The news story:
Republican strategist Karl Rove called Vice President Biden a “liar” on Thursday, dramatically escalating a feud between Biden and aides to former President George W. Bush over Biden’s claims to have rebuked Bush in private meetings.
“I hate to say this, but he’s a serial exaggerator,” Rove told FOX News. “If I was being unkind I would say liar. But it is a habit he ought to drop.”
Rove added: “You should not exaggerate and lie like this when you are the Vice President of the United States.”
Biden’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment, although Biden spokesman Jay Carney told Fox on Wednesday: “The vice president stands by his remarks.”
Carney was referring to two controversial assertions by Biden, the latest coming Tuesday during an interview on CNN.
“I remember President Bush saying to me one time in the Oval Office,” Biden began, “‘Well, Joe,’ he said, ‘I’m a leader.’ And I said: ‘Mr. President, turn and around look behind you. No one is following.'”
The exchange is purely “fictional,” said Rove, who was Bush’s top political adviser in the White House.
“It didn’t happen,” Rove, a FOX News contributor and former Bush adviser, told Megyn Kelly in an interview taped for “On The Record.” “It’s his imagination; it’s a made-up, fictional world.
Given the number of times Biden has been found to be stunningly wrong in his statements, we’ll have to go with Rove’s assertion – but I would add, in being generous, that Biden probably thinks it did happen. He does seem to live in a bit of a dream world where imagination and reality are interchangeable – Biden probably wanted to say something like that, and he likely rehearsed it over and over again in his head enough times that it started to become real to him…and then, in typical Biden fashion, when he needed something to say, it just popped out. Its really no different from his absurdly stupid statement during the VP debate where he asserted that the US and France had kicked Hezbollah out of Lebanon.
The bad news is that Biden is Vice President of the United States – this curiously means that we conservatives are praying daily for the continued good health of the President. Still, thought should be given to trying to force Biden out – get him to resign and allow Obama to select someone a bit more grounded in reality to take over the number 2 slot. Still not too late to get Hillary in there – though I can understand why Obama wouldn’t want to paint a target on his own back…
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