Archive: Joe Biden
Farewell Edition
The Fact Checker is shutting up shop on the last day of the 2008 election campaign. For this farewell edition, he selects a few of his favorite bloopers and howlers from the long, winding campaign trail.
Posted on November 3, 2008 at 09:55 AM ET | Comments (34)
McCain, Obama, Biden, and JFK
The McCain camp has seized on an unguarded comment by Joe Biden to reintroduce the experience argument into the closing days of the presidential campaign. What do Obama and McCain have to learn from JFK and the Cuban missile crisis?
Posted on October 23, 2008 at 04:26 PM ET | Comments (28)
Four Pinocchios for Biden's Tax Fabrication
According to Joe Biden, John McCain's health care plan will represent "the largest tax increase in American history." That is simply not true.
Posted on September 26, 2008 at 09:30 AM ET | Comments (69)
Read my lips...No new coal plants!
Joe Biden says that no new coal plants will be built in America under a Democratic administration. He is at odds with the top of his ticket.
Posted on September 24, 2008 at 06:00 AM ET | Comments (49)
Convention Edition
The Fact Checker is back, with a look at some of the more questionable claims aired at the Democratic and Republican conventions.
Posted on September 7, 2008 at 09:20 AM ET | Comments (57)
Biden Talks Tough to Brezhnev?
Presidential candidates often inflate their foreign policy resumes. But did Joe Biden really negotiate an important Cold War arms control treaty with Leonid Brezhnev?
Posted on November 5, 2007 at 06:00 AM ET | Comments (15)
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