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The full video of the Biden speech in Pennsylvania is even more disturbing than the short clip I posted yesterday

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A number of people wondered if the video I featured yesterday of Joe Biden bloopers from a speech he made recently in Pennsylvania was authentic or whether it had been doctored to make him sound worse. I became curious, and decided to check, a process which is simple but time-consuming.

It also required me to listen to Biden’s entire speech in its official version. I’ve never listened to a speech by Biden that is that long – a little over twenty minutes. That may not be long for a typical political speech, but it’s certainly long for Biden these days.

The speech was easy to find in its official full-length form on Biden’s own YouTube account (here it is, although I’ll also post the full video later in this post), and the errors and slurrings Biden made are all too real. You can find some at minutes 18:20 to 18:38, 20:55 to 21:01, 25:44 to 25:50, 27:07 to 27:11, 31:23 to 31:28, 31:41 to 31:50, 34:07 to 34:10, 34:28 to 34:32, and 34:44 to 34:49. I think that some of those I’ve listed aren’t even included in the compilation video from yesterday.

But what’s worse is the content of the speech itself. Lie after lie after lie (doom-laden stuff about COVID and Trump, Trump called the military “losers”, Biden won’t ban fracking although he said many times that he would, Trump hasn’t delivered on any of his promises), and simplistic and formulaic solutions delivered in a shouting monotone for the most part. For someone who bills himself as the nice guy in the race, this speech has a surprisingly harsh animus.

First, though, I want to highlight two segments that weren’t on yesterday’s blooper video because they’re not bloopers. But I think they’re extremely revealing about what makes Joe run and what has always made him run.

Here’s the first:

And here’s another:

In front of many phrases, he also has a repetitive vocal tic that’s new to me: “Look!” And it’s not the only repetitive phrase he uses. The whole speech has a robotic air, as though he’s memorized some time-worn phrases that he is reciting with what feels like the correct and appropriate affect but is somehow off.

It’s really rather frightening to watch the whole thing, more so than watching the short excerpts. As one person in the chat there said, “Sounds like a senile angry old man.”

Here’s the speech in its entirety. As I said, you can find some bloopers at minutes 18:20 to 18:38, 20:55 to 21:01, 25:44 to 25:50, 27:07 to 27:11, 31:23 to 31:28, 31:41 to 31:50, 34:07 to 34:10, 34:28 to 34:32, and 34:44 to 34:49:

Can this be what America wants? I guess we’ll find out – I was going to say “soon enough,” but of course there may be quite a delay post-Election Day. But I cannot imagine that a single person watching Joe Biden actually thinks he’s a competent person who can accomplish any part of what he says he can. The votes for Biden are votes against Trump and/or for the leftist agenda, period.

[NOTE: By the way, in that first clip Biden says “I’d only be the second guy in this century, in the last century, that in fact didn’t go to an ivy league school.” That’s rather nonsensical; it’s unclear which century he’s talking about. If he’s talking about the 21st Century, there have only been a total of three presidents so far. So he would only be the second of the three; big deal. But he’s not even right about that. George W. Bush went to Yale, an ivy league school. Obama had two years at Occidental, not ivy league, and then finished up at Columbia which is ivy league. So, would Obama be the one predecessor in the 21st Century who didn’t go to an ivy league school? Does half and half count? And what about Trump? Two years at Fordham, not ivy league, and then finishing up two years at the University of Pennsylvania which is ivy league. Just like Obama. So Biden would either be the first who didn’t go to an ivy league school (who didn’t graduate from one, anyway) or he would be the third out of four, depending on how he defines it.

But even that is being too kind to Biden, because what does “in this century, in the last century” mean? Those are two different centuries – 21st and 20th. So, if Biden’s talking about the 20th Century too, a whole slew of 20th Century presidents didn’t go to ivy league schools. George H. W Bush did (Yale). But Bill Clinton went to non-ivy Georgetown (although he later went to Yale Law School). Reagan did not (Eureka College), Carter did not (he went to the Naval Academy), Gerald Ford did not (U. of Michigan), Nixon did not (Whittier College), LBJ did not (Southwest Texas State Teacher’s College), JFK did (Harvard), Eisenhower did not (West Point), and Truman was the last president who did not graduate from college at all. FDR was ivy league (Harvard), Hoover went to non-ivy Stanford, Coolidge came close to ivy with Amherst but no cigar, Harding went to Ohio Central College, Wilson was an ivy graduate from Princeton, Taft was another Yalie, and Teddy Roosevelt had gone to Harvard. So there you have it.]

