The 14 Biden Debate Lies or Misrepresentations
Here's the list as the McCain Camp put forth:
Joe Biden's 14 Lies
1. TAX VOTE: Biden said McCain voted “the exact same way” as Obama to increase taxes on Americans earning just $42,000, but McCain DID NOT VOTE THAT WAY.
2. AHMEDINIJAD MEETING: Joe Biden lied when he said that Barack Obama never said that he would sit down unconditionally with Mahmoud Ahmedinijad of Iran. Barack Obama did say specifically, and Joe Biden attacked him for it.
3. OFFSHORE OIL DRILLING: Biden said, “Drill we must.” But Biden has opposed offshore drilling and even compared offshore drilling to “raping” the Outer Continental Shelf.”
4. TROOP FUNDING: Joe Biden lied when he indicated that John McCain and Barack Obama voted the same way against funding the troops in the field. John McCain opposed a bill that included a timeline, that the President of the United States had already said he would veto regardless of it’s passage.
5. OPPOSING CLEAN COAL: Biden says he’s always been for clean coal, but he just told a voter that he is against clean coal and any new coal plants in America and has a record of voting against clean coal and coal in the U.S. Senate.
6. ALERNATIVE ENERGY VOTES: According to FactCheck.org, Biden is exaggerating and overstating John McCain’s record voting for alternative energy when he says he voted against it 23 times.
7. HEALTH INSURANCE: Biden falsely said McCain will raise taxes on people's health insurance coverage -- they get a tax credit to offset any tax hike. Independent fact checkers have confirmed this attack is false
8. OIL TAXES: Biden falsely said Palin supported a windfall profits tax in Alaska -- she reformed the state tax and revenue system, it's not a windfall profits tax.
9. AFGHANISTAN / GEN. MCKIERNAN COMMENTS: Biden said that top military commander in Iraq said the principles of the surge could not be applied to Afghanistan, but the commander of NATO's International Security Assistance Force Gen. David D. McKiernan said that there were principles of the surge strategy, including working with tribes, that could be applied in Afghanistan.
10. REGULATION: Biden falsely said McCain weakened regulation -- he actually called for more regulation on Fannie and Freddie.
11. IRAQ: When Joe Biden lied when he said that John McCain was “dead wrong on Iraq”, because Joe Biden shared the same vote to authorize the war and differed on the surge strategy where they John McCain has been proven right.
12. TAX INCREASES: Biden said Americans earning less than $250,000 wouldn’t see higher taxes, but the Obama-Biden tax plan would raise taxes on individuals making $200,000 or more.
13. BAILOUT: Biden said the economic rescue legislation matches the four principles that Obama laid out, but in reality it doesn’t meet two of the four principles that Obama outlined on Sept. 19, which were that it include an emergency economic stimulus package, and that it be part of “part of a globally coordinated effort with our partners in the G-20.”
14. REAGAN TAX RATES: Biden is wrong in saying that under Obama, Americans won't pay any more in taxes then they did under Reagan.
Maybe this is what the Dems like to call "substance," as in substantive lies.








Add 15. LEBANON: Biden wrongly asserted that France and the U.S. drove Hezbollah out of Lebanon.
(Thanks to Commentary Magazine's blog for noting this.)
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Also a huge lie that Biden emphasized three times was saying that there is more money spent in Iraq in 3 weeks than what has been spent in Afghanistan for the whole duration. We spend 3 bil a week in Iraq. We have spent over 170 bil in Afghanistan. Simple math? What the hell is he talking about and why is he getting a free pass on this? Also, as you said, France and U.S. driving Hezbollah out of Lebanon...and the other nonsense with his recommendations concerning that. He must be smoking crack or something, and he is supposedly a foreign policy expert?
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I was looking for confirmation about the "lie" that Biden said "McCain is no maverik", but that was not brought up in the list.....
Guess Biden is correct. McCain is no maverik.
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ahhh shucks jee golly gosh heck darn people!
hahahahaha. It sure sucks when people lie about you! Huh? all you conservative right wing lunatics. DOesn't it? Can't stand it can you?
Kinda reminds me how Bush has lied about SO MUCH during his presidency.
Kinda reminds me how many lies McCain has put in his ads and how many lies him and Palin have put in their stump speeches.
Now that the shoe is on the other foot... it's not so nice is it?
Obama 08!
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I wiggle my ridiculous penis at the donkeys
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silly democrat!
I must now drink your blood lest ye elect a closet Muslim, half-honkey, liberal whacko that's gonna put purple carpet in the White House and select the Harlem Globetrotters for his cabinet. SHAME!
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I've got an idea! take the shoe off of the other foot and stick it in your left wing arse! ya farking dingbat
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