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Joe Biden is known for his perennial gaffes and misstatements. His critics view him as an outright liar while his fans acknowledge that Biden is prone to exaggerations that do far more harm than good.
But, there was a time when Biden was viewed as not just a “young and athletic” agent of change in the Democratic Party—but as the bright hope for the Democratic Party’s future.
First elected in 1972 to the United States Senate representing Delaware, Joe Biden was greeted with great enthusiasm by his colleagues. There were multiple calls for him to run for the presidency in 1976, when he would officially be old enough to do so. Biden resisted those calls for a decade before opting to enter an open field in 1987.
It was the end of the Reagan Administration and Democrats had taken a beating for most of the 1980s, with Reagan as their great villain. Heading into the 1990s, many Democratic Party insiders hoped that with Reagan’s second term ending, they might be able to revitalize their ailing party with new leadership.
But for Joe Biden, trouble was just around the corner.
The Hope and Tragedy of Joe Biden ‘88
Joe Biden was their great hope.
Still young, athletic, and affable, Biden was believed to have been tempered by a decade of experience in the Senate.
Since the 1988 Democratic Party Primary was an open race, many thought that he would have the best chance to breakthrough. Biden entered that race with great anticipation from Democrats who hoped that he might be another John F. Kennedy.
Within three months of announcing his bid for the presidency, though, Biden’s campaign imploded.
His reputation immediately shifted from that of a promising, young, and athletic potential Democratic Party president to an amiable—possibly even malicious—dunce whose political days were likely numbered.
The fact of the matter was that Joe Biden had lied.
What’s more, he had lied in such an obvious way that it called into question many other things that he had done and said in the preceding decade as a public official. That the lie was not over anything consequential did not help Biden’s case. As Nixon proved over a much larger scandal, it’s never the actual controversy that takes a political leader down. It’s the lie; the subsequent cover-up that usually does.
Specifically, Biden lifted several passages from a famous speech that UK Labour Party Neil Kinnock had made while he was campaigning in Britain for high office and failed to attribute them to the British politician.
Biden then subsequently lied to the press about it, prompting a deeper investigation by the media which resulted in the discovery that not only had Biden plagiarized in that instance—but that there were numerous other times throughout his career where he lied and exaggerated.
With each revelation, Biden attempted to obfuscate and ignore which only made the situation worse for the would-be presidential candidate.
Joe Biden apparently lied about a great deal. While a law student at Syracuse in 1965, he was forced to retake a class because he had plagiarized a paper and was brought up on charges of having violated the school’s academic integrity standards.
Biden retook that class which is why it did not come up during his later campaigns. It only came to light after the Neil Kinnock incident in 1988. Not long thereafter, more proof of Biden’s falsifications about his credentials to the public came about. He went around telling voters that he graduated top of his class at Syracuse, when in fact he had graduated law school in the bottom half—76th out of 85 to be precise.
When Joe Biden finally addressed the plagiarism scandal on the campaign trail in 1988, he engaged in his other routine character flaw: anger.
While today’s Biden has been derided as “sleepy” due to his age by Donald Trump and other opponents, the fact is that Biden has a temper that swings wildly.
At the press conference where he confessed to having lifted Kinnock’s words, he essentially negated the confession by insisting that the scandal wasn’t a big deal and he shouldn’t be required to attribute quotes to other people when speaking publicly multiple times a week all around the country. That was the end of his 1988 campaign.
It is an important experience in Biden’s life, though.
The 1988 campaign showed that Biden was not ready for primetime after all.
More importantly, it had reinforced the notion that his critics at the time had said of him: that Biden was essentially an empty suit.
Biden did not run an ideas campaign during a time which had been defined by the Reagan Revolution—the greatest ideological revolution in modern American politics.
The Left had nothing to counter it other than to offer up various personalities.
What Doesn’t Kill You Politically Only Makes You More Corrupt
All these negative traits in 1988, however, eventually shaped Biden’s successful (third) presidential run in 2020. At that time, the election was less about ideas and more about personalities.
As I noted previously, the American voter had grown tired of Trump’s peculiarities and explosive personality and wanted someone less threatening and more stable. Biden was portrayed as that man.
He still lied. He continued to exaggerate. Biden misspoke on a George W. Bush-like level. The aging politico, like Trump, had rage ingrained in him. That had been tampered with, though, by good press and the fact that Biden could never top Trump’s spasmodic nature in public.
More importantly, Biden’s history of duplicity extends beyond fabricating his resume and life experience. His viciousness and dissimulation may include outright corruption. After all, Biden’s son, Hunter, stands accused of being one of the most prolific illicit influence peddlers in the world. Hunter Biden is believed to have spent years serving as his father’s bagman to multiple world and major corporate leaders, trading access to Joe Biden’s office in exchange for vast sums of money.
According to a former business associate of Hunter Biden’s (whose credibility remains in question by most mainstream sources), Tony Bobulinski, every transaction Hunter Biden conducted had a “cut” taken out for “the big guy” (Joe Biden).
If true, then, the lying has taken on all new meaning.
The Biden Family would have been involved in a decades-long criminal conspiracy to sell access to Joe Biden’s various political offices to some of the worst people in the world.
And Joe Biden lied about it.
Joe Biden’s Bad Habits Became His Weak Character
He manipulated his family and friends into going along with the crime. It is completely believable in the context of Joe Biden because of just how smarmy he has behaved over his career—from lying about his law school graduation ranking to shamelessly ripping off a fellow politician from England (and then becoming incredulous when he was made to apologize for it).
The Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu once admonished his pupils to, “Watch your thoughts, they become your words; watch your words, they become your actions; watch your actions, they become your habits; watch your habits, they become your character; watch your character, it becomes your destiny.” In thought, words, deed, and ultimately character, Joe Biden has a history that leaves much to be desired.
