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    Default Six times Biden described major events in his life that never happened

    Joe Biden claimed twice recently that he met with Parkland, Florida, shooting survivors when he was vice president, despite the fact that he was already out of office when the attack took place. His campaign said Biden misspoke and was referring to a different meeting he had after the Sandy Hook shooting. But the flub was reminiscent of Biden’s past misstatements and his tendency to embellish biographical details.

    1. Biden said his helicopter was “forced down” near Osama bin Laden’s lair in Afghanistan
    Biden claimed in multiple speeches in 2008 that he knew where Osama bin Laden was hiding because his helicopter had been “forced down” nearby in the mountains of Afghanistan.

    “If you want to know where al Qaeda lives, you want to know where bin Laden is, come back to Afghanistan with me,” said Biden. “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.” In another speech, he claimed al Qaeda is "in the mountains between Afghanistan and Pakistan … where my helicopter was recently forced down.”

    He later referred to “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,” said Biden.

    The helicopter actually landed to wait out a snowstorm, according to the Associated Press.

    Biden, John Kerry, and Chuck Hagel were on a Senate junket in Afghanistan when their helicopter crossed paths with the storm, according to reports. The pilot landed as a precaution, and a U.S. military convoy picked up the senators and took them to the main American airbase.

    “Other than getting a little cold, it was fine,” Kerry told the AP when asked about the incident. “We were going to send Biden out to fight the Taliban with snowballs,” he joked.

    [Also read: 'You should not be known as a gaffe machine': DNC members warn Biden]

    2. Biden said he was a coal miner

    While running for president in 2008, Biden told the United Mine Workers that he was a coal miner.

    “I hope you won’t hold it against me, but I am a hard-coal miner, anthracite coal, Scranton, Pennsylvania,” Biden said. “It’s nice to be back in coal country. It’s a different accent [in Virginia], but it’s the same deal. We were taught that our faith and our family was the only really important thing, and our faith and our family informed everything we did.”

    The Biden campaign later told the AP that his comment was a “joke.” But it echoed another false claim he had made about coming from a family of coal miners during his 1988 campaign.

    In a 1988 speech, Biden referred to “my ancestors, who worked in the coal mines of Northeast Pennsylvania and would come up after 12 hours and play football for four hours.” That line was plagiarized from a speech by British politician Neil Kinnock, whose family actually did work in the mines.

    In 2004, Biden acknowledged that he did not have family members who worked in mining.

    “Hell, I might be president now if it weren't for the fact I said I had an uncle who was a coal miner. Turns out I didn't have anybody in the coal mines, you know what I mean? I tried that crap — it didn't work,” he said during an interview with Jon Stewart.

    3. Biden said he was “shot at” in Iraq

    In 2007, Biden claimed he was “shot at” during the Iraq War while visiting the Green Zone, the heavily guarded area in the middle of Baghdad where the United States embassy is based.

    “Let’s start telling the truth,” he said. “Number one, you take all the troops out — you better have helicopters ready to take those 3,000 civilians inside the Green Zone, where I have been seven times and shot at.”

    When asked for details about the shooting, a Biden campaign aide told the Hill that the then-senator was staying at a hotel in the Green Zone when a mortar landed several hundred yards away.

    “A soldier came by to explain what happened and said if the mortar fire continued, they would need to proceed to a shelter,” the aide said.

    4. Biden said he called Slobodan Milošević a “damn war criminal” to his face

    Biden met with Serbian leader Slobodan Milošević in 1993, at the height of the siege of Sarajevo. According to Biden’s book Promises to Keep, when Milošević asked what he thought about him, Biden responded: “I think you’re a damn war criminal and you should be tried as one.”

    In 2008, Biden aide Ted Kaufman, who was at the meeting and also worked on Biden’s 2008 campaign, told the Washington Post that the account was accurate. However, three other Biden aides who were at the meeting declined to corroborate the story.

    John Ritch, a senate aide who attended the Milošević meeting, told the Post he did not recall Biden making such a dramatic pronouncement.

    “The legend grows,” said Ritch. “But Biden certainly introduced into the conversation the concept that Milošević was a war criminal. Milošević reacted with aplomb.”