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The full video of the Biden speech in Pennsylvania is even more disturbing than the short clip I posted yesterday — 70 Comments

  1. One reason that he sounds so robotic is that he is reading Ron Burgundy like from a teleprompter. It is huge so his weary eyes can make it out. When he was in MI two weeks ago a reporter filmed the teleprompter being used. Note how the people are off to the side.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6sr6FuWdOY&ab_channel=BGOnTheScene

    I noticed again in his Florida rally today that people are at the side of the stage.

    So it will be interesting to see how Obama and Joe interact in their Saturday rally in Detroit MI.

  2. That was cringe-worthy for a guy running for Dog-Catcher, much less President!

    Well, I have dropped the big one on the rest of the family… Biden ain’t gonna win. Reaction: “B-b-b-but, the polls!”

    Informed them that:
    – National polls are irrelevant, see Electoral College
    – How you ask the question can sway the answer,
    – Dems use polls to drive opinion, not measure it.

    S-I-L says she will be marching in the street if Trump wins. Told her she best go out and get some good hiking shoes and start breaking them in!

  3. This has been said before, but it’s ESSENTIAL to stress how much Biden has been ahead of Trump in the polls simply because should Trump win then the Democrats and their pathetic accomplices can haul out and dust off the RUSSIA hoax and collusion fantasy one more time, moral mediocrities that they are. (They’re not even being creative any more, sigh…)

    File under: “Encore!! Encore!!”

  4. I’ve riffled through the biographies of Fortune 500 CEOs and while you see the Ivies, you also see state schools. The Presidency and the Supreme Court are the odd loci where you have this bias toward the Ivies in and among those who compete for the office and win it. NB, it’s less of a bias toward the Ivies than it is a bias toward Harvard and Yale.

    One addendum: Gerald Ford attended Yale Law School. In re Coolidge, Amherst is a teaching institution. All of the Ivies are research institutions. The Coolidge home in Vermont was about 100 miles from Amherst College. There was rail service from central Vermont to Amherst, Massachusetts at the time and you could traverse the distance by horse in a few days.

  6. Will be perversely fascinating to see how visible and active he will be after he takes office.

    Will the media just stop pretending he’s in charge?

    I can see the stories now about how this is a new type of administration that will act like a team or something.

  7. Yep, a ranting, senile old coot is how Biden came across to me, and no one who should be anywhere near the Oval Office and the power of the Presidency.

    If he wins, he’s probably going to be shuffled off the stage right quick, off to Happy Acres, and hello President Harris.

    Or, he’s going to be kept around as a figurehead, someone they drag out every once in awhile to keep up the fiction that he’s really the one running things, while other people actually run things in the background.

    Hmm.

    If ol’ Senile wins, I wonder where “Dr.” Jill Biden is going to fit in the New Order?

  8. Snow On Pine,

    I’m sure it will painted by the media as a strength that Ol’ Joe is willing to delegate responsibility unlike the dictator Trump interfering in all that stuff that was really his business.

  10. By the way, Beau Biden was a Lawyer in Iraq. Maybe he went outside the “green zone”, I don’t know; but I expect he deserved that Bronze Star about as much as Kerry deserved the Silver Star and 3 Purple Hearts. Small point in the scheme of things, but it grates.

    You would think that after all of these decades, that he could read a teleprompter better than that. I don’t think I have ever listened to one of his speeches, so I cannot judge the scope of the deterioration. Maybe he was always pitiful.

    I am sick. I hope to get better after 11/3. We will see, sooner or later. Just the fact that the issue is still in doubt at this point is so very troubling. The people who are aware, the media et al, and are willing to sell the country down the river deserve to rot in hell. The people who are simply ignorant could be pitied if the stakes were not so high. I know that the country is in for a rough time post-election, even if it is not an unmitigated disaster.

    Told my wife, I wish we had more ammunition. She asked “why don’t we?”. We don’t because there has been a run on it since BLM and ANTIFA started their rampage, and the polls started suggesting that Biden could win.

  11. Joe Biden makes the Mad Hatter sound reasonable. And sane.
    Trying to make sense of the former’s word salad is a lost cause, but I guess someone has to do it. And so we are indebted even further to our gracious host.

