Posted on 08/19/2019 9:29:44 AM PDT by McGruff
Joe Biden claimed twice recently that he met with Parkland, Florida, shooting survivors when he was vice president, despite the fact that he was already out of office when the attack took place. His campaign said Biden misspoke and was referring to a different meeting he had after the Sandy Hook shooting. But the flub was reminiscent of Biden’s past misstatements and his tendency to embellish biographical details.
In 1988, Biden was forced to drop out of the presidential race after he was found to have exaggerated his academic record, plagiarized a law school essay, and used quotes from other politicians in his speeches without attribution. But these are not the only questionable claims Biden has made. Here are six other times Biden was caught embellishing his biography:
1. Biden said his helicopter was “forced down” near Osama bin Laden’s lair in Afghanistan
2. Biden said he was a coal miner
3. Biden said he was “shot at” in Iraq
4. Biden said he called Slobodan Milošević a “damn war criminal” to his face
5. Biden said he participated in sit-ins at segregated restaurants and movie theaters
6. Biden said he criticized President George W. Bush during lengthy private meetings in the Oval Office
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
We are at a point where as long as the person is on your team, lies and misdeeds are irrelevant. If the person is on the other team, no infraction is too small.
Unfortunately, the msm controls a lot of the messaging.
Remember when he said, how President Roosevelt went on television to talk to the nation about the depression? Television as we know it didn’t exist back then.
Stand up, Chuck.
I’m sure an entire book of Biden’s blunders could be written.
Boy, reminds of the time me and some others SEALs killed Bin Laden.
Roosevelt would have never done television anyway because he didn’t like to appear weak because of his wheel chair.
Biden really is clueless.
The Idiot Biden has always been a plagiarist and confabulator.
Not much that comes out of his mouth is true or factual.
Biden said Margaret Thatcher called him-—she’s been dead many years.
Biden said Pres Roosevelt went on TV to talk to the nation about the depression.....but TV didn’t exist back then.
I consider “lies” and “misdeeds” to be two separate things. Politicians lying is a common theme. I don’t care what they say. I care what they do. And what they do CAN fall into the “misdeeds” category.
Senility?
That WOULD explain a lot.
But of course, nobody could admit this. Just like they could not explain the ghastly appearances of Herself when in public, and the extended absences from the campaign trail all through 2016.
Herself was just too INEBRIATED most of the time.
But Joe doesn’t drink, does he?
One of the all-time bodacious federal scams was Obama’s “stimulus program.” All the Democrats got filthy rich on that.
Obama appointed then-VP Biden to “oversee “stimulus money distribution.” To date, there is no full accounting of where that all went.
Missing in Action: Stimulus Sheriff Joe Biden
By Michelle Malkin - Oct 10, 2012
Copyright 2012, Creators Syndicate Inc.
Remember when President Obama bragged about Joe Biden’s fiscal discipline creds in 2009? “To you, he’s Mr. Vice President, but around the White House, we call him the Sheriff,” Obama warned government employees. “Because if you’re misusing taxpayer money, you’ll have to answer to him.” Fast-forward to 2012. Call in the search teams. Since being appointed the nation’s stimulus spending cop, Sheriff Joe has taken a permanent donut break.
He’s AWOL on oversight. In fact, he’s been bubble-wrapped, boxed and kept completely out of sight. The garrulous gaffe machine hasn’t sat down for a national media interview in five months.
The Democrats’ trillion-dollar “American Recovery and Reinvestment Act,” however, keeps piling up waste, failure, fraud and debt. Who benefited most? Big government cronies. According to Investor’s Business Daily this week, a new analysis by Ohio State University economics professor Bill Dupor reported that “(m)ore than three-quarters of the jobs created or saved by President Obama’s economic stimulus in the first year were in government.”
Dupor and another colleague had earlier concluded that the porkulus was a predictable jobs-killer that crowded out non-government jobs with make-work public jobs and programs. Indeed, the massive wealth redistribution scheme “destroyed/forestalled roughly one million private sector jobs” by siphoning tax dollars “to offset state revenue shortfalls and Medicaid increases rather than boost private sector employment.”
