Joe Biden On Faith, Patriotism and Taxes

Biden, Faith, Patriotism and Taxes

by Joseph Farah

10/01/2008

Following Joe Biden's logic is not always easy.

Recently, he told Americans that paying more in taxes is the "patriotic" thing to do; that Jesus supported higher taxes; and that he is heeding -- selectively, on the issue of taxes -- Catholic social doctrine.

Let's start at the beginning.

There's nothing remotely patriotic about raising taxes -- especially income taxes. Income taxes are nothing more than legalized theft. The only reason people pay them is they are forced to do so. Not paying them means going to jail. The most truly patriotic thing Americans could do would be to deprive the federal government of as much money as possible -- to stop feeding the irresponsible beast that is wrecking the American economy and turning a once-free people into a dependency class of serfs.

Anyone who actually believes giving more money to the federal government is patriotic is, of course, free to do so at any time -- voluntarily. If Joe Biden believed it, he would overpay his tax bill. He never has done so -- not once. Nor am I aware of any other prominent politician -- Republican or Democrat -- voluntarily overpaying his taxes
because he believes the government knows how to spend his money better than he does. Please tell me if I am overlooking anyone.

Given that Joe Biden always has paid the bare minimum in taxes demanded by the government, can we assume he is not patriotic? If paying more in taxes suggests patriotism, why would anyone need to be forced to pay more? Why is Joe Biden waiting for Congress and the president to tell him he needs to pay his fair share? Why doesn't the man who wants to be vice president of the United States show some leadership? Why doesn't he lead by example and voluntarily pay more of his income to Washington?

Next, Biden dares to bring Jesus into his argument. Suffice it to say the notion that Jesus supported man-made governments forcibly extracting excessive amounts of wealth from citizens cannot be found in Scripture. And please don't cite the "render unto Caesar" line as proof. That response from Jesus came in answer to a question from the disciples as
to whether it was lawful to pay tribute to Rome. Jesus' response was: "Render therefore unto Caesar the things which be Caesar's, and unto God the things which be God's."

What is Caesar's, and what is God's?

I know this: Everything is God's. The question of what is Caesar's is still up for grabs.

And that brings us to Biden's newfound faith in Catholic social doctrine. Isn't this the same guy who has disputed all the major bishops of his church by rejecting the belief that life begins at conception? Why is it that this so-called Catholic feels free to deviate from his church's social doctrine on a matter of life and death but feels compelled to prostitute
Christian teachings about charity to justify the government's seizing of private property by threat of violence?

"Catholic social doctrine as I was taught it is, you take care of people who need the help the most," Biden semi-articulated.

Does Biden take this teaching to heart in his own life? The evidence strongly suggests the answer is no.

Biden not only does not pay the government any more than the bare minimum required to keep him out of the pokey to "take care of the people who need the help the most" but also gives next to nothing to charities -- Catholic or otherwise -- to demonstrate his own commitment to this principle.

Biden's tax returns show that during the past 10 years, he and his wife have given, on average, $380 a year to charity. That's a microscopic 0.2 percent of their income, or only 10 percent of the national average.

Who is Joe Biden to lecture Americans about helping the less fortunate, about Christian charitable ethics or about patriotism when he has proved to be the living embodiment of a modern-day Scrooge?

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Mr. Farah is a nationally syndicated columnist.

Biden Loose Cannon Behind The Wheel

Hat tip to Mike McCarville... the hits just keep on comin'!

The Joe Biden Gaffe-mobile Continues.

""Let's start telling the truth,"
Biden said during a presidential primary debate sponsored by YouTube last year. "Number one, you take all the troops out - you better have helicopters ready to take those 3,000 civilians inside the Green Zone, where I have been seven times and shot at."

When questioned later it was..."I was near where a shot landed."

Biden went on to later say he was actually just shaving in the morning when he felt the building shake, "No one got up and ran from the room-it wasn't that kind of thing" .

FOX News (seems to be the only news agency that) has been asking the Obama campaign for details of the alleged shooting in Iraq ever since Biden was tapped to be vice president. Biden campaign spokesman David Wade promised an answer last week, but failed to provide one.

Now we also have the foreign policy expert for the Democrat party saying things like this...

"If you want to know where Al Qaeda lives, you want to know where Bin Laden is, come back to Afghanistan with me," Biden bragged to the National Guard Association. "Come back to the area where my helicopter was forced down, with a three-star general and three senators at 10,500 feet in the middle of those mountains. I can tell you where they are."

But it turns out that inclement weather, not terrorists, prompted the chopper to land in an open field during Biden's visit to Afghanistan in February. A convoy of security vehicles was dispatched to retrieve Biden and fellow Senators Chuck Hagel and John Kerry.

No explanation why Senator Biden didn't simply alert the generals with him at the time as to the location of Osama B Laden that he now claims to know...

Quick, somebody ask Biden how to spell potato!
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McCain Unleashing Sarahcuda on Biden

Thanks to Okie Campaigns for the headsup...

