Posted on 09/23/2020 5:18:57 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Joe Biden was running late. Again.
On a recent Friday, he’d already apologized for the delayed start to a speech, then taken more questions than expected at a subsequent press conference. When it was finally over, Biden’s motorcade sped away quickly enough to leave behind one of the journalists traveling with it.
But as the line of armored, black SUVs reached Biden’s home in suburban Wilmington, it suddenly reversed course and headed back out — this time to a nearby M&T bank branch. Biden’s next event was already supposed to be underway, a virtual fundraiser with National Democratic Finance Chair Chris Korge. Instead, he lingered at an ATM.
The former vice president later told the donors gathered online that he was sorry to have been waylaid by a “significant press conference.” He omitted the stop to withdraw pocket money.
With their packed schedules, relish for meeting as many people as possible and natural tendency toward verbosity, most presidential candidates — and the commanders in chief they sometimes become — rarely get anywhere, or do anything, on time. Even controlling for typical on-the-trail tardiness, however, Biden has been pushing it lately.
He was more than 90 minutes late to a speech and another press conference in Wilmington last week, and arrived at a CNN town hall in Pennsylvania the following day with barely 20 minutes to clip on a microphone and prepare to go on air. Afterward, his motorcade was already in motion but had to stop as Biden hopped out to chat up a group of firefighters.
When Biden spoke at Philadelphia’s Constitution Hall on Sunday, his remarks began 25 minutes late. …
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It makes sense that Sleepy Creepy Slow Joe is always late for events.
He has to wade through his adoring masses in order to get anywhere...
Maybe Biden has bathroom issues. Being around seniors, they do have to go a lot!
That Depends™
“He omitted the stop to withdraw pocket money.”
It’s like the jerks that are always late for meetings...as they come wandering in with a cup of Starbucks coffee in their hand.
Well now we know what the ATM stop was for:
"The doctor says he's coming, but you gotta pay in cash." -- Eagles
My parents taught me well, ‘Better an hour early than a minute late’. That advice has made me a lot of $ over the years, as well as respect from people who don’t like their time wasted.
I’m still trying to get over the ‘relish for meeting as many people as possible’ part....
Reported by AP?
I’m shocked
The former vice president later told the donors gathered online that he was sorry to have been waylaid by a “significant press conference.” He omitted the stop to withdraw pocket money.
What kind of madness is this? Maybe a candidate for local office stops by an ATM to get a couple of bucks, but a candidate for a major office—the Presidency no less—supposedly stops at an ATM for cash and no one in the media reporting this thinks it's odd? The only thing they can say is that Biden omitted it in his remarks about why he was late?
Sometimes the seemingly trivial things are not so trivial and this is one of them. Someone should be asking what Biden was doing at an ATM because there is no reason for him to be at one. So was the stop for other reasons and the ATM is a cover story that the media are going along with in full knowledge, something they wouldn't do in a million years for President Trump? Or is it a stop the Biden staff had to make because Biden's dementia kicked in and he insisted on it in an angry manner? I would not let this go if I were the Trump campaign and I wouldn't accept any BS that Biden needed to get some cash.
AP—classic propaganda organ.
Blame the Russians for election interference while practicing election interference every day.
most of his tardiness isn’t even noticed since the only people at most of his events are his campaign staff masquerading as “reporters”. It’s not like he’s keeping thousands of people waiting. What really is Biden doing that makes him late, he really isn’t campaigning that’s for sure.
The reporters are slaves to the Democratic Party.
They need to learn to be patient and be happy their master agrees to speak to them at all.
Joe thought the ATM machine would give him his talking points for the day.
I heard what you sang there, Jonathan!
I have ALWAYS found people who are chronically late feel that they are far more important than you. Narcissism added to all the other Hiden-Biden problems.
#14 That is funny and probably true.
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