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While I’ve already discussed Biden’s lie regarding Obama sitting down and meeting with dictators without preconditions, Jim Geraghty has  compiled a very extensive list  of all the lies Joe Biden told in the vice presidential debate.

THE CONSTITUTION: Biden: “Vice President Cheney’s been the most dangerous vice president we’ve had probably in American history. He has — he has — the idea he doesn’t realize that Article I of the Constitution defines the role of the vice president of the United States, that’s the executive — he works in the executive branch. He should understand that. Everyone should understand that.”

As noted by the McCain Camp, Article I of the Constitution does not, in fact, define the role of the Vice President of the United States. It defines the role of the legislative branch, otherwise known as the branch in which Joe Biden has served for the last 36 years.

[A reader writes in noting that Article I does mention the veep at one point — "The Vice President of the United States shall be President of the Senate, but shall have no Vote, unless they be equally divided." However, by describing the veep's role in the legislature, it doesn't really help Biden's claim that it "defines the role, that's the executive, he works in the executive branch."]

IRAQ-AFGHANISTAN SPENDING: Biden said that the U.S. spends more in Iraq in one month than it has in Afghanistan in six or seven years.

That figure is off by 2000 percent.

‘KICKED HEZBOLLAH OUT OF LEBANON’: Biden: When we kicked — along with France, we kicked Hezbollah out of Lebanon, I said, and Barack said, ‘Move NATO forces in there.  Fill the vacuum, because if you don’t know — if you don’t, Hezbollah will control it.”

Reuters thinks he meant to refer to Syria, but I still don’t think it would be accurate to say the U.S. kicked Syria out of Lebanon. The Lebanese kicked Syria out of Lebanon.

VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN ACT: Biden’s statement that McCain voted against the Violence Against Women Act is accurate. But as Robert Byers notes, the Supreme Court ruled in United States v. Morrison, the Court ruled that much of Biden’s law was an unconstitutional power grab by Congress of rights reserved to the states. Nobody voted against the WAWA because they support violence against women; they objected over constiutional concerns that a Supreme Court majority validated.

The McCain camp’s list fourteen lies/hallucinations can be found here.

I’d recommend you read the whole piece. It’s not a pretty picture. Whether these are lies, or as Geraghty says “hallucinations”, the effect is the same.  Joe Biden is a very scary individual.

Update:

Ace has a different take on the lies versus hallucinations debate.

I want to stress — these are not lies. Lies are conscious falsehoods told to advance one’s position. These are simply the moronic ramblings of a man who is too fucking stupid to even glean the most elementary information from his day-in, day-out 36 year long job.

Lies would be evidence of a lack of integrity, which is reason for worry, but hey, we’re used to it.

These are simply the ramblings of a senile old fool who was a bit of an imbecile even when his mind wasn’t deteriorating.

Well, there you go.  That doesn’t make me feel any better, though.