Biden caught in another lie—this time football

Who and when he played against in the 1960s during his college career is not as important as lying about Benghazi or voting for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq (which he lied about during the debate), it does however speak to his character, or worse, his long term memory.

Biden did not play football at the University of Delaware in 1961, 1962, 1963, or 1964, according to past yearbooks nor was he in the student directory in 1963.

"During a campaign stop in Athens, Ohio, on Saturday, Vice President Joe Biden said the last time he was in the town, playing against the Ohio University football team in 1963, he almost got arrested for walking into a girls' dormitory," CBS News Online reported last month.”

Graduation rates for Ohio State University compared to my Alma Mater, University of Illinois

This is an interesting group of  data bases.  We’ve paid for it; might as well check it.  Much of the information is out of date—like almost 2 years.

Data are for full-time, first-time, degree/certificate-seeking  undergraduates, 2010, within 150% of normal time to program completion.  Overall graduate rate for OSU (main campus): 78%; for Illinois 84%.

Men  OSU  76; UI 83

Women OSU 81; UI 86

White, non-Hispanic  OSU 79; UI 86

Black, non-Hispanic  OSU 69; UI 77

Hispanic OSU 66; UI 73

Asian or Pacific Islander OSU 82; UI 87

American Indian or Alaska Native  OSU 75; UI 83

Race/ethnicity unknown OSU 77;  UI 81

Nonresident alien OSU 76; UI 74

http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/datacenter/InstitutionByName.aspx

Women push Romney into lead

I really do think it was the Biden behavior—reminded to many women of the ex.  Besides, women are in the work place, they own small businesses, they have values. . .

Why are women moving to Romney/Ryan?

By Kelly Monroe Kullberg

Women swinging towards Romney & Ryan. USA Today. Why? Likely because women (like men) care a lot about jobs, national security, Judaeo-Christian faith and freedom, the rule of law, their consciences and families. We've had enough debt, division and scandal for a lifetime.

Obamacare law contains 20 new or higher taxes

Read more details about each tax hike: http://atr.org/full-list-obamacare-tax-hikes-listed-a7010#ixzz29OqvtKuQ

$123 Billion: Surtax on Investment Income

$86 Billion: Hike in Medicare Payroll Tax

$65 Billion: Individual Mandate Excise Tax and Employer Mandate Tax

$60.1 Billion: Tax on Health Insurers

$32 Billion: Excise Tax on Comprehensive Health Insurance Plans

$23.6 Billion: “Black liquor” (bio-fuel) tax hike

$22.2 Billion: Tax on Innovator Drug Companies

$20 Billion: Tax on Medical Device Manufacturers

$15.2 Billion: High Medical Bills Tax

$13.2 Billion: Flexible Spending Account Cap – aka “Special Needs Kids Tax”

$5 Billion: Medicine Cabinet Tax

$4.5 Billion: Elimination of tax deduction for employer-provided retirement Rx drug coverage in coordination with Medicare Part D

$4.5 Billion: Codification of the “economic substance doctrine”

$2.7 Billion: Tax on Indoor Tanning Services

$1.4 Billion: HSA Withdrawal Tax Hike

0.6 Billion: $500,000 Annual Executive Compensation Limit for Health Insurance Executives

$0.4 Billion: Blue Cross/Blue Shield Tax Hike

$ Negligible: Excise Tax on Charitable Hospitals

$ Negligible: Employer Reporting of Insurance on W-2

Read more details about each tax hike: http://atr.org/full-list-obamacare-tax-hikes-listed-a7010#ixzz29OqvtKuQ

Add a chair for Joe Biden

Benghazi Gate—bigger cover up than Watergate

Tough on Republicans, soft on terrorists

He lied about his support for “the Bush wars” (voted for them) and he lied about the HHS Mandate (there is no allowance or agreement that Catholic Bishops have approved) and lied about who knew what when about Benghazi attacks (facts were known within 24 hours and for 2 weeks Obama, Clinton and Rice lied) and he waffled on abortion (he’s a cafeteria catholic).  Good old, foot-in-mouth Joe  is truth-challenged, and too confused about his own values and the administration’s policies to be a heart beat away from the presidency. 

Hold on. Only half of the nation is outraged

The other half—the Obama supporters are still making excuses for their team.

In fact, Ryan’s Benghazi slam (in the vp debate), right out of the chute, won him the debate. This terrorist attack is going to be a huge issue in the presidential race. Americans are furious at the Obama-Biden-Clinton stupidity and mismanagement surrounding the tragic Benghazi deaths. They are enraged at the Benghazi cover-up. Ryan accused Biden of malfeasance in every aspect of this tragedy. It was a tremendous body slam right from the start.

