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."
“That’s pathetic. That man’s daughter should sue Biden for defamation!”
You can’t sue for defamation of a dead person.
Biden can’t seem to help himself. Lies come easy to the left.
To the writer......PLEASE finish the damn rest of the story! Mrs. Biden PULLED OUT IN FRONT OF THE TRUCK DRIVER! Geesh.
To the writer......PLEASE finish the damn rest of the story! Mrs. Biden PULLED OUT IN FRONT OF THE TRUCK DRIVER! Geesh.
The truck driver died in 1999....years after the wreck, and he had a hard time getting a job because of Biden’t telling the LIE that he DRANK and KILLED Mrs. Biden.
Well...now we know why Biden has decided to lie about it! Has he always told this lie...or did it start after the man died in 1999?
THAT’S WHY HE GETS “PAID THE BIG BUCKS”...REMEMBER SCOTT RITTER IN SENATE COMMITTEE...
thanks !
I guess in the warped world of his strange mind he thinks it makes him look more vice-presidential.
The other driver died in 1999. Biden didn’t start telling the “drunk story” until after he was dead and couldn’t sue.
When you're a dim and blowhard like Biden, you can't help yourself. He just has to lie.
Why would a post like this get pulled?
What ever happened to the 1st Amendment?
“STAND UP JOE”
BTTT.
Biden just makes things up.
But that Kavanaugh...
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