Will this Keynesian wreckage come up during Thursday night’s vice presidential debate? It should be a centerpiece of domestic policy discussion. Nowhere is the gulf between Obama/Biden rhetoric and reality on jobs wider. Remember: Obama’s Ivy League eggheads behind the stimulus promised that “(m)ore than 90 percent of the jobs created are likely to be in the private sector.” These are the same feckless economic advisers who infamously vowed that the stimulus would keep unemployment below 8 percent — and that unemployment would drop below 6 percent sometime this year. Sheriff Joe rebuked the “naysayers” who decried the behemoth stimulus program’s waste, fraud and abuse. “You know what? They were wrong,” he crowed.
But Biden was radio silent about the nearly 4,000 stimulus recipients who received $24 billion in Recovery Act funds — while owing more than $750 million in unpaid corporate, payroll and other taxes. (Cash for Tax Cheats, anyone?) He had nothing to say about:
<><> the $6 billion in stimulus energy credits for homeowners that went to nearly a third of credit-claimers who had no record of homeownership, including minors and prisoners.
<><>the $530 million dumped into the profligate Detroit public schools for laptops and other computer equipment that have had little, if any, measurable academic benefits.
<><> the whopping $6.7 million cost per job under the $50 billion stimulus-funded green energy loan program — which funded politically connected but now bankrupt solar firms Solyndra ($535 million), Abound Solar ($400 million), Beacon Power ($43 million), A123 ($250 million) and Ener1 ($119 million).
<><> the $1 million in stimulus cash that went to Big Bird and Sesame Street “to promote healthy eating,” which created a theoretical “1.47” jobs. (As Sean Higgins of The Examiner noted, “(T)hat comes out to about $726,000 per job created.”)
<><> the hundreds of millions in stimulus money steered to General Services Administrations junkets in Las Vegas and Hawaii, ghost congressional districts, dead people, infrastructure to nowhere and ubiquitous stimulus propaganda road signs stamped with the shovel-ready logo.
Of course, there’s no example of unfettered stimulus squandering more fitting than the one named after Keystone Fiscal Kop Joe Biden himself. Government-funded Amtrak’s Wilmington, Del., station raked in $20 million in “recovery” money after heavy personal lobbying by the state’s most prominent customer and cheerleader. In return, the station (which came in $6 million over budget, according to The Washington Times) renamed its facility after Biden. Bloated costs.
Crony political narcissism. Glaring conflicts of interest. Monumental waste.
This is the Obama/Biden stimulus legacy bequeathed to our children and their grandchildren. Sheriff Joe and his plundering boss need to be run out of town on a rail.
SOURCE http://dyn.realclearpolitics.com/topic/v/Vice_President_/
And I’ll bet he inspired Al Gore to invent the Internet.
This low life, useless Democrat, Joe Biden is a literal joke!!! In all the years I have watched this human moron on the Sunday Morning New TV Shows...he has never been right once.....not once!!! Old, Sleepy, Uncle Joe is finished...he is going nowhere but to forever lasting obscurity...period!!!
for the good old days.. when, while running the press would even oocasionally call out AlGore for his lies
Didn’t he refer to frequently going to a public restaurant that had been torn down 20 years earlier.
And he just recently said he was Vice President when a school shooting happened, but that shooting occurred during Trump’s administration.
If I can spot two more off the top of my head, my guess is that the 6 is the tip of the iceberg.
Any list that does not include him lying that his wife was killed by a drunk truck driver is incomplete. His wife was at fault in the accident the truck driver was completely clean and a good man.
Biden said the truck driver was drunk and killed his wife, just to pander to the anti drunk driving group of mothers he was in front of. He did great harm to the truck driver’s family even after the truck driver’s death he continued this lie.
He also said that FDR's televised address took place in 1929, four years before he became president.
Weren’t he and Brian Williams shot at and missed over Valley Forge where Washington fought the Germans after they bombed Gettysburg in the War of 1812?
Roosevelt would have never done television anyway because he didn’t like to appear weak because of his wheel chair.
No no no, you’ve all got it wrong. SLO Joe is speaking truths, not facts.
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