Karl Rove caught Biden saying he didn’t vote for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq during the debate, even though he really did:

Here’s the full quote from the debate transcript:

And, by the way, they talk about this Great Recession if it fell out of the sky, like, “Oh, my goodness, where did it come from?” It came from this man voting to put two wars on a credit card, to at the same time put a prescription drug benefit on the credit card, a trillion-dollar tax cut for the very wealthy. I was there. I voted against them. I said, no, we can’t afford that.




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Vince Sanchez
Vince Sanchez

Incorrect...read the transcript... "And, by the way, they talk about this Great Recession if it fell out of the sky, like, "Oh, my goodness, where did it come from?" It came from this man voting to put two wars on a credit card, to at the same time put a prescription drug benefit on the credit card, a trillion-dollar tax cut for the very wealthy. I was there. I voted against them. I said, no, we can't afford that."...he was saying he voted against the prescription drug and trillion dollar tax cut..Ryan didn't call him on it because he knew what Biden meant...care to retract:-)

poljunkie
poljunkie

Biden implied he didnt vote for it. That was my point.

biasforbothsides
biasforbothsides

OK so I can see that this is just a republican site because I seen both parties pull some big ones especially Mitt and all I read is bashing on the Demacrats. Probably why I will vote for the Democrats. and no I am not a democrat or Republican.

UnCL3
UnCL3

and don't give us that "i'm an independent voter" bullsh1t...we aren't buying it...go back to HuffPo

biasforbothsides
biasforbothsides

Again since I have love for all I wont respond to the insult. But I will say this. I loved McCain... sorry you think otherwise. that is the problem with our country now. we just consistantly disrespect each other if we aren't in agreement with the other. But for me they are both two people to be respected to want to take on the huge resposibility of running a country. So my love and respect to both. PERIOD!

AlabamaPatriot2
AlabamaPatriot2

We've been disagreeing with each other for 236 years or more. Suddenly, it's an issue with moderates like you because "we can't all just get along."

Have you been watching for the last four years? Are you cognizant of whats going on around you?

And the Maddows, Mahers, Olbermanns et al respect me?

biasforbothsides
biasforbothsides

Yes I am new to this site. :-) here is what I said "we just consistantly disrespect each other if we aren't in agreement with the other" I see that to be true even in my family. So it is nothing new. Just something that needs to be transformed.

AlabamaPatriot2
AlabamaPatriot2

What is the problem with our county now, Ms. McCain lover? I'm itching to hear this rejoinder.

You're new to this, aren't you?

UnCL3
UnCL3

you're just stupid then? the country is going to hell because of this regime, and you want more of that...a$$douche...and you're from #occupy where?

Wisewoman2
Wisewoman2

You must be on meds. Biden told at least 4 ballfaced lies. Hannity ticked them off on his program on Friday night. Go there to find the list if you are so sure he only told one little lie. People who think like you are why the country has gone to h*ll.

biasforbothsides
biasforbothsides

It is not people who think like me that this country is where its at. it is because we continuelly fight with each other and never want or try to work as a whole and a united nation that we are suppose to be. We should be working together to see what is really going on with each and every President and get more involved to make sure things get done for the better of our people no matter who is in office. we just get caught up on who is a republican and who is a demacrat. instead of when the President is in office making sure things get done for the better of all.

Jim Chavez
Jim Chavez

nice work karl, did you see the rest of the debate?

Atom Heartmother
Atom Heartmother

Biden's task was obviously to come up with a performance that would be so outlandishly awful that it would take the focus off of the Empty Chair in the first debate. No one was sure he was really up to it, but Joe managed to pull it off.

dk_in_tn
dk_in_tn

Biden proved without a doubt that he isn't fit for the office he holds. Ditto for Obama.