And Biden misled everyone with a string of falsehoods. He said the administration did not have complete intelligence at the start of the crisis. But we now know they did have sufficient intelligence to realize that the killing of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three others had nothing to do with spontaneous reactions to a YouTube video, and that it was a planned al-Qaida attack.
Read more: Ryan’s Benghazi Surprise: That Foreign-Policy Slam Won Him the Debate

White House "Denies, Deceives, Delays" Truth on Mideast

By Amy Woods, Newsmax, 10.14.2012

Senator Lindsey Graham leveled conspiracy charges against the White House for attempting to cover up the Sept. 11 terrorist attack on the Libyan embassy that killed a U.S. ambassador. Graham said on CBS’ “Face the Nation” he knows for a fact the administration was told within 24 hours of the incident it was carried out by al-Qaida operatives.

“They’re trying to sell a narrative, quite frankly, that the wars are receding and al-Qaida’s been dismantled. And to admit that our embassy was attacked by al-Qaida undercuts that narrative. They never believed the media would investigate. Congress was out of session. It just caught up with them.

“They’re very political when it comes to foreign policy,” Graham said. “When something goes bad, they deny, they deceive, and they delay, and the truth is, we’re not safer. Al-Qaida is alive.”
President Obama told David Letterman two days after the attack it was the result of a controversial video.

“There was never a riot,” Graham said. “There was never a group of people around the embassy. It was a coordinated terrorist attack.”

http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/Graham-Obama-Libya-attack/2012/10/14/id/459891

http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/Issa-Libya-terrorist-attack/2012/10/14/id/459892

Romney surging in Ohio

But we still have a lot of confused people, who want four more years of this mess!  High unemployment.  Cover-ups worse than Watergate.  Crony capitalism.  “Just us” in the Justice Department.   Unbelievable.

Theft in office

Million Muppet March

“The Kitchen Cabinet:  Two liberals who oppose Romney's position that PBS should be self-supporting, are planning a "Million Muppet March" just before the November election. Because terrorist attacks, economic depression, and a national debt higher than the nearest solar system pale in comparison to America's desperate need to support PBS with TAX DOLLARS! We love PBS! SELL COMMERCIALS!”

Sesame Street is already self-supporting—makes far more than Mitt Romney, so that at least could be spun off the tax payer payroll.

Oops. He forgot Obama!

“In all of his ranting and defending of the Democratic agenda, Biden failed at his number one job: propping up the boss! In his tireless pursuit of the limelight, Biden has actually set up President Obama up for failure in the next presidential debate.

Do you remember even one MENTION of the President? Or Joe Biden sharing even one of the President’s successes or great leadership traits?

Instead, Biden exposed the vulnerabilities of the Obama administration like open cans of tuna. The imperfect aroma of Obamacare, Libya, Medicare and Unemployment will fill the stage when Romney faces the President this week. In other words, he set President Obama up for failure.”

The Kitchen Cabinet

Michael Medved

A number of women have remarked that Biden’s behavior reminded them of their ex-husband or boyfriend;  and I’m guessing for a certain age group, it reminds them of the way men have treated them at the office/workplace.  Nope, no points from women.

Without all the answers for 2 weeks they lied about a video!

And they had the film maker arrested, and they used the event to build up Islam.  The President even continued the lie while speaking to the U.N. Then Looselips Joe goes on national TV and says the White House knew nothing about the requests for security and that Syria is larger than Libya.  Clearly, the White House is out of control and the President needs to spend less time with Jay-Z and Letterman and more time with his intelligence advisors!  Even the lapdog media are starting to get uncomfortable.  This mess is much bigger than Watergate, but without an investigative, responsible press, most Americans (including my friends and relatives who are Democrats and watch broadcast news)  will never hear about it.

"We do not have all the answers. No one in this administration has ever claimed otherwise."

"We are providing the best information we have at that time and that information continues to be updated, it also continues to be put into context and more deeply understood through the process we are engaged in," she said.

There are three separate investigations into the attack going on now: an FBI probe into the deaths of the four Americans, an independent inquiry by a panel appointed by Clinton and the congressional hearings.

In her address, which focused particularly on North Africa, Clinton stressed that extremists were trying to hijack democratic transitions under way. She warned of al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb's growing reach from its stronghold in northern Mali, just south of Libya.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_US_LIBYA?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

You cannot lead from behind

Marblehead-Lakeside Lighthouse Festival

After a gray start, the skies cleared on Friday and we had an eyeful of glorious color on our way to the Lake.  Dinner and breakfast with good friends, and then the craft fair, where I helped out some local artisans by over spending.

Saturday was partly cloudy but made it to the mid-60s. Even with limited sunshine, the fall colors were brilliant on the way home and we enjoyed the drive. We were noting political yard signs. In small rural towns along Rt. 4 there were almost no Obama-Biden signs; many Romney-Ryan. These people are really hurting and are not willing to give this failure 4 more years. But in Lakeside, the blue Obama signs are blooming. A sweet community of good hearted people who are heavily academic and "public servant" 2nd home owners with comfortable pensions. Talk to anyone who has a small business--they'll tell you what Obama’s doing to the country.

Joe Biden’s biggest slip of the evening

Good ol’ Joe.  You can count on at least one big, huge, massive gaffe. I thought this one was the biggest slip of the evening--claiming the WH had no knowledge of the security requests when millions of people watched the hearings on Wednesday which laid it all out. It made Obama look like a fool who'd been hanging out with Letterman and Jay-Z instead of minding the store. Oh wait. He was!

