Bubba Joe can count on my vote...going to anyone other than Joe or Donald.
Carl Jarvis
On 8/29/19, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
If This Is the Democrats Best Hope, They Better Start Praying
By Dana Milbank, The Washington Post
29 August 19
This opinion piece by Dana Milbank at the Washington Post really illustrates
how serious Biden's gaffe and misstatements problems are. The case can be
made that Biden is not as bad as Trump, but that's super low bar. The case
cannot be made that Joe Biden is a stellar candidate. This is a very real
problem. - MA/RSN
There is no surer way to convince people you are going nuts than to stand in
front of a crowd and announce that you are not going nuts.
“I want to be clear: I’m not going nuts,” Joe Biden declared at a campaign
stop Friday as he struggled to identify the location of a speech he had just
given.
Nothing is more likely to raise doubts about your mental acuity than to
misidentify the state you are in. “What’s not to like about Vermont?” Biden
asked on Saturday — in New Hampshire. He previously confused Burlington,
Iowa, with Burlington, Vt.
And nothing will get your relatives to demand power of attorney more rapidly
than misplacing a decade. “Bobby Kennedy and Dr. King had been assassinated
in the ’70s, the late ’70s, when I got engaged,” Biden said last week.
Oh, God love me! What is this malarkey?
The former vice president has admitted to being a “gaffe machine.” That’s
false modesty. He is the Lamborghini of gaffes.
He announced that “poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as
white kids.” He located the El Paso and Dayton mass-shootings in “Houston”
and “Michigan.” He recalled a visit with survivors of the 2018 Parkland
shooting — before the shooting happened.
He confused “Margaret Thatcher” with Theresa May and Angela Merkel, referred
to the Second Amendment as the First, tripled the number of casualties of
the 1970 Kent State shooting and mixed up his campaign website with a
text-message code. At the Iowa State Fair, he thundered: “We choose truth
over facts!”
Less felicitously, he also joked about gay waiters, entitled millennials and
his too-tactile ways — and praised a segregationist’s “civility.” Things got
so bad that Biden’s neurologist offered a virtual doctor’s note, telling
Politico that he’s “as sharp as he was 31 years ago.”
True. Biden has been churning out malapropisms since 1987, when he was still
delivering Neil Kinnock’s speeches.
This is the man who claimed “I’ve known eight presidents, three of them
intimately.” Even with such intimate knowledge, he later confided: “I’d
rather be at home making love to my wife while my children are asleep.”
He proclaimed Barack Obama “the first African American in the history of the
United States.” During a rally, he called attention to “a three-letter word:
jobs.” He once introduced his running mate as “Barack America.”
Some say it’s unfair to draw attention to Biden when President Trump is the
most mendacious politician ever. I disagree: Biden’s gaffes are to be
celebrated, for they make him exciting. When he opens his mouth, nobody
knows what is going to come out — least of all Biden.
Biden once said to a paralyzed man in a wheelchair: “Stand up, Chuck.” He
mourned one woman (“God rest her soul”) who hadn’t died. He described Obama
as “the first mainstream African American who is articulate and bright and
clean.”
He disclosed that Franklin D. Roosevelt went on television in 1929, before
TV existed. He predicted that if Obama were elected, “we’re going to have an
international crisis.” He declared that Hillary Clinton “might have been a
better pick than me” for vice president. He reported that “you cannot go to
a 7-Eleven . . . unless you have a slight Indian accent.” He frankly told
one audience: “You all look dull as hell.”
Who can forget him saying “this is a big f---ing deal” after Obamacare’s
passage? Or admitting, as he tried to sell the stimulus, “There’s still a 30
percent chance we’re going to get it wrong”?
I am so certain that Biden’s gaffes will propel him to victory that I have
written him a draft acceptance speech, based on actual Bidenisms, for the
Democratic convention in Milwaukee:
Hello, Memphis! Ladies, gentlemen and other genders — there are at least
three! — I say: This is a big f---ing deal! I see poor kids in the arena and
I see white kids. I see Grandpa Finnegan, God rest his soul!
I would not be here in Manchester accepting your nomination without the
support of articulate, clean black people. And you disabled veterans — stand
up! I have known you intimately. And so I say: I would rather be making love
to my wife! You are a dull audience.
Fellow Democrats, there is a 30 percent chance everything I do will be
wrong. Bernie, Elizabeth, Kamala and the others would have been better picks
than me. But I am here because of a three-letter word: TRUTH. We choose
truth over facts! If elected, I promise: We will have an international
crisis. Let me be clear: I am not going nuts! So go to my website number and
help me. Vote for Joe America! Good night, Montgomery!
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