According to old ‘Slow Joe’, "I always say what I mean." But that statement really kind of flies in the face of reality. I mean we’ve all heard the too-many-count-gaffes made by this clown. Further evidence of how ridiculous it is for him to make such a claim in the first place is the fact that he made a number of factually inaccurate statements, or lies, during his debate with Rep. Paul Ryan. Just a brief list of those factually inaccurate statements, or lies, follows:
1. The Obama administration "did not know" the Libyan embassy had requested additional security prior to the terrorist attack that killed four Americans.
"We weren’t told they wanted more security there," Biden said in response to a charge from Republican opponent Paul Ryan. "We did not know they wanted more security." Now, ‘Slow Joe’s’ statement stands pretty much in direct contrast to actual sworn testimony from State Department officials during a congressional hearing earlier this week. Two security officials working in Libya at the time told members of Congress they repeatedly requested additional security prior to the attack out of concern for their safety, but that those requests were denied. "All of us at post were in sync that we wanted these resources," said Eric Nordstrom, the former head of regional security in Libya.
"We felt great frustration that those requests were ignored or just never met," lamented Lt. Col. Andrew Wood, a Utah National Guardsman who led a security team in Libya. State Department officials have confirmed that repeated security requests were made and subsequently denied.
Nordstrom said he believed the requests were not approved "because there would be too much political cost." The White House now claims, most likely in an effort to cover Barry’s ass 20 some days from an election, that Biden only meant that neither he nor Barry "Almighty" was personally informed of the security requests, but press secretary Jay Carney on Friday awkwardly declined to say whether or not they ever were briefed on the matter.
2. Ryan and House Republicans "cut" embassy security by $300 million.The House Republican budget, which Rep. Ryan did author, proposed spending about $22 Billion less on non-defense discretionary spending in 2014 compared with Barry’s ‘budget’, or about 0.63 percent of the federal budget for that year. Budgets do not typically identify specific cuts, as those are determined by congressional appropriations committees. However, Democrats have extrapolated that $300 million of the $22 billion would be cut from embassy construction, maintenance, and security. That is not necessarily true, however. And it is certainly not true that Republicans have "cut" the embassy funding—because the Ryan budget was never enacted. A senior State Department official who testified before Congress earlier this week said budget considerations were not a factor in the decision to deny the U.S. Libyan delegation’s repeated requests for additional security.
3. The Obama administration has "decimated" al Qaeda." We decimated al Qaeda central," Biden said, echoing a popular Barry "Almighty" campaign talking point. Intelligence reports and other sources, however, have indicated that the Islamic terrorist network responsible for the 9-11 attacks is actually on the rise throughout the greater Middle East and elsewhere. In fact, "The Free Beacon‘s" Bill Gertz recently reported on an internal Pentagon report describing the terrorist group’s resurgence. Most recently, an al Qaeda offshoot has been credited with carrying out the deadly attack in Libya that claimed the life of U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and several other Americans.
"Al Qaeda is, unfortunately, alive and well in the Maghreb, Yemen, and elsewhere, as the administration will probably admit after the election," former National Security Council member Elliott Abrams told the Washington Free Beacon earlier this week. "The claim that the organization was rendered toothless after [Osama bin Laden] was killed is simply not accurate, and every terrorism specialist in our government knows that." Even Lara Logan, chief foreign correspondent for CBS News, recently described the Obama administration’s declaration of victory in the war on terror a "major lie."
4. Obama doesn’t want to raise taxes on families and small businesses earning less than $1 million a year."The middle class will pay less and people making a million dollars or more will begin to contribute slightly more," ‘Slow Joe’ said of Barry’s tax plan. "We can’t afford $800 billion going to people who [are] making a minimum of $1 million," he added. We’ve often heard Barry state his desire to raise taxes on all individuals and small businesses earning at least $200,000 a year, a proposal he included in his most recent ‘budget’ resolution. Doing so is estimated to raise about $800 billion in new revenue over the next decade. "Biden appeared to have moved the goal posts," wrote Glenn Kessler, the Washington Post’s in-house fact-checker. Raising tax rates on incomes above $1 million only, which some Democrats have proposed, would raise just $463 Billion, or about half the figure Biden cited. And once again it was White House spokesmoron, Jay Carney, who on Friday was forced to disavow ‘Slow Joe’s’ inaccurate portrayal of the president’s tax plan.
5. Syria is five times the size of Libya."[Syria] is a different country, it is five times as large [as Libya] geographically," ‘Slow Joe’ said. This claim is literally false, maybe Joe should check out a World Atlas or even a globe sometime. Libya actually has a geographical area of 1.76 million square kilometers, according to the Central Intelligence Agency. Syria has a geographical area of 185,180 square kilometers. Libya is 9.5 times larger than Syria geographically. Whoops!
6. Obama has ordered all American troops out of Afghanistan by 2014."We are leaving [Afghanistan] in 2014. Period," Biden said Thursday. However, the Barry administration has discussed maintaining what’s described as an "enduring presence", in the words of that Clinton retread and disastrous Secretary of Defense, Leon Panetta, in Afghanistan beyond 2104. That force would likely consist of somewhere between 10,000 to 15,000 military advisers and special forces troops, contingent on an agreement with the government of Afghanistan.
7.The federal government is not forcing Catholic institutions to cover contraception."With regard to the assault on the Catholic church, let me make it absolutely clear, no religious institution, Catholic or otherwise, including Catholic Social Services, Georgetown Hospital, Mercy Hospital, any hospital, none has to either refer contraception, none has to pay for contraception, none has to be a vehicle to get contraception in any insurance policy they provide. That is a fact," ‘Slow Joe’ said. Well that’s not quite accurate either, with 35 lawsuits filed against the HHS mandate, which forces insurance companies to cover contraception for free, pending right now, including many from Catholic universities. Something called the Becket Fund pointed out this fact in an email objecting to the ‘Slow Joe’s’ comments. It was only after an initial uproar against the Health and Human Services mandate requiring institutions to pay for insurance coverage of contraception, the Obama administration announced that "the cost would be shifted to health insurance companies," reported the New York Times. However, this concession has not placated religious groups, who argue that the rule violates the first amendment’s guarantee of religious freedom.
8. Biden voted against the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.And then ‘Slow Joe’ said economic crisis of 2008 happened in part because of Paul Ryan "voting to put two wars on a credit card." "I was there, I voted against them," ‘Slow Joe’ bellowed. "I said, no, we can’t afford that." However, that’s not quite accurate either. Because then-Sen. ‘Slow Joe’ actually voted FOR for the Afghanistan resolution on Sept. 14, 2001, AUTHORIZING "the use of United States Armed Forces against those responsible for the recent attacks launched against the United States." And on Oct. 11, 2002, ‘Slow Joe’ again voted FOR a resolution authorizing unilateral military action in Iraq. ‘Slow Joe’ did, however, vote against the First Gulf War to repel the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, arguing that the U.S. had no "vital interests" in the region.
So as you can pretty plainly see the entire evening, at least on the part of ‘Slow Joe’, consisted pretty much of one lie being told right on top of another. And with some very loud voices now proclaiming that the night was a big win for ‘Slow Joe’, once against we have irrefutable proof that the truth matters very little, if at all, to those on the left. It’s whatever story suits their purpose at the time. Lies are just another tool to be used in the quest to achieve electoral victory.
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