Posted on 09/19/2008 1:36:03 PM PDT by pissant
It is terrible to lose family members to a traffic accident. But why on earth would a United States Senator fabricate an embellishment and claim that it was a drunk driver's fault, when the record clearly indicates it was not?
Delaware Online reports:
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Since his vice presidential nomination, Joe Biden's 2007 statement that a "guy who allegedly ... drank his lunch" and drove the truck that struck and killed his first wife and daughter has gained national media traction.
Alcohol didn't play a role in the 1972 crash, investigators found. But as recently as last week, the syndicated TV show Inside Edition aired a clip from 2001 of Biden describing the accident to an audience at the University of Delaware and saying the truck driver "stopped to drink instead of drive."
The senator's statements don't jibe with news and law enforcement reports from the time, which cleared driver Curtis C. Dunn, who died in 1999, of wrongdoing.
"To see it coming from [Biden's] mouth, I just burst into tears," Dunn's daughter, Glasgow resident Pamela Hamill, 44, said Wednesday. "My dad was always there for us. Now we feel like we should be there for him because he's not here to defend himself."
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Biden has embellished his supposed "working class" origins in Scranton, PA, when in fact his father was successful sales professional for substantial companies, and he attended a very expensive private school.
Is this an attempt to exploit the death of his first wife for political gain? The thought is sickening. Even if Biden was inititially misinformed, he and his campaign have allowed a lie to propagate throughout the media. The news report above mentions:
"...since Barack Obama tapped Biden to be his running mate on Aug. 23, The New York Times, National Public Radio and The Economist have run stories that characterized Dunn as a drunken driver."
Because he can get away with it.
YOU are not.
Is that clear or do you need some government education to fix your misguidedness?
Left wingers.
...and Ted Kennedy was not a drunk driver.
The apparent cause of the crash is Biden’s wife, Neilia, turned her head and didn’t see the oncoming truck as she exited the intersection of Limestone and Valley roads on Dec. 18, 1972.
She not only killed herself, but the other driver.
http://delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080904/NEWS02/809040379
But, hey, it’s a Democrat. Lying is like breathing.
He lies because it will garner more sympathy votes....
$5 says Biden is a closet drunk, and is transferring guilt (or just his usual spew)
Someone has the Youtube video of him on the trail with Obama and he sounds CROCKED.
He gets extra victim points that way so he can maximize the sympathy vote.
Yep, and they’ll “embellish” any tragedy in a heartbeat.
I’d like to hear more about Barack Hussein Obama’s father killing himself in a car crash while he was drunk out of his mind.
The strange thing is this thread will soon be pulled like the one a week or so ago. As if somehow we are sliming Biden like the DUmmies do to Palin. The fact is it was BIDEN who is doing the sliming of this poor man. Hopefully the mods will see the difference...this time.
Why does Biden lie?
Because he is a pathological liar.... He’s a Leftist.
Hey pissant,
Which is worse: using the memory and embellishing the death of your dead wife for political gain like Biden?
Or using your dying wife’s illness to help you garner political support while you are boinking a whore somewhere like Edwards?
What a pair. So many politicians, so many real turds.
How could she have killed the other drive when it said he dies in 1992?
That’s pathetic. That man’s daughter should sue Biden for defamation!
Joe Biden lies about what he had for breakfast.
F-words takes the cake in phoniness.
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