Posted on 08/24/2019 3:33:40 PM PDT by Kaslin
Democratic presidential front-runner Joe Biden added to his recent pile of gaffes on Friday when he claimed that over 40 students were shot during a 1970 Vietnam War protest at Kent State.
The former vice president was making a point about when he first became politically aware in the 1960s and 1970s, comparing the hypothetical assassination of former President Barack Obama to the very real murders of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. "My senior semester they were both shot and killed. Imagine what would have happened if, God forbid, Barack Obama had been assassinated after becoming the de facto nominee. What would have happened in America?" he asked the audience at his New Hampshire town hall to ponder.
"Things changed," he added. "You had over 40 kids shot at Kent State on a beautiful lawn by the National Guard." However, Biden's claim about the Kent State shooting is not accurate, as four students were killed and nine others injured when members of the Ohio National Guard opened fire on a crowd gathered for a protest. The 76-year-old's latest mishap follows concerns from Democrats about his mistakes on the campaign trail. Among his verbal gaffes in recent weeks were his claim that he was still vice president during the 2018 Parkland, Florida school shooting and his remark that "poor kids" are just as smart as "white kids."
He also confused Burlington, Vermont and Burlington, Iowa while campaigning in Iowa last week and even mixed up the locations of two mass shootings earlier this month.
I can’t help but feel that there will come a time in the next few months when even this nut knows he’s not fit to be elected dog catcher in his local county!
Joe Biden: "You know, I met Bing Crosby once right about the time they recorded that song!"
Thank you for that info. I’d heard that the Guard had been fired upon, but that is the first I’ve heard it described at that level of detail.
Tin soldiers and Nixon comin’
We’re finally on our own
This summer I hear the callin’
Four dead in Ohio
Neil Young
Four, not forty
The Ohio National Guard didn’t “open fire” on the crowd.
Words mean things, so let’s not use them improperly.
Leave that to the left.
The grammatically correct phrase would be to say that The Ohio National Guard returned fire coming from somewhere in the crowd.”
While this was a topic of dispute for decades, modern forensic analyses of the recordings of the event have effectively ended the discussion.
Biden: I was there. I saw it. Administered first aid as a first responder. Anything else you hear is fake news.
the article I linked indicates where the initial shots may have originated.
Neil Young had both a solo career & was also with CSN&Y.
CSN&Y did the song “Ohio,” which references the Kent State shootings.
Neil Young’s solo composition “Southern Man” is the one that provoked Lynard Skynard’s response in “Sweet Home Alabama”
“Well I hope Neil Young will remember
Southern Man don’t need him around anyhow.”
You do understand that there is maybe 1 in 20 Rat voters that even knows *anything* about Kent State.
Neil Young sounds like someone is intermittently squeezing his sack throughout his songs.
Slojo has processing problems. Take your meds, Groper.
You are very WELCOME. = EVERYBODY who heard the Senior NCO’s comments BELIEVED him, as he was OBVIOUSLY HONEST, though he said that he was “truly SAD” that the REAL shooters got away & probably only unarmed students got hit”.
The so-called “mainstream press” has told SO MANY LIES, SO OFTEN, in SO MANY “STORIES” & on SO MANY SUBJECTS, that I trust NOTHING that they “report”, absent DOCUMENTARY PROOF from known/neutral sources.
Yours, TMN78247
“I hope Neil Young will remember, a Southern man don’t need him around anyhow.”
He’s only off by a decimal point.
Every day with this guy.
I’ve always hated his whiny voice.
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