WTF Joe?
Courtesy of The Independent:
Joe Biden’s 2020 campaign has admitted the former vice president was not arrested for trying to visit Nelson Mandela at a South African prison during apartheid after the Democratic candidate used the claim at least three times during appearances in recent weeks.
In campaign visits to Nevada and South Carolina, Mr. Biden claimed he was arrested with the US ambassador to the United Nations in Soweto, despite there being no publicly available evidence of the incident.
“This day, 30 years ago, Nelson Mandela walked out of prison and entered into discussions about apartheid,” the Democratic candidate said at a campaign event in South Carolina.
“I had the great honour of meeting him. I had the great honour of being arrested with our UN ambassador on the streets of Soweto trying to get to see him on Robben Island.”
News agencies then scrambled to find confirmation that the arrest took place, and could find nothing.
Which then resulted in this statement from his communications director:
“He took a trip with a [congressional delegation] in the 70s. He was separated from the [Congressional Black Caucus] members he was traveling with at the airport, when he landed,” Kate Bedingfield, Mr. Biden’s communications director, told reporters on Wednesday.
“When making that remark, he was talking about his long record fighting apartheid; he was one of the leading voices in the United States Senate in the 80s.”
However, Ms. Bedingfield could not justify Mr. Biden’s use of the word “arrest” or a coda he added to the story, in which Mandela personally thanked him over the incident.
One of the main concerns about Biden as the 2020 Democratic candidate is that he is an unpredictable gaffe machine, and that he will ultimately sabotage his own campaign.
To be really effective, Democrats need a candidate who is a reliable truth teller in order to offer a strong contrast against Trump and his never ending flood of lies.
If Trump can point the finger back at our candidate for their fabrications that undermines that line of attack.
I just don’t think that Joe Biden is the man for the job.
Yeh, me neither. Sanders and Biden are like the bookends of the real candidates. I don’t think either one is viable, and both are too old.
Joe has lost it. He needs to retire to an old folks home.
There has to be a way to limit terms and/or a mandatory retirement age. But we’d be asking the same people who relish their perks to give them up voluntarily and that’s not going to happen unless the Godfather makes them an offer they can’t refuse.
Doesn’t matter, trump is going to smear and lie about whomever the candidate is and if things continue with republicans voting for Bernie in the primary we may end up stuck with the worst candidate anyway.
OH great. Just great.
Give it up Joe.
This is ridiculous. His gaffes are only going to get worse.
We need pople in THEIR prime whose neurons fire acurrately.
Amy K and Pete. B. work for me. But that’s just me.
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https://www.thedailybeast.com/joe-biden-says-late-wife-daughter-and-son-are-a-part-of-his-being
“Biden then revealed that he starts every day by aiming to make his son proud of him. “Because he asked me when he was dying, ‘Promise me, Dad. … Promise me, you’ll stay engaged,” Biden said. “He knew I’d take care of the family, but he worried what I would do is I would pull back and go into a shell and not do all the things I’ve done before. It took a long time for me to get to the point to realize that that purpose is the thing that would save me. And it has. And every morning I get up and I say to myself … I hope he’s proud of me.””
Go build houses for HFH then. That’ss make them proud. This is not making them pround. They may be cringing. Ever think of that Joe? Well, actually, I don’t beleive in sky fairies or heaven, so who knows where their souls are, if we have souls. Reincarnated?
Clueless Joe.
Here’s some good news for the Bernie haters out there:
Krystal and Saagar: Superdelegates admit flagrant plan to take the nomination from Bernie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epwzcl20fyM
I wonder if barron goes by melanias name like tripp often chooses palin, so he receives praise.
Not only a gaffe machine, but lately he seems to be having mental lapses. Not to the extent of the current occupant of the Oval Office but enough for me to say he’s too OLD. I don’t want one more president with dementia with the launch codes.
He needs to throw in the towel and take some sort of ongoing water aerobics jazz class.
I don’t buy most of the shit I read about Joe Biden since I found out the truth about the ‘plagiarism’ accusation. Right-wing memes are so easily adopted by Left-wing haters, no wonder Trump is beside himself that anti-Biden Democrats aren’t mouthing HIS lies this year.
I’d be much more worried about Bloomberg. The way things are going right now he’s helping to elect Sanders.
He’s gonna be the 90 year old who refuses to stop driving.
Aging is part of the deal, Joe. Stop being a martyr.