https://nypost.com/article/worst-joe-biden-gaffes/“I am a gaffe machine,” Joe Biden admitted in 2018. Throughout his 47 years in public life, our presumptive president-elect has had a habit of letting his glib tongue run ahead of his brain.
Just last week, Biden raised eyebrows with a garbled explanation of how he and his soon-to-be veep, Kamala Harris, would resolve a serious disagreement.
“I will develop some disease and say I have to resign,” he told CNN, as Harris shook her head in bewilderment.
Many supporters see Biden’s verbal stumbles as endearing — but his chronic case of foot-in-mouth often reveals his ornery side. Take the incident last December when he exploded at an Iowa Democrat who challenged him with some impertinent questions.
“You’re a damn liar, man,” Biden sputtered in an eruption of insults.
Later, one reporter chided him for the flare-up. “You talk about needing to restore civility,” she began.
“It’s not civil to call someone who lied a liar?” Biden bristled in response.
For a man who ran on the promise of a return to political decorum, Biden has a long history of bigoted cracks, public put-downs, and angry outbursts. Here are some of the most notorious …
“A Much Higher IQ,” 1987Three decades ago, Biden’s verbal attack on a voter at a New Hampshire house party helped derail his first presidential campaign.
When Claremont, NH, high-school teacher Frank Fahey asked Biden what law school he attended, the then-senator from Delaware melted down.
“I probably have a much higher IQ than you do, I suspect,” Biden snapped as he expounded on a glittering academic record that, reporters later found, was largely imaginary.
The exchange, captured by C-Span’s cameras, resurfaced months later, when Biden was revealed as a serial plagiarist going back to his college days. He abandoned his White House bid soon after.
“Slight Indian Accent,” 2006 In 2006, as he explored a second presidential run, Biden’s penchant for racial insensitivity caused him repeated headaches.
“In Delaware, the largest growth in population is Indian-Americans, moving from India,” he told one voter.
“You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin’ Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. And I’m not joking,” he added with a grin.
Indian-American groups objected to what they called “embarrassing, stereotypical comments.”
“We do appreciate knowing what he really thinks of his Indian-American constituents,” said Dr. Raghavendra Vijayanagar of the Indian-American Republican Council.
“Articulate and Bright and Clean,” 2007 Biden’s attempt at magnanimity toward a fellow presidential hopeful backfired spectacularly in 2007.
“I mean, you’ve got the first sort of mainstream African American who is articulate and bright and clean,” Biden said of then-Sen. Barack Obama as both campaigned ahead of the 2008 primaries. “That’s a storybook, man.”
The backhanded compliment instantly branded Biden, then 65, as an out-of-touch remnant of a racially tone-deaf generation — and helped to elevate Obama above the rest of the pack.
“I didn’t take Sen. Biden’s comments personally,” Obama said in a carefully distanced response. “Obviously they were historically inaccurate.”
Debate debacle, 2012 Voters cringed through the vice-presidential debate between Biden and Republican Paul Ryan in 2012, as the hyper-aggressive veep put on a bravura 90-minute display of mugging and eye-rolling.
“Oh, now you’re Jack Kennedy?” Biden broke in as Ryan explained how the GOP’s tax-cut plan mirrored Kennedy’s in 1960.
“Look, this is a bunch of stuff,” he exclaimed later.
All told, Biden interrupted Ryan 85 times with sudden guffaws and dismissive interjections — a heckling strategy much like the one that Donald Trump turned on Biden in their first debate this year.
“You Stupid Bastards,” 2016 A peevish Biden scolded American troops for their tepid response to a set-up applause line in 2016.
“Clap for that, you stupid bastards,” the vice-president barked, minutes into his speech to the 380th Air Expeditionary Wing stationed in Abu Dhabi.
Biden was seeking kudos for his “incredibly good judgment” in having nominated one of the group’s officers to the Air Force Academy — but his pronouncement was met with crickets.
“Man, you are a dull bunch,” he complained, as service members standing behind him gave him the side-eye.
“Gangbangers,” 2019 Biden’s apparent cluelessness about racially sensitive language has repeatedly landed him in hot water. One day after Kamala Harris scorched him for his past opposition to racially integrating schools through busing in a June 2019 debate, Biden fumbled to redeem himself.
“We’ve got to recognize that a kid wearing a hoodie may very well be the next poet laureate,” he told members of Jesse Jackson’s Rainbow PUSH Coalition — “not a gangbanger.”
In seeking to dispel damaging stereotypes, critics said, Biden reinforced them.
“This is just another example of lessons that Joe Biden shouldn’t have to learn,” sighed New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker.
“Poor Kids” vs. “White Kids,” 2019 A speech to a group of minority activists in Des Moines, Iowa, set the stage for a stunning Biden blunder.
“We should challenge students in these schools to have Advanced Placement programs,” he said at an Aug. 8, 2019, town hall.
“We have this notion that somehow if you’re poor you can not do it,” Biden went on. “Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids.”
After a pause, he realized his faux pas.
“Wealthy kids, black kids, Asian kids,” he revamped. “No, I really mean it, but think how we think about it.”
“Look, Fat,” 2019 And many more....--
One week after
his humiliating fourth-place finish in the Iowa caucuses,
Biden slammed a young voter with a head-scratching taunt. “How can you explain the performance in Iowa, and why should the voters believe you can win the national election?” Madison Moore (above), a 21-year-old college student, asked at a campaign stop in Hampton, NH.
“Ever been to a caucus?” Biden challenged her. Moore nodded yes.
“No, you haven’t,” he told the dumbfounded young woman.
“You’re a lying dog-faced pony soldier.” Moore later criticized Biden’s “inability to answer a simple question from a nobody college student like me.”
“It was kind of humiliating to be called a liar on national TV by the former vice president,” she told the Macon Telegraph.
Agent Orange would still be getting Libtard death threats if he ever did that to an ANTIFA-Turd, Karen, BLM, Man-Bunner...
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