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Bidens mark first lady’s birthday with leisurely bike ride
The Associated Press ^ | June 3, 2021 | By AAMER MADHANI

Posted on 06/03/2021 12:02:22 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Edited on 06/03/2021 12:28:16 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

REHOBOTH BEACH, Del. (AP) — President Joe Biden helped his wife celebrate her 70th birthday on Thursday with a leisurely bike ride.

The president and Jill Biden — with a few Secret Service agents in tow — cycled the paved Cape Henlopen State Park trail near their Delaware beach home.


(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; US: Delaware
KEYWORDS: bicycle; bidenbikeride; hairsniffer; jillbirthday; journalism; kiddiediddler; media; press
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To: VastRWCon
Meanwhile, Putin is wrestling alligators.

And shutting down our food and energy systems.

21 posted on 06/03/2021 12:37:35 PM PDT by 1Old Pro (Let's make crime illegal again!)
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To: ScubaDiver

White House press corps helped the FDR administration keep his wheelchair confinement from the American public for years. The great unwashed had no idea he couldn’t walk.


Respectfully, I believe this is a myth. The press certainly made a point of never showing FDR in a wheelchair, but I’m pretty sure everyone knew FDR was ‘crippled’. He was a founder of the March of Dimes, a charity devoted to curing polio—which is why his portrait graces the dime instead of a larger value coin. His visits to Warm Springs, GA, which was a polio treatment center were reported on as well.

Now, by late ‘44, it was obvious that FDR’s health was declining. I suppose the press didn’t point it out because it was war time. I know that both my parents told me they were shocked when FDR died in ‘45.

Thing is polio and his using braces to stand had no effect on his abilities to act as President. If Biden’s mental acuity is as much diminished as it appears, that certainly does affect his ability to do the job we’re told he was elected to.


22 posted on 06/03/2021 12:42:05 PM PDT by hanamizu
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Who takes off on a working weekday, to celebrate their wife’s birthday?


23 posted on 06/03/2021 12:44:19 PM PDT by OLDCU
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

That doesn’t look like Biden.


24 posted on 06/03/2021 12:44:28 PM PDT by dinodino ( )
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To: hanamizu
You are right. Article here. But I think the average voter, seeing FDR standing (supported by metal braces and often by his son), didn't know how bad his paralysis was.
25 posted on 06/03/2021 12:48:10 PM PDT by x
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To: x

Yes, he and his sons had a bit of a trick where he would use them as crutches to ‘walk’ very short distances. You see lots of pictures of him with his arm hooked around another man’s arm. But of course a person would have to be very dim not to catch on with what you never saw in the newsreels—FDR walking everywhere.


26 posted on 06/03/2021 12:52:34 PM PDT by hanamizu
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Another leisurely sojourn in Delaware.

Does this guy ever work? It seems the most he ever does is stand in front of a camera and deliver a 10-minute speech incoherently.


27 posted on 06/03/2021 12:56:56 PM PDT by JennysCool ('It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.' - Mark Twain)
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To: JennysCool
It seems the most he ever does is stand in front of a camera and deliver a 10-minute speech incoherently>/I>

Thankfully it's a heck of a lot more than Harris does.

28 posted on 06/03/2021 12:58:34 PM PDT by 1Old Pro (Let's make crime illegal again!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
I'm sorry, that is NOT Joe Biden!


29 posted on 06/03/2021 1:00:15 PM PDT by JennysCool ('It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.' - Mark Twain)
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To: utdutt

https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1400532529627766791?s=21


30 posted on 06/03/2021 1:02:28 PM PDT by John W
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To: JennysCool

So not using a Helmet strap is supposed to keep it on your head in a fall?


31 posted on 06/03/2021 1:03:09 PM PDT by 1Old Pro (Let's make crime illegal again!)
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To: hanamizu
People certainly knew he had polio and was hobbled by it. But, I don't think it was widely understood (at the time) that he was effectively paralyzed from the waist down...for the entirety (and before) of his presidential tenure.

In recent years, some media outlets have looked to ease the duplicity of both his White House and (to some degree) the White House press corps on this issue, writing stories like: 'Of Course People Knew FDR was in a Wheelchair.'

But, I think a more even-handed, objective telling of the story is - put charitably - less than complimentary to FDR and his administration on this issue...

How FDR kept his partial paralysis a secret from the American public — even while he was on the campaign trail

32 posted on 06/03/2021 1:04:50 PM PDT by ScubaDiver (Reddit refugee.)
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To: 1Old Pro

You aren’t required to protect your head if there’s nothing in it.


33 posted on 06/03/2021 1:05:31 PM PDT by JennysCool ('It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.' - Mark Twain)
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To: OLDCU

A working weekday? I thought he called a lid two days after the inauguration and that’s still in effect.


34 posted on 06/03/2021 1:06:57 PM PDT by sphinx
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To: JennysCool

How embarrassing, they guy has people on bikes behind him and at least 3 golf carts full of people. Can’t he get a Peloton and save us the money?


35 posted on 06/03/2021 1:08:24 PM PDT by 1Old Pro (Let's make crime illegal again!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Awwww. isn’t it nice for the “return to normalcy” where EVERY single act of Biden is the most wonderful thing since the Obamas?


36 posted on 06/03/2021 1:11:11 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Jill you worthless power mad piece of crap.
How can you exploit your senile husband like you do?


37 posted on 06/03/2021 1:29:08 PM PDT by Joe Boucher (You Go Donald.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“Tell me about the rabbits, Jill.”


38 posted on 06/03/2021 2:04:35 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

THAT is not Joe Biden, born in 1942 or thereabouts.


39 posted on 06/03/2021 2:15:31 PM PDT by Glad2bnuts ((“If there are no absolutes by which to judge society, then society is absolute.” Francis Schaeffer,)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer


Chairman Biteme
40 posted on 06/03/2021 2:20:25 PM PDT by nicollo (I said no!)
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