Who Wants A Damn Compulsive Liar As President? Or A Presidential Campaign On Who's The Bigger Liar?

Trump is the biggest liar to ever occupy the White House-- by far. But if Biden ever gets there-- God forbid-- he'd be the second biggest liar to ever occupy the White House. The graphic above represents Trump's public, checked lies. I count True and Mostly True as True and everything else as lies. Half True means half false. And the one below represents Biden's record. Yes, Trump lies more than Biden... but that bar is way too low and Biden lies way too much. How many times will he say "I didn't mean to mislead" ... before going on to mislead some more?

Remember, (a little more than) half the country (at least right now) thinks Trump is worse and half the country thinks Biden is worse. But sane people know both are really vile, horrible men, the very worst of America of what America has to offer.

Two more graphics from PolitiFact. The first one represents Trump's lies in the last week. But there were so many that these few were all I could fit on this page:

The second is Biden's lies... except that PolitiFac-- while not having gotten to the dozen lies Trump told in the last two days-- also hasn't gotten to Biden's biggest-- and most pertinent-- lie of the week: his lie about the Iraq war. He claimed "details are irrelevant in terms of decision-making.

With that long record, Biden has faced criticism over the years for his judgment on key foreign policy decisions, such as voting to authorize the Iraq War, trying to partition the country along ethnic and sectarian lines, opposing a troop surge, and overseeing the withdrawal in 2011 that some say created a power vacuum that allowed ISIS to flourish in Iraq.

"He's been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades," former Defense Secretary Robert Gates wrote in his 2014 memoir.

"I think my record has been good," Biden told NPR. He explained that his rationale in authorizing the use of military force in Iraq in 2002 was based on a commitment he had received from then-President George W. Bush that he would not go to war in Iraq.

"[Bush] looked me in the eye in the Oval Office. He said he needed the vote to be able to get inspectors into Iraq to determine whether or not Saddam Hussein was engaged in dealing with a nuclear program," said Biden. "He got them in and before you know it, we had 'shock and awe.'"

Bush's office denied Biden's version of events. "I'm sure it's just an innocent mistake of memory, but this recollection is flat wrong," said spokesman Freddy Ford in an email to NPR.

The Biden campaign pointed to numerous remarks from Bush at the time where he said he hoped to go through the U.N. Security Council to avoid a military conflict with Iraq.

"Immediately, that moment it started, I came out against the war at that moment," Biden told NPR.

But in multiple public remarks made after the invasion began in 2003, Biden openly supported the effort. Biden publicly said his vote was a mistake as early as 2005, but not immediately when the war began in 2003.

"Nine months ago, I voted with my colleagues to give the president of the United States of America the authority to use force, and I would vote that way again today," Biden said in a speech at the Brookings Institution on July 31, 2003. "It was a right vote then, and it'll be a correct vote today."

Biden, like Trump, is an uncontrollable, congenital liar. When those two think they can get away with it, they just lie, assuming no one will ever check. They are both absolutely hideous and shouldn't be allowed a role in government. Tuesday, writing forThe Nation, Joan Walsh, also pointed out Biden's inability to tell the truth. "The Washington Post's running tally of Donald Trump’s lies since Inauguration Day 2017 has passed 12,000," she wrote. "Biden seems to think, given that backdrop, his mistakes won’t hurt him-- or at least shouldn’t. Part of me admires the former vice president’s pluck... Maybe Biden thinks toughing this one out will keep the press focused on the bigger issue: Trump’s manifest incompetence and corruption. But I doubt it. For one thing, Biden’s Afghanistan story-telling didn’t occur in a vacuum but during a campaign in which he’s made numerous mistakes and misstatements. In just one day last month, he confused recently ousted British Prime Minister Theresa May with her long-ago predecessor Margaret Thatcher, said 'poor kids are just as talented and as bright as white kids' (inadvertently conflating 'white' with 'bright' and seeming to depict poor kids as nonwhite), and insisted Democrats should 'choose truth over facts.' Democratic primary voters rightly want to know if the 76-year-old vice president is up to the rigors of the presidency-- regardless of the fact that Trump is not. In a primary where at least 10 viable candidates are competing (if we just stick with those who made the cut for the next debate), the party’s voters don’t have to settle for someone whose own troubles with truth and facts threaten to take Trump’s off the table, as a campaign issue, come the fall of 2020."

You can't believe ANYTHING that either Biden or Trump ever says

Biden went down in flames yesterday. The smartest guy I know told me he is pretty sure Biden is already self-destructing and that he won't be able to go the distance. Shame on the self-interested staffers that are propping this poor old coot up.

