Biden lies about family tragedy to enduce sympathy

American Thinker
Thomas Lifson
September 19, 2008

Excerpt:

It is terrible to lose family members to a traffic accident. But why on earth would a United States Senator fabricate an embellishment and claim that it was a drunk driver's fault, when the record clearly indicates it was not?

Delaware Online reports:

Since his vice presidential nomination, Joe Biden's 2007 statement that a "guy who allegedly ... drank his lunch" and drove the truck that struck and killed his first wife and daughter has gained national media traction.

Alcohol didn't play a role in the 1972 crash, investigators found. But as recently as last week, the syndicated TV show Inside Edition aired a clip from 2001 of Biden describing the accident to an audience at the University of Delaware and saying the truck driver "stopped to drink instead of drive."
The senator's statements don't jibe with news and law enforcement reports from the time, which cleared driver Curtis C. Dunn, who died in 1999, of wrongdoing.

"To see it coming from [Biden's] mouth, I just burst into tears," Dunn's daughter, Glasgow resident Pamela Hamill, 44, said Wednesday. "My dad was always there for us. Now we feel like we should be there for him because he's not here to defend himself."
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Thanks to "liz" from the Rightnation.US message board.

I actually saw an interview with the daughter of the man whose truck killed Biden's family. She was torn apart, not only for her and how her father's name is being dragged through the mud when investigations proved it wasn't a drunk driving incodent, but for Biden's family who he is using as a political ploy to gain sympathy. The most disgusting use of a tragedy there ever was.

Liberals will do anything, even step over their own families graves, to succeed.

Look at Kennedy leaving that woman to die and not telling anyone where the body was until it was found. He wasn't worried about anything other than how this would damage his political career.

A WOMAN DYING and he chose his own flubby, drunk behind.

I think it is a DISGRACE that this man would USE his family like that, and put another family in such turmoil just for the sake of his political career.

It's disgusting.

My uncle was killed in a car accident in 2001 just before Christmas. Can you imagine if I started saying the guy who caused the accident was drunk rather than it being a horrible accident caused by weather conditions?

can you imagine what the liberals would say if I tried that ploy to get sympathy for myself if I were a conservative politician? I'd be done for both politically and personally. I'd have to leave the country in shame.

I'm speaking louder about this because I know someone who had a loved one die by a drunk driver, and I had a brother who could have been killed in an accident because of a THIRD OFFENSE drunk driver.

And if the liberal media try to drown us out, then people who this disgusts need to shout louder till they CAN'T ignore us. This is the only way we'll win this election. to Shout louder than the liberals. (I know that sounds hard with blowholes like Rosie, Joy Bawbwa, and the likes of Michael Moore.)

but we have to start taking back this election! I've already written to Biden about this.

http://biden.senate.gov/services/contact/

I hope you all follow suit.