He argued that the Obama administration had been a steadfast friend to Israel, saying, “No president since Harry Truman has done more for Israel’s security than Barack Obama.”
Mentioning Romney’s January comment that Obama had thrown “Israel under the bus,” Biden attacked Romney as a politician willing to tell outright lies to gain votes.
It was likely, Biden said, that Romney was resorting to one of “his party’s favorite tricks,” namely choosing to “distort and mischaracterize your opponent’s position, keep repeating the distortions and mischaracterizations over and over again, even when every objective observer says you’re wrong, keep repeating in the hope that it will eventually stick.”