Laurel
Laurel

That's Joe being Joe...don't forget he likes to plagiarize as well. And yeah this isn't politically correct but I'm sick of hearing about Biden's wife and daughter that dies in a car wreck......40YEARS AGO! I think that cow has been milked dry.

biasforbothsides
biasforbothsides

I think he got what Ryan said about Mitt feeling for a guy who lost his wife in a car accident. so he totally sympathize as he had that happen to him. only someone who has lost a loved one, in his case several loved ones in one day can understand what Ryan was saying about Mitt. I don't think you ever get over it. even if it was a 100 years. I believe he is who he is today because of the loss and will always try his best for all. as I think all the canidates are.

kong1967
kong1967

I don't think it will haunt him. The fact checkers tilt left and tilt the facts themselves. They already claimed that Ryan lied when he said that "we don't paint Assad as a reformer". The fact checkers said no one on Obama's administration did. They're wrong. Hillary did.

Fact checkers are just a bunch of people putting their own spin on things. They can't be trusted, either.

UnCL3
UnCL3

anyone with a lick of sense (and manners) would look at Biden and say "what a moron, what a rude d1ckhead"...that will be what people "in the middle" will remember

mder4thegov
mder4thegov

I remember distinctly--after the Palin/Biden '08 debate, everyone from Rove to Krauthammer, saying that although Biden lied fourteen times--it only matters if you call the person on it--right then and there.

I find it remarkable Paul Ryan didn't have the V.P.'s voting record on the wars--at his fingertips, and if he did, how do you let him get away with such a blatant lie.

Unflippinbelievable!!

UnCL3
UnCL3

good point...I couldn't understand Ryan being sooo timid as to not call him out, firmly, on all the BS Biden spewed...weak performance on Ryan's part.

StrangernFiction
StrangernFiction

"I've known Joe Biden a very long time, he's a very nice man." -- Brit Hume

If Hume really believes this he is a pitiful judge of character.

mder4thegov
mder4thegov

Brit Hume has become an embarrassment, plain and simple.

PhillyCon
PhillyCon

But is ever Romney, Ryan, Bush, or any other conservative (take your pick) described as a nice person?

Would you ever see Chris Matthews, and that gang ever say, "Oh, I know Romney he is nice."

Puhleeze.

hermsmd
hermsmd

Greta said the same thing later on her show. I was floored. If Uncle Joe is one of those politicians who would 'give the shirt off his back to help a person' as Greta said as a character reference (or Brit, not sure) then they are peddling a naive caricature of a politician to the public. Who doesn't know a politician who wouldn't do the same, or not steal candy from a baby, or pander like pathetic yes man.

Rush is right. That town can be a tad incestuous.

PhillyCon
PhillyCon

My thought exactly. They still want their invites to cocktail parties.

PhillyCon
PhillyCon

I saw a headline on Fox this morning:

"Biden's Mom and Dad Taught him alot, but not Manners."

aposematic
aposematic

Surprized--a D lying about his/her record...not! Lies are all the D's ever have to run on.

toongoon
toongoon

The United States is the village who wishes they were missing an idiot.

Sandra123456
Sandra123456

I guess the VP debate showed that Biden is the Obama Court Jester or Idiot.

How sad.

Rich Wojcik
Rich Wojcik

IT IS NOT FUNNY _ lying, interrupting, lying, interrupting and lying again!!!

Too bad Ryan wasn't watching his grimaces - he might have said: I IT NOT FUNNY when you ruin our country and cover it with lies"...

What an oaf Biden is.

Sober_Thinking
Sober_Thinking

It will be interesting to see all the lies that are revealed as people study the B.S. Biden spewed last night.

Pyrran
Pyrran

Anyone who expects the truth to come out of Biden's flapping gums should have their head examined. He just says anything that pops into his empty cranium, as evidenced by his "gaff a week" comments in the last four years.

