The "Endearing" Mouth Droppings of Joe Biden

Joe Biden -- just a plethora of INTELLIGENT QUOTES from the man who would be VICE president (gosh, let's hope not!)

“I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that’s a storybook, man.” - Joe Biden

""I've had a great relationship [with East Indians in America]. In Delaware, the largest growth in population is Indian Americans - moving from India. You cannot go to a 7-11 or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I'm not joking." -- Joe Biden, speaking to Indian-Americans.

"“I don’t think John Edwards knows what the heck he is talking about," [when he calls for immediate withdrawal of troops from Iraq.] "John Edwards wants you and all the Democrats to think, ‘I want us out of there,’ but when you come back and you say, ‘O.K., John, what about the chaos that will ensue? Do we have any interest, John, left in the region?’ Well, John will have to answer yes or no. If he says yes, what are they? What are those interests, John? How do you protect those interests, John, if you are completely withdrawn? Are you withdrawn from the region, John? Are you withdrawn from Iraq, John? In what period? So all this stuff is like so much Fluffernutter out there." - Joe Biden

Stealing a Speech From a British Politican Way back in 1988, Biden ran for president but was forced to quit for a unique reason: he simply copied parts of a speech by a British politican, Neil Kinnock, and changed some parts to make it sound like it was about him. In earlier speeches he had properly quoted Kinnock, but this time he said:

“Why is it that Joe Biden is the first in his family ever to go a university? Why is it that my wife . . . is the first in her family to ever go to college? Is it because our fathers and mothers were not bright? . . . Is it because they didn't work hard? My ancestors who worked in the coal mines of northeast Pennsylvania and would come after 12 hours and play football for four hours? It's because they didn't have a platform on which to stand.”

The irony is, coming up with things to say has never been a problem for him; he's by all accounts a very bright and original thinker. (He is currently the main advocate of the plan to partition Iraq informally into Kurdish, Shiite and Sunni regions.) And yet, this was not his first offense of plagiarism.

As a freshman in law school back in 1965, he got an "F" in a class for writing a paper entirely based on one law review article. (He described the incident as "something very stupid 23 years ago." Biden repeated the class later and got a good grade.) He also used parts of old speeches by Robert Kennedy in his 1988 campaign (which he blamed on a speechwriter). It's hard to understand. Our best read on the guy is that it's simply an issue of laziness.

Big Mouth We've already talked about Biden's comments on Obama. He is well known around Washington as a guy who loves to talk and really can't stop himself. It's entertaining but a questionable trait in a president, since one wrong declaration can start a war. You can get a sample by looking at his:

Laziness The deeper problem that ties together his plagiarism and BS is laziness. Biden is a smart enough guy, a college football and baseball jock who is undoubtedly great fun to hang around with. I'd love to have a beer with him. It just seems that he has never had to knuckle down be diligent in his public speeches. He's more the kind of guy who is used to winging it, pulling it off at the last second with his nerve and wit. But it's clearly gotten to the point of limiting what he can accomplish. Unlike the second president Bush, he doesn't seem to be INTELLECTUALLY lazy or resentful -- Biden is wiling to entertain challenging ideas and go out on a limb. But they do share a certain fun, party guy mentality. You can just see them at parties BSing impressively while their friends roll on the floor.

This isn't just my opinion. At the University of Delaware, Biden was 506th out of 688 classmates, and a history professor said he was "trying to be the complete Joe College." In a recommendation for law school, the teacher called Biden average in "intellectual achievement" but high in "command of English language" and recommended him based "on grounds of personality and general promise." Biden ended up 76th out of 85 in his law school class; the law school dean described him as an academic "disappointment" but praised his "confidence," "general physical appearance" and "general speaking ability" in recommending him as a lawyer.

As a first generation American of East Indian heritage, I am offend. How dare he confuse Pakistanis, and Middle-Easterners with East Indians?? Next thing he’ll say is we all drive taxis. /s Thanks for posting this, one of my lib friends thinks Biden is the cat’s meow.

I still firmly believe Bill Clinton should be Obama’s VP choice. After all, he knows more about vice than any pol in American history!

3 posted on 09/07/2008 6:18:57 PM PDT by Islander7 ("Common sense and common decency are uncommon virtues among America's left.")

the law school dean described him as an academic "disappointment" but praised his "confidence," "general physical appearance" and "general speaking ability" in recommending him as a lawyer.

WTF?

Biden is not from a coal mining family. Biden’s ancestors were the bosses! He’s from the part of Scranton (Green Ridge) where the rich lived. He had one ancestor who was a State Senator.

OBAMA & BIDEN'S
GAFFE-IN

"Say goodnight, Joe." . . . . "Goodnight, Joe!"

Today one of the cables was showing Biden at some appearance in FL.
With all the morbid and wishful talk on the left and in the media about McCain not serving out his full term,
Biden freely talked about his medical issues.
He said that he had accumulated over 1 million dollars in hospital bills because of his two brain surgeries, his pulmonary embolism and “ other things.”
He spent two months in ICU.
And missed seven months of work.
McCain gets a clean bill of health and glowing medical reports and the media still acts like sleazy morticians.
And they ignore Biden’s medical past.

(He is currently the main advocate of the plan to partition Iraq informally into Kurdish, Shiite and Sunni regions.) And yet, this was not his first offense of plagiarism.

Seems to me he stole it from Julius Caesar.

"Omnis Gallia divisa est in partes tres."

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