One more disgusting thing about the disgusting Biden this morning. After his dishonest, lackluster appearance on CNN's Climate Forum yesterday, he prepared to head over to 2 big dollar fundraisers today, including one hosted by David Solomon of Hildred Capital Partners, whose chief investment officer, Andrew Goldman, was a finance director for Biden's 2008 campaign, was a Biden Senate advisor and a co-founder of Western LNG, a natural gas production company. Biden tried getting away-- before the howling got too loud-- with a "middle way" on the Climate Crisis, where his heart is and will always be. His current chief climate policy adviser, Heather Zichal, made a fortune from a fracking firm after leaving the Obama administration. Remind yourself what a scumbag Biden is and has always been by watch this half minute video:

You'll Never Go Wrong Politically By Doing The Opposite Of Whatever Ed Rendell Tells You To Do

They've had their turn running the place-- and they screwed it up

Ed Rendell is the apotheosis of the Democratic Party Establishment Hack. He was a Philly tough-on-crime D.A. for 2 terms, Philly Mayor for 2 terms and Pennsylvania Governor for 2 terms, pleasing Republicans by slashing items that helped poor people and working families from the state budget. He is widely thought to have fueled Pennsylvania's opioid epidemic by eliminating and Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) program. He was also chairman of the DNC and of the National Governors Association. In 2008 he was a top Hillary Clinton supporter against Obama who went on Fox & Friends to kiss their ass for the Clinton campaign: "I think during this entire primary coverage, starting in Iowa and up to the present, Fox has done the fairest job, has remained the most objective of all the cable networks," he told Steve Doocy. "You actually have done a very balanced job of reporting the news, and some of the other stations are just caught up with Senator Obama, who is a great guy, but Senator Obama can do no wrong, and Senator Clinton can do no right." After his second term of governor he became an effective fracking lobbyist and is one of the top fracking proponents in the upper ranks of the Democratic Party.

He is the personification of the self-loathing anti-progressive Republican wing of the Democratic Party. Last year, just before election day, he wrote an OpEd for The Hill warning how the Democratic Party is going too far left. "One trend," he wrote, "that has taken hold is quite alarming: our swing to the far left. That trend has been exemplified by almost all of our putative presidential candidates. The two clearest examples of trying to appeal to our base by being as progressive as possible were the rush to embrace a “single-payer” health care system after Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) publicly endorsed it, and the stampede to call for the abolition of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Sanders’s Medicare-for-all plan really was not unexpected; he talked about single-payer during the 2016 campaign. But when he reiterated it, loudly and clearly, his words brought a rapid endorsements from almost all other Democrats who are hinting at presidential aspirations... Regardless of your opinion on its merits, single-payer is not a reasonable solution to the challenge of making health care accessible and affordable; it will never get the 60 votes necessary in the Senate, even if Democrats were to win back the chamber on Nov. 6. Our candidates should work for solutions that are politically achievable, and not appeal to voters with a plan they know cannot become reality. (That’s like saying, 'Mexico would pay for the wall.') I would respect our wannabes more if they would make realistic proposals for reform."

Quintessential Ed Rendell-- and why conservatives always say no progress is ever achievable. He urged his readers to back conservative corporate whores-- calling them "solid left-of-center candidates"-- Joe Biden, Michael Bloomberg, Amy Klobuchar or John Delaney. This graphic was created as a reminder to political hacks with no vision-- like Ed Rendell:

Yesterday, Rendell was back on the radio with reactionary Republican billionaire and major Trump backer John Catsimatidis, spewing the inevitability argument for Biden. "I think Joe Biden is baked in. People say, 'oh well, he makes gaffes.' Well, the American people have followed him for 40 years, and they know he makes gaffes. It’s part of his charm."

Political elites have followed him for 40 years. Most Americans have no idea who he was before Obama picked him to balance his ticket. Few Democrats Biden was a corporate suck-up for his entire career and a virulent racist for the first half of it. As for the "gaffes"... half of them are lies meant to mislead and the other half are indicative of a brain malfunction increasingly common when old people are sinking deeper into senility-- like Trump... and Biden. Rendell then launched into the carefully crafted Biden campaign talking points he surrogates use to excuse his deteriorating mind:

"But it’s baked in. No one seems to hold it against him. They believe he’s a smart, decent guy. He’s got a good heart. And he’s effective at government. I think in the end, Joe Biden will prevail. But you can’t be sure of that. Elizabeth Warren is coming on very strong. She’s a good campaigner. Bernie has a resolute following...You just don’t know how this is going to shake out."