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March 7, 2020 3:00pm by David Farrar

A 2013 profile of Joe Biden

A very detailed profile of Joe Biden from 2013 is worth a read for those who like to get beyond the soundbites.

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Fletch

Being from 2013, if doesn’t have the part where he faced down gang leader Corn Pop? Or his Burisma dealings? ?
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March 7, 2020 3:04pm
- Inandout
  
  Fletch, and his brother’s dodgy dealings while Biden was Obama’s sidekick.
  
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  March 7, 2020 5:10pm
mark15

He wears sunglasses.
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March 7, 2020 3:29pm
- Rich Prick
  
  Two pairs at a time just in case he’s in a daylight saving State.
  
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  March 7, 2020 11:00pm
soundhill1

Jimmy Dore lists Biden’s plagiarism of people like John Kennedy in his election speeches, also his later retracted 300% exaggeration about his university qualifications and position in class at school.
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March 7, 2020 3:30pm
DLC

Hopefully he and his crooked son will soon be up on corruption charges for the many $millions they have extorted out of the Ukraine, and China and other countries during the Obama years, they certainly
deserve it!!!!!
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March 7, 2020 3:42pm
Tony Norriss

Pity he is showing signs of Alzheimers.

https://nypost.com/2020/03/04/democrats-should-be-wary-of-backing-joe-biden-and-his-senior-moments-devine/
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March 7, 2020 3:48pm
- MCos
  
  You realize all manner of pseudo experts have been saying that about President Trump since day one of his presidency.
  
  President Reagan was thus afflicted and nobody realized until later.
  
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  March 7, 2020 5:51pm
  - David George
    
    This is on a whole other level; a week or so ago he called some woman a “lying, dog-faced pony solider”.
    These are not the words of a sane man.
    
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    March 7, 2020 9:07pm
    - Rich Prick
      
      He wanted to take another Dem supporter “out the back” for a punch up. He’s living 20’s Biden not 70’s Biden, that’s what dementia looks like.
      
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      March 7, 2020 11:10pm
- Rich Prick
  
  My father has it full on. Biden has all the signs we went through. If his wife (not his sister, that would be weird) was kind to him, she’d take him home, sit him in a comfortable chair and throw a rug over him. Some jigsaw puzzles on the coffee table maybe, but not Monopoly, that gets too confusing for them and they think they can take that money and use it in gas stations. Not good, even on Super Thursday.
  
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  March 7, 2020 11:06pm
Jigsaw

Politics seems to have been very kind to Joe, its made him very rich and his son and his brother…….all for an amazing small ability if almost nothing………and the same amount of integrity is seems. Since the Dems want him they must have someone in line for VP so as he lapses into senility she will be able to take over.
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March 7, 2020 3:50pm
- Rich Prick
  
  Being a crack head works well if your father can send $1B to a corrupt nation and you get a job in that corrupt nation that pays $1B less “government commissions”. So, an even million or so comes home. And you didn’t even have to fire up your frontal cortex.
  
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  March 7, 2020 11:16pm
tom hunter

Ha, ha.

That was 2013 and it was a fawning effort to lead into 2016 and try and get Democrat control for three presidential terms.

Except Sleepy Joe once again made one of his poor executive decisions – Obama’s Defence Secretary Gates once said that Biden had been on the wrong side of every Foreign Policy decision of the last thirty years – and refused to run in 2016.

He likely would have beaten Trump, simply by being more likeable than Hillary, especially with the Deplorables of the MidWest who ended up crushing her dreams.

But now it’s 2020, and it’s Joe “Brain-Bleed” Biden, a man who has mentally declined so badly that even Left-Wingers are talking about it:

They’re making the pretty cogent point that Biden can’t hide forever and President Donald Trump isn’t going to hold back on him in a general election, so it’s going to come out. Not to mention, that it’s irresponsible and not right to vote for someone who you think may have significant issues that will impair his ability to do the job. Now, obviously some of them are Bernie supporters. But that doesn’t make them any less right. They’re also chastising the Democrats who are refusing to acknowledge there’s a problem.

