These are more than just common trips over the tongue.
These are more than just common trips over the tongue. I’ve been saying for 4 years, Joe Biden is sick and in cognitive decline. He has been in politics for 50 years go to Cspan and watch an old speech; he is a totally different person. It’s only gotten worse since this article was written.
This ableism and speaking from the heart argument from the democrats needs to be documents and remembered. If there is any sort of conservative politician that has a verbal miscue these are the arguments to bring up.
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He takes circuitous routes to the ends of sentences, if he finishes them at all. He sometimes says the opposite of what he means (“I would eliminate the capital gains tax — I would raise the capital gains tax” he said in this month’s debate). He has mixed up countries, cities and dates, embarked on off-message asides and sometimes he simply cuts himself off.
Mr. Biden’s verbal miscues have long led to challenges. He was forced to withdraw from the 1988 presidential campaign after he presented biographical details from the life of the British Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock as his own. His gaffe-prone tendencies made national headlines during his 2008 presidential bid when he referred to Barack Obama as “the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean.”
Some attendees at his events in Iowa last week said Mr. Biden, who overcame a childhood stutter
One who misstated the name of his own cabinet secretary recently, tortures grammar and spelling in his tweets and, most significantly, routinely makes false claims about matters large and small.
In Iowa and nationally, worries about Mr. Biden’s speaking style are often intertwined with concerns about his age — though his allies and former staffers say he has long been prone to misspeaking.
At the September debate, Mr. Biden responded to a question about the legacy of slavery with a rambling answer that included advising the use of a record player to expose underprivileged children to more words. At a CNN forum focused on L.G.B.T.Q. issues this month, Mr. Biden — who was ahead of Mr. Obama in voicing support for same-sex marriage — still raised eyebrows for referencing “gay bath houses,” while making a broader point about evolving attitudes.
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