Lies, and the Lying Vice Presidents Who Tell Them
Nobody messes with Joe?
Karl Rove doesn’t want to call Joe Biden a liar, but “serial exaggerator” probably undersells it. “He’s making these things up out of whole cloth,” Rove says about Biden’s claim that he spent “hours” alone with George Bush, and told him that “no one was following him.” In these circumstances, Rove’s epithet of “blowhard” might be the mildest description.
We didn’t need Rove to tell us this, frankly; it’s evident in the story itself:
“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 and around look behind you. No one is following.’”
That must have sounded pretty cool when he made it up in his treehouse.
“So I says to the president, I says, Mr. President, that dog won’t hunt. Well, lemme tell you, you coulda knocked him over with a feather. Nobody talks to him like that, but I’m a man who speaks my mind. Always have, always will. I don’t care who you are, I’m gonna let you know what I think.”
Biden is the dictionary definition of a tool.
But what’s less reported is that he gave President Bush another piece of his mind:
“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.’”
So he’s hanging out with President Bush all the time now—or his staff, completely different thing—because lying is like betting in poker: you have to be prepard to go all in.
After Obama’s election, one congressman suggested suspending the two-term limit on the president’s span of office. I might be willing to consider it if Dick Cheney were made Vice President for life. Hell, I’d take Pee Wee Herman over this dolt.
Martino said,
April 10, 2009 @ 11:15 am
Look, I’m not trying to be funny or cruel, but something is wrong with that man. Some kind of personality disorder or something. Perhaps Aspergia or something similar, I don’t know. But it is amazing that somebody like this can even get to the White House, much less be second in line.
Pat Patterson said,
April 10, 2009 @ 1:31 pm
Did the VP also mentioned his night with Venus or destroying a Turkish army?
Bloodthirsty Liberal said,
April 10, 2009 @ 1:42 pm
I don’t know about that, but he didn’t invent no Internet.
Al From Tennessee
Carol said,
April 10, 2009 @ 3:28 pm
I don’t think it’s Asperger’s syndrome - that just makes you socially inept and weird and unable to pick up on others’ social cues. I’m not saying that Joe doesn’t have all those deficiencies, but Asperger’s has nothing to do with being a pathological liar. I think the technical term for Joe’s moral/psychological deficit is, he’s a lying, self-important, arrogant, overweening, vainglorious, phony sack of shit.
How has our country fallen so low?