Let Sarah - Be Sarah: Warning to Joe Biden: McCain Has Released the Barracuda

September 29, 2008
OP-ED COLUMNIST
How McCain Wins

By WILLIAM KRISTOL
John McCain is on course to lose the presidential election to Barack Obama. Can he turn it around, and surge to victory?

He has a chance. But only if he overrules those of his aides who are trapped by conventional wisdom, huddled in a defensive crouch and overcome by ideological timidity.

The conventional wisdom is that it was a mistake for McCain to go back to Washington last week to engage in the attempt to craft the financial rescue legislation, and that McCain has to move on to a new topic as quickly as possible. As one McCain adviser told The Washington Post, “you’ve got to get it [the financial crisis] over with and start having a normal campaign.”

Wrong.

McCain’s impetuous decision to return to Washington was right. The agreement announced early Sunday morning is better than Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson’s original proposal, and better than the deal the Democrats claimed was close on Thursday. Assuming the legislation passes soon, and assuming it reassures financial markets, McCain will be able to take some credit.

But the goal shouldn’t be to return to “a normal campaign.” For these aren’t normal times.

We face a real financial crisis. Usually the candidate of the incumbent’s party minimizes the severity of the nation’s problems. McCain should break the mold and acknowledge, even emphasize the crisis. He can explain that dealing with it requires candor and leadership of the sort he’s shown in his career. McCain can tell voters we’re almost certainly in a recession, and things will likely get worse before they get better.

And McCain can note that the financial crisis isn’t going to be solved by any one piece of legislation. There are serious economists, for example, who think we could be on the verge of a huge bank run. Congress may have to act to authorize the F.D.I.C. to provide far greater deposit insurance, and the secretary of the Treasury to protect money market funds. McCain can call for Congress to stand ready to pass such legislation. He can say more generally that in the tough times ahead, we’ll need a tough president willing to make tough decisions.

With respect to his campaign, McCain needs to liberate his running mate from the former Bush aides brought in to handle her — aides who seem to have succeeded in importing to the Palin campaign the trademark defensive crouch of the Bush White House. McCain picked Sarah Palin in part because she’s a talented politician and communicator. He needs to free her to use her political talents and to communicate in her own voice.

I’m told McCain recently expressed unhappiness with his staff’s handling of Palin. On Sunday he dispatched his top aides Steve Schmidt and Rick Davis to join Palin in Philadelphia. They’re supposed to liberate Palin to go on the offensive as a combative conservative in the vice-presidential debate on Thursday.

That debate is important. McCain took a risk in choosing Palin. If she does poorly, it will reflect badly on his judgment. If she does well, it will be a shot in the arm for his campaign.

In the debate, Palin has to dispatch quickly any queries about herself, and confidently assert that of course she’s qualified to be vice president. She should spend her time making the case for McCain and, more important, the case against Obama. As one shrewd McCain supporter told me, “Every minute she spends not telling the American people something that makes them less well disposed to Obama is a minute wasted.”

The core case against Obama is pretty simple: he’s too liberal. A few months ago I asked one of McCain’s aides what aspect of Obama’s liberalism they thought they could most effectively exploit. He looked at me as if I were a simpleton, and patiently explained that talking about “conservatism” and “liberalism” was so old-fashioned.

Maybe. But the fact is the only Democrats to win the presidency in the past 40 years — Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton — distanced themselves from liberal orthodoxy. Obama is, by contrast, a garden-variety liberal. He also has radical associates in his past.

The most famous of these is the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, and I wonder if Obama may have inadvertently set the stage for the McCain team to reintroduce him to the American public. On Saturday, Obama criticized McCain for never using in the debate Friday night the words “middle class.” The Obama campaign even released an advertisement trumpeting McCain’s omission.

The McCain campaign might consider responding by calling attention to Chapter 14 of Obama’s eloquent memoir, “Dreams From My Father.” There Obama quotes from the brochure of Reverend Wright’s church — a passage entitled “A Disavowal of the Pursuit of Middleclassness.”

So when Biden goes on about the middle class on Thursday, Palin might ask Biden when Obama flip-flopped on Middleclassness.

Biden Over-Under On Gaffe's Is One Per Week

Jihad Joe Biden just keeps the gaffe's and dumb statements coming. Yesterday he said that "we are going to TAKE money from you..." and that paying higher taxes is "patriotic". lol

It's a good thing he wasn't at a certain tea party in the Boston harbor a few hundred years ago trying to make that claim. Biden was also failing to mention that any American that wants to give MORE in taxes to the Federal Government can do so... of course Biden doesn't. Joe Biden apparently doesn't believe in giving HIS money to charity either, having only donated an average of just over $300 per yer of his well-over $300,000.00 annual take from our taxes in salary.

Keep 'em coming Joe, we know you've got a lot more dumb statements in the pipeline.

Obama Most Anti-Gun President Ever?

If elected, Barack Obama would become the most anti-gun president in US history.
If elected, Vice President Sarah Palin will go big game hunting in the mountains of Alaska and make sure you have the right to do the same.
You make the call.
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