You’re going to hang your hat on this guy in 2020, DPF? Jesus!
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March 7, 2020 3:54pm
dcrane

Wonder how much the Dems paid for that fluff piece. More references to style crap like his ray-bans than to the guy’s governing record. No mention of his role leading up to the Iraq war. Nor his key role in bankruptcy legislation (banks and corporations get bailouts, but muggles can’t discharge credit card or student debt in bankruptcy). Nor his vote for repealing Glass-Steagal, nor his votes for the various trade deals like NAFTA and the China trade normalization that gutted American manufacturing. Nor his constant calls for cutting Social Security. Nor his repeat shopping around of son Hunter for “advance gratitude”. Nor his seemingly rapidly fading mental agility. But who knows, if Bernie is gonna fade, maybe the issues don’t matter anymore.
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March 7, 2020 4:01pm
CJames

There are two big problems with Joe Biden, especially with the old interview. Joe Biden in 2013 is not the Joe Biden in 2020. He has deteriorated significantly in the last year. Look how fast Ronald Reagan went down. The second hidden issue (it wasn’t traversed that I could see) was the stench of corruption. There are a lot of dodgy things about his past and his getting money for his family connections. Why else would anyone hire Hunter for the board?
Trump has similar scandals behind him, but he looks a lot cleaner than Joe and saner than Bernie. It is a scary choice – the least of the evils..
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March 7, 2020 4:23pm
- MCos
  
  So you’re saying there’s a whiff of nepotism swirling around Joe Biden.
  
  How ironic is that?
  
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  March 7, 2020 5:55pm
- Stephen Russell
  
  Why hire Hunter? Prestige. PR. The hope of opening doors. There are plenty of reasons short of corruption.
  
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  March 7, 2020 6:38pm
  - Jigsaw
    
    Only just short….if at all….Hunter even traveled to the Ukraine in the VP ‘s aircraft.
    
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    March 7, 2020 7:50pm
  - All_on_Red
    
    Aid money
    
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    March 7, 2020 7:55pm
Wangas Feral

The guy is now going senile. He has moments of lucidity but it is painful to watch him when his mind starts going. The establishment keeping him in the race is getting into elder abuse territory.
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March 7, 2020 4:25pm
- curry4me
  
  Wangas Feral: Well into it in fact.
  
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  March 7, 2020 4:59pm
- dcrane
  
  Waiting for the Clinton gang to get the whisper campaign going on Joe’s “sunsetting”, to pressure him to step aside for Hillary at the convention. The table is perfectly set, with her doco just out this week.
  
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  March 7, 2020 5:00pm
Sector 7g

I would love to see his doctors profile now.
“This is my sister, oh no, it’s my wife.”
“I can’t wait for super Thursday. ”
“Did you know that 150 million Americans have been killed by guns since 2003?”
And on and on and on…..
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March 7, 2020 4:44pm
- Rich Prick
  
  I seriously hope he doesn’t make that mistake again in private and under poor lighting. When the marbles have rolled, you have to be vigilant.
  
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  March 7, 2020 11:21pm
- AlphaWhiskey
  
  Fairs fair – the wife and sister had changed places and Biden was in front of them looking into bright lights
  While I detest him and his party I do believe that that example can be explained
  But who cares if it continues a convenient narrative?
  
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  March 8, 2020 3:51pm
Don the Kiwi

It looks like David is shifting his allegiance from Bernie to Joe. Creepy Joe is not a raving communist like Bernie – even though David said he would go for Bernie ahead of Trump (some craziness there) – But Creepy Joe is senile, corrupt and lacking in integrity.
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March 7, 2020 4:53pm
- Inandout
  
  Bernie has the same armwaving style as Lenin.
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuOT0wRGKUo
  or Castro.
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kszeFbg4Lw
  
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  March 7, 2020 5:37pm
  - mark15
    
    And ardern? She’s a communist.
    
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    March 8, 2020 8:18am
Chuck Bird

DPF, if you had a vote in the US would you vote for sleepy Joe ahead of Donald Trunp?
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March 7, 2020 4:55pm
- Critical Thinker
  
  Well he said this about the hardcore Bernie Sanders:
  “If I was in the US I would very very reluctantly vote for Sanders if he was the candidate. His policies will be an economic disaster that will put millions of people out of work. It is fair to call Sanders a major threat to the US economy.”
  https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2020/02/sanders_may_be_unstoppable.html
  
  So I’d assume that unfortunately due to his very extreme TDS that he would also vote for the incredibly senile and corrupt Joe Biden over the boorish Donald Trump ?
  
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  March 7, 2020 6:24pm
- David Farrar
  
  I’d vote for anyone who isn’t a psychopath over a psychopath.
  
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  March 7, 2020 8:49pm
  - CJames
    
    I don’t think Trump is a psychopath and that is a precisely defined but often misused word.
    “a person suffering from chronic mental disorder with abnormal or violent social behaviour.” He is not that. Trump is a narcissic buffoon, but the more people with TDS mischaracterize him, the more popular he will get as his opponents continue to overegg their abuse.
    