    …as the madness continues:
    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/columbia-prof-says-american-flag-symbol-genocide
    Not sure why this guy continues to live in the US, though. Must have one helluva sense of humor. Or maybe he “needs the eggs”.

  12. Snow on Pine, above @4:59 PM, if Biden does win I expect that the behind the scenes struggles for power will be horrific. To begin with I see a battle between those who will want to keep Biden in office so they can pull the strings of President Meat Puppet and those who will want to get him out so they can get their hands directly on the levers of power.

    As for “Dr.” Jill Biden, I strongly suspect she is eagerly looking forward to playing the role of Edith Wilson Version 2.0 in the Biden administration.

  13. Trump campaign should say:
    “It doesn’t matter whether or not Biden will ban fracking. It does matter that Kamala definitely will.”

  15. From personal experience with family, Joe seems to have Lewey body dementia, aka, Parkinson’s dementia. The facial softness is what stands out to me, sort of like a pushed in pillow. The rate of decline is quite fast too, Alzheimer’s is slower.

    In no case should this man be President, he’s not fit for office. Actually, no Democrat is fit for office these days, but the dementia is a total disqualifier.

  16. Old Flyer

    The Bronze Star is given for heroism in combat (with a “V” device) or for non-combat meritorious service w/o the “V”, I think in a war zone. That administrative one is probably what Biden got.

  17. The angry ranting reveals a bitter, bitter soul filled with resentment at the upper classes. He lusted for what they had and knew deep down that he didn’t have what it took to join them. And the knowledge that he didn’t measure up, filled him with even more hate. But cunning enough to know that politics is the way to ‘honest’ theft.

    So he justified his corruption by telling himself that those he hated had simply inherited their ancestor’s ill gotten gains. Whereas he’d earned his by ‘leveraging’ the system. Truly a man who believes that honesty is for suckers.

  18. The man is bear nekkid.

    The MSCM is desperately trying to keep his clothes on him.

    In doing so, the MSCM is showing that they, too, are bear nekkid. All of ’em.

    Not a pretty sight by any stretch of the imagination…

    But they don’t care. They believe absolutely that they’re doing the right thing:

    GETTING NEKKID FOR BIDEN!!

    We should all give ’em a shout out: “Put yer darned clothes back on!”

    But they won’t. Guess they want to shock us all to death. (Or maybe they’ll hope we’ll die of laughter…)

    Could happen.

    …Well, let’s move from the depressingly grotesque to some interesting, even uplifting, archeological news:
    https://www.timesofisrael.com/rare-early-christian-church-built-atop-temple-to-pan-found-in-northern-israel/

  19. An angry old man who slipped away from the assisted living facility to yell at a small parking lot full of cars.

    That he is reading this stuff off of a teleprompter the size of a drive in movie screen makes it even more pathetic.

  20. I might have posted this here before; if so, it is time for a repeat.

    A friend (lawyer) knows another lawyer who was in the law office Biden started his career in. That friend says when Joe first got to the law office, no one had much interest in engaging his services. As a result, he had a lot of spare time on his hands.

    Said friend said he frequently saw Joe in an empty office, door closed, practicing his elocution — speaking (declaiming, really) to an empty office. Friend thought he must have been practicing for political office.

    Prescient.

  21. He has a habit of attempting to make little jokes that fall flat. Like at the beginning, he asks a kid if he’s cold without a jacket and suggests that the kid get in the car. Or that he appreciates his teachers, even the ones that gave him a bad grade, but “I’m just joking.” They just don’t work in the context.

  22. Biden=POS.
    Only half of America agrees.
    So half of America is FOS.
    Demonazis are united behind Biden, and are uniformly opposed in the Senate to the most able Barrett.
    I think the USA is done. Stick a fork in her.

  23. As it happens, I’m watching “Deliverance” (again — great film!) and I couldn’t help but notice the similarity between Biden above and the mentally-whatever kid in the famous banjo playing scene. The same broad forehead, pale skin and thin dark slits for eyes.

    –“Deliverance (1972) – Dueling Banjos”
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlJ82Qlw4hw

    It’s a cheap shot, I know, but check it out.

  24. Huxley,

    But can Joe play the banjo like that kid. One of the best scenes in movie history. The old men dancing, Reynolds and Voight, Ned Beatty, Ronnie Cox and some serious playing.

