We wish to step back one more time to the VP debate to point out the glaring “fibs” Joe Biden made since the media won’t do this while they attempt to make hay out of a mispronounciation of a General’s name.

Afterall, Barack Hussein Obama picked Mr. Biden as his VP candidate because of his foreign policy credentials and blue collar background.

Lebanon:

Mr. Biden asserted that “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.’ Now what’s happened? Hezbollah is a legitimate part of the government in the country immediately to the north of Israel.”

Fact:

The U.S. never kicked Hezbollah out of Lebanon, and no one else has either. As for NATO, Messrs. Biden and Obama may have proposed sending alliance troops in, but if they did that was also a fantasy. The U.S. has had all it can handle trying to convince NATO countries to deploy to Afghanistan.

Afghanistan and The Surge:

“Our commanding general in Afghanistan said the surge principle in Iraq will not work in Afghanistan,” said Mr. Biden.

Fact: 

In trying to correct him, Mrs. Palin mispronounced the general’s name — saying “General McClellan” instead of General David McKiernan. But Mr. Biden’s claim was the bigger error, because General McKiernan said that while “Afghanistan is not Iraq,” he also said a “sustained commitment” to counterinsurgency would be required. That is consistent with Mr. McCain’s point that the “surge principles” of Iraq could work in Afghanistan.

Meeting with Terrorists without Pre-Conditions:

Mr. Biden claimed that Mr. Obama “did not say he’d sit down with Ahmadinejad” without preconditions.

Fact:

Mr. Biden himself criticized Mr. Obama on this point in 2007 at the National Press Club:

“Would I make a blanket commitment to meet unconditionally with the leaders of each of those countries within the first year I was elected President? Absolutely, positively no.”

Bosnia History:

John McCain didn’t support President Clinton in the 1990s.

“My recommendations on Bosnia, I admit I was the first one to recommend it. They saved tens of thousands of lives. And initially John McCain opposed it along with a lot of other people. But the end result was it worked.”

Fact: 

Mr. McCain supported Mr. Clinton on Bosnia, as did Bob Dole even as he was running against him for President in 1996 — in contrast to the way Mr. Biden and Democratic leaders have tried to undermine President Bush on Iraq.

Lunch Bucket Joe and “Katie’s restaurant”:

Mr. Biden invited Americans to join him at “Katie’s restaurant” in Wilmington to witness middle-class struggles.

Fact:

Katie’s closed in the 1980s.

The Wall Street Journal has noted the word “lie” is overused in politics today, having become a favorite of the blogosphere and at the New York Times.

I tend to call it for what it is and not make excuses for the politicians who do, in fact, lie. How elitist for the WSJ editors. We’ll simply call it deceit. Indeed!