every Liberal Democrat who espouses “more for the poor” seems to be wealthy via public contracts, pork, lobbyists and graft...
Obama and Biden are crooks, plain and simple, bent on pushing us to Communism, which, of course, they will be part of the elite ruling party.
Lets see... that would be exit 298 off of I-80, right?
Oh, sorry... That's SCOTRUN, PA at exit 298...
Glimpsing the sign as you pass by at 65 mph makes for interesting mis-reads...
Well.....there’s always the PA towns of Bird-In-Hand, Intercourse, and Blue Ball.
People that live in western PA don’t give a chit about Scranton, who lived there or anything else about eastern PA. I spent 40 yrs living there, I know!
...and Blue Knob ski resort.
Biden scrammed from Scranton years ago. Big deal! Pa. was small potatoes compared to the thriving megatropolises of Delaware.
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