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Joe Biden: There are 650,000 troops in Afghanistan
“By the way, those dependent people he refers to, those 47 percent, they include the 650,000 troops still left in Afghanistan who, because they are in combat, being shot at, injured, they do not have to pay any federal income tax on their salary. I don’t call that dependency. I call that ingratitude to not recognize they are a part of that 47 percent,” Biden said on the steps of the state house in Concord, N.H.
Following the event, a Biden aide clarified Biden intended to say there are approximately 68,000 troops left in Afghanistan.
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The gift that keeps on giving….
BallisticBob on September 22, 2012 at 1:02 PM
Come on, he was within a power of 10.
Ted Torgerson on September 22, 2012 at 1:10 PM
But CNBC’s NYT John Harwood finds this so “charming”.
Who can forget his mid-sentence 180 degree LIVE TV turnaround:
“Joe Biden has a history of too many verbal gaffes to think they would risk it……[banner flashes Obama has chosen Biden]……now this is a brilliant move, the public finds those verbal gaffes quite charming……”
Marcus on September 22, 2012 at 1:11 PM
What has hazard pay got to do with mooching?
OldEnglish on September 22, 2012 at 1:12 PM
*facepalm*
Paul-Cincy on September 22, 2012 at 1:14 PM
This geezer is a complete and utter buffoon. We better hope Barry never gets nailed in the head with a golf ball. (That being the most dangerous thing he’d ever be involved in)
BettyRuth on September 22, 2012 at 1:14 PM
An the LongLegged MakDaddy doesn’t know the deficit.
WAKE UP, people.
davidk on September 22, 2012 at 1:16 PM
The scary part is Biden sounds slightly more intelligent than most of our resident trolls.
Tells one all they need to know about the modern D’Rat party.
Thomas More on September 22, 2012 at 1:16 PM
Not to worry. No vital organs involved.
At least none that are being used.
Joe Mama on September 22, 2012 at 1:16 PM
I CAN not wait for the vp debates! Paul will eat dear joes lunch and have fava beans and chianti with it!
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letget on September 22, 2012 at 1:17 PM
Just remember that Obama selected Biden for Biden’s foreign policy expertise.
conservative pilgrim on September 22, 2012 at 1:19 PM
I wonder if Biden’s aides are given “What Joe meant…” memo pads.
Flange on September 22, 2012 at 1:19 PM
OT, but DUDE:
davidk on September 22, 2012 at 1:20 PM
And FDR went on t.v. right after the stock market crash in 1929, and reassured the nation, right Joe?
AZCoyote on September 22, 2012 at 1:21 PM
And then all the MSM outlets will report that Slow Joe cleaned Ryan’s clock.
AZCoyote on September 22, 2012 at 1:22 PM
Shinola
Satero tells Letterman he knows neither the national at the beginning of his term, nor now.
And now Sheriff Joe says 45-6- divisions (depends on light or heavy) are in Afghanistan.
To think many, even here, think Palin is uninformed.
WASF’ed.
Shaughnessy on September 22, 2012 at 1:22 PM
SAZMD on September 22, 2012 at 1:25 PM
What do you expect from Hapless Joe? Consider the guy he works for…
Obama: Tornado Killed 10,000 People
whatcat on September 22, 2012 at 1:28 PM
I know a doctor that thinks Joe is at Stage 2 or 3 Dementia.
faraway on September 22, 2012 at 1:30 PM
You would think the war effort would be going so much differently with that kind of force. /
Cindy Munford on September 22, 2012 at 1:30 PM
It’s still no where near as bad as Pelosi saying 500,000,000 people will lose their jobs a month if porkulous isn’t passed.
Flange on September 22, 2012 at 1:32 PM
D’OH!
Ladysmith CulchaVulcha on September 22, 2012 at 1:35 PM
I will bet money that neither Shrillary, SlowJoe, nor Barackabama can point out Afghanistan on a globe.
SouthernGent on September 22, 2012 at 1:36 PM
They pulled the skin a little too tight on that facelift.
Wigglesworth on September 22, 2012 at 1:37 PM
I just wonder, could ALL these gaffes from joe be an act? If bho, please God don’t let it be so, gets re-elected, bho can appoint a vp he wants if joe has a ‘medical’ problem? bho/team can’t get rid of joe, that would mean another defeat for them now, so wait to see how the election turns out?
Just a thought?
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letget on September 22, 2012 at 1:50 PM
Just did a Google News search on this story, and the Democrat Media has pretty much been Mission Accomplished as far as totally burying it.
That means it never happened.
Del Dolemonte on September 22, 2012 at 1:56 PM
Thank you, Dr. Pepper!
RadClown on September 22, 2012 at 2:45 PM
Obama/Biden = Dumb and Dumber
AZCoyote on September 22, 2012 at 2:57 PM
So he thinks we only deployed a quarter of our entire active and reserve forces in Afghanistan. That shouldn’t concern anybody I guess.
legalimmigrant on September 22, 2012 at 3:04 PM
TFG
edshepp on September 22, 2012 at 3:11 PM
Figures will lie, and liars will figure, according to a well-known saying.
Biden seems to have the same innumeracy problem as Pelosi. (How many jobs were lost under W, Nancy?)
Meanwhile, Taliban infiltration in Afghanistan is higher than assumed:
http://www.military.com/daily-news/2012/09/18/crocker-taliban-infiltration-worse-than-reckoned.html?ESRC=dod_A.nl
onlineanalyst on September 22, 2012 at 3:11 PM
SCOAMF.
andycanuck on September 22, 2012 at 4:15 PM