Biden flashback: On second thought, I wasn’t really “shot at”
Hillary had her Great Bosnia Snipergate caper.
Joe Biden had his own, too. Another stellar example of his foreign policy and military cred. This is a photoshop contest waiting to happen.
Sen. Joseph Biden (D-Del.) — whose garrulous ways have led to a number of verbal gaffes over the years — has revised a dramatic comment that he was “shot at” in the Green Zone during a trip to Iraq.
Biden made the brief comment during the CNN/YouTube Democratic debate two weeks ago, as he was emphasizing how difficult it would be to redeploy U.S. citizens and troops out of Iraq if the U.S. decided to withdraw in six months.
“Let’s start telling the truth,” he said. “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, number one.”
When asked for a detailed account of the experience, Biden described three incidents on two separate Iraq trips in which he felt that he was shot at or might have been shot at. Only one of them took place inside the Green Zone, he said, and involved a “shot” landing outside the building where he and other senators were staying. He added that the vehicle he was traveling in the day before might also have been hit.
Biden said the incident happened in the morning while he and at least one other senator were shaving. Although he said it shook the building, he wasn’t rattled enough to duck and cover.
“No one got up and ran from the room—it wasn’t that kind of thing,” he said. “…It’s not like I had someone holding a gun to my head.”
Thinking about it now, he said, a more accurate comment would have been: “I was near where a shot landed.”
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Oh Goody! Me first!?
Joe Biden! What an easter egg! Woooot!
I was pregnant once.
Well, okay – my WIFE was pregnant, but I was near her when it happened.
/snort
CAMERA’S DON’T COUNT
Biden=doooooooofus of the highest order.
curses am photoshop inept.
am reminded of that Iraqi woman who claimed she was shot at and had shiney new unspent bullets to prove it!
happy Blessed Sunday Michelle are you going to the interfaith DNC charade
to hear the muslim brotherhood female speak?
Perhaps this ‘experience’ in Iraq will prepare him for all the ‘incoming’ of this campaign that is about to descend upon him.
Joeph Biden:
May the Gaffes (and your law school plagiarism) be with you always!
Feel the love, dude
The roots on Biden’s hair plugs obviously have interfered with his reasoning and intelligence, what little of it he had to begin with anyway.
I was near where a shot landed once…It was Jack Danial’s and it hit my belly…
The shot heard round the Biden world
I’ve pulled a few triggers in my time. Does that count?
The only time he’s ever been shot has been in the foot.
And it’s been self inficted.
He was awarded the ‘purple toe’ with cluster.
The pic of Hillary in the tank is a classic, it shows exactly how crazy she looks….. call the good humor boys, she needs taken away.
Swiftboating:
“Exposing the lies deceit,and fraud of self-glorifyimg officials or candidates for public office who exaggerate their military service or their vistis to combat zones.”
When I was kid watching Buggs Bunny. Elmer Fudd would shoot at Buggs and Buggs would step out of the way. The bullet would make a u-turn in mid air and Buggs would step out of the way again. The bullet would then go through Elmer’s hat. You mean like that Joe?
I was shot at… and have the scars and rebuilt calf muscle in my leg to prove it… do Joe Plugs and Hillary? I am not ashamed to challenge people that way.
I’ve been around lots of gunfire myself.
At the shooting range.
When your selling snake oil, and the current fad promoted by a whole news industry, is that everyone needs snake oil, than why not have the champs of the sales pitch on your team?
However, remember this, snake oil doesn’t work!
bansharia,
The classic from Dissident Frogmans Blog, “Shooty-No Shooty-Savvy?” video is one you must not miss. Take the link and click on the videos banner at the top. Pure genius.
http://www.thedissidentfrogman.com/blog/
Once when i was in band camp we use to shoot at each other with home made cannons. Just like they shoot a Biden
I was in the military and i know what it is to be shot at. That is something you do not forget.
Bidet, Bubba and Hilldebeast at the DNC.
Hope and Change, Hope and Change
Click Clack, Click Clack
Just what I was about to say.
Roger that! You remember it if they missed, and even more if you got hit! It is seared, seared into your memory – and while it may come up in casual conversation with other military people rarely if ever do most feel any need to trumpet it on the street corner, unless they are the foolish, bragging type.
