Unlike Clinton, Biden Gets Pass for Saying He Was 'Shot At' in Iraq

FOXNews.com ^ | Tuesday, September 30, 2008 | Bill Sammon

[jessduntno]

Unlike Clinton, Biden Gets Pass for Saying He Was 'Shot At' in Iraq

By Bill Sammon FOXNews.com

When Hillary Clinton told a tall tale about "landing under sniper fire" in Bosnia, she was accused of "inflating her war experience" by rival Democrat Barack Obama's campaign.

But the campaign has been silent about Obama's running mate, Joe Biden, telling his own questionable story about being "shot at" in Iraq.

"Let's start telling the truth," Biden said during a presidential primary debate sponsored by YouTube last year. "Number one, you take all the troops out - you better have helicopters ready to take those 3,000 civilians inside the Green Zone, where I have been seven times and shot at. You better make sure you have protection for them, or let them die."

But when questioned about the episode afterward by the Hill newspaper, Biden backpedaled from his claim of being "shot at" and instead allowed: "I was near where a shot landed."

The senior senator from Delaware went on to say that some sort of projectile "landed" outside a building in the Green Zone where he and another senator had spent the night during a visit in December 2005. The lawmakers were shaving in the morning when they felt the building shake, Biden said.

"No one got up and ran from the room-it wasn't that kind of thing," he told the Hill. "It's not like I had someone holding a gun to my head."

even after Biden was selected to be Obama's running mate last month, his claim to have been "shot at" drew no scrutiny from the same reporters who had savaged Clinton for making a similar claim that turned out to be false.

[T. Rustin Noone]

This is the same guy who for years has stated that his wife and child were killed by a drunk driver, even though the police report indicates nothing of the kind and that the family of the guy who struck Mrs. Biden’s can has tried desperately (and now posthumously) to clear their relative of this stain.

[P8riot]

Wasn’t me doing the shooting.

[fullchroma]

Mr. “My IQ is Higher than Yours” gets away with every lie, gaffe and lapse of character with “Oh, that’s just Joe being Joe.”

[Corin Stormhands]

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[freebilly]

This is a guy who consistently lies. He even plagiarized someone else's biography and changed his own family history in a speech when he was running for the DNC nomination in 1988. He plagiarized in law school and under questioning he lied about his law school grades.

Of course, all this makes him eminently more qualified than Sarah Palin to be VP. The libs call Palin unqualified. If she's unqualified, what does that make this moron gasbag, Biden?

[Henderson]

Biden gets passes from the press because nobody is listening to him. Who care what Biden says? He is Biden after all.

[keepitreal]

“I was near where a shot landed.”

Translated: I was in a country where somebody was shooting somewhere.

[Redbob]

Could be because the recovered projectiles all measured 22 caliber...

[jessduntno]

I was at the beach last week. Can I now say that I am a dolphin?

[TheZMan]

Because he’s irrelevant.

[george76]

“Let’s start telling the truth,” Biden said

[SunkenCiv]

"...inside the Green Zone, where I have been seven times and shot at..." But when questioned about the episode afterward by the Hill newspaper, Biden backpedaled from his claim of being "shot at" and instead allowed: "I was near where a shot landed."

thanks george76.