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Hidin’ Biden announced this week that he would no longer travel to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to accept the Democratic presidential nomination. Instead, Joe Biden will accept the nomination in Delaware (presumably in his basement where he has mostly been hiding out for months).
The former vice president spent much of 2020 hidden in the basement of his home away from the questions of the national press corps. Some of his critics blame it on his age (if elected, he will be 78 on Inauguration Day, while Ronald Reagan was 70 when he was sworn in as the 40th president).
Others question Mr. Biden’s mental stability. Joe Rogan, who endorsed Sen. Bernie Sanders earlier this year, said on his podcast, “I believe there is also a large group of people that are very uncomfortable with a man who seems to be mentally compromised winning the election and doing so by hiding,” and went on to say, “He was just at another thing the other day and forgot where he was.”
The real reasons Mr. Biden’s campaign team is largely hiding him from the public are not his advanced age or some sort of early-stage dementia. The real reasons are Mr. Biden’s years of gaffes, his tendency to say anything to get elected and his embrace of radical positions to win over Sanders supporters.
Mr. Biden’s more than four decades of public life are littered with gaffes. Shortly after taking office as vice president, Mr. Biden spoke to members of the House Democratic Caucus about how Democrats could suffer at the polls in 2010 for supporting the $900 billion “economic-stimulus” package. At their annual retreat, he said, “If we do everything right, if we do it with absolute certainty, there’s still a 30% chance we’re going to get it wrong.”
A few years earlier, then-U.S. Sen. Joe Biden was caught on tape trying to connect with a Native-American person saying, “In Delaware, the largest growth of population is Indian-Americans, moving from India. You cannot go to a 7-11 or a Dunkin’ Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I’m not joking.” Hard to imagine a Republican saying this without calls for his or her resignation.
More troubling than Mr. Biden’s gaffes are his years of seemingly saying just about anything to get elected to office. During his first of three attempts to be elected president, Mr. Biden said, “I started thinking as I was coming over here, Why is it that Joe Biden is the first in his family ever to go to a university?”
The press found out that Mr. Biden had plagiarized exact passages from a speech by British Labor Party leader Neil Kinnock. They later found links to other speeches.
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