The Human Gaffe Machine Helicopters On

Meet your next potential VP or President, the honorable Joe Biden!

In a Baltimore speech last week, Biden said: “If you want to know where Al Qaeda lives, you want to know where (Usama) bin Laden is, come back to Afghanistan with me. Come back to the area where my helicopter was forced down with a three-star general and three senators at 10,500 feet in the middle of those mountains. I can tell you where they are.”

Two days later, in Cincinnati, he said Al Qaeda has re-established a safe haven and it’s not in Baghdad. “It’s in the mountains between Afghanistan and Pakistan,” he said, “where my helicopter was recently forced down.”

At a Sept. 9, fundraiser, Biden addressed his national security credentials by talking about “the superhighway of terror between Pakistan and Afghanistan where my helicopter was forced down. John McCain wants to know where bin Laden and the gates of Hell are? I can tell him where. That’s where Al Qaida is. That’s where bin Laden is.”

THE FACTS: In February, Biden and fellow senators John Kerry and Chuck Hagel were flying in a helicopter over Afghanistan in a fact-finding trip when a snowstorm closed in.

This self-serving lie by ommission from the guy who waggled four student deferments during the Vietnam war and consequently never served a day fighting for his country.

You can count on Joe Biden!

Senator Biden is on a roll this week, staying true to his habit of tossing out verbal gaffes with impunity.

• During one of his campaign speeches, he urged a wheelchair-bound invalid to stand up so the crowd could see him.
  

• He stated that AIG should not be bailed out after running mate Obama said that they should be bailed out.
  

• During a campaign stop in coal-rich rural Ohio, he stated that there would be no clean coal utilities in an Obama/Biden administration however Obama has vowed to develop and deploy clean coal technology.
  

• He critized the Obama ad that belittled McCain for not being adept a using a computer and then backtracked.
  

• He stated that during the stock market crash of 1929, President Roosevelt went on the TV to explain to the people what happened. Two problems: Hoover was the president at the time and TV was not yet invented.
  

• He stated that Hillary would have been a better VP pick.
  

• He claimed that it was a patriot duty for wealthy American to pay higher taxes.
  

Nothing like a little comic relief during a tough campaign.  I can't help thinking that if Obama gets elected, Biden is going to be a riot when he attends head-of-state funerals.

Other Peoples Money

Joe Biden released 10 years of his tax returns and it turns out that he has averaged a miserly $369 per year in charitable deductions.  98% of people in his tax bracket contribute more.

As far as I am concerned, that's his business. However, when I couple that fact to his statement that anyone who earns $250,000 or more per year should feel a partiotic duty to pay higher taxes so it can be redistributed to people who make less, it confirms that he just another pandering hypocrite.

Joe's generosity knows no bounds as long as it's somebody elses money he's giving away.