    5. Biden said he participated in sit-ins at segregated restaurants and movie theaters

    In the 1970s and 1980s, Biden regularly claimed to have been an activist in the civil rights movement and said he participated in sit-ins along U.S. Route 40 in Delaware in 1961.

    ”When I was 17 years old, I participated in sit-ins to desegregate restaurants and movie houses in my state, and my stomach turned upon hearing the voices of Faubus and Barnett, and my soul raged upon seeing the dogs of Bull Connor,” said Biden in 1983.

    Biden also claimed to have organized a boycott of a segregated restaurant in Wilmington called The Pit when he was in high school after the restaurant refused to serve a black member of his football team. “I organized a civil rights boycott because they wouldn’t serve black kids. One of our football players was black and we went there and they said they wouldn’t serve him. And I said to the others, ‘Hey, we can’t go in there.’ So we all left,” said Biden.

    The football player contradicted Biden’s account and said Biden was not aware of the incident until later.

    “They weren’t aware of what happened,” said the football player in 1987. “I was only 16 then. It was my problem and my battle for me to work out. They were oblivious to it until later.”

    When Biden dropped out of the 1988 presidential race amid his plagiarism scandal, he said the extent of his civil rights participation was working at an all-black swimming pool for a summer in college. "During the 1960s, I was in fact very concerned about the civil rights movement. I was not an activist. I worked at an all-black swimming pool in the east side of Wilmington, Delaware," he said. "I was involved in what they were thinking, what they were feeling. But I was not out marching. I was not down in Selma. I was not anywhere else. I was a suburbanite kid who got a dose of exposure to what was happening to black Americans."

    6. Biden said he criticized President George W. Bush during lengthy private meetings in the Oval Office

    Biden claimed in 2009 that he spent “a lot of hours alone” with President George W. Bush and bluntly rebuked the president over his foreign policy decisions.

    "I remember President Bush saying to me one time in the Oval Office," Biden told CNN, "'Well, Joe,' he said, 'I'm a leader.' And I said: 'Mr. President, turn around and look behind you. No one is following.’”
    Bush aides told Fox News in 2009 that they did not recall Biden ever meeting alone with the president or making such a comment.

    "The president would never sit through two hours of Joe Biden," Candida P. Wolff, Bush's White House liaison to Congress, told Fox News. "I don't ever remember Biden being in the Oval. He was such a blowhard on all that stuff — there wasn't a reason to bring him in."
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    Trump has done that more in one presidential term than Biden probably has in his whole life.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jade Dragon View Post
    Trump has done that more in one presidential term than Biden probably has in his whole life.
    like (Biden) getting his helicopter forced down in Afgh?
    "I remember landing under sniper fire." (HillaryClnton ) for starters

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    Quote Originally Posted by dukkha View Post
    Joe Biden claimed twice recently that he met with Parkland, Florida, shooting survivors when he was vice president, despite the fact that he was already out of office when the attack took place. His campaign said Biden misspoke and was referring to a different meeting he had after the Sandy Hook shooting. But the flub was reminiscent of Biden’s past misstatements and his tendency to embellish biographical details.

    1. Biden said his helicopter was “forced down” near Osama bin Laden’s lair in Afghanistan
    Biden claimed in multiple speeches in 2008 that he knew where Osama bin Laden was hiding because his helicopter had been “forced down” nearby in the mountains of Afghanistan.

    “If you want to know where al Qaeda lives, you want to know where bin Laden is, come back to Afghanistan with me,” said Biden. “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.” In another speech, he claimed al Qaeda is "in the mountains between Afghanistan and Pakistan … where my helicopter was recently forced down.”

    He later referred to “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,” said Biden.

    The helicopter actually landed to wait out a snowstorm, according to the Associated Press.

    Biden, John Kerry, and Chuck Hagel were on a Senate junket in Afghanistan when their helicopter crossed paths with the storm, according to reports. The pilot landed as a precaution, and a U.S. military convoy picked up the senators and took them to the main American airbase.

    “Other than getting a little cold, it was fine,” Kerry told the AP when asked about the incident. “We were going to send Biden out to fight the Taliban with snowballs,” he joked.

    [Also read: 'You should not be known as a gaffe machine': DNC members warn Biden]

    2. Biden said he was a coal miner

    While running for president in 2008, Biden told the United Mine Workers that he was a coal miner.

