by Rick Moran at PJ Media
It must be nice to be president. Every time you open your mouth, the world hangs on every word you utter.
“Ev’ry word that I speak goes in the headlines; When I speak, all the papers hold their deadlines,” penned Richard Rodgers and Moss Hart in their musical about FDR, ‘I’d Rather Be Right.” It must be a heady experience for a president.
The temptation to just make stuff up must be overwhelming. And for Joe Biden, he seems particularly unable to resist the temptation to exaggerate, glorify, prevaricate, and “get creative with the truth.”
He’s already tried to make a war hero out of his son, who died of brain cancer. During a speech dedicating a World War II military base as a national monument, Biden said: “Just imagine, I mean it sincerely, I say this as a father of a man who won the Bronze Star, the conspicuous service medal, and lost his life in Iraq. Imagine the courage, the daring, and the genuine sacrifice—genuine sacrifice they all made.”
On Wednesday, Biden claimed that his uncle Ambrose Finnegan crashed on an island in New Guinea and was eaten by cannibals.
“He got shot down in an area where there were a lot of cannibals at the time,” Biden initially told reporters. He was visiting a war memorial in his hometown of Scranton, Pa., that bears his uncle’s name.
“They never recovered his body, but the government went back when I went down there and they checked and found some parts of the plane.”…
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