This past Wednesday, poor ‘Old’ Joe Biden claimed that he suffered from a childhood stutter and added that he has not fully overcome it.
“I didn’t really beat my stutter — still occasionally I do,” ‘Blue Collar’ Joe Biden told the rapt crowd at a White House event celebrating Teachers of the Year. “I stuttered badly, and when you stutter, everyone thinks you have to be stupid or totally incompetent,” mouthed our seemingly feckless leader.
Ah, not really Mr. President. I suffered from stuttering as a child and no one called me stupid or incompetent.
Nope, I visited Miss Marie Luckern, the speech pathology therapist, and we worked together over some months duration, with the encouragement of my family and teachers at the Hillcrest School in Fenton, NY.
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You see, “…a stutter is a disturbance in the normal fluency and time patterning of speech that is inappropriate for the individual’s age. This disturbance is characterized by frequent repetitions or prolongations of sounds or syllables. Various other types of speech dysfluencies may also be involved including interjections, broken words, audible or silent blocking, circumlocutions, words produced with an excess of physical tension, and monosyllabic whole word repetitions.” (from dsm-iv, 1994)
Stuttering can affect anyone, just as it did me. However, it is most common in young children who are still learning to speak. And boys are three times more likely to stutter than girls. There is no cure, but stuttering therapy for young children can keep it from becoming a lifelong problem. (nih: national institute on deafness and other communication disorders)
“Old” Joe’s witless blather said nothing about our dedicated speech pathologists and what can be done to cure this particular problem, which can be socially destructive at any age. Nope, with Joe it was totally lost in his hot air and ends up being another example of “Middle Class” Joe Biden’s questionable and growing repertoire on the richly embroidered tapestries relating to his increasingly nebulous previous life.
Beyond stuttering, our fearless leader has been heard to repeat a series of vaudeville gags over and over, rivaling, in many cases, the long winded personal heroics of Uncle Dick Blumenthal (D-CT).
Biden often repeats, ad nauseam, a fictional tale illustrating how dear Amtrak is to the doddering old man serving as the Free World’s leader and about the thrilling adventures of a former conductor named Angelo Negri. Biden told this particular tale during a speech at the NJ Transit maintenance facility in Kearny, NJ, as he touted his $1.2 trillion Senate-passed “Build Back Better” bill that would boost funding for the train wreck that is Amtrak, now said to operate at a $700 million loss.
“I apologize because some of you have heard this,” Biden limned that old reliable line. “When I was vice president, I used to like to take the train home because my mom was very sick and dying. And I’d come home every weekend,” said Biden, whose mother died in 2010.
“I’m getting on one Friday and then one of the senior guys on Amtrak, Angelo Negri … walks up to me and he goes, ‘Joey baby!’ He grabs my cheek. And I thought the Secret Service was gonna blow his head off. I swear to God, true story.” Sure’n Begorrah! Say it ain’t so, Joe, remembering my police interrogation training which explained that a guy “swearing to God” during a lengthy yarn indicates that it’s made of whole cloth.
Let’s turn a page to Biden’s tale of “Corn Pop,” the gang member Biden allegedly faced down during his incredibly lengthy tenure as a lifeguard in Wilmington, Delaware, where kids gathered and stood agog at his hairy legs. There, Corn Pop was the “bad dude” who “ran a bunch of bad boys,” Biden told a rapt Democrat audience in 2017, forgetting that he’s now called “Grand Pop” by the grandson he won’t acknowledge.
One day, after Biden insulted Mr. Pop at the local pool, Corn and his straight razor and knife-wielding bad boy buddies told him to meet them outside. Biden took a long length of heavy chain, apparently a la Conan, to confront Corn Pop face to face — but then apologized, immediately defused the situation and eventually became BFF’s with that “bad dude,” for like, forever.
While visiting a Mack truck facility in July of 2021, Biden stated he “used to drive an 18-wheeler.” The White House staff quickly covered for “Poor Old” Joe by deftly showing a newspaper article around which indicated Biden once briefly caught a ride in an 18-wheeler back in 1973.
On a visit to Idaho in September of the same year, Biden indicated that his “first job offer” was from a lumber company called Boise Cascade. (“No joke,” he assured his audience, to a lengthy set of applause, cheers and guffaws.) The company said it had no record of his application.
The @theintercept explained that “…in 1987, Joe Biden claimed he marched in the civil rights movement,” then backed away from that wild attribution a few months later. Decades later, during the Obama era, and more recently on the 2020 campaign trail, he started making the same nonsensical claims again with even greater embellishments.
Can we forget “Academic” Joe’s exclamation, “For four years, I was a full professor at the University of Pennsylvania?” There Biden received more than $900,000 from U Penn for holding the position between 2017 and 2019, while the Red Chinese donated funds to the embarrassed school. His post “involved no regular classes and around a dozen public appearances on campus, mostly in big, ticketed events,” said the Philadelphia Inquirer. Joe was employed in a show and tell position for two years in academia and not the four teaching years he loves to brag about.
President Biden has also claimed several times that he was arrested in South Africa in the 1970s while attempting to call on the imprisoned Nelson Mandela. Joe would later clarify that he was merely “stopped” by police and could not “move…” Meanwhile, Joe did spend much of the 1970’s inveighing against an America that could be energy independent and the Alaska pipeline in particular.
Joe Biden’s collegiate football exploits are also legendary. “Football” Joe Biden fumbled a routine about his other arrest in a 2008 speech. According to the former gridiron great, at a campaign stop in Athens, Ohio, he was arrested for sneaking into a woman’s dormitory, or was it a sauna bath, at The Ohio University when he was there as a U. of Delaware football player – the team he never played for. TheBigLead in October of 2012, explained that Joe was a tireless flag football player when he wasn’t studying for his now debunked “triple major” folderol.
Throughout it all, we can rest assured that our Congressional delegation, to a person, will simply smile and nod at these assorted hijinx in unison with Dr. Jill, with nary a concern about the declining faculties of “Honest” Joe Biden or his deleterious impact on the citizens in NH.
Then, harking back to Joe’s incredible rise from a little known black-bencher toeing the Democrat Party line to Commander-in-Chief, where he toes, apparently, Barack Obama’s line, Joe and Dr. Jill visited the one and only “Mr Peanut” and Rosalind Carter on the Biden’s 100th day in the White House. This photo of two Democrat giants and a lilliputian former president with absurdly large shoes in front of a large left-leaning picture was the painful result:
Photo: Carter Center
The Atlantic’s Mark Bowden described Joe in a 2010 profile of the VP: He “has the limber storyteller’s tendency to stretch.” And stretch they did having had their photo taken with a wide angle lens inside, something seasoned shutter-bugs would never use, giving the incredible shrinking man effect to that man from Georgia, Jimmy Carter, whom Biden is besting in that rapid race to the bottom in every poll.