    “I hope you won’t hold it against me, but I am a hard-coal miner, anthracite coal, Scranton, Pennsylvania,” Biden said. “It’s nice to be back in coal country. It’s a different accent [in Virginia], but it’s the same deal. We were taught that our faith and our family was the only really important thing, and our faith and our family informed everything we did.”

    The Biden campaign later told the AP that his comment was a “joke.” But it echoed another false claim he had made about coming from a family of coal miners during his 1988 campaign.

    In a 1988 speech, Biden referred to “my ancestors, who worked in the coal mines of Northeast Pennsylvania and would come up after 12 hours and play football for four hours.” That line was plagiarized from a speech by British politician Neil Kinnock, whose family actually did work in the mines.

    In 2004, Biden acknowledged that he did not have family members who worked in mining.

    “Hell, I might be president now if it weren't for the fact I said I had an uncle who was a coal miner. Turns out I didn't have anybody in the coal mines, you know what I mean? I tried that crap — it didn't work,” he said during an interview with Jon Stewart.

    3. Biden said he was “shot at” in Iraq

    In 2007, Biden claimed he was “shot at” during the Iraq War while visiting the Green Zone, the heavily guarded area in the middle of Baghdad where the United States embassy is based.

    “Let’s start telling the truth,” he said. “Number one, you take all the troops out — you better have helicopters ready to take those 3,000 civilians inside the Green Zone, where I have been seven times and shot at.”

    When asked for details about the shooting, a Biden campaign aide told the Hill that the then-senator was staying at a hotel in the Green Zone when a mortar landed several hundred yards away.

    “A soldier came by to explain what happened and said if the mortar fire continued, they would need to proceed to a shelter,” the aide said.

    4. Biden said he called Slobodan Milošević a “damn war criminal” to his face

    Biden met with Serbian leader Slobodan Milošević in 1993, at the height of the siege of Sarajevo. According to Biden’s book Promises to Keep, when Milošević asked what he thought about him, Biden responded: “I think you’re a damn war criminal and you should be tried as one.”

    In 2008, Biden aide Ted Kaufman, who was at the meeting and also worked on Biden’s 2008 campaign, told the Washington Post that the account was accurate. However, three other Biden aides who were at the meeting declined to corroborate the story.

    John Ritch, a senate aide who attended the Milošević meeting, told the Post he did not recall Biden making such a dramatic pronouncement.

    “The legend grows,” said Ritch. “But Biden certainly introduced into the conversation the concept that Milošević was a war criminal. Milošević reacted with aplomb.”

    5. Biden said he participated in sit-ins at segregated restaurants and movie theaters

    In the 1970s and 1980s, Biden regularly claimed to have been an activist in the civil rights movement and said he participated in sit-ins along U.S. Route 40 in Delaware in 1961.

    ”When I was 17 years old, I participated in sit-ins to desegregate restaurants and movie houses in my state, and my stomach turned upon hearing the voices of Faubus and Barnett, and my soul raged upon seeing the dogs of Bull Connor,” said Biden in 1983.

    Biden also claimed to have organized a boycott of a segregated restaurant in Wilmington called The Pit when he was in high school after the restaurant refused to serve a black member of his football team. “I organized a civil rights boycott because they wouldn’t serve black kids. One of our football players was black and we went there and they said they wouldn’t serve him. And I said to the others, ‘Hey, we can’t go in there.’ So we all left,” said Biden.

    The football player contradicted Biden’s account and said Biden was not aware of the incident until later.

    “They weren’t aware of what happened,” said the football player in 1987. “I was only 16 then. It was my problem and my battle for me to work out. They were oblivious to it until later.”

    When Biden dropped out of the 1988 presidential race amid his plagiarism scandal, he said the extent of his civil rights participation was working at an all-black swimming pool for a summer in college. "During the 1960s, I was in fact very concerned about the civil rights movement. I was not an activist. I worked at an all-black swimming pool in the east side of Wilmington, Delaware," he said. "I was involved in what they were thinking, what they were feeling. But I was not out marching. I was not down in Selma. I was not anywhere else. I was a suburbanite kid who got a dose of exposure to what was happening to black Americans."

