O'Biden's tales

I had heard that there were at least 14 big ones told by old Joe at the debate Thursday night, but like the foreign money being pumped into the Obama-Biden campaign, we'll probably not see him called on it. But a few have. Here's a piece from Investor's Business Daily:

". . . neither Carter nor Bill Clinton, whose twists and turns before a grand jury led to his impeachment, ever stared into the camera and spouted such a string of outright fabrications as if they were gospel truths the way Barack Obama's running mate did last week.

Thankfully, the blogosphere has been having a field day cataloguing Joe's whoppers. First, as InstaPundit's Michael Totten instantly noted after the debate, Biden — the great, seasoned foreign policy expert who chairs the Senate Foreign Relations Committee — falsely claimed France and the U.S. "kicked Hezbollah out of Lebanon."

Other whoppers on the menu:

accusation that John McCain is soft on regulation, when in fact he tried to beef up regulations on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac

falsely claiming that Obama didn't pledge to meet with Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

falsely claiming that Gov. Sarah Palin supported a windfall profits tax on oil companies

saying he's always been for clean coal in spite of his record of voting against it in the Senate

pretending he and Obama are in favor of drilling for oil

lied about the surge

lied about McCain's health care plan

was 2000% off on his claims about war costs

but, and how pitiful is this,
the restaurant he invited folks to in Wilmington hasn't been around in decades!

You Democrats have got yourselves a winner here. Someone who can out-deceive Bill Clinton is quite a master. There are people who believe their own lies and are insulted when called on it. Joe seems to be one of those. Obama, on the other hand, most likely knows he's lying. But, Joe is likeable and I suppose brings some gravitas to the ticket.