Biden claims his uncle Frank won Purple Heart but story doesn’t add up

guno said:
Reagan used to tell stories about WWII and his advisers reminded him that was a movie he was in

https://www.salon.com/2015/02/07/ro...president_had_quite_a_brian_williams_problem/
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Although no cognitive tests were administered to Reagan during his time in office (his doctors saw no need for them), he did begin receiving annual mental and psychological assessments in 1990, after undergoing surgery to remove a blood clot in his brain. The four-hour battery of tests, which would have detected signs of dementia, found nothing amiss for the first three years they were administered. "All parameters for his age absolutely were within the normal range," one of Reagan's doctors said. It was Reagan himself who announced the diagnosis of Alzheimer's in 1994.

There were certainly no indications of dementia (age, perhaps, but not dementia) when the 81-year-old former president delivered a 35-minute speech at the 1992 Republican National Convention, a performance Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward described as "flawless."

It must also be said that given that the average life expectancy of a patient diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease is eight to 10 years, Reagan, who died in 2004 (10 years after his diagnosis), would have been extraordinarily long-lived for an Alzheimer's patient if he was already suffering from the disease, as some claim, in 1984.
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https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ronald-reagan-alzheimers-disease/
 
Is Biden "giving a Purple Heart" that his uncle didn't really earn just "stolen valor " that Biden stole for political purposes.:thinking:
 
AProudLefty said:
President Joe Biden appeared to make a major gaffe Friday when he claimed that after being elected vice president in 2008, he awarded his uncle, Frank Biden, a Purple Heart for his service in World War II, but there are some major holes in his story--primarily the fact his uncle died almost a decade before the 2008 election.

"My Uncle Frank joined. My father was working in the shipyards. There is not a second thought. They just showed up. It is the generation represented by you, Ray, that does not look for accolades. My dad, when I got elected Vice President, he said Uncle Frank fought the Battle of the Bulge and he won the purple heart and he never got it. You think we could help them get it? I got him the purple heart. I remember going over the house and I came out and I presented it to him with the family there. I said Uncle Frank, you won. He said I do not want the damn thing. I said what's the matter, I said you earned it. He said yes but the others died. I lived. I do not want it. It is like this generation in Vietnam -- excuse me, in Iraq. I was up at one of the points and I asked -- the co asked me if I would pin on a silver star to a young man -- I was out there. It was about 150 feet, not straight down, but a hill. This young man climbed down the hill and put a guy on his shoulder and brought them back up and was shot at on the way up and he said I do not want it. He died, he died."

https://www.c-span.org/video/?524921-1/president-biden-holds-town-hall-veterans

https://www.forbes.com/sites/nicholasreimann/2022/12/16/biden-says-he-awarded-uncle-a-purple-heart-but-his-story-isnt-possible/?sh=760afe596a55

A major gaffe that will keep the RWNJs frothing at their mouths. :laugh:
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This is a duplicate thread
 
AProudLefty said:
Politicians always lie. That's a given.

But the real question here is did President Biden deliberately lie or did he misremember a story?

Either way, it still doesn't look good. Perhaps it's time for him to retire. He has done enough.
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There is ZERO part of that story that is true. He dad died before Biden became a VP. His uncle was dead before Biden became VP. Biden's uncle never earned a Purple Heart. Those a HUGE details to misremember. If his memory is that bad we needs to use the 25th amendment now. Biden tried to steal Purple Heart status for political purposes.

 
ExpressLane said:
There is ZERO part of that story that is true. He dad died before Biden became a VP. His uncle was dead before Biden became VP. Biden's uncle never earned a Purple Heart. Those a HUGE details to misremember. If his memory is that bad we needs to use the 25th amendment now. Biden tried to steal Purple Heart status for political purposes.
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So you admit he didn't lie?
 
ExpressLane said:
My aunt died when she was 104. When she was still living alone ate around 90 years old she would tell fantastic stories about the neighbor killing rabbits. Otherwise she seemed OK. She later progressed to be very bad. So Biden is showing signs of dementia just like Reagan and that somehow is OK with you??? Plus I wasn't very political during Reagan because I was taking additional college classes to get in to med school so working and college and early fatherhood kept me pretty busy in the late 80s
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get in to med school
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:laugh:
 
Anotherpridelesslefty said:
Politicians always lie. That's a given.

But the real question here is did President Biden deliberately lie or did he misremember a story?

Either way, it still doesn't look good. Perhaps it's time for him to retire. He has done enough damage already.
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Couldnt agree more Lefty. :cool:
 
T. A. Gardner said:
And, you are defending a lying sack of shit telling yet another 'fish story' in a long line of fish stories he's lied his way through and been caught in?
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Jeez man.

A Proud Lefty (APL) is a mega lefty and yet, started a thread that knowingly makes Biden look senile.
And all you do is reign down ad hominem's for it.

You should AT LEAST give APL credit for posting a story that makes Biden look bad.

Sheesh.
 
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