I am sure Biden mentioned it only for effect, maybe just to pretend that he is more experienced and knows more than he actually does. Which he has to do all the time since he knows little and has done even less except be a world-class gasbag.
Seriously, my husband was shot while serving in Viet Nam (yes, the same war that Haughty French John Kerry served in). You either are shot or you are missed. You SHOULD remember which it is. My hubby has a REAL Purple Heart to prove it, not one he ordered on a requisition form for himself.
I could hardly type to log in!
My hat’s off to all who have chimed in so far. I laughed outloud at some of the posts.
So, Kerry shot himself in the butt, Hillary dodged sniper fire from the hills and Biden may have been in a building where a bullet may have landed outside or in a car which may have been hit.
I guess this is what passes for bonding among Democrats.
I won the US Open this year at Torrey Pines.
Wait, it would be more accurate to say Tiger Woods won the US Open, I was just near where it happened.
But it was Sudden Death, that counts for something, right?
babiesgrandma
I, too, am a Nam vet . Please relay a heart felt ” Welcome Home” to your husband for me.
Having been in 4 close range gunfights as a cop, I agree with my brothers in the military – it is not something you forget, and being in the vicinity doesn’t count.
And thank you guys for your service. Real Americans appreciate it.
No Jvette-this is what passes for liberal military combat creditentials when those that have been shot or faced hostile action don’t brag about it.
They handle the memories in each way they see fit without boasting or wanting a pity party.
Just this vet’s 2 1/2 cents worth!
Biden started his lie with the sentence,“Let’s start telling the truth?”
Maybe the “Let’s start telling the truth,” was an internal pleading from his conscience that was accidently vocalized.
dang it.
tried to thank a USS Forrestal vet
at pajamas media and they deleted my comment what kind of crap is that?
at anyrate God Bless you fellas here
thank you and it IS appreciated
I’ve been shot at and missed, shot at and hit, but these two clowns look like they’ve been $hit at and hit, $hit at and missed repeatedly.
Gun,
I have really cherished the WW2 accounts of late. That said no idea how
it works perhaps vets from more recent
wars are not ready to discuss or have yet to be asked ;(
may we live long enough that EVERY vet
is given same respect.
again thank you.
Biden needs to learn the difference between a gun shot, a firecracker or a car backfiring.
It is true. Things are shot into a Bidet all of the time!
Thanks for the imagery.
Maybe it was a sonic boom he heard.
No?
Sorry for the typo. The “N” and “T” keys are next to each other.
I was sitting on a park bench once and pigeon poop hit the person next to me, not quite sniper fire but the pigeon did call in reinforcements.
The last Democrat with any military credibility was the real JFK … and he would probably be a Republican today because the Dem party is nothing like the one he knew when he was President …
DL,
LOL – ain’t it the truth!
For all you patriots that know what is like to be shot and shot at, God Bless You All. My Dad is a Nam vet, a real one, not like frag your own butt Kerry.
I’ve got friends in Iraq and Afghanistan. Obama and Biden make me want to puke. Both are phony patriots. Dad always said a patriot is who you are, you should never have to declare your patriotism.
And cops, firefighters, paramedics God Bless You All too.
From personal experience I have to agree with the young Winston Churchill is the thrill of being shot at without result. There is nothing to make you become one with the ground like the sound of a bullet whizzing past your ear. Been there, done that!
There is enough material on this guy to script 3 seasons of Saturday Night Live. What a dimwit.
Maybe he was shot at. maybe not, but I have a feeling he’s about to become cannon fodder…
1. Political speeches -
2. Academic credentials -
3. Law school papers -
3. War zone stories -
I hate sounding like a broken record, but why do the most prominent democrat candidates always pretend to be something they are not? Don’t these guys ever get vetted?
1. Gore “working perimeter duty and discharging his weapon in Vietnam.”
2. Kerry “infiltrating Cambodia during Christmas of 1968.”
3. Biden getting “shot at” in the Green Zone.
Like when al Gore invented the internet? Or when Hillary dodged sniper fire?
What puzzles me is why don’t their constituents notice that? I guess they’re blinded by love.