  25. From IMDb: ” Redden didn’t know how to play the banjo so another teenager was his hand double in the song “Duelling Banjos” while in the soundtrack Eric Weissberg and Steve Mandell were the musicians performing the song.”

    So let us give credit where credit is due!

  30. 1. Paul in Boston, that’s an interesting detail. Seeing your comment, I took a look at a few facts about Lewey himself, whose original name was apparently Friedrich Lewy – I had never heard of this disease before. My initial point of curiosity was whether Lewy had lived or done any of his academic work in places with which I was familiar; not so, it turns out.

    But ironically enough, he passed away in Haverford, PA, close by Philadelphia – thus, not too far away from the habitual boyhood stomping grounds of you-know-who. And that was 70 years ago this past Oct. 5th. How very curious, I says to myself.

    Geoffrey and F, these are very intriguing little glimpses. Biden does definitely sound particularly angry when he talks about the congenitally wealthy, judging from the two clips Neo picked out above as well as some of the larger body of the main speech to which I subjected myself.

    On a whim, I thought to check out some data on U. S. Senators’ net worth in recent times. I’m currently consulting this page, for example: https://ballotpedia.org/Net_worth_of_United_States_Senators_and_Representatives. The main body of that page apparently pulls numbers from a report from 2012, so didn’t include Biden up top because he was in the Executive at the time, of course. But further down there’s a section on former Congressional members in the executive branch showing some net-worth calculations from 2004 to 2011 or so. Biden’s numbers there come in pretty low compared to many of the other names on the page – I see several figures in the low six, even mere five digits for him. Obviously I don’t know offhand exactly how reliable these data are, but they’re a potential starting point, perhaps. (I noted in passing that the data for Biden’s superior at the time show a quite eye-popping rise in that same time frame… ‘Martha’s Vineyard, here I come’.)

    I’d have to process this all more thoroughly to see what it really means, but if his financial picture is what it seems on that first pass, it makes me feel a little bit more sympathy for Biden. I had thought of him as a more typical Senate type – independently wealthy, cuff links on his pajamas, etc. Maybe not so much?

    I can’t imagine he’s hard up for money at this point, of course, but it makes me start to think, when I put that next to Geoffrey’s comment, maybe we’re just dealing with another Jay Gatsby wanna-be when you get right down to it. Not so unusual as a type after all! It doesn’t make me admire Biden any more than I already did, but it makes him a little more comprehensible, insofar as all of this kind of armchair psychoanalysis can ever make me comprehend somebody else. Might explain his apparent interest in all this lucre from here, there and over yonder.

  31. Oh, Neo, by the way, I’m starting to get server errors when I posted that comment. Some kind of 500 error thingy. And now that it posted (whew! I would have been mad losing all that), I see (a) no 5-minute Edit option and (b) “Your comment is awaiting moderation”. Changes? Eventuell ungewollte?

  32. The first is the real Gropin’ Joe. Defensive and insecure because, without politics, he doesn’t amount to much.

    The second is projection. He’s the guy who stiffed the country. He went into politics the second he got out of law school and did everything he could to sponge off the system and the people.

  35. Philip Sells:

    I got a link at Instapundit a little while ago, and sometimes the server can’t handle it right at the beginning. I think that’s what wreaked havoc with comments for a little while. It seems (knock wood) to have righted itself somewhat now.

  36. Philip Sells:

    I think the psychological key may be in this family history:

    Biden’s father was initially wealthy but had suffered several financial setbacks by the time Biden was born; for several years the family lived with Biden’s maternal grandparents. Scranton fell into economic decline during the 1950s and Biden’s father could not find steady work. Beginning in 1953 the family lived for several years in an apartment in Claymont, Delaware, then moved to a house in Wilmington, Delaware. Joe Biden Sr. later became a successful used car salesman, maintaining the family’s middle-class lifestyle.

  37. Dennis, I know. Never occurred to me that he had a V. Still, what does a National Guard Lawyer do to earn a Bronze Star? (BTW, he also received the Legion of Merit after Dad became VP.) Anyway, the essential point is that Joe made it sound like he was on the tip of the spear as an Army Major in Iraq. He was actually a National Guard JAG Major on active duty for a year. No political promotions there in the State where your Father is a Senator, eh? As I said. A small thing in the scheme. It just irritates me.

