Joe Biden Makes Up War Story

[mudwhistle]

I think Biden is trying to lose the race on purpose. Nobody can be this fucked up.



Biden misrepresented nearly every detail of his involvement in a 2008 war story

Photo: Sean Rayford/Getty Images
Former Vice President Joe Biden, currently leading in the polls for the 2020 Democratic nomination, got almost every detail incorrect in the retelling of his participation in a 2008 war story at a campaign stop, the Washington Post reports.

Why it matters: Biden has drawn criticism in recent months for public gaffes and slips, including mistakenly thinking he was vice president during the 2018 Parkland shooting and mistaking Margaret Thatcher for Theresa May.

Details: Per Biden's recollection, a 4-star general asked him to go to Kunar, a province in Afghanistan, while serving as vice president. The purpose of the trip was to award a Silver Star to a Navy captain who'd rappelled a 60-foot ravine while under fire to retrieve the body of a fallen American comrade.

• Biden said he'd been told the trip was too dangerous, but stated: "We can lose a vice president,” adding, “We can’t lose many more of these kids.”
• Biden also claimed that the captain was reluctant to take the award, quoting him as saying, "Sir, I don’t want the damn thing!" and adding, “Do not pin it on me, Sir! Please, Sir. Do not do that! He died. He died!"

The intrigue: Almost every part of Biden's account appears false. Per interviews conducted by the Post, Biden got the "time period, the location, the heroic act, the type of medal, the military branch and the rank of the recipient wrong, as well as his own role in the ceremony."

• Biden was actually a U.S. senator at the time, not the vice president.
• The military member who performed the rescue was an Army specialist, not a Navy captain.
• Biden never pinned a Silver Star on that service member.
• The soldier received a Medal of Honor from President Obama 6 years later, which he graciously accepted.

Per the Post, "One element of Biden’s story is rooted in an actual event: The vice president did pin a medal on a heartbroken soldier, Army Staff Sgt. Chad Workman, who didn’t believe he deserved the award."

 

[wamose]

Biden looks and acts more like Tommy Smothers every day.

 

[mudwhistle]

Biden looks and acts more like Tommy Smothers every day.

Yeah.....but this shit ain't funny.

 

[SweetSue92]

At this point I just feel bad for him and his family. Time to call this done....exit the stage, Biden

 

[mudwhistle]

At this point I just feel bad for him and his family. Time to call this done....exit the stage, Biden

I really honestly believe he's faking it.
There is no way that Democrats would allow anyone to make a fool of themselves to this level unless it was part of a scam.
I think they have a candidate in waiting to be revealed next year or late this year.
It's probably a former First Lady.

 

[WillowTree]

The damn dumbass democrats will vote for him anyway.

 

[SassyIrishLass]

Did he come under sniper fire too?

 

[mudwhistle]

I think it's just another hoax.

 

[B. Kidd]

Plugs has reduced himself to vote hustling on the backs of dead soldiers.

The Democrats are sooo moral (sarc/)....

 

[Aletheia4u]

I think Biden is trying to lose the race on purpose. Nobody can be this fucked up.



Biden misrepresented nearly every detail of his involvement in a 2008 war story

Photo: Sean Rayford/Getty Images
Former Vice President Joe Biden, currently leading in the polls for the 2020 Democratic nomination, got almost every detail incorrect in the retelling of his participation in a 2008 war story at a campaign stop, the Washington Post reports.

Why it matters: Biden has drawn criticism in recent months for public gaffes and slips, including mistakenly thinking he was vice president during the 2018 Parkland shooting and mistaking Margaret Thatcher for Theresa May.

Details: Per Biden's recollection, a 4-star general asked him to go to Kunar, a province in Afghanistan, while serving as vice president. The purpose of the trip was to award a Silver Star to a Navy captain who'd rappelled a 60-foot ravine while under fire to retrieve the body of a fallen American comrade.

• Biden said he'd been told the trip was too dangerous, but stated: "We can lose a vice president,” adding, “We can’t lose many more of these kids.”
• Biden also claimed that the captain was reluctant to take the award, quoting him as saying, "Sir, I don’t want the damn thing!" and adding, “Do not pin it on me, Sir! Please, Sir. Do not do that! He died. He died!"

The intrigue: Almost every part of Biden's account appears false. Per interviews conducted by the Post, Biden got the "time period, the location, the heroic act, the type of medal, the military branch and the rank of the recipient wrong, as well as his own role in the ceremony."

• Biden was actually a U.S. senator at the time, not the vice president.
• The military member who performed the rescue was an Army specialist, not a Navy captain.
• Biden never pinned a Silver Star on that service member.
• The soldier received a Medal of Honor from President Obama 6 years later, which he graciously accepted.

Per the Post, "One element of Biden’s story is rooted in an actual event: The vice president did pin a medal on a heartbroken soldier, Army Staff Sgt. Chad Workman, who didn’t believe he deserved the award."

That is too many mistake that he has done. They are working their way up to Pres.Trump. It looks like they are trying to push a bill that will make it mandatory once a candidate reaches the age of 70. That they must retire. They were attacking Pelosi and now Biden. And worming their way to Bernie. Then that is when they will start going after Pres.Trump.

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[whitehall]

Can you believe Biden when he sez "I am not nuts"? Maybe not.

