Joe Biden sent me an email tonight, ok, not really, it’s actually the Obama campaign channeling Joe Biden, but an email nonetheless came ‘from’ Joe Biden and he is mad. And he wants money for his madness.

The email starts by Joe telling me that the McCain campaign is on the ropes and they are telling outright lies. Biden goes on to say that he has heard ‘unspeakable’ things in this campaign season that are ‘deeply offensive smears.’

The email then says that McCain-Palin is running a ‘dishonorable” campaign and he and Barack are fighting back but they need my help.

Apparently if I send Joe five bucks or more it will “literally make their campaign stronger.”

And for good measure if I was not quite sure if McCain-Palin was ugly, unspeakable and deeply offensive enough, they added a Bush reference at the end to help push the donation drive.
You have to wonder why Joe would use the word “lies” as an attack method against the McCain campaign considering his track record, has he never heard of the boomerang effect?

Although I am not sure what the difference is between a speakable and unspeakable lie is — I do know he has had a wee bit of a problem with exaggeration, also known as lying, in this campaign.

Joe recently told voters he understood the threat posed by Afghan extremists because his helicopter was "forced down" on "the superhighway of terror."

That super force? Snow.

When Hillary Clinton said this past winter that her plane had enemy fire problems in Bosnia the press had a field day with that whopper, Biden’s claim, well, not so much.

Sexism? Maybe. Favoritism? Probably.

By the way, since nobody noticed the first time Biden said he was ‘forced down” he repeated the tale a couple of days later in Cincinnati when he said that al-Qaida had re-established a safe haven and it's not in Baghdad, "It's in the mountains between Afghanistan and Pakistan," he said, "where my helicopter was recently forced down."

The truth? Well last winter Biden and fellow senators Chuck Hagel and John Kerry were in Afghanistan flying in a helicopter when a snow storm hit, the pilot decided they would be safer on the ground, so that is where they went. A couple of hours later they were picked up by a convoy with U.S. troops.

Source:  Pittsburg Tribune-Review