If Biden’s character is as bad as many fear it is, then his destiny is bleak indeed—and so is America’s if follows him too closely down whatever moral rabbit hole Biden is going down.
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How long can we watch Hunter without his being arrested? Or his crooked parents? Or our bankruptcy?
The answer to the first two questions: https://youtu.be/2VSYmGSJtCA?t=10
Third question is more like:
There you go, you see clearly
They are doing the they’re everything they can think of to get us to rise up…. They want it so bad…….you first gov. scum!….
And they’re doing the same thing with Russia.
I truly believe Russia is going to accommodate them.
That being the case, the time for us to clean up will be after Russia gets done with them.
For now all we have to do is prep and wait for it.
It’s going to be quite the party I would think.
Too many people have already followed Bidet down several rabbit holes of immorality.
I was looking over stuff posted on LinkedIn today related to “International Women’s Day” and before I realized it was International Women’s Day I could have sworn instead it was “International Fatty Day”. They don’t make them today like they made them back in the women’s underwear section of those 1970s Sears catalogues.
Ever notice they like making these fat,arrogant,empowered ,leftist women into supervisors,managers, and directors to keep us alpha males and even betas with too much testosterone in their minds down?
throw in a couple dozen affirmative action hires and heaven help that company.
Joe Bribe’em is a severely damaged Vegatable, and has been since the 80’s….even to the point of making Fetterman look sharp, hip and witty….per wikipedia….
Brain surgeries
In February 1988, after several episodes of increasingly severe neck pain, Biden was taken by ambulance to Walter Reed Army Medical Center for surgery to correct a leaking intracranial berry aneurysm.[114][115] While recuperating, he suffered a pulmonary embolism, a serious complication.[115] After a second aneurysm was surgically repaired in May,[115][116] Biden’s recuperation kept him away from the Senate for seven months.[117]
He has been the (((insurance policy))) for the Dem’s and the Khazarian Mafia for decades, but it backfiring spectacularly.
Hope you’ve got popcorn stacked deep and lotsa butter and salt….
The show is just getting rolling good and entertaining nowadays….
Yeah, the internex be totally scrubbed of his nigger rants.
What else can you do when you have no genuine accomplishments in your whole life to show???
Ya gotta lie, otherwise, you live your life in a cardboard box and live off MD 20-20.
That Shithead just adds to my Anger when I write the property Tax checks and see the witholding stolen from my paychecks.
I pray for a very Public stroke out, where he Convulses on camera and Shits his pants in the process.
I get slight relief watching him fall three times trying to get in Our airplane.
Which Biden ? I hear there are four of them.
Now that Putin made it clear to the worlds most powerful terrorists that Russia has weapons which no one else has it has put O-bama and company on notice.
Russia has indicated they would do a surgical hypersonic non-nuclear homestaed take-out way before any kind of macro nation nuclear strike as it would just be logical from an effective risk reward basis.
You may have noticed that the Big 5 terroists have gone silent or started PR programs stating they like meat and how unrealistic it is to demand everyone become poor sob’s.
I have a seasonal camper lot in Delaware and most of the locals (Captain in the volunteer fire department) in particular was very negative about Joe Biden . Biden is viewed as a pathetic liar and a nasty prick !
One story of his wife’s tragic auto accident where she was killed . A tragedy for any family ! Apparently Mrs Biden made a critical error and pulled in front of a large truck on a highway .
Joe has lied repeatedly claiming his first wife was killed by a drunk driver “COMPLETE LIE”
The man was a professional truck driver with a clean driving record and was emotionally ruined by this incident though he was not at fault !
The truck drivers daughter threatened legal action if Joe didn’t stop lying about her father who never was the same after that accident and had passed away .
This is the type of man socialist democrats support with their puppet strings as president !
“On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.” H.L. Mencken. I can’t say that Mencken is always admirable, but he nailed Bidet’s election. Even with the corrupt election occurring in many states, there were still tens of millions that voted for this POS.
I recall Xiden was considered the dumbest man in the Senate, which is why he was picked as Hussein’s VP. Obama isn’t really that intelligent. Granted he does say “Ask” versus “Ax”, but it wouldn’t take much to overshadow the guy intellectually, so Potato Joe was a perfect fit.
The hardest work he ever did was get a hard on whenever he could get his 15 year old baby sitter on his lap.
Let’s face it folks (see, I get to use that word too) he’s nothing more than an angry, lying asshole.
The Biden family is an excellent example of how far this country has fallen with regard to values that matter. How can he call himself Catholic when he-like so many other fake Catholics-passionately support abortion? It really is pathetic that so many in our country refuse to see through the bullshit artists in high places who are nothing more than traitors.
Wait. Somebody actually gave you shit for using the word “folks”?
That sounds messed up.
That Biden is a pathological liar is my favorite thing about him.
His meandering off-script into the foggy marsh of alt-reality to share with us silly lies of convenience and bedrock lies of the dark empire alike provides a kind of unintended honesty.
His wooden features flop around as the troupe of political theater interns feverishly pull the strings and levers making each performance more ridiculous than the last.
Enter the nappy narrator to then lecture the dutiful fourth estate scribes to take down the Official Truth by the glow of gaslight. “You misunderstand, he never said his son died in the Iraq war. You are missing the ‘context’!”
When the empire must manufacture lies and context separately, that signals a decline in their ability to prop up alt-reality.
Biden is much more representative of Clownworld than prior versions like Clinton or Bush or the stuttering Barry whose lies were deeply philosophical, “depends on the meaning of the word is, is”, “thats not who we are”. The strings are more visible than ever. I take that as a win.