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Why does Joe Biden lie about a 'drunk driver' killing his 1st wife?

September 19, 2008
By Thomas Lifson

It is terrible to lose family members to a traffic accident. But why on earth would a United States Senator fabricate an embellishment and claim that it was a drunk driver's fault, when the record clearly indicates it was not?

Delaware Online reports:

Since his vice presidential nomination, Joe Biden's 2007 statement that a "guy who allegedly ... drank his lunch" and drove the truck that struck and killed his first wife and daughter has gained national media traction.

Alcohol didn't play a role in the 1972 crash, investigators found. But as recently as last week, the syndicated TV show Inside Edition aired a clip from 2001 of Biden describing the accident to an audience at the University of Delaware and saying the truck driver "stopped to drink instead of drive."

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.

"To see it coming from [Biden's] mouth, I just burst into tears," Dunn's daughter, Glasgow resident Pamela Hamill, 44, said Wednesday. "My dad was always there for us. Now we feel like we should be there for him because he's not here to defend himself."

Biden has embellished his supposed "working class" origins in Scranton, PA, when in fact his father was successful sales professional for substantial companies, and he attended a very expensive private school.

Is this an attempt to exploit the death of his first wife for political gain? The thought is sickening. Even if Biden was inititially misinformed, he and his campaign have allowed a lie to propagate throughout the media. The news report above mentions:

"...since Barack Obama tapped Biden to be his running mate on Aug. 23, The New York Times, National Public Radio and The Economist have run stories that characterized Dunn as a drunken driver."

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/09/why_does_joe_biden_lie_about_a.html
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Re: Why does Joe Biden lie about a 'drunk driver' killing his 1st wife?
« Reply #1 on: September 19, 2008, 04:35:22 PM »
Perhaps it still hurts and he is still trying to make sense out of something senseless. I know feelings are not your RW Repub strong suit. Why does McCain lie about his "torture"

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Re: Why does Joe Biden lie about a 'drunk driver' killing his 1st wife?
« Reply #2 on: September 19, 2008, 05:08:48 PM »
Alcohol "didn't play a role" in the accident is not the same as saying the driver "had not been drinking."  Whether alcohol "played a role" or not is a matter for the investigators to decide and if they decide that it did play a role, then the court gets a second chance at the question.

Biden's opinion as to whether or not alcohol was a factor may not be the same as the investigators' opinion, but he's no dummy and at this point we don't know enough about the case to determine whether or not anyone was covering up for the driver.

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Re: Why does Joe Biden lie about a 'drunk driver' killing his 1st wife?
« Reply #3 on: September 19, 2008, 05:13:27 PM »
Why does John McCain lie about the circumstances surrounding his divorce from his first wife?

http://www.snopes.com/politics/mccain/carol.asp
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Re: Why does Joe Biden lie about a 'drunk driver' killing his 1st wife?
« Reply #4 on: September 19, 2008, 05:38:22 PM »
McCain stated in his autobiography that he was solely responsible for the failure of his first marriage: "My marriage's collapse was attributable to my own selfishness and immaturity. The blame was entirely mine."

So Biden is lying in 2008...as in right now......and McCain stated the above in his latest biography 6 years ago.

Quite different than Biden lying and trying to get sympathy from a dead wife in 2008.

Joe Biden is the biggest mistake Obama ever made.
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Re: Why does Joe Biden lie about a 'drunk driver' killing his 1st wife?
« Reply #5 on: September 19, 2008, 08:41:32 PM »
<<So Biden is lying in 2008...as in right now......and McCain stated the above in his latest biography 6 years ago.>>

All right - - so why did McCain lie to his first wife about his cheating on her when she was sitting crippled in her wheelchair?

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Re: Why does Joe Biden lie about a 'drunk driver' killing his 1st wife?
« Reply #6 on: September 19, 2008, 09:46:14 PM »
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All right - - so why did McCain lie to his first wife about his cheating on her when she was sitting crippled in her wheelchair?

Probably didn't want to hurt her.

Why dioes anyone lie to a spouse?



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« Reply #7 on: September 19, 2008, 11:01:58 PM »
<<Probably didn't want to hurt her. >>

BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!  So he dumps her for some blonde billionaire bimbo 20 years younger and leaves her behind in a wheelchair.  Hey, he's a real class act.  "Didn't want to hurt her."  That's absolutely priceless.

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Re: Why does Joe Biden lie about a 'drunk driver' killing his 1st wife?
« Reply #8 on: September 19, 2008, 11:25:38 PM »
And?

She was well taken care of in the settlement.


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Re: Why does Joe Biden lie about a 'drunk driver' killing his 1st wife?
« Reply #9 on: September 20, 2008, 12:20:04 PM »
michael you are missing the point

look at your calendar, what year is it?

Plagiarism Joe Biden is lying in 2008!

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Re: Why does Joe Biden lie about a 'drunk driver' killing his 1st wife?
« Reply #10 on: September 20, 2008, 12:23:20 PM »
And?

She was well taken care of in the settlement.

Yeah, money is always a great salve for emotional trauma.  Just ask the 9.11 widows, right?

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Re: Why does Joe Biden lie about a 'drunk driver' killing his 1st wife?
« Reply #11 on: September 20, 2008, 12:28:00 PM »
michael you are missing the point

look at your calendar, what year is it?

Plagiarism Joe Biden is lying in 2008!
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I'll tell ya MY point, CU4 - - a man's character does not change.  If the guy was a liar, a sneak and a cheat in nineteen-eighty-whatever, he's a liar, a sneak and a cheat today and that's what he'll be when he dies.  Nothing more, nothing less.  A man's character is formed very early in life and it does not change.  THAT is something you can take to the bank and deposit.  And most people seem to know that.

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Re: Why does Joe Biden lie about a 'drunk driver' killing his 1st wife?
« Reply #12 on: September 20, 2008, 12:37:44 PM »


<<She was well taken care of in the settlement.>>

Really?  When the original issue of "elitism" was raised and I kind of asked how the great-grandson of slave-owning planters and the son and grandson of Navy admirals could NOT be of the "elite," a lot of learned discussion suddenly ensued about the wages of admirals, the general drift seeming to be that there was little money in the admiral business and McCain was not born into any kind of elite.  Now it appears that this po'boy gets out of jail after five years, ditches his crippled wife and miraculously finds the money to leave her "well taken care of" in his settlement.

Much more disturbing, however, seems to be your highly elastic code of ethics - - lie to, cheat on and dump the woman you've sworn to love, honour and cherish for life, once she's crippled and disfigured, and it's OK as long as you pay off your victim?  Fuck that.  This guy's a fucking weasel, and if the voters won't see it that's their problem.

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Re: Why does Joe Biden lie about a 'drunk driver' killing his 1st wife?
« Reply #13 on: September 20, 2008, 12:38:23 PM »
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Yeah, money is always a great salve for emotional trauma.  Just ask the 9.11 widows, right?


Would you ban divorce?

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« Reply #14 on: September 20, 2008, 12:40:31 PM »
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Much more disturbing, however, seems to be your highly elastic code of ethics - - lie to, cheat on and dump the woman you've sworn to love, honour and cherish for life, once she's crippled and disfigured, and it's OK as long as you pay off your victim?  Fuck that.  This guy's a fucking weasel, and if the voters won't see it that's their problem.

Does divorce disqualify a candidate from high office?