    6. Biden said he criticized President George W. Bush during lengthy private meetings in the Oval Office

    Biden claimed in 2009 that he spent “a lot of hours alone” with President George W. Bush and bluntly rebuked the president over his foreign policy decisions.

    Bush aides told Fox News in 2009 that they did not recall Biden ever meeting alone with the president or making such a comment.

    "The president would never sit through two hours of Joe Biden," Candida P. Wolff, Bush's White House liaison to Congress, told Fox News. "I don't ever remember Biden being in the Oval. He was such a blowhard on all that stuff — there wasn't a reason to bring him in."
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    42 YEARS in congress and as VP. How many, using your list, is that a YEAR? There is NOT one incident above that warrants anything but, as you all say repeatedly, a YAWN. I would like to know the backstory to the helicopter being forced down. What else you got?

    Donald Trump has lied an average of 13 times a day since becoming president, analysis finds

    Large majorities of Trump supporters believe most, although not all, of his lies. This amounts to 1 out of 6 adults

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    https://www.salon.com/2019/08/12/don...alysis-finds/#
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    Quote Originally Posted by Centerleftfl View Post
    What else you got? There is NOT one incident there that warrants anything but, as you all say repeatedly, a YAWN. I would like to know the backstory to the helicopter being forced down.

    13 times a day is the average # of LIES Trump tells, depending of course on which week! Many are extremely CONSEQUENTIAL.

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    You post regularly from raw story and you’re complaining about another site having bias?

    If you’re doing that to be ironic then kudos, well played.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Centerleftfl View Post
    I would like to know the backstory to the helicopter being forced down.
    it was the weathre..
    Biden also claimed to have organized a boycott of a segregated restaurant in Wilmington called The Pit when he was in high school after the restaurant refused to serve a black member of his football team.
    egregious lie

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    Quote Originally Posted by dukkha View Post
    like (Biden) getting his helicopter forced down in Afgh?
    "I remember landing under sniper fire." (HillaryClnton ) for starters
    As I mentioned, I want to know if there is a backstory to that 'claim'. HILLARY'S had a very real (would have gotten my adrenaline pumping) 'backstory' to the LANDING. But of course you wouldn't know that now would you?

    ONE tale of theater from BIDEN? Like TRUMP saw "thousands of people" in NJ cheering that BIN LADEN brought down the towers? You sure you wanna play this dumbass game? You will surely lose.

    Hey, I watched when the World Trade Center came tumbling down. And I watched in Jersey City, New Jersey, where thousands and thousands of people were cheering as that building was coming down. Thousands of people were cheering.”

    STEPHANOPOULOS:
    “You know, the police say that didn’t happen and all those rumors have been on the Internet for some time. So did you misspeak yesterday?”

    TRUMP:It did happen. I saw it.”

    STEPHANOPOULOS: “You saw that…”

    TRUMP: It was on television. I saw it.

    STEPHANOPOULOS: “…with your own eyes?”

    TRUMP:George, it did happen.”



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    Quote Originally Posted by cawacko View Post
    You post regularly from raw story and you’re complaining about another site having bias?

    If you’re doing that to be ironic then kudos, well played.
    You bet your ass I do and will! EVERY RS story I post has the link to the originator. All well known sources to real news consumers. LEGITIMATE sources. All older, sans one, than the BUSH administration!
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    Quote Originally Posted by dukkha View Post
    Joe Biden claimed twice recently that he met with Parkland, Florida, shooting survivors when he was vice president, despite the fact that he was already out of office when the attack took place. His campaign said Biden misspoke and was referring to a different meeting he had after the Sandy Hook shooting. But the flub was reminiscent of Biden’s past misstatements and his tendency to embellish biographical details.

    1. Biden said his helicopter was “forced down” near Osama bin Laden’s lair in Afghanistan
    Biden claimed in multiple speeches in 2008 that he knew where Osama bin Laden was hiding because his helicopter had been “forced down” nearby in the mountains of Afghanistan.

    “If you want to know where al Qaeda lives, you want to know where bin Laden is, come back to Afghanistan with me,” said Biden. “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.” In another speech, he claimed al Qaeda is "in the mountains between Afghanistan and Pakistan … where my helicopter was recently forced down.”

    He later referred to “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,” said Biden.

    The helicopter actually landed to wait out a snowstorm, according to the Associated Press.

