Joe Biden lost his wife in a tragic car crash some years back, and now he’s trying to drum up sympathy for himself and Barack Obama by peddling lies that she was killed by a drunk driver, causing no end of grief for the family of the man who is no longer alive to defend himself
The truth is much less sympathetic to Biden: it appears that she may have died as a result of her own negligent driving:
In that interview, Herlihy said Neilia Biden either accelerated or drifted through the intersection, and Dunn could not stop. The truck driver said she was not looking at him, her face turned away, and the state police thought she was distracted by one of the children in the back seat.
Note that this doesn’t in any way lessen the tragedy that happened that day. What matters is that Joe Biden is yet again attempting to advance his political career by lying through his teeth about his personal life. If this was an isolated incident in which a man’s memory might be understandly muddied by a personal tragedy, it might be forgivable; but he has a long history of serial exaggerations, plagiarizing, and outright lies that date back at least as far as his college days.
And they’re worried that Sarah Palin might wind up a heartbeat from the presidency?