Unlike Clinton, Biden Gets Pass for Saying He Was ‘Shot At’ in Iraq
When Hillary Clinton told a tall tale about “landing under sniper fire” in Bosnia, she was accused of “inflating her war experience” by rival Democrat Barack Obama’s campaign.
But the campaign has been silent about Obama’s running mate, Joe Biden, telling his own questionable story about being “shot at” in Iraq.
“Let’s start telling the truth,” Biden said during a presidential primary debate sponsored by YouTube last year. “Number one, you take all the troops out – you better have helicopters ready to take those 3,000 civilians inside the Green Zone, where I have been seven times and shot at. You better make sure you have protection for them, or let them die.”
But when questioned about the episode afterward by the Hill newspaper, Biden backpedaled from his claim of being “shot at” and instead allowed: “I was near where a shot landed.”
It isn’t completely without cause for Senator Clinton to receive more scrutiny for her remarks than Senator Biden, as Senator Clinton has a real chance of being the Democratic nominee and Senator Biden did not. However, it does point to how Senator Biden receives a pass for his numerous gaffes that Senator Clinton never received, and that Governor Palin is not receiving now. This isn’t a request for the media to lighten up on Palin. She’s new to the national scene and she has to perform. The request is that candidates running for the same position be treated equally. Can you imagine in Governor Palin told a handicapped man to stand up, or contradicted her ticket and said she opposes clean coal, or if she said FDR went on television after the stock market crash in 1929, as Senator Biden has done. Can you imagine in Palin made the completely off the wall and slightly disturbing statement, “Barack Obama ain’t taking my shotgun. So don’t buy that Malarkey. I’ve got two. If he tried to fool with my barretta, he’s got a problem”, as Senator Biden did. Right now Palin is being criticized for a remark she made about Senator Biden representing experience and herself representing change. Not a perfect statement, but not as bad as pretending to have been shot at in Iraq. Her interview with Katie Couric deserves some criticism, but so does Senator Biden’s bizarre barretta remark. The odd situation that Clinton and Palin have found themselves in with the media is less about them being treated harshly, and more about their competitive equals treated like porcelains dolls. The phrase ‘if it’s good for the goose then it’s good for the gander’ in this election needs to be reversed to ‘if it’s good for the gander it’s good for the goose.’ While no one expects the impartiality from the media anymore, the lopsided coverage is an embarrassment to network and cable television.
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If Barack Hussein Obama wins this election,I will concde that half the poeple of this country are just plain stupid.How can it be ?Nobody knows who this person realy is,except what the MSM cooked up and serve.As of now,we all know what the media are up to,and it seems must poeple just can’t think themself,use their own brain.Everybody knows who John Mc Cain is:a war hero,a senator who sometime desagrees with his own party.Yet American appear to agree with a stranger than this man.
The MSM has targeted the weakest link – people that are easily swayed like a weak branch in the wind.
It is beyond pathetic that the more the interent sources uncover about this man – the more they retreat into denial.
Then we have just plain ignorant people like Heavenly – she is a perfect example about the weakest link.
She doesn’t talk about what is the underneat the surface driving this man – just strictly what she she’s and what she has been told.
No matter what you say to these people – it won’t matter – they see no evil, speak no evil and hear no evil as it is related to B. Hussein Obama.
Even looking at a video clip of BO in Mulsim wear talking to an enemy (at the time) of the US with his spiritual leader Reverend Wrong should be enough to raise red flags – but they will either skirt around the issue or make up a lam execuse.
The worst issue is that this community organizer with ACORN literally ruined our economy.
Correction (type to fast):
She doesn’t talk about what is the underneath the surface driving this man – just strictly what she sees and what she has been told.
Talk about a learning curve, five weeks in and all hopes rest on Governor Palin at the Vice Presidential Debate, no thanks to Katie Couric and Charlie Gibson. Ms. Palin knocks it out of the ballpark; again. Yes, the media is bias. The Internet is littered with anti-Palin sites. As usual, the Hillary Clintons and the Joe Bidens get a pass. There’s an observation I’d like to make about male Democratic politicians though. A faux pas they commit with increased regularity. Now if you don’t like Bozo the clown, if you feel that he’s a particularly bad clown and bad for the country, why then don a Bozo wig, a pair of size 14 shoes, and a rubber nose whenever denouncing Bozo?
If there’s an official uniform of the president, it’s the pastel blue tie, white shirt, and dark suit first popularized by George W. Bush. The color scheme comes directly from the presidential flag. No other American president made those colors his distinctive style before George W. Bush. In 2004, Bill Clinton even had his presidential portrait painted wearing George W’s signature garb. Although the 1960 Kennedy vs. Nixon debate was televised in black & white, people still argue the significance dark blue vs. grey played during the election.
But there remains no ambiguity about which candidate wore what color (Kennedy, blue). Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. And, the fashion police have long memories. Ms. Palin dressed for and aced the debate. Note: before castigating Bozo, please try not to emulate Bozo. It makes one look like a Bozo. We must take a tip from Al Gore, Joe Biden and the others, and never allow our inner Bozos to dictate our mode of dress: http://theseedsof9-11.com