    Biden, John Kerry, and Chuck Hagel were on a Senate junket in Afghanistan when their helicopter crossed paths with the storm, according to reports. The pilot landed as a precaution, and a U.S. military convoy picked up the senators and took them to the main American airbase.

    “Other than getting a little cold, it was fine,” Kerry told the AP when asked about the incident. “We were going to send Biden out to fight the Taliban with snowballs,” he joked.

    [Also read: 'You should not be known as a gaffe machine': DNC members warn Biden]

    2. Biden said he was a coal miner

    While running for president in 2008, Biden told the United Mine Workers that he was a coal miner.

    “I hope you won’t hold it against me, but I am a hard-coal miner, anthracite coal, Scranton, Pennsylvania,” Biden said. “It’s nice to be back in coal country. It’s a different accent [in Virginia], but it’s the same deal. We were taught that our faith and our family was the only really important thing, and our faith and our family informed everything we did.”

    The Biden campaign later told the AP that his comment was a “joke.” But it echoed another false claim he had made about coming from a family of coal miners during his 1988 campaign.

    In a 1988 speech, Biden referred to “my ancestors, who worked in the coal mines of Northeast Pennsylvania and would come up after 12 hours and play football for four hours.” That line was plagiarized from a speech by British politician Neil Kinnock, whose family actually did work in the mines.

    In 2004, Biden acknowledged that he did not have family members who worked in mining.

    “Hell, I might be president now if it weren't for the fact I said I had an uncle who was a coal miner. Turns out I didn't have anybody in the coal mines, you know what I mean? I tried that crap — it didn't work,” he said during an interview with Jon Stewart.

    3. Biden said he was “shot at” in Iraq

    In 2007, Biden claimed he was “shot at” during the Iraq War while visiting the Green Zone, the heavily guarded area in the middle of Baghdad where the United States embassy is based.

    “Let’s start telling the truth,” he said. “Number one, you take all the troops out — you better have helicopters ready to take those 3,000 civilians inside the Green Zone, where I have been seven times and shot at.”

    When asked for details about the shooting, a Biden campaign aide told the Hill that the then-senator was staying at a hotel in the Green Zone when a mortar landed several hundred yards away.

    “A soldier came by to explain what happened and said if the mortar fire continued, they would need to proceed to a shelter,” the aide said.

    4. Biden said he called Slobodan Milošević a “damn war criminal” to his face

    Biden met with Serbian leader Slobodan Milošević in 1993, at the height of the siege of Sarajevo. According to Biden’s book Promises to Keep, when Milošević asked what he thought about him, Biden responded: “I think you’re a damn war criminal and you should be tried as one.”

    In 2008, Biden aide Ted Kaufman, who was at the meeting and also worked on Biden’s 2008 campaign, told the Washington Post that the account was accurate. However, three other Biden aides who were at the meeting declined to corroborate the story.

    John Ritch, a senate aide who attended the Milošević meeting, told the Post he did not recall Biden making such a dramatic pronouncement.

    “The legend grows,” said Ritch. “But Biden certainly introduced into the conversation the concept that Milošević was a war criminal. Milošević reacted with aplomb.”

    5. Biden said he participated in sit-ins at segregated restaurants and movie theaters

    In the 1970s and 1980s, Biden regularly claimed to have been an activist in the civil rights movement and said he participated in sit-ins along U.S. Route 40 in Delaware in 1961.

    ”When I was 17 years old, I participated in sit-ins to desegregate restaurants and movie houses in my state, and my stomach turned upon hearing the voices of Faubus and Barnett, and my soul raged upon seeing the dogs of Bull Connor,” said Biden in 1983.

    Biden also claimed to have organized a boycott of a segregated restaurant in Wilmington called The Pit when he was in high school after the restaurant refused to serve a black member of his football team. “I organized a civil rights boycott because they wouldn’t serve black kids. One of our football players was black and we went there and they said they wouldn’t serve him. And I said to the others, ‘Hey, we can’t go in there.’ So we all left,” said Biden.

    The football player contradicted Biden’s account and said Biden was not aware of the incident until later.

    “They weren’t aware of what happened,” said the football player in 1987. “I was only 16 then. It was my problem and my battle for me to work out. They were oblivious to it until later.”

