Posted on 09/18/2008 12:04:39 PM PDT by OldNavyVet
Rush Limbaugh, in today's show, referred to Clarence Thomas' book "My Grandfather's Son" to reveal Biden's slippery approach during Thomas' Supreme Court confirmation hearings.
Here is what Claremce Thomas wrote about it in pages 235 and 236 of that book.
Senator Biden was the first questioner. Instead of the softball questions he’d promised to ask, he threw a beanball straight at my head, quoting from a speech I’d given four years earlier at the Pacific Legal Foundation and challenging me to defend what I’d said. ”I find attractive the arguments of scholars such as Stephen Macedo, who defend an activist Supreme Court that would strike down laws restricting property rights.” That caught me off guard, and I had no recollection of making so atypical a statement, which shook me up even more. “Now, it would seem to me what you were talking about,” Senator Biden went on to say, “is you find it attractive the fact that they are activists and they would like to strike down existing laws that impact on restricting the use of property rights, because you know, that is what they write about.”
Since I didn’t remember making the statement in the first place, I didn’t know how to respond to it. All I could say in reply was that “it has been some time since I have read Professor Macedo … But I don’t believe that in my writings I have indicated that we should have an activist Supreme Court.” It was, I knew, a weak answer. Fortunately, though, the young lawyers who had helped prepare me for the hearing had loaded all of my speeches into a computer and at the first break in the proceedings they looked this one up. The senator, they found, had wrenched my words out of context. I looked at the text and saw that the passage he’d read out loud had been immediately followed by two other sentences: “But the libertarian argument overlooks the place of the Supreme Court in a scheme of separation of powers. One does not strengthen self-government and the rule of law by having the non-democratic branch of the government make policy.” The point I’d been making was the opposite of the one that Senator Biden claimed I had made.
Biden’s a liar. Always has been.
read
Joe Biden is a dumb, dishonest, cheap, gaffe proned liar.
And those are his good points.
Stand up Chuck!
Biden is not only a serial plagiarist and liar, he’s dishonorable.
(from Tony Mauro @ law.com)
In his 2007 memoir "My Grandfather's Son," Thomas recalls that Biden initially kept Anita Hill's allegations of sexual harassment against Thomas private. Before the firestorm began, Biden called him at home and said, "Judge, I know you don't believe me," but if the allegations come up, "I will be your biggest defender." Wrote Thomas, "He was right about one thing. I didn't believe him."
I’ve got to defend Joe Biden on this one.
He had no way of knowing the question was dishonest. He copied it from the notes of the Senator sitting next to him. :-)
To sort of paraphrase an Ann Coulter line—it causes one to doubt whether Biden is actually capable of understanding what he reads.
You have the punctuation wrong. It should be: "Stand, up-Chuck!"
Laura Ingraham worked with Clarence Thomas and made mention of this incident after Biden got the VP nomination.
That’s the excuse the media uses when they misquote Rush Limbaugh based on Media Matters’ faxes.
The dirty politics of Biden is a perfect match for the Chicago take-no-prisoners assassin’s political tactics of Barry Obama.
Anything for more TV Air-time - that’s Joe Biden.
"No charges were ever filed. Local newspapers covered the results of the state probe with one 1972 headline declaring, "Trucker Cleared in Biden Crash." Herlihy is also quoted in the 1972 article as saying "…there was absolutely no evidence of drinking."
"Yet years later, Biden would be quoted at least twice suggesting to crowds that his wife and daughter had been killed by a drunk driver. In the aftermath of September 11th, Biden gave a speech to University of Delaware students to reassure them. INSIDE EDITION found that speech archived on Biden's own website in which he told the crowd, "I got one of those phone calls...I got a phone call saying, 'Your wife's dead; your daughter's dead' ... It was an errant driver who stopped to drink instead of drive and hit a tractor trailer, hit my children and my wife and killed them."
AND... Not only was the truck driver not drunk, Neilia Biden was at fault in the tragic accident.
Most telling is the response from the campaign spokesman...
"Senator Biden understands the intense interest in him as the Democratic Vice Presidential nominee and has mentioned the accident over the years. His focus has always been on the tragedy of losing his wife and daughter, not on the circumstances that led to the crash. Dredging up the details of the accident now serves no purpose."
Of course, lying about the details of the accident served a purpose in his failed presidential bid. This man is truly the epitome of scum.
I think that AMPG forgot the /sarc.
bttt
Well deserved "smiley" at the end. I'm smiling too!
The committee chairman, and President Vanderdamp’s most hated political enemy, is Senator Dexter Mitchell of Connecticut. Buckley is fortunate that he chose to base this character (if I’m right) not on Kennedy but on another prominent member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, a man who may be the nation’s next vice president. Well, you tell me.
Dexter Mitchell loved—loved—to talk. He uttered his first full sentence at age fourteen months and hadn’t stopped since. . . . Once, famously, on his way into a state funeral at the National Cathedral, a reporter for one of the smaller cable TV news channels stepped forward to ask for a brief comment. One hour and fifteen minutes later, Senator Mitchell was still talking as the casket emerged . . . He was good-looking, in a shiny sort of way. He’d had his front teeth capped. They were now so blindingly white that when he bared them, you could almost hear a little tingg! And see a star of light reflect off the incisor. . . . Successive campaign advisors had tried without success to get him to give briefer answers, but nothing had stemmed the logorrheic tide, the tsunami of subordinate clauses and parenthetical asides, the inexorable mudslide of anecdotage. . . . He had run for president three times.
Yup. Sen. Biden alright. No doubt.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.