Biden again claims his son was “lost” in Iraq; Republicans pounce
I’ll start by saying that Joe Biden has had an enormous number of personal tragedies in his life, losses I wouldn’t wish on my worst enemy.
But I’ll add that he continues to either lie about certain elements of these tragedies, or actually believes his own misrepresentations, and that this pattern of behavior was set before his cognitive decline.
The first involves the loss of his wife and young daughter in a traffic accident, which he has in the past blamed on a drunk driver. Apparently, the driver’s family had to seek the help of a judge to clear the driver’s name from the public charge, for which there never has been a particle of evidence. In the fall of 2007, after the judge had said there was no evidence to support the allegation of drunkenness, Biden said he accepted the family’s claim that drunkenness wasn’t involved – but that was thirty-five years after the accident.
It would be one thing – and an understandable one – if Biden had decided on his own, in a reaction to the tragedy and trauma of the crash that killed his wife and daughter, that the driver was probably drinking and that it was his fault. People often assign blame like that in an effort to deal with very painful and complex emotions. But as a public figure, to state it and assign blame to the driver for all the world to hear is another. And it’s that latter course that Joe took.
With these recent declarations of Biden’s about his son Beau that “we lost him in Iraq” (and an earlier claim that Beau “lost his life in Iraq”), I believe we’re seeing a variation of the same phenomenon on Joe’s part, plus advancing cognitive decline. The facts are that Beau served in Iraq as a military lawyer (judge advocate) from 2008-2009 and died of a brain tumor in May of 2015, having been diagnosed in August of 2013. Biden has attributed his cancer to exposure to “burn pits” in Iraq, and whether or not that is the case (it is not proven, but there are carcinogens released by burn pits and so it’s arguably possible), there is no question that Beau Biden was not “lost in Iraq.” Biden is a native English speaker and is well aware of what the phrase means: that someone either died or went permanently missing in Iraq.
In 2019, Biden was aware enough to cite a connection with bun pits when he stated as much in a speech:
Biden also referenced his son in a 2019 speech: “[Because] of exposure to burn pits, in my view — I can’t prove it yet — he came back with stage four glioblastoma. Eighteen months he lived, knowing he was going to die.”
Even then, this does not reflect the facts, because Beau returned from Iraq in 2009 and wasn’t diagnosed till August of 2013, after which he lived for nearly two years. Biden distorts the timeline in that speech by making it sound as though Beau was diagnosed with stage four glioblastoma very soon after his return.
But although these statements of Biden’s tell us something about the man, they’re not much of a concern to me. Of much much greater concern are his destructive public policies and vicious divisive race-mongering and MAGA-demonizing.
I’ve said several times that even when I was a Democrat I found Biden to be a mendacious nonentity whom I never considered had a chance to be president, he had so little following. Well, he got the last laugh on that score, didn’t he?
I have no one in my family with Sundowner’s brain disfunction. But as a observer and reading all the write ups seems to me his mind makes up history and once he states something even wrong keeps repeating that lie.
Skip:
I believe he repeats the lie (a) from habit (b) because he comes to believe it (c) it serves a psychological purpose (d) it serves a political purpose; and (e) there are no serious negative consequences for him.
Perhaps he got the last laugh in his own mind, Neo, but I think his posthumous reputation would have been better if he had retired from the Senate a half dozen years ago. As it is now, Americans’ memory of him will be mixed at best, and I cannot believe people close to him have overlooked that, nor will they do so in the future. Biden will be remembered as the grandpa President who began to go gaga. Remember Ronald Reagan: as good and well-respected a President as he was, even he has a somewhat tarnished reputation because of his cognitive decline, and that mostly dates from after he left office.
Neo,
This prompts me to ask: what is the explanation for the pathological liar? What’s behind the pathology — what causes it? Does the pathological liar have agency, does he know right from wrong, etc.? Is it akin to sociopathy or psychopathy?
it knows right from wrong and chooses evil, he was a soviet stooge, a chinese stooge now,
“I found Biden to be a mendacious nonentity…”
This sums up my view of the man, with the the observation of an edge of viciousness towards others that is truly revolting.
He is the perfect “leader’ and symbol for Weimerica.
Now Biden claims that Nancy Pelosi–who was born in 1940–helped to “rescue the Economy from the Great Depression.”*
Honestly, been there, done that, seen and accomplished everything dementia Joe can’t open his mouth without uttering a lie.
* See https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/05/hes-shot-joe-biden-says-nancy-pelosi-helped/
Neo “(e) there are no serious negative consequences for him.”
(Is there one letter from each member of the blog team?)
I think this is the most important of the factors.
Biden should have been kicked out of any self-respecting honorable political party when he plagiarized “his” life story from a British politician.
But, of course, there are a host of other examples showing that the Democrats (at least at the leadership level) have no moral qualms about pretty much anything, so long as they can get their minions to go along, either willingly (IOW also corrupt), or through an unwillingness to accept reality and evidence, or because they never look for, and aren’t shown the evidence.
However, Biden has such a long list of lies, surely every Democrat voter knows about at least one of them — and (at some time) voted for him anyway.
https://thefederalist.com/2022/10/11/joe-biden-is-our-greatest-fabulist/
WRT Beau Biden and burn pits:
Army JAG officers are assigned to headquarters. Even in a combat zone, the JAG folks are in air conditioned offices and far away from any danger of direct combat. This isn’t a denigration of his service- he had a duty assignment and by accounts did his duty well.
Burn pits were manned by lower enlisted folks. Working a burn is scut work, like cleaning a urinal or picking the grass out of the rock garden. You would never, ever, find a field grade officer performing this sort of work.
