Why did Joe Biden insinuate that his wife and daughter were killed by a drunk driver when an investigation ?
showed that no alcohol was involved?
Why would he try to slander a dead man?
“Let me tell you a little story,” The newspaper quoted Biden as saying. “I got elected when I was 29, and I got elected November the 7th. And on Dec. 18 of that year, my wife and three kids were Christmas shopping for a Christmas tree. A tractor-trailer, a guy who allegedly — and I never pursued it — drank his lunch instead of eating his lunch, broadsided my family and killed my wife instantly, and killed my daughter instantly, and hospitalized my two sons, with what were thought to be at the time permanent, fundamental injuries.”
http://delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080904/NEWS02/809040379
“Alcohol didn’t play a role in the 1972 crash, investigators found. But as recently as last week, the syndicated TV show Inside Edition aired a clip from 2001 of Biden describing the accident to an audience at the University of Delaware and saying the truck driver “stopped to drink instead of drive.”
The senator’s statements don’t jibe with news and law enforcement reports from the time, which cleared driver Curtis C. Dunn, who died in 1999, of wrongdoing.”
“The rumor about alcohol being involved by either party, especially the truck driver, is incorrect,” said Jerome O. Herlihy, a Delaware Superior Court judge who was chief deputy attorney general and worked with crash investigators in 1972.
“If it were some part of a cause of the accident, there would have been a charge, simply because if you’re driving under the influence and kill someone in the process — whether it’s the wife of a U.S. senator or anybody else — there’s going to be a charge,” he said.
And look at lovely ol’ Biden’s camp had to say when Dunn’s daughter became distraught over her deceased father being maligned:
To see it coming from [Biden's] mouth, I just burst into tears,” Dunn’s daughter, Glasgow resident Pamela Hamill, 44, said Wednesday. “My dad was always there for us. Now we feel like we should be there for him because he’s not here to defend himself.”
Biden spokesman David Wade said Wednesday that the senator “fully accepts the Dunn family’s word that these rumors were false.”
ME: apparently you do not.
I wonder if they can sue him for defamation?
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Apparantly “Me” didnt read the article, because the one that caught my attention was this
“Biden told a similar story when addressing an audience at the Bob Carpenter Center at the University of Delaware a few days after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
“It was an errant driver who stopped to drink instead of drive and hit a tractor-trailer, hit my children and my wife and killed them,” Biden said, according to a transcript archived on his Senate Web site.”
He said the driver had “stopped to drink instead of drive”
He said the man was drunk, and clearly he was not. He has not apologized for his falsehood.
and I can tell you, when my BIL was killed by a drunk driver, we followed the investigation – you don’t ‘not pursue’ it.
Whatever it takes to get a vote.
To garner sympathy votes.
Pretty pathetic, huh?
Biden is not subject to media investigations. No inquiry into academic past, plagiarism, or brain surgery. You can make much or nothing of all these facts in the history of a candidate. Much is made by just mentioning a past event. Apparently, McCain who was shot down twice in the Viet conflict is more concerning to the liberal press on character issues. Gov. Palin on how she spent Alaska’s tax funds in spite of the fact she sold an extravagant jet for the use and convenience of her predecessor. That is just plain selective reporting. Reflecting a clear bias against the McCain ticket.