One of the fascinating things about last night’s vice presidential debate was how easily Joe Biden could stand there at the podium and tell lie after lie after lie. One particularly egregious lie of Biden’s was when he stated that Barack Obama never said that he’d meet with dictators like Ahmadinejad and Castro without preconditions. Here’s the exchange from last evening:
IFILL: Governor and senator, I want you both to respond to this. Secretaries of state Baker, Kissinger, Powell, they have all advocated some level of engagement with enemies. Do you think these former secretaries of state are wrong on that?
PALIN: No and Dr. Henry Kissinger especially. I had a good conversation with him recently. And he shared with me his passion for diplomacy. And that’s what John McCain and I would engage in also. But again, with some of these dictators who hate America and hate what we stand for, with our freedoms, our democracy, our tolerance, our respect for women’s rights, those who would try to destroy what we stand for cannot be met with just sitting down on a presidential level as Barack Obama had said he would be willing to do. That is beyond bad judgment. That is dangerous.
No, diplomacy is very important. First and foremost, that is what we would engage in. But diplomacy is hard work by serious people. It’s lining out clear objectives and having your friends and your allies ready to back you up there and have sanctions lined up before any kind of presidential summit would take place.
IFILL: Senator?
BIDEN: Can I clarify this? This is simply not true about Barack Obama. He did not say sit down with Ahmadinejad.
But, the record speaks for itself, and we have Barack Obama’s statement on video.
Obama says he\’d meet with dictators without preconditions
Before the days of You Tube, you could lie and pretty much always get away with it. Not anymore Greasy Joe, not any more.
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