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Joe Biden Tells Scranton Fib: Will MSM Notice?
NewsBusters ^ | August 30, 2008 | P.J. Gladnick

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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TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: biden; bobcasey; joebiden
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Whatever is in that Beaver drinking water, I want it on the rocks.
1 posted on 08/30/2008 8:04:19 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
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Terrified of losing the bitter clingers. I hope this election is a landslide.


2 posted on 08/30/2008 8:05:48 PM PDT by Nuhna di Abuv
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I wonder what Obama was thinking during that speech. Joe Biden is so far away from Obama’s carefully groomed image.


3 posted on 08/30/2008 8:06:09 PM PDT by RummyChick
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To summarize: Biden’s story is a blatant lie.


4 posted on 08/30/2008 8:07:34 PM PDT by LikeLight (http://www.believersguidetolegalissues.com)
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To: PJ-Comix

a little fib here, a little fib there, nothing new.


5 posted on 08/30/2008 8:09:53 PM PDT by nuconvert (Obama - Preferred by 4 out of 5 Dictators & Terrorists)
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"Are you afraid of clowns?"


6 posted on 08/30/2008 8:11:18 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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Did Joe have any friends laid off by the Dunder Mifflin Paper Company?
7 posted on 08/30/2008 8:11:29 PM PDT by OCC
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I’m sure the MSM backroom spin machine is in full swing to cover this.


8 posted on 08/30/2008 8:11:52 PM PDT by doc1019 (Palin '12)
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Joe Biden has been making much of having spent the first ten years of his life in Scranton....

I don't even buy that. He's such a d*ck, he had to be living right next to Scrotum, PA.

9 posted on 08/30/2008 8:13:13 PM PDT by edpc (@#&!*$)
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Making it up as they go along - pretty much the template of the Obama / Biden campaign.


10 posted on 08/30/2008 8:14:25 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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Liar,liar,pants on fire!


11 posted on 08/30/2008 8:18:06 PM PDT by pankot
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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.

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.)

12 posted on 08/30/2008 8:18:51 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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Biden is a walking gaffe machine.
Palin will expose him for the fraud that he is.


13 posted on 08/30/2008 8:27:08 PM PDT by Mr. Binnacle (Baby, Everybody's Had to Fight to be Free - Tom Petty)
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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.


14 posted on 08/30/2008 8:35:08 PM PDT by wac3rd (Carter80/Obama08)
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...had to be living right next to Scrotum, PA.

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...

15 posted on 08/30/2008 8:36:32 PM PDT by NoCmpromiz (John 14:6 is a non-pluralistic comment.)
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Well.....there’s always the PA towns of Bird-In-Hand, Intercourse, and Blue Ball.


16 posted on 08/30/2008 8:42:00 PM PDT by edpc (@#&!*$)
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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!


17 posted on 08/30/2008 8:49:53 PM PDT by MadelineZapeezda ( MUST SEE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkgHkxIfgBc)
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...and Blue Knob ski resort.


18 posted on 08/30/2008 8:50:27 PM PDT by expatpat
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Biden scrammed from Scranton years ago. Big deal! Pa. was small potatoes compared to the thriving megatropolises of Delaware.


19 posted on 08/30/2008 8:58:53 PM PDT by tflabo (:)
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Biden also said that he and Michael Scott, Regional Manager for Dunder Mifflin, go way back. They've supposedly been pals since Biden killed that bear when he was only three!


20 posted on 08/30/2008 10:16:30 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (A kid at McDonalds has more real-world work experience than Barack Hussein.)
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