Joe Biden's last campaign
The man that was used up
CNN screenshot.
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s left eye appeared to fill up with blood as he answered a question during CNN’s climate town hall on Wednesday night.
Biden was answering a question about fracking when the blood suddenly became noticeable.
As he turned away from the camera to take a question about China’s role in carbon emissions, the blood in his eye was easy to spot. — Daily Mail
DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE, CINCINNATI, OHIO, OCTOBER 24, 2019
BIDEN: So that’s how you fight these white nationalist guys. With the facts! Facts to them are like garlic to a vampire. Or sunlight, if you don’t like garlic. I love it myself but my wife muhh wuuhh muuh uuh...
[BIDEN’s false teeth have fallen onto his lectern]
LESTER HOLT: Vice-President Biden, do you need a moment?
[BIDEN holds up one hand, pushes the teeth in with the other]
BIDEN: It’s okay, Lester; maybe if someone on my team can bring me some Poligrip. You young people may not know, but in the old days this was all there was when your teeth fell out — your natural teeth, I mean. Choppers, we called ‘em. I mew I shum a gah those impants buh mahh wuhh whuh
[His teeth have fallen out again.]
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SPEECH ON EVE OF IOWA CAUCUSES, DES MOINES, FEB. 2, 2020
BIDEN: Folks, I gotta apologize, I was so eager to talk to you today that ran up to the stage and I spilled a great, big cup of iced tea on my pants. Really big, a Big Gulp from 9-11. 7-9-11. It, the store. So that’s what this godawful mess is, and when you read a lot of malarkey about it in the papers you who tell ‘em old Joe says it ain’t so! And the same goes for that chocolate cake I sat on!
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APPEARANCE ON THE TODAY SHOW, ROCKEFELLER CENTER, MARCH 3, 2020
[BIDEN is sitting between Savannah Guthrie and Al Roker.]
I tell ya, Savannah, it makes me proud to come here to the great city of Philadelphia and see all these young people standing in the window — young people full of excitement and faith in their country, and pride too, because it’s the first presidential campaign of their young lives, and they’re going to make history, because they’re voting for this fine, historic man who’s gonna make a great president of the United States, Barack Obama.
[Claps Roker affectionately on the shoulder.]
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DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE, SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA, MARCH 23, 2020
BIDEN: And that’s another thing. Everything is so negative, everybody’s so negative. With the internet and Twitter and the press. Making fun of people’s misfortunes. Their “gaffes.” Always tearing one another down. What’s happened to us? As a nation? We’re America, dammit! We should be building each other up! Pumping each other up! Reaching for the skies! Going to the moon, to Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, which, dammit, is still a planet to Joe Biden! We’ve got to have faith, America! We've got to — got to —
[He begins to wobble; comes around the lecture and lurches forward]
CHUCK TODD: Mr. Vice-President? Mr. Vice-President?
[BIDEN does a full Fred Sanford walking sprawl.]
BIDEN: This is it, Neilia! It’s the big one! I'm comin’ to join ya, honey!
[Paramedics rush the stage.]
I don't like Joe
I wish he'd go
Back to DE
And not bother me.
But if he takes
the primary stakes
I will certainly vote
For the goddamn old goat.
I supported Bernie in 2016 but I had a lot of sympathy for the sexist shit thrown at Clinton. I remember when she stumbled because she was ill with pneumonia at a 9/11 event, she was armchair diagnosed as having everything from Parkinson’s disease to menopausal wobblies. If a woman candidate committed even a third of Biden’s gaffes and then had a bloodshot eye in public, the media would have forcibly admitted her to a retirement home and would be looking for her end-of-life directive by now.