    Phillip Sells, I expect that you know that there are stories of unknown provenance about Biden and MBNA that go way back to when Biden wielded influence over the banking industry in the Senate. More recently, Biden and Jill reported income of $13M for their S corporation in the two years after he left politics on income from speeches and book royalties. Wink. Wink.

  38. Old Flyer

    Sorry. Looks like I missed the point. Should have known you were up on such things given your tag.

  39. Neo – ah, yes, the famous Instalanche. Actually, he’s linked you a couple of times this past week or so.

    Well, having done this bit of a delve into Biden’s history, I find myself feeling a bit sorry for him now. A small, ordinary man in the end, no particular principles or genius about him; he’s had some of what one might call success in life, got his name in lights a few times as a Senator and all. Now on the downslope of his life, here he is trying to hit a home run one last time. Is that what this is all about? A vanity project for an old man on his last legs?

    I mean, yes, there’s the handsy stuff; the lies that seem to come as naturally as breathing; the running around with rhetorical gasoline; the unprincipled treatment of Judge Thomas; his recent off-the-cuff comment about eight-year-olds, sure, they should have the right to be trans or whatever; the Green New Deal stuff – none of that goes away because of what I’ve looked at tonight, don’t mistake me. But suddenly my attitude has shifted. It’s as if a character is rearing up before me right out of Fitzgerald or Miller (maybe those of you who’ve read Faulkner or something can help me out).

    Joe Biden is not big enough for the Presidency. And if he should happen to attain it, I won’t like it. He himself may be an empty shell, but those who accompany him are going to be another story entirely. However, as far as Biden himself goes, he begins to activate my sense of pity. It’s funny how many ‘small men’ we’ve seen in the Oval Office in recent times. Whatever else one may think of him, Donald Trump is not a ‘small man’. Of all the conceivable reasons to vote for him, maybe that’s the most compelling of all.

  40. The two short clips showed the ‘chip-on-the-shoulder’, the jealousy of the ‘poor’ boy. Not impressive in a man in his 70s.

    I lasted only a few minutes in the longer video. His shouting was too annoying. Blech!

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  42. Joe is “sick and tired of smart guys”?
    Well, nice of Joe to acknowledge that POTUS is smart, the rest of his backers and hyenas have claimed for years that Trump is stupid.
    And two, Biden suggests we should go with a stupid old man like Biden, instead of a smart guy
    Gee, thanks Joe, envy will get you nowhere!

  44. As Biden speeches go (a standard that is in the sub-basement, I grant you), this one wasn’t terrible. He managed to stay upright and mostly coherent for twenty minutes. As far as the yelling, I assume he was shouting over the din of Trump protestors’ horns.

    As to the bizarre Ivy League comment, as Neo points out, it is factually incorrect. If he’s talking about the 21st century…big deal; there have only been three Presidents. If he’s talking about the 20th Century, he’s just wrong. Even interpreting it charitably, that he meant “Ivy and Equivalent” (thus including Amherst and Stanford), there were still seven non Ivy (undergraduate or law school) Presidents: Harding, Truman, Eisenhower, Johnson, Nixon, Carter and Reagan. This is just another silly, easily disproven Biden lie. Does it matter? Not much. But it betrayed a clear pattern: he really seems to be a pathological liar. Not mere spinning or puffery, or making promises he knows he can’t keep (all politicians do all of that) but telling demonstrable untruths about clear facts, big or small.

    The bigger, much more absurd, issue here is the content of much of the speech. His economic populist and “local boy” schtick is both nauseating and laugh inducing. Yeah, yeah, you were born in Scranton. Who cares? How much time have you spent there in the last 50 years? Trump is the one who looks down on regular folk??? C’mon, man! Take out the references to the coronavirus, substitute “George H. W. Bush” for Trump, and this speech could have come from Biden’s first Presidential campaign (maybe it did). Only the most gullible and the most self-deluded still believe Democrats give a damn about blue collar whites. They are increasingly explicit in showing they hold nothing but contempt for this demographic.

    I assume this speech was set up to run a little damage control after Slo Joe’s revealing comments on fracking and “transitioning away” from fossil fuels at the last debate. But it really came off as shameless pandering, as an insult to the intelligence of the voters it was aimed at. That’s my opinion, anyway. We’ll see on Tuesday (and the days following) if those voters agree with me.