Galatiansch2vs20
Galatiansch2vs20

But he says he means what he says! Perhaps they ought to play that after his comment about the middle class being buried for the last four years and put it in an ad.

info
info

http://elvisnixon.com/2012/10/12/the-one-word-missing-from-the-debate.aspx

The ONE Word Missing From The Debate

Last night's Vice Presidential Debate will probably be remembered most for Vice President Biden's smarmy attitude and off putting,maniacal grin.

Paul Ryan came off as competent and polite while Biden's japery (look it up Democrats) was an attempt to compensate for the malaise of Obama's somnambulist act in the first debate.

Sad to say neither candidate dared to utter the word "immigration" or even "illegal immigration' in the context of all their talk about unemployment.

How can anyone allow a single illegal alien to steal jobs,recieve benefits for themselves and their children and lower wages for Americans when the nation is suffering under such massive unemployment?

I believe it was Washington Times writer Sam Francis who said there is "The Evil Party (democrats) and the Stupid Party (Republicans)"

The GOP has a golden opportunity to crush Obama with his open borders/Administrative Amnesty policy. A policy opposed by over 75% of American voters.

Why the silence GOP?

Wisewoman2
Wisewoman2

I agree with you. However lets hope it is a strategic move until after the election.

AlabamaPatriot2
AlabamaPatriot2

BozoJoe is Romney's best secret weapon. Just keep talking, Joe.

TJinNJ
TJinNJ

Rove, Norquist, et al. should be held accountable for trying to lose the Senate by demonizing Todd Akin. Same with RNC head Preibus who has CUT FUNDING to him and Michell Bachmann. This is a clear indication of their hate for conservatism.

Seems demonic-rats aren't the only ones "fundamentally transforming" this country. RINOs just do it "quietly" since their counterpart's goals are being met. Just wished Ryan didn't follow Romney/RINO mantra of supporting Syrian (al-qaeda) Rebels. Haven't we learned anything from Iraq?

aposematic
aposematic

It is irrefutable that the lesser of two evils is still evil but with our present state of evil even a RINO is a giant leap in the right direction (pun intended). Give individual freedom a chance -- Vote R&R.

TJinNJ
TJinNJ

Completely agree but we can't forget the entirety of the problem, not fix, but expect the desired restoration.

John3_3
John3_3

I think Ed Rollins said it best. He said that "Biden was like the loud, obnoxious drunk guy at the bar that thinks he knows everything". I think that explains Biden's actions last night to a "T".

ryanomaniac
ryanomaniac

I was glad that Steve Hayes brought up the fact that Biden said that the intelligence community didn't know at all what was going on leading up to and after the assassinations in Libya and at the same time he said that our intelligence would know without a doubt if Iran was even close to having a nuke. Huh? Huge contradiction. Ryan should have hit him with that because it would exploded a bomb in his face.

Ryan left a lot on the table in my opinion. BUT he was constantly interrupted incessantly by Biden and the moderator. At one point they were both hammering at the same time. The debate was a joke and I had to take a Xanax before my heart exploded.

Chris
Chris

I think Ryan showed true class and the juxtaposition with the Jerk won the day...

Sober_Thinking
Sober_Thinking

I'm with you... I made it to the 50-minute mark and had to take a break for 10 minutes before finishing it.

Biden looked really angry in the last 15-20 minutes of the debate.

Ryan was steam-rolled by the other two.

Libertyship46
Libertyship46

I know Biden lied about the war, but oddly enough I expected that. I think the real story is the Biden is now blaming US intelligence for saying that the YouTube video was responsible for the Benghazi attack in Libya. THAT is big news, because today the CIA will probably have something to say about that and none of it will be good for Biden. It will be interesting to see what Biden says once the CIA says he's full of it.

biasforbothsides
biasforbothsides

BTW they arrested the guy who did the documentary that was poorly done and it did get on youtube. and during that is when that whole thing started to get ugly. REASON why they arrested the guy who made it. you don't arrest someone if it didn't start anything. come on people get real. it was alll over the news. GEEZ

aposematic
aposematic

All good points but lying is SOP for D's as its all they have to justify their existence.