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    March 7, 2020 9:16pm
tom hunter

“C-c-c-c-class,” he says. “Of 1961. It literally was one of the turning points of my life that I was able to stand there. And it was because of the priest and nuns here at Archmere.”

The students have put their phones down. No one expected the vice president of the United States to come, no one expected a speech on the last day of school.

He turns to Kate, leans down, kisses her forehead.

“Anyway, I’ll get out of your hair.”

Oh dear!
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March 7, 2020 5:16pm
- geoff3012
  
  That’s 3 hours I’ll never get back…….
  
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  March 7, 2020 5:38pm
tom hunter

Oh – and here’s another aspect of Biden from Kevin Williamson at National Review, and as you read it remember how much of a NeverTrumper Williamson is:

You may have heard that Biden lost his wife and daughter in a horrifying drunk-driving wreck, the fault of a monster of a man who irresponsibly “drank his lunch,” as Biden puts it.
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Biden’s wife and daughter did, in fact, die in a car wreck. That is true. It is not true that the driver of the other car was drunk, that he had been drinking, or that there was any reason to believe he was drunk or had been drinking — or even that he was at fault.

The late Mrs. Biden “drove into the path of [the] tractor-trailer,” the police report says. But Biden, like every other third-rate ward-heeler of his ilk, thinks and speaks only in terms of good guys and bad guys, white hats and black hats — and if something bad happens to good people, then it must be because somebody in a black hat did something nefarious.

The driver of that truck went to his grave haunted by Biden’s lies, to the point where his children were forced to beg the vice president to stop defaming their late father.

The casual cruelty with which Biden is willing to subordinate the lives of ordinary people to his political ambitions — for the sake of a petty tear-jerker line in one of his occasionally plagiarized stump speeches — is remarkable.

But that’s Joe Biden.
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March 7, 2020 5:29pm
- Inandout
  
  Wow TH, this guy seems a slime ball piling guilt onto the driver of the other vehicle. I despise injustices like this.
  
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  March 7, 2020 7:12pm
- Vory v zakone
  
  Wow. Looks like Creepy Joe is the actual psychopath. (And yes, there’s more to come ….)
  
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  March 8, 2020 4:43am
Ian Hawthorn

How much is something from 2013 worth? He clearly isn’t the man he used to be.
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March 7, 2020 5:40pm
- danewzealander
  
  The fact that they bring up an article from 2013 seven years later to show how ‘lucid’ Biden is tells you enough.
  
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  March 8, 2020 10:44am
David George

What an appalling piece of drivel that article is:
what the hell does this even mean:
“Biden has on his signature Ray-Bans—the aviators!—and that was what, above all else about his whirlwind trip to Rome, was inexplicably spectacular.”
The writer sounds like she/he has dementia as well.
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March 7, 2020 5:43pm
Critical Thinker

Here’s a MUCH more detailed profile of him:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDMOrfWx1Qo

Seriously… Who in their right mind would vote for this guy to be the leader of the free world? ?
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March 7, 2020 6:17pm
BlairM

Biden should stick to those Naked Gun movies where he belongs.
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March 7, 2020 7:02pm
James Stephenson

There’s a Jay Leno’s Garage episode in which Biden seems a decent enough old buffer, doing burnouts in his ‘vette. He should definitely stick to doing that until he can’t remember where he put the car keys, which doesn’t appear to be far into the future.
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March 7, 2020 8:08pm
mstewart

One question…
How many foreign company boards has that brilliant business brain Hunter Biden been appointed to in the last 3 years ???
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March 7, 2020 9:18pm
Skippytony

And so, we get down to that he is the best options the democrats have to offer? Really? There’s what, 320 million people in America, half of them are democrats and that’s it? FFS, what is going on? Jeremy in the UK, this sad sight in the US.
Strange times.
My money’s still on Michelle getting parachuted in.
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March 7, 2020 9:37pm
V

7 years out of date … pass.
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March 8, 2020 1:51am
Agricola

I find it intriguing, DPF, that you have such a tin ear when it comes to American politics. You really ought to get out more.
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March 8, 2020 10:12am
waripori

The bar is set pretty low for Joe. A lot of democrats are nervous about what he might say or do. He has actually been OK in the dem debates. If he can have a reasonable discussion with Bernie about policy he will start to generate some enthusiasm. A one on one will suit him better than a 12 person circular firing squad .

The debates with Bernie will be more difficult than with Trump. Bernie has a good grasp of detail of his ideas even if they are unworkable. Trump does slogans and insults not detail.
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