All are liars. My Dad who is a Nam vet , knows (specifically) that wonderboy Gore was not supposed to get “a scratch on him” otherwise careers were in the balance (thanks to his racist senator pop). Gore was a REMF (non-military can look it up). The closest Gore got to combat was a paper cut at his typewriter. After 4 months he applied for divinity school. And then the scumbag dropped out of divinity school. Which gave birth to the ultimate scumbag we have to deal with now.
JT –
Forgot Clinton’s corkscrew landing story…with Chelsea, Cheryl Crow and Sinbad coming under sniper fire.
Interesting. I was unaware that Gore went to divinity school. It all makes sense in light of his Messianic complex with Global Warming. He is leading a religion.
I wish I were the pilot. I would have done wing-overs, barrel rolls, loops and spiraled down in a tight spiral just to see if I could get them all to puke. Shrill would have fired me. Chelsea would have sent her BBF to yell at me. Crow would have tried to clean the mess with one square of toilet paper. Sinbad would have just laughed his head off and thanked me for the new material.
BFF – UGH. Her BFF would have just sent me a nanty text anyhow.
Haven’t seen any comments about the link I left to Dissident Frogman’s “Shooty-NoShooty-Savvy?” video.
Seriously, folks – it’s pure genius and a laugh riot. Ya’ll just have to watch it.
Hmmm… link no show?
Well – it’s post #17.
http://www.thedissidentfrogman.com/blog/
Semper Fi, Devil Dog. Semper Fi.
There is more to this biden choice than has been released. I’m telling you it feels funny. The convention will be interesting. We’re not the only ones who are aware of Biden’s issues. I continue to have the feeling that he is the only one who was willing to say “yes”. No proof yet. Something just feels fishy.
JT I can understand your hostility to the “Rear Echelon Mother F****rs” and it reminds me of some of the people I served with in the Navy who conviently forgot to take their BCP’s during workups and left with a temporary disability (aka pregnancy)-about 50% of our female compliment on each of the deployments I made.
Sadly they gave all of the females a bad name because the guys wondered who’s next and which shift they were going to get shafted too.
It has to do with laws of physics. When you have no central belief system, based on morality and integrity to guide you, you become liquid. If you do not have a solid core (integrity, moral fiber, etc.), you are liquid and will conform to the shape of the vessel you find yourself in. Exactly the kind of people we do not need leading our country.
Future Biden quote: “You know, I once had a shot at being Vice President. Well, a more accurate comment would be: I was once near someone who had a shot at becoming Vice President.”
Unless it is a convention center Obama ans Biden will never campaign together indoors. Their egos are both so large their heads won’t fit in the same room.
The more I see these two together, it seems like Obama picked Masser Biden because Obama knows he isn’t ready to lead, he needs someone with experience to hold his hand first.
Obama is getting a pummeling despite the media’s coverups and bias.
When you’re getting your butt kicked, you get an attack dog.
Can we call him poopy-pants yet?
I was at Pearl Harbor – 30 years later – but I think that makes me both a WWII vet and a War Historian. In a Presidential candidate sort of way.
Biden must be the butt of some great jokes, among the troops in Iraq. “I was near where a shot landed.” At least he brought a laugh to a few weary soldiers.
Come on guys and gals Biden is one of the Greatest heroes the liberals have, and as such it is quite remarkable that he actually put him self in a position that “shots” might be taken within several miles of where he might be. We can snicker among ourselves, but let us allow them their heroes such as they are…that is ALL they have got. Everyone pretty much knows that
biden probably was closer to gunfire in d.c. than in iraq. same for the rest of the democrats. and that is because of their no-gun policy in our capital. these people are off their nuts and pelosi is still a twit… since the last time i took time to post.
That pic of Hill in the tank just cracks me up.
Hmmm SNOBAMADEN? Sounds like a wine label.
The Chicago Sun Times is detailing that Obama and Biden have more in common than formerly known:
REMF is always reserved for the jerks. Many behind the scenes personnel are stand up people. Gore has all the qualities of a REMF.
JT so if I google REMF; Will we see Goremessiah’s face as the example of what an REMF looks like?
OT-Give ‘em Hell MM at the DNC in Denver!
GSP
Biden just comes across like an arrogant fool.
The more he talks, the worse he make it for himself.
Not that I have a problem with that.