Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, who said he liked Barack Hussein Obama because he is “clean” and “articulate,” says President Donald Trump is a “clown.”
He uttered the remark at a high-dollar fundraiser on Saturday in South Carolina, where he also said Trump and the GOP want to resurrect Jim Crow laws to stop blacks from voting.
Biden, who has repeatedly lied about his own role in “silencing” Anita Hill when she accused U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas of sex harassment, says decency and dignity must be returned to the White House.
So Many Nicknames
As Bloomberg described the event, “Joe Biden said he doesn’t intend to try to match Donald Trump in the nickname game but nonetheless offered one for the president while speaking to donors on Saturday.”
Trump calls the former vice president “Sleepy Joe,” while woman know him as “Creepy Joe” because he can’t keep his hands — or lips — to himself.
Said Sleepy Joe, “there are so many nicknames that I’m inclined to give this guy. We could just start with clown. When he says these ridiculous things he says, I mean this, I put my hand up and say, ‘everybody knows who you are’ because they do know.”
Just after calling Trump a clown, Bloomberg reported, Biden told one of the donors that he won’t stoop to Trump’s level. “The only place he has any confidence is in the mud. The only thing he doesn’t know how to respond to is issues and specifics.”
Staying out the mud, Biden called Trump a “no good S.O.B,” Bloomberg reported, who would attack Biden’s children and grandchildren, perhaps the way Biden has attacked the president’s family.
Biden’s sorry, Politico reported, for saying that if he had gone to high school with Trump, he would have taken “him behind the gym and beat the hell out of him.”
“I probably shouldn’t have done that,” Biden said. “I don’t want to get it down to that level. The presidency is an office that requires some dignity.”
Jim Crow on the Rise
But Biden’s other comment that demonstrates his commitment to a clean, mud-free race also came Saturday.
He accused the president and GOP of trying to suppress the black vote and of plotting to resurrect Jim Crow laws because the party supports voters providing identification before casting a ballot.
“You’ve got Jim Crow sneaking back in,” he said. “You know what happens when you have an equal right to vote? They lose.”
Jim Crow was the maze of laws of that separated black from white before the 1964 Civil Rights Act banned them. Republicans have won the presidency eight times since then.
Democrats have claimed for some time that laws requiring identification to vote are really aimed at suppressing the black vote, and have even peddled the lie that black leftist radical Stacey Abrams lost the governor’s race because of “voter suppression.”
Mental Acuity
Biden’s bizarre claim about Jim Crow, which was abolished before Biden went to law school in the 1960s, might raise the question of whether the 78-year-old is mentally fit to be president.
Another sign that Biden might be losing it, and simply too elderly to be president, also came Saturday. He confused British Prime Minister Theresa May with late Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who served from 1979 to 1990.
In claiming to have heard from 14 foreign heads of state about Trump, and to burnish his foreign policy experience, Biden mentioned the Iron Lady.
“One I can say is Margaret Thatcher, um, excuse me, Margaret Thatcher,” he said, while meaning to refer to the prime minister of Great Britain, Theresa May. Biden called it a “Freudian slip,” and the Democratic worthies laughed, Politico reported.
Whether it was a Freudian slip remains to be seen. He mangled his campaign premier in Pittsburgh and incessantly repeats himself.
Reported the Washington Examiner, “He opened his 27-minute address by expressing his gratitude to ‘Rich Fritzgerald, the county executive for — the baladanny — the Allegheny County executive for being here.’” The man’s name is Fitzgerald. “It was downhill from there,” the newspaper reported. “He slurred or stumbled over words like ‘dignity,’ ‘successful,’ and ‘hospitals.’”
Well-known for his shocking racial gaffes, Biden was similarly tongue-tied during a speech in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where he said “folks” more than 30 times.
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