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  46. “For someone who bills himself as the nice guy in the race, this speech has a surprisingly harsh animus.”

    I point that out all the time – he does this every speech- yells like an angry old man. Comparing it to Trump who is upbeat, smiling, takes his time, cracks jokes and riffs a lot – who would want the cranky old man?

  47. Global Trvlr:

    More worrisome than Biden being a cranky old man, I was recently pondering on our nuclear defense posture. We all know a military officer with current nuclear launch codes accompanies the President everywhere, at all times. Imagine for just a moment (that will be long enough to scare the wits out of you) that China decides to move on Taiwan within hours after Biden’s inauguration on January 20. Someone has the duty to wake Joe out of a sound sleep and ask him how he wants the USA to respond. He’s only had 6 hours of sleep since going to bed at 9:00 PM, and an unknown Colonel is standing by his bed telling him he has the launch codes, and what should he do with them?

    Does Joe say “I’ll tell you in the morning?” Does he say “give them to Jill (or Kamala)? Does he say “I’ll convene an NSC meeting tomorrow?”

    Our last few president would have been awake and alert enough within minutes to make a rational decision. Joe? Not so much. How long would it take for him to clear the cobwebs out of his brain and make a decision? The question is frightening.

  48. Detail: Ford went to Yale Law School after having gone to Michigan. The real point about Biden is that he is just dumb as a box of rocks. He finished 76th out of 85 in his class at Syracuse University law school. That’s like being the *worst* hockey player in Ecuador.

  49. Reminds me of a newspaper picture caption on the Simpsons of Grandpa: “Old Man Shouts at Cloud”.

  50. The real point about Biden is that he is just dumb as a box of rocks.

    He wasn’t. However, his quantum of ‘g’ is atypically low for a national politician. See Dan Quayle, who passed the bar exam on his first attempt, but only practiced for two years before slipping into a job in the family business and then getting elected to Congress; it was Marilyn Quayle who had the vocation to practice law. Biden practiced (more or less p/t) for four years before landing in Congress. He might have made a career as a small time general practice attorney or he might (as so many do) have left the legal profession after a few years.

    One thing he does have is a certain cunning and a lack of scruple which is incorporated into telling brazen lies and sucking up pelf. It’s a reasonable inference that his 1st degree relatives have been his enablers in this. The Neil Kinnock imbroglio was stunning. Marco Rubio, another low-rent lawyer, is willing to play Yasir Arafat – saying one thing to a hispanophone audience and something quite different to an anglophone audience – but there’s no indication he’s on the take. As for DQ himself in his semi-retirement, one recalls Spiro Agnew’s precis of how he made a living – “I have one utility: the ability to penetrate straight to the top”. I don’t think the financial sector firms which employ him are tapping his quant skills. That aside, though, there’s no reason to think he isn’t on the level and he’s never had a reputation for mendacity or sexual misconduct.

  52. That’s like being the *worst* hockey player in Ecuador.

    Syracuse has mediocre rankings (around the 40th percentile). It’s not scraping the bottom.

  53. I was an undergraduate when Biden was at Syracuse. The law school was so poor that at one point it was in danger of losing its accreditation. Biden was nearly expelled for plagiarism. Had he been he probably would have wound up selling used cars in Wilmington.

  54. Good call Huxley, Old Biden reminded me of someone but I couldn’t put my finger on it. But now it’s clear it was banjo kid from Deliverance.

    Gregory+Harper: Thanks for saying! Sometimes I wonder if I’m just lost and raving in my Private Idaho.

  56. Hated Biden’s Loud Angry yelling. (Almost as bad as listening to Hillary.)

    But if I didn’t know most of what he said was dishonest, it was pretty pro-middle class. Raise taxes on the rich, make the corporations pay “their fair share”, and give lots of benefits. (Neo listed a few of his lies. Most Dems don’t know/believe the truth, thanks to media lies.)
    Plus jobs.
    Jobs and jobs and lots of jobs.
    Millions.
    Millions of jobs more than Trump. He’s got a “plan” and Moody’s on Wall Street says it creates more jobs than Trump’s plan…

    If you want to hate Trump and believe in Biden, this speech won’t change your mind.