Beau Biden may have seen a burn pit, he may have caught a whiff of one a couple of times, but he would have never been directly involved with one.
Joe Biden is-and has always been, a lying dog-faced pony soldier.
Well he did lie when he said he stopped ebola. Ebola was never going to be a pandemic given how it spreads.(Anybody that spent more than 10 seconds looking into it realizes this.) Funny how that lie was still up on twitter the last time I checked.
Joseph Robinette Biden is a guttersnipe.
Perhaps the innocent Navy Joan Biden will be the medium of shaming him and the cause of his comeuppance and public humiliation,
My belief is that Biden only remains and serves to protect himself from his past grift. The original intention was for Beau to take over, and it would have been his task to continue protection for the Biden Crime Family. His death however forced Biden to continue on. Biden can’t retire, because once he does he becomes vulnerable on the criminality of his past grift. Once Biden retires, the Democrats have no reason to continue to protect him.
If I were to try to explain Biden to anyone under the age of 50, I would say – “Imagine that Sheldon Whitehouse became vice president and later president at a very advanced age.” And that still wouldn’t quite do it.
The problem is that it’s been nearly twenty years since Biden was known as the “Senator from MBNA” and thirty since his most famous Senate misadventures as chair of the judiciary committee during the Bork and Thomas hearings. It’s been nearly 40 years since the Kinnick kerfuffle.
To anyone under the age of 50, adult memories of Biden are limited to his time posing as Obama’s faithful sidekick. Of course Obama didn’t see him like that, but it was the narrative, and the modern left’s narrative machine is unrivaled.
It still amazes me that, after four years of explaining how Trump’s every little misrepresentation was going to “literally” end the republic, Democrats ended up having to close ranks behind the one politician in Washington who rivals and even exceeds Trump when it comes to pedaling stupid, blatant falsehoods. I guess God does have a sense of humor.
One may die “of” a war without being “in” a war. Training accidents in preparation for deployment would not happen were it not for the war in question.
For the family, the difference is irrelevant.
That said, Biden spoke inaccurately when he had the opportunity to be accurate.
I have explained how he was a soviet stooge, thats why midwifed fisa, and the star chamber of vawa, ironically he is also responsible for the drug czar issue,
Bauxite:
It was never about Trump’s exaggerating his wealth and importance; it was always about the threat his presidency posed to the control by the fusion party and the deep state “experts.” Biden is their guy. They own him, they control him, and his lies are therefore excusable in what they claim is the right cause.
Plus, Biden lies about everything, not just his personal life. He lies about his public record, and he lies about public policy and the results of his policies.
Biden has always struck me as a political “Walter Mitty.” Probably the story has faded from public memory but Biden has always been an example.
The short story deals with a vague and mild-mannered man who drives into Waterbury, Connecticut, with his wife for their regular weekly shopping and his wife’s visit to the beauty parlor. During this time he has five heroic daydream episodes, each inspired by some detail of his mundane surroundings. The first is as a pilot of a U.S. Navy flying boat in a storm, followed by Mrs. Mitty’s complaint that Mitty is “driving too fast”. As he drives past a hospital, he imagines himself a magnificent surgeon performing a one-of-a-kind surgery. Later, a newsboy shouting about the “Waterbury Trial” begins Mitty’s third fantasy, as a deadly assassin testifying in a courtroom. While waiting for his wife, he picks up an old copy of Liberty, reading “Can Germany Conquer the World Through the Air?”, and begins his fourth daydream, as a Royal Air Force pilot volunteering for a daring suicide mission to bomb an ammunition dump. As the story ends, Mitty stands against a wall, smoking, and imagines himself facing a firing squad, “inscrutable to the last.”
This is my favorite Biden video clip, but there are others. I have always wondered how Democrats made him Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, especially with his law school record. But I guess they got what they wanted.
“the one politician in Washington who rivals and even exceeds Trump when it comes to pedaling stupid, blatant falsehoods.”
Someone needs to improve their ability to count so they can avoid pedaling a stupid, blatant falsehood.
My counting ability is more than fine stan, but thanks for asking. 🙂
walter mitty was a whimsical character, this one is a pathological liar,
his wife who pulled out of a stop sign likely committed vehicular suicide ” Sarah’s Key” style because the Joe was cheating with Jill
The Great Orange Whale must not be forgotten.
Rent Free he be.
I’ll start by saying that Joe Biden has had an enormous number of personal tragedies in his life, losses I wouldn’t wish on my worst enemy.
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Biden has lost three close relatives that you’d ordinarily not expect would pre-decease you. That’s more than most people. He’s not Otto Frank, however.
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The accident which killed his wife and daughter was due to his wife’s inattention in running a stop sign. The driver of the truck was neither civilly nor criminally liable. Biden has repeatedly slandered the man.
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Please note that the Biden family corruption implicates at least 10 descendants of Joseph Biden Sr. They are a deeply diseased crew.
This is my favorite Biden video clip, but there are others.
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Mine’s the split screen put together by John Sasso which shows him appropriating Neil Kinnock’s family history.
(e) there are no serious negative consequences for him.
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Richard Nixon’s scamming around cost him in public esteem. He had an approval rating of about 25% by the time he left office. It seems almost quaint today.
Art Deco:
No one implied it was in Otto Frank territory.
But Biden lost a wife and daughter when Biden was thirty years old, and both of his other children were injured in the accident as well, one of them head-injured. Then he lost one of those remaining two sons when the son was 46. Terrible.