 

[rightwinger]

Looks like Biden got caught stretching the truth

What was the impact of Biden’s misrepresentation?
He was talking about the valor of US Troops

Now, let’s look at Trumps stretching the truth

He says he saw thousands of Muslims dancing on rooftops in NJ on 9-11
What was the impact of Trumps misrepresentation?
He spread hatred and fear of US Muslims

 

[mudwhistle]

Looks like Biden got caught stretching the truth

What was the impact of Biden’s misrepresentation?
He was talking about the valor of US Troops

Now, let’s look at Trumps stretching the truth

He says he saw thousands of Muslims dancing on rooftops in NJ on 9-11
What was the impact of Trumps misrepresentation?
He spread hatred and fear of US Muslims

I can see Trump's misstatement as a mistake.
NBC covered all of the cheering....and I think Trump honestly felt it was in Jersey.
After all...it was 18 years ago.
Biden had to think of that story and knew it was a lie way in advance.

 

[rightwinger]

Looks like Biden got caught stretching the truth

What was the impact of Biden’s misrepresentation?
He was talking about the valor of US Troops

Now, let’s look at Trumps stretching the truth

He says he saw thousands of Muslims dancing on rooftops in NJ on 9-11
What was the impact of Trumps misrepresentation?
He spread hatred and fear of US Muslims

I can see Trump's misstatement as a mistake.
NBC covered all of the cheering....and I think Trump honestly felt it was in Jersey.
After all...it was 18 years ago.
Biden had to think of that story and knew it was a lie way in advance.

Biden’s story was a combination of three stories from 10 years ago
All concerned valor of individual soldiers with Biden giving a medal on one

Trumps story was designed to generate hate and fear of fellow Americans. Nobody reported American Muslims celebrating on 9-11

One reporter filed a report of a few Jews appearing to celebrate. When that reporter would not back Trumps claim of thousands of Muslims celebrating.......Trump mocked that reporters handicap

 

[DigitalDrifter]

Brian Williams can vouch that Joe was there.

 

[Eric Arthur Blair]

This is like Joe Biden. Every time he runs for president he tells a fantastic lie.
In 1988 his campaign collapsed when he was discovered as having plagiarized other people's speeches multiple times!
Flashback: Joe Biden's first presidential run in 1988 cratered amid multiple instances of plagiarism
He not only plagiarized entire passages from an English Labor Party candidate, but also a law review journal while at Syracuse Law School.

This is just Joe being Joe, unfortunately.

 

[Eric Arthur Blair]

Biden’s story was a combination of three stories from 10 years ago
All concerned valor of individual soldiers with Biden giving a medal on one

Trumps story was designed to generate hate and fear of fellow Americans. Nobody reported American Muslims celebrating on 9-11

One reporter filed a report of a few Jews appearing to celebrate. When that reporter would not back Trumps claim of thousands of Muslims celebrating.......Trump mocked that reporters handicap

Start a thread about Trump instead of derailing his one about good old Joe Biden lying again.
Your desperation to save Biden from himself is palpable.

 

[rightwinger]

Biden’s story was a combination of three stories from 10 years ago
All concerned valor of individual soldiers with Biden giving a medal on one

Trumps story was designed to generate hate and fear of fellow Americans. Nobody reported American Muslims celebrating on 9-11

One reporter filed a report of a few Jews appearing to celebrate. When that reporter would not back Trumps claim of thousands of Muslims celebrating.......Trump mocked that reporters handicap

Start a thread about Trump instead of derailing his one about good old Joe Biden lying again.
Your desperation to save Biden from himself is palpable.

Putting things in perspective

A harmless lie does not equate to a lie meant to harm other people

 

[Eric Arthur Blair]

Putting things in perspective

A harmless lie does not equate to a lie meant to harm other people

A harmless lie is telling your child the Tooth Fairy put a quarter under her pillow.
Joe Biden's lies are self serving and consistent and they have undermined his other attempts to run for president.
He is falling in democrat polls and no doubt will have to pack it up once again. He's a shill for big Delaware financial corporations and he's as crooked as the hand writing of a ninety year old with Cerebral Palsy.

.As far as Trump "harming" other people
there were Muslims cheering when New York was attacked and NBC documented that. Eff You if you think Trump was wrong to point out the Muslim fifth column in this country.

 

[SassyIrishLass]

Looks like Biden got caught stretching the truth

What was the impact of Biden’s misrepresentation?
He was talking about the valor of US Troops

Now, let’s look at Trumps stretching the truth

He says he saw thousands of Muslims dancing on rooftops in NJ on 9-11
What was the impact of Trumps misrepresentation?
He spread hatred and fear of US Muslims

I can see Trump's misstatement as a mistake.
NBC covered all of the cheering....and I think Trump honestly felt it was in Jersey.
After all...it was 18 years ago.
Biden had to think of that story and knew it was a lie way in advance.

Biden’s story was a combination of three stories from 10 years ago
All concerned valor of individual soldiers with Biden giving a medal on one

Trumps story was designed to generate hate and fear of fellow Americans. Nobody reported American Muslims celebrating on 9-11

One reporter filed a report of a few Jews appearing to celebrate. When that reporter would not back Trumps claim of thousands of Muslims celebrating.......Trump mocked that reporters handicap

Thread topic is Biden....get there