I remember growing up in the eighties as a teenager seeing HBO’s show Not Necessarily the News constantly making fun of Ronald Reagan’s age and portraying him (prematurely I might add) as a nonsensical senile old man (he was 77 at the end of his second term). In fact, I remember Dennis Miller doing a joke around the beginning of Reagan’s second term where Dennis stated that his family would not let their grandfather be in charge of the remote control, and yet we as a nation were giving the presidency to Ronny. By the way, Joe Biden just began his first term as President at the age of 78 years old.
Flash forward to 2001 with George W. Bush and his constant portrayal by the media as some dim-witted cowboy. Comedian Will Ferrell portrayed our 43rd President in a one-man Broadway show with an unflattering depiction to say the least. Previous to that we had to hear about how dumb Vice Presidential candidate Dan Quayle was by the self-contradictory comedian George Carlin.
The point is that the mainstream media, and the Left in general, for decades now, have consistently presented a skewered view of Republican politicians as buffoons, and Democrats as supremely enlightened beings. Now it is 2021 and we have a legitimately impaired, feeble, and barely sentient person in the White House, and the cowards that inhabit Saturday Night Live, or the plethora of late-night TV talk shows, refrain from mining this vast endless pit of potential comedic material because their politics forbid it.
Following are just some examples of the ‘Big mans’ gaffes over the years:
Three decades ago, Biden’s verbal attack on a voter at a New Hampshire house party helped derail his first presidential campaign. When Claremont, New Hampshire high-school teacher Frank Fahey asked Biden what law school he attended, the then-senator from Delaware responded, “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 manufactured. 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.
In 2006, as he explored a second presidential run, Biden’s penchant for racial insensitivity resurfaced. “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.
Then he said this about Barack Obama while running against him in 2007, “I mean, you’ve got the first sort of mainstream African American who is articulate and bright and clean.”
Back in October of 2008 in Athens, Ohio, at a rally, Biden said, “Look, John’s last-minute economic plan does nothing to tackle the number one job facing the middle class, and it happens to be, as Barack says, a three-letter word, jobs: J-O-B-S.”
During a 2008 campaign rally in Missouri Biden told a paraplegic man to stand up, “I’m told Chuck Graham, state senator, is here. Stand up Chuck, let ‘em see you. Oh, God love you. What am I talking about? I’ll tell you what, you’re making everybody else stand up, though, pal. Stand up for Chuck!”
In February 2009, Biden showed his mathematic prowess when discussing the economic stimulus package, “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.”
In March 2010, a cranky Biden scolded American troops for their tepid response to a set-up applause line, “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.
Unbelievably in August 2012, Biden said this to a black audience in Danville, Virginia regarding Mitt Romney and the GOP, “They’re going to put you all back in chains.” How he was able to get away with that one is truly remarkable.
Voters cringed through the vice-presidential debate between Biden and Republican Paul Ryan in 2012, as the hyper-aggressive veep 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.
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 scrambled, “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 that Biden reinforced them. “This is just another example of lessons that Joe Biden shouldn’t have to learn,” remarked New Jersey Senator Cory Booker.
“I am a gaffe machine,” Joe Biden admitted in December 2018. “I will develop some disease and say I have to resign,” he told CNN, as Harris shook her head in bewilderment. In March 2018 he also espoused, that he would “beat the hell out of” President Trump.
A town hall speech in August 2019 with the Asian and Latino Coalition in Des Moines, Iowa set the stage for a stunning Biden blunder, “We should challenge students in these schools to have Advanced Placement programs. We have this notion that somehow if you’re poor you cannot do it. 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.”
In February 2020 Biden referred to a Mercer University economics student Madison Moore, 21, as a “lying dog-faced pony soldier” on national TV.
In December 2020 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 responded.
In 2020, Biden stumbled over his words as he attempted to recite the Declaration of Independence ahead of Super Tuesday, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, all men and women created by — you know, you know, the thing.” He also accidentally referred to Super Tuesday as "Super Thursday."
On February 10, 2020 Biden called a woman a, “lying, dog-faced pony soldier” at a campaign stop in New Hampshire.
In March 2020 Biden got into a verbal spat with a factory worker telling him he was “full of sh-t” when the worker accused Biden of trying to take away Second Amendment rights. Later during the same exchange, the worker told Biden, “You’re working for me, man” and Biden replied, “I’m not working for you. Give me a break, man. Don’t be such a horse’s ass.”
In May of 2020, while appearing on the Breakfast Club, a New York City-based radio show, Biden brazenly asserted, "Well I tell you what, if you have a problem figuring out whether you're for me or Trump, then you ain't black."
In his first and very delayed press conference in late March 2021, he came across as confused at times losing his train of thought, “…if you hold near and dear to you that you uh, um, like to be able to um ... anyway … we’re ready to get a lot done.”
In April 2021 he stated, “You walk into a store and you buy a gun you have a background check. But you go to a gun show, you can buy whatever you want and no background check,” which is untrue. He also repeatedly referred to the ATF as the “AFT” in a speech on April 9, 2021.
While rolling out a set of executive orders on gun control in April of this year, he said, “No amendment to the Constitution is absolute.” He did not elaborate if that included the 13th amendment abolishing slavery or the 16th Amendment regarding Federal income taxes or the 19th Amendment addressing voting.
In regards to Georgia’s new voter integrity law, Biden referred to it on national news as “Jim Crow on steroids” and suggested that Major League Baseball (MLB) pull the All-Star game out of Atlanta, which they did. Incidentally, the Left-leaning Washington Post assigned Biden four Pinocchios for falsely stating things like the Georgia law “ends voting hours early” when in fact the bill extends them. Interestingly, not only does Denver have only 15 days of in-person early voting versus Georgia’s 17 days, but Atlanta is 51% black and less than 10 % of Denver is black. So, in other words, the roughly $100 million dollars lost to the majority-black city of Atlanta vis-à-vis the MLB All-Star game will now be going to the overwhelmingly white city of Denver.
Sadly, anyone old enough to recall when Biden entered politics in the early seventies, knows that he has had a long history of controversial stances. During his first term as senator in 1977, Biden was outspoken in regards to busing students to desegregated schools lamenting the fact that his children would be subjected to a “racial jungle.” Again, how he gets away with this sort of thing in a cancel culture that throws people under the bus for a 10-year-old tweet they put out when they were teenagers is perplexing to say the least. 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.
Despite the fact that this pattern of his has been going on for more than a few decades, there is a possible explanation as to why it has gotten so much worse recently. It has been alleged that the President may in fact have Alzheimer’s disease. Here is a short list of some of the symptoms one is afflicted with regarding this terrible disorder. Ask yourself if Biden meets any or all of these criteria: memory loss, difficulty in communication (especially finding the right words), reduced ability to organize or reason, confusion and disorientation, difficulty with coordination and motor functions (think stairs), changes in personality and behavior (like getting angry and raising your voice for no reason during a speech), and mood swings (as in threatening to beat someone up). This pattern could go on and on, and probably will. In fact, in 2020, even Barack Obama warned Democrats, “Don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to f*** things up.”
Jean-Marc Bovee, Pharm.D. retired
St. Louis, MO
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