The Obama campaign is on damage control today, but not only because of Biden's bizarre behavior, which particularly turned off the ladies and independents out there. Just check out this voter who crosses both those demographics...
...but the White House is also trying to clean up Biden's contradiction, claiming they weren't told about additional security requests in Libya, when members of the State Department just testified before Congress the day before that they had indeed received said requests.
Byran Tau at Politico comments, "The truthfulness of that statements depends on what Biden meant when he said “we” — State Department officials admitted in recent congressional hearings that requests were received from the Libyan missions for additional security resources in advance of the attack that killed four Americans."
Spokesidiot Jay Carney tried to pick up on the minutiae of defining 'we' (reminds one of Clinton's 'is'), seemingly shielding Obama and Biden while tossing blame Hillary's direction, but WeaselZippers makes clear what we all know ol' Joe was saying, "He was talking about the administration, the same administration that denied the request." Precisely. ALL of them.
But Joe didn't stop there. He not only tried to pull a Stephanie Cutter, blaming the desire of the American people, especially those moms, to want to know what happened to four Americans in Benghazi and why it happened, but he actually tried to pin the administration's cover-up on the intelligence community...
theWeeklyStandard: Among the many charges and countercharges at the vice presidential debate here Thursday, two points from Vice President Joe Biden stand out. First, Biden blamed the intelligence community for the administration’s confusing public explanations of the 9/11 anniversary attack in Benghazi, Libya. ... Biden defended the administration’s ever-changing story on Benghazi by hiding behind the intelligence community and suggesting that their information was incomplete and inaccurate.
But then Biden changed his tact towards the intelligence community moments later, when the debate turned towards Iran's national security threat facing America...
Biden, in an attempt to parry an attack from Ryan, suddenly expressed his belief that the U.S. intelligence community is omniscient. There’s no need to consider war right now, he argued, because “we’ll know if they start to build a weapon.”
So the same intelligence community that failed to deliver information in its possession about the attacks on Benghazi is suddenly so all-knowing on Iran that we needn’t worry about the mullahs going nuclear?
His logic just doesn't add up. And that's what happens when you're spinning one lie upon another.