Two State Department officials admitted in Congressional hearings under oath that those requests were denied. Eric Nordstrom, the top regional security officer in Libya during the summer, testified that Charlene Lamb, the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, turned down his request for more security.  Also, during the hearings it came out that no one who was in Benghazi had reported the video was a problem nor was there a protest going on—and everyone in the State Dept. knew it was a planned terrorist attack, yet Obama, Clinton and Rice continued to stir up hatred in the Middle East with that ridiculous story.  A week later Obama was still telling tales at the U.N.  And the filmmaker is in jail on trumped up charges.

First, Biden blamed the intelligence community for the administration’s confusing public explanations of the 9/11 anniversary attack in Benghazi, Libya. Moderator Martha Raddatz asked Biden directly why administration spokesman “were talking about protests” in Benghazi. “When people in the consulate first saw armed men attacking with guns, there were no protesters. Why did that go on?”

“Because that was exactly what we were told by the intelligence community,” Biden said. “The intelligence community told us that. As they learned more facts about exactly what happened, they changed their assessment.” . . .

But it was what Biden said next that made that answer so interesting. Raddatz turned the debate to Iran, saying: “There’s really no bigger national security issue facing this country.”

Biden, in an attempt to parry an attack from Ryan, suddenly expressed his belief that the U.S. intelligence community is omniscient. There’s no need to consider war right now, he argued, because “we’ll know if they start to build a weapon.”

So the same intelligence community that failed to deliver information in its possession about the attacks on Benghazi is suddenly so all-knowing on Iran that we needn’t worry about the mullahs going nuclear?

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/biden-throws-intelligence-community-under-bus_654268.html

Joe IS a Cafeteria Catholic

Vice President Biden essentially laid out the pro-life position of the Catholic Church, of which he is a member, and then he proceeded to talk about how he violates it.

http://www.lifenews.com/2012/10/11/paul-ryan-im-strongly-pro-life-biden-im-a-pro-abortion-catholic/

Christians for Mitt (Facebook)

Thank you, Lord, for calm, substantial grace and dignity again in our rising American leaders, Mitt Romney & Paul Ryan. Help us, Lord, with this crisis of character and competence that has befallen our nation. Amen.

(Writer’s  opinion: It's a shock to see a man like Joe Biden as the Vice President of our nation. How could men like this, with such indignity of manner and thought, be occupying positions of highest leadership. We are truly in a crisis but God is raising up real Americans, again. Proverbs 29:9, "If a wise man has an argument with a fool, the fool only the rages and laughs, and there is no quiet." But the discerning know wisdom, and the Lord shall rise with us, as we rise for Him.

My opinion:  Biden’s behavior was bizarre, however I think it really resonates with Democrats who have no character or principles in their platform or program.  We can’t expect good manners from people who boo God.

Mark Levin’s opinion:  Martha Raddatz was awful, stepping all over Paul Ryan's statements. Joe Biden was off his meds, flailing with his hands, interrupting, repetitive, and whiny, which is what most of his base has wanted. And Paul Ryan was calm, cool, and collected, with a better second half in the debate.

Joe Pags opinion: As Al Gore would say, "the debate is over." My Thoughts.. As expected Martha Raddatz, was biting and on the attack with Ryan -- seemed to give in more with Biden. I thought she was going to be fair at first, but then she was what I expected she'd be -- a shill for the Obama admin. Even as Biden begged for even time, fact is, he got nearly two minutes more than Ryan. I guess Obama got Raddatz a nice wedding gift.

RNC Chair Reince Priebus :  Vice President Joe Biden interrupted Congressman Paul Ryan "82 times" during the debate.

Dana Show:  Ryan's job tonight was to set up Romney for next debate. Biden's job was to clean up Obama's mess from the last one.

Michelle Malkin: Pundits and news anchors are expressing post-debate shock at how smirky, condescending and arrogant Vice President Joe Biden was tonight. They buzzed on Twitter at his “malarkey” rebuke of Paul Ryan’s foreign policy criticism.

Peggy Noonan: Last week Mr. Obama was weirdly passive. Last night Mr. Biden was weirdly aggressive, if that is the right word for someone who grimaces, laughs derisively, interrupts, hectors, rolls his eyes, browbeats and attempts to bully. He meant to dominate, to seem strong and no-nonsense. Sometimes he did—he had his moments. But he was also disrespectful and full of bluster. "Oh, now you're Jack Kennedy!" he snapped at one point. It was an echo of Lloyd Bentsen to Dan Quayle, in 1988. But Mr. Quayle, who had compared himself to Kennedy, had invited the insult. Mr. Ryan had not. It came from nowhere. Did Mr. Biden look good? No, he looked mean and second-rate. He meant to undercut Mr. Ryan, but he undercut himself. His grimaces and laughter were reminiscent of Al Gore's sighs in 2000—theatrical, off-putting and in the end self-indicting.