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| Plugs Biden Does Some Embellishing |
| 2008-09-11 |
| Biden told the heavy-hitter donors in backyards of Barbara Goodman Manilow and Steve Koch that he doesn't care about the passing controversies like whether Palin sold her predecessor's plane or not or whether or when she supported or opposed the "Bridge to Nowhere" in Alaska. "What I care about is: What in God's name is she going to do — along with John McCain — about the thousands of people who don't have health care?" Biden asked. He'll ask her about "The superhighway of terror between Pakistan and Afghanistan where my helicopter was forced down...John McCain wants to know where Bin Ladin and the gates of Hell are? I can tell him where. That's where Al Quaida is. That's where Bin Ladin is. It's not in the country of Iraq." What really happened In February, Joe Biden was one of several U.S. senators rescued by Dempsey and other members of the Phoenix-based 158th Infantry Battalion when the helicopter carrying the senators made a emergency landing in the mountains of Afghanistan in a snowstorm. Obama, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, announced Saturday that he had picked Joe Biden of Delaware as his running mate. "When I heard, I said to myself, 'That is crazy,'" said Dempsey, the National Guard recruiter here in Yuma. "He could be the next vice president, and there I was, helping scoop him up on a cold, dark, snowy night in Afghanistan." The snowstorm happened as the helicopter carrying the senators was flying over some dangerous ridges, Dempsey said, and the pilot decided to land. Biden, along with U.S. Sens. John Kerry of Massachusetts and Chuck Hagel of Nebraska, were traveling with Maj. Gen. David Rodriguez, Combined Joint Task Force commander, when the Blackhawk helicopter made an emergency landing on top of a mountain about 14 miles from Bagram Air Base. A second Blackhawk helicopter, which was carrying staffers, was also forced to land. |
| Posted by:Beavis |
| #1 Speaking of embellishing; Biden is quoted over at Drudge that Hillary would have been a better VP pick than himself. That has to be leaving some marks somewhere in Obamaville..... |
| Posted by: USN,Ret. 2008-09-11 00:42 |