    Maybe nothing would change such a Trump-hater’s mind, but I think the Hunter Biden facts have a better chance. I’m glad I only half-wasted time listening to this (already voted Trump).
    Thanks for great Dueling Banjos link.
    And B-52s too! (Saw them in concert in 1980? or so. The opening act did card tricks. Including throwing them, like knives, into things like watermelons.)

  57. In some ways it seems like a Potemkin Village situation with the Dems and MSM trying to dupe the entire country.

  59. om: The “Conservatives don’t got no sense of humor” canard is a canard.

    As the Firesign Theatre once said, “A stiff idiot is the worst kind!”

  61. Philip Sells: Well, I didn’t say the B-52s were harmless! I thought this YouTube comment did them justice:
    __________________________________________

    I’m thoroughly convinced this band is a group of aliens that came down to earth, heard new wave* and attempted to try it for themselves.

    And it’s glorious.

    — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXmnmvDl-ao
    __________________________________________

    * “New Wave” was a late70s/early 80s rock genre. Neither punk nor disco, but often with a refreshing lack of seriousness.

  64. They are actually trying to use Biden’s stellar chart to get Kama into the white house. Kama’s power chart is relatively high, but her “time” wasn’t supposed to be now. This was supposed to be Hillary’s time.

    Trump messed them up, strategically.

  65. Does anyone else hope that Biden is more “with it” than he sounds, and healthy enough to last at least four years? Because if he’s president… well, he’s president, and he doesn’t have to be a puppet for the far left if he doesn’t want to be.

  66. Joe’s just trying to appeal that he has something in common with the vast majority of America, where most college graduates don’t have a degree from an Ivy League school. It’s just a talking point; something he or his handlers thought that would make middle America nod their heads in agreement and get some sympathy. It’s nothing more than that.

    It’s the same when Mitt Romney tried to show that he and his wife “struggled” in their first year of marriage when they lived in the basement room of an apartment, eating off of an ironing board because they didn’t have a dinning table. I forget what type of sandwich Mrs. Romney made Mitt that day.

    But whomever pushed this talking point didn’t do their homework as it was pointed out. Though a number of presidents hold an Ivy League degree, it’s better to see it in a timeline where one can draw up theories unto why places like Harvard and Yale produced more presidents versus other schools.

    No one mentioned that Joe had a stutter in his early years (via wiki bio). Per his wiki bio, “Biden has a stutter, which has improved since his early twenties.[18] He says he has reduced it by reciting poetry before a mirror . . . . “, which he has said has resurfaced as of late. Maybe he wasn’t practicing for his political speeches when he was newbie lawyer without many clients.

    Concerning law schools, I think we have to move pass the “is it Ivy League or not” when loosely gauging how impressive a politician or judge’s CV is given that many in the T-14 range (there’s a saying that it’s “T-14 or bust” for gunners) are non-Ivy, though all five Ivy League law schools are in that range. Law schools like UChicago have been considered “elite”, right there with Harvard and Yale, for quite some time. It’s the Mayo Medical School of law schools. It’s also been said for undergraduates that if you want an actually education, an “elite” one even, you don’t go to Harvard or Yale, you go to UChicago.

  67. GRA:

    I disagree. I understand that politicians often do what you’re describing – strike a pose they think will appeal to a group of voters, even though the pose is insincere. I see this from Joe as being sincere, however, and not a pose. It may actually be one of the few sincere portions of his speech. That’s what I hear in his voice and see in his demeanor. And his history bears that out – a father who once had wealth but lost his money when Joe was quite young, and they had to live in reduced circumstances with in-laws. I think Joe’s drive for money is part of that legacy. Biden also never has been very smart – and so I think his resentment of “smart guys” is real.

  68. Biden also never has been very smart – and so I think his resentment of “smart guys” is real.

    neo: When Joe said that, I wondered whether Obama was one of the “smart guys.”

    I don’t want to get into the weeds of how smart Obama is, but I would say, smarter than Biden. Even at a distance, It’s been hard to miss Obama’s coolness and lack of respect for Biden.

    Likely another psychological reason for what makes Joe run.
    _____________________________________

    I’m your older brother, Mike, and I was passed over!

    –Fredo, “I’m Smart!” clip from “The Godfather”
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYabrQrXt4A

  69. neo: The films, “Blow” and “Catch Me If You Can,” deal with sons who turn to crime (drug dealing and fraud) after witnessing, as children, their fathers’ financial humiliations.

    Based on true stories and well done too.

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