    When Biden dropped out of the 1988 presidential race amid his plagiarism scandal, he said the extent of his civil rights participation was working at an all-black swimming pool for a summer in college. "During the 1960s, I was in fact very concerned about the civil rights movement. I was not an activist. I worked at an all-black swimming pool in the east side of Wilmington, Delaware," he said. "I was involved in what they were thinking, what they were feeling. But I was not out marching. I was not down in Selma. I was not anywhere else. I was a suburbanite kid who got a dose of exposure to what was happening to black Americans."

    6. Biden said he criticized President George W. Bush during lengthy private meetings in the Oval Office

    Biden claimed in 2009 that he spent “a lot of hours alone” with President George W. Bush and bluntly rebuked the president over his foreign policy decisions.


    Bush aides told Fox News in 2009 that they did not recall Biden ever meeting alone with the president or making such a comment.

    "The president would never sit through two hours of Joe Biden," Candida P. Wolff, Bush's White House liaison to Congress, told Fox News. "I don't ever remember Biden being in the Oval. He was such a blowhard on all that stuff — there wasn't a reason to bring him in."
    https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/n...never-happened
    I agree that Biden is a crazy old man who shouldn't be president, but it's hard taking a post like this seriously because you defend Trump.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Centerleftfl View Post
    As I mentioned, I want to know if there is a backstory to that 'claim'. HILLARY'S had a very real (would have gotten my adrenaline pumping) 'backstory' to the LANDING. But of course you wouldn't know that now would you?

    ONE tale of theater from BIDEN? Like TRUMP saw "thousands of people" in NJ cheering that BIN LADEN brought down the towers? You sure you wanna play this dumbass game? You will surely lose.

    Hey, I watched when the World Trade Center came tumbling down. And I watched in Jersey City, New Jersey, where thousands and thousands of people were cheering as that building was coming down. Thousands of people were cheering.”

    STEPHANOPOULOS:
    “You know, the police say that didn’t happen and all those rumors have been on the Internet for some time. So did you misspeak yesterday?”

    TRUMP:It did happen. I saw it.”

    STEPHANOPOULOS: “You saw that…”

    TRUMP: It was on television. I saw it.

    STEPHANOPOULOS: “…with your own eyes?”

    TRUMP:George, it did happen.”



    cam the fuck down.. It's been shown Hillary lied about being under sniper fire. Yes I am aware of the Trump lie about the WTC - he eitehr lied or was confused -either way Trump lied.

    HOW IN THE FUCK DO YOU CONFLATE THAT ABOUT LYING ABOUT ORGANIZING A CIVILRIGHTS DEMONSTRATION? that is bold faced..and that's just one from Biden.

    Joe Biden on China: 'They're Not Competition' for United States
    https://www.ccn.com/clueless-joe-bid...mic-ignorance/

    Joe Biden's 2020 Ukrainian nightmare: A closed probe is revived
    https://thehill.com/opinion/white-ho...obe-is-revived
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    But please do nominate his slurring, dental veneer, hair plugged, befuddled, Sleepy self.
    Trump will destroy him in debate

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    Quote Originally Posted by StoneByStone View Post
    I agree that Biden is a crazy old man who shouldn't be president, but it's hard taking a post like this seriously because you defend Trump.
    you idiot.
    You should take this seriously, and then you can compartmentalize, and criticize Trump both

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    Quote Originally Posted by dukkha View Post
    you idiot.
    You should take this seriously, and then you can compartmentalize, and criticize Trump both
    I am taking this seriously. I agree Biden is not fit to be president. So why aren't you consistent?
    Sounds like you care about the GOP more than you care about America.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Centerleftfl View Post
    You bet your ass I do and will! EVERY RS story I post has the link to the originator. All well known sources to real news consumers. LEGITIMATE sources. All older, sans one, than the BUSH administration!
    so post the ORIGINAL and quit posting the SPIN from Raw Sewage!

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    Are you saying Biden is a congenital liar. Then we can expect your unwavering support, right?

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    Quote Originally Posted by StoneByStone View Post
    I am taking this seriously. I agree Biden is not fit to be president. So why aren't you consistent?
    Sounds like you care about the GOP more than you care about America.
    you leap to the conclusion supporting Trump is "not caring about America"

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