You have to wonder if politicians say things like this enough to the point where they actually believe it.

Biden was making up war stories again with diplomatic aides in the State Department by reviving his old claim that he'd "been shot at."

"You have great personal courage. I've been with some of you when we've been shot at," said Biden in a claim that will toTaLLy be fact-checked.

Biden said the same thing in 2007, claiming he'd been "shot at" in the U.S. controlled "Green Zone" in Baghdad, similar to Hillary Clinton's story of "sniper fire" in Bosnia.

I'm sure someone at Snopes will quickly point out that ackchyually, he was in a helicopter once in 2005 where a bullet "narrowly missed" the craft.

How "narrowly" said bullet missed isn't the point (although I'd wager it's similar to AOC "narrowly" escaping the rioters on Capitol hill); the point is to spin stories to make them seem far, far, FAR more life-threatening than they actually were to receive "stolen valor" and personal gain.

"Veterans don't like it when people mischaracterize their service, people who overstate what happens to them," Patrick Campbell, the former legislative director for Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America. "We have names for them."

Names, indeed.

But having never served in the military and having lived at the top 1% of Americans for half a century, Biden is forced to pretend that he's somehow in the same class of Americans who literally face bullets and death all day every day.

You want to know a president who got shot at and didn't make a big deal about it, Joe? Teddy Roosevelt. The man got shot in the chest and then refused medical treatment until he had finished his 84-minute speech.

"I don't know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot; but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose," said Roosevelt at the time.

Kids, be less like Joe and more like Teddy.

And pray for those who actually do take bullets for their country.