Posted on 10/02/2008 6:17:52 AM PDT by HD1200
I didn’t know Biden made these claims.
Prior to reading this article, I had a good deal of sympathy for his losses. Biden’s lie taints the situation and I find myself with considerably less sympathy, much the same way I felt about the Wellstone “memorial”.
Positively disgraceful.
You can't avoid a crash and cause a crash. If you are in the perfect right, you have the legal obligation to maintain control of the truck and do everything in your power to slow/stop your truck while being in control to minimize the crash if it has to happen.
A lot of people don't understand this. I don't drive 18's anymore.
And, sadly, he will be a heartbeat away from the Presidency.
Yet, it's OK for Biden to use it to his poilitacl advantage.
You cannot imagine holding some grudge about this guy after his family is wiped out.
From everythng that I've read, the other driver was not at fault in the accident and he had not been drinking as Biden still slanderously asserts.
While I despise his politics, he gets a pass on this from me.
You're giving him a pass on lying about a dead man because he lost his family in an accident? That makes no sense to me.
The senator's statements don't jibe with news and law enforcement reports from the time, which cleared driver Curtis C. Dunn, who died in 1999, of wrongdoing.
Such things should be out of bounds, right?
True story.
I still remember every last millisecond of it.
I am saying that if I were in the same position I would be mad at the world. Generally, I think a lot of things are worthy of being on the table. But, my personal meter is whether or not I would or have acted the same way.
I think I would have personally killed the guy, whether he was innocent or not. I know this is not a logical argument, but purely emotional. I know it doesn’t make sense. But its simply another way of looking at it.
I guess in response to Biden, I would state that the guy was found innocent, and express empathy for the loss of his family.
And really, doesn’t Joe make enough mistakes on EVERYTHING else to hit him hard elsewhere?
I appreciate all of the points in the messages sent to me. This is a personal thing.
I would say this is another example of a calculated political move on Biden’s part - unless he really is too stupid to tell the difference between fact and fantasy.
Using his tragic story can be understood. But creating allegations that he knew were not true, lying about and slandering an innocent man in the process? Joe Biden is scum.
What did scum ever do to deserve such a horrible comparison!?
“I think making hay about ANYTHING to do with the accident is way, way out of bounds.”
Well, Biden called that game. He was the one making political hay and lying about this accident to ruin an innocent man’s life. We’re talking about his lies. He started this discussion with them.
Don’t ever make a mistake because I will make sure to point it out.
You finally have a mission in life, how cute.
whoo Hoo! You really got me there. Wow! Your good!
This thread is a bad idea. We can be better than this.
Joe Biden’s first wife, Neily was my sister-in-law’s roommate at Syracuse. The story that Biden tells is essentially true. Just because the driver was not convicted doesn’t change what happened.
I can still remember my sister-in-law tearfully telling me what happened to her friend, that a drunken truck driver just plowed into her friend’s vehicle, after she had pulled over, off the road, to buy a Christmas tree.
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Sorry, it wasn't listed here;
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1111944/posts
Perhaps you can add it to the list so the same mistake isn't made twice?
Thanks.
Not according to the investigator, who not only determined that there was no alcohol involved, Dunn was not responsible in any way, but that the late Mrs. Biden was. This story is tragic enough, garners plenty of sympathy for Biden -- for him to lie, embellish the tale is not only despicable, but dishonors his family, especially to do it for political gain, votes. It is wholly unnecessary.
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