Joe Biden the Liar: Rove and Others Say Statements About Bush Made-up!
Biden’s claims to have rebuked Bush in private meetings are false. Biden is a pathological liar and there is evidence of this throughout his career. He had to drop out of a campaign because he plagiarized speeches. He also lied multiple times during the VP debate, just to name only a couple of incidents.
“I hate to say this, but he’s a serial exaggerator,” Rove told FOX News. “If I was being unkind I would say liar. But it is a habit he ought to drop.”
Rove added: “You should not exaggerate and lie like this when you are the Vice President of the United States.”
Biden’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment, although Biden spokesman Jay Carney told Fox on Wednesday: “The vice president stands by his remarks.”
This is clue #1 that something is up. If Biden was so cock-sure and confident that he was in fact telling the truth during his interview a response would not have taken this long and the response eventually made would have been a little bit more elaborate or would have backed up his statements in some way via some sort of proof or corroboration by others on the Hill.
“I remember President Bush saying to me one time in the Oval Office,” Biden began, “‘Well, Joe,’ he said, ‘I’m a leader.’ And I said: ‘Mr. President, turn around look behind you. No one is following.’”
The exchange is purely “fictional,” said Rove, who was Bush’s top political adviser in the White House.
“It didn’t happen,” Rove, a FOX News contributor and former Bush adviser, told Megyn Kelly in an interview taped for “On The Record.” “It’s his imagination; it’s a made-up, fictional world.
“He ought to get out of it and get back to reality,” Rove added. “He’s making this up out of whole cloth.”
Rove’s skepticism was echoed by a variety of other Bush aides, including former White House press secretary Ari Fleischer, chief of staff Andy Card and legislative liaison Candida Wolff.
Dana Perino was also interviewed and stated similar sentiments in regards to the falsehoods attributed to Bush and Cheney.
They also disputed a similar assertion made by Biden in 2004, when the former senator from Delaware told scores of Democratic colleagues at a lunch that he had challenged Bush’s moral certitude about the Iraq war during a private meeting in the Oval Office. Two years later, Biden repeated his story about dressing down the president.
“When I speak to the president – and I have had plenty of opportunity to be with the president, at least prior to the last election, a lot of hours alone with him. I mean, meaning me and his staff,” Biden said on HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher” in April 2006. “And the president will say things to me, and I’ll literally turn to the president, say: ‘Mr. President, how can you say that, knowing you don’t know the facts?’ And he’ll look at me and he’ll say – my word – he’ll look at me and he’ll say: ‘My instincts.’ He said: ‘I have good instincts.’ I said: ‘Mr. President, your instincts aren’t good enough.’”
Obama on Face the Nation, 60 Minutes
Some interesting points to note from Obama’s interview with Kroft on Face the Nation.
Obama seems to be laughing and chuckling when discussing the economic crisis the country is currently facing. Kroft pressed Obama on his demeanor and it shows that Obama may in fact be extremely detached from the feelings and emotions that most average Americans are experiencing during these tumultuous times.
Obama is also struggling to disown and disassociate himself with Geithner. He still held to the fact that Geithner is competent, qualified and will be able to handle this financial meltdown. Some say that Obama not distancing himself from his Treasury Secretary is hurting Obama and losing him some major political points. I personally feel that it is only a matter of time before Geithner is tossed under Obama’s infamous bus.
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