Posted on 10/03/2008 7:05:21 AM PDT by rface
Here are all 14 lies as compiled by the McCain campaign:
1. TAX VOTE: Biden said McCain voted “the exact same way” as Obama to increase taxes on Americans earning just $42,000, but McCain DID NOT VOTE THAT WAY.
2. AHMEDINIJAD MEETING: Joe Biden lied when he said that Barack Obama never said that he would sit down unconditionally with Mahmoud Ahmedinijad of Iran. Barack Obama did say specifically, and Joe Biden attacked him for it.
3. OFFSHORE OIL DRILLING: Biden said, “Drill we must.” But Biden has opposed offshore drilling and even compared offshore drilling to “raping” the Outer Continental Shelf.”
4. TROOP FUNDING: Joe Biden lied when he indicated that John McCain and Barack Obama voted the same way against funding the troops in the field. John McCain opposed a bill that included a timeline, that the President of the United States had already said he would veto regardless of it’s passage.
5. OPPOSING CLEAN COAL: Biden says he’s always been for clean coal, but he just told a voter that he is against clean coal and any new coal plants in America and has a record of voting against clean coal and coal in the U.S. Senate.
6. ALERNATIVE ENERGY VOTES: According to FactCheck.org, Biden is exaggerating and overstating John McCain’s record voting for alternative energy when he says he voted against it 23 times.
7. HEALTH INSURANCE: Biden falsely said McCain will raise taxes on people's health insurance coverage -- they get a tax credit to offset any tax hike. Independent fact checkers have confirmed this attack is false
8. OIL TAXES: Biden falsely said Palin supported a windfall profits tax in Alaska -- she reformed the state tax and revenue system, it's not a windfall profits tax.
9. AFGHANISTAN / GEN. MCKIERNAN COMMENTS: Biden said that top military commander in Iraq said the principles of the surge could not be applied to Afghanistan, but the commander of NATO's International Security Assistance Force Gen. David D. McKiernan said that there were principles of the surge strategy, including working with tribes, that could be applied in Afghanistan.
10. REGULATION: Biden falsely said McCain weakened regulation -- he actually called for more regulation on Fannie and Freddie.
11. IRAQ: When Joe Biden lied when he said that John McCain was “dead wrong on Iraq”, because Joe Biden shared the same vote to authorize the war and differed on the surge strategy where they John McCain has been proven right.
12. TAX INCREASES : Biden said Americans earning less than $250,000 wouldn’t see higher taxes, but the Obama-Biden tax plan would raise taxes on individuals making $200,000 or more.
13. BAILOUT: Biden said the economic rescue legislation matches the four principles that Obama laid out, but in reality it doesn’t meet two of the four principles that Obama outlined on Sept. 19, which were that it include an emergency economic stimulus package, and that it be part of “part of a globally coordinated effort with our partners in the G-20.”
14. REAGAN TAX RATES: Biden is wrong in saying that under Obama, Americans won't pay any more in taxes then they did under Reagan.
Well, at least we think he told the truth when he said his name was "Joe Biden."
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Democrat lying? Say it ain’t so Joe. Bwahahahahaha
Say it ain’t so, Joe!
(I just had to. )
I haven’t seen anyone mentioning Biden’s gaffe in saying that Hezbollah was kicked out of Lebanon by us and the French. Hezbollah has NEVER been kicked out of Lebanon by anybody.
Palin’s “line” about insides like Biden voting one way and then spinning it another way was resonating. People are sick of the politician speak, like Barney Frank, they are alwasy right and never wrong - it doesn’t fly when Americans loathe politicians.
I am wondering also if anyone has information on Biden’s assertion that our presence in Iraq, in three weeks, cost as much as the entire seven years in Afghanistan. That seems outrageous to me.
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Biden's IQ is probably higher than the IQ of anyone who believes him.
Thanks for the link to the transcript.
Joe Being Joe [Jonah Goldberg]
From a close friend of mine:
Jonah:
You can’t simply be resigned to everyone saying it’s Joe being Joe and alas. If he’s going to be the master of the details, and the details are ridiculously wrong, he has to be called on it. Forget every one of the Goldfarb lies you link to as many of them can all debated . But first on substance, the spending on Afghanistan point is so off and so embarrassing, you can’t spin it as you could the difference between differing senate resolutions on troop funding. It’s a dreadful mistake for someone who’s said “come with me to Afghanistan”, and all that stuff, and it’s their CENTRAL riposte for the Iraq war so it’s not like some bizarre point about Burma foreign aid. And if [the Western Standard] is right, he’s been saying it and not been called on it repeatedly so it’s not a verbal glitch. Second, on style, for him to go into a deliberate spiel about how’s he’s the man of the people, kicking it at Home Depot, and come on down to Katie’s restaurant on Union Street, and be talking about A RESTAURANT THAT CLOSED 20 YEARS AGO AT A DIFFERENT ADDRESS, is proof that his populism is phony and that’s he’s totally out of touch . It’s not like he garbled the name of some bar in Maumee Ohio, it’s HIS HOMETOWN OF 40 YEARS. It’s like the Wilmington stop on Amtrak is friggin’ Brigadoon or something.
He just makes up crap. Sorry about the all caps. The tinfoil hat made me do it.
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I think the funniest slip of the night was by Palin - “recognizing he (McCain) is the man that we need to leave — lead in these next four years.”
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Biden: “Vice President Cheney has been the most dangerous vice president we’ve had probably in American history. The idea he doesn’t realize that Article I of the Constitution defines the role of the vice president of the United States, that’s the Executive Branch. He works in the Executive Branch. He should understand that. Everyone should understand that.”
First, Article one is the LEGISLATIVE branch not the executive. Everybody should understand that. Furthermore the role of the Vice President is mentioned in BOTH Article I (the Legislative) and Article II (Executive).
So much for Biden the Constitutional scholar.
What a tool.
I liked the part where she called them Obama and Obiden.
ONLY 14 ????
Relatively good for a lyin’ LIBERAL, huh? :^D
hahahahaaa!
Sarah did GREAT !!!!
Joe certainly knows a lot, but almost everything he knows is wrong.
But this is how the game is played among the media savvy old pols.
Spout a blizzard of obscure facts in front of the cameras and give the impression that you are knowledgeable and well informed.
It doesn’t matter that the next day you will be proven wrong.
Only a small percentage of the original viewers will hear of it and not all of them will believe it.
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