Lambert: Excuse me, sir, but before I go, I ought to have told you that Mr Verity does tend to exaggerate. Every figure he gives you will be ten times too high.
Husband: I see.
Lambert: Otherwise he's perfectly all right.
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.
In the event of World War III, he will bomb Moscow, Idaho.
Joe, how old were you yesterday?
The book cover will be of Joe, when he was three years old, sitting on Abe Lincoln's knee. That was in 1875.
Joe's dad worked in the same Scranton coal mine Abe worked in as a young man.
As teens, Joe and Abe liked to go to Scranton drive-ins in Joe's '65 Chevy Mustang with the 35-speed hemi transmission that could do 0 to 60 in 0.45 seconds. (That car was once owned by JFK and Charles Manson.) They loved to rip off sonic booms with it to attract the girls. He got in trouble for breaking store windows but Abe took the blame.
And the demwits will vote for him.
Well, there have to be at least 36 hoary old Leftists walking around today claiming they were shot at Kent State, so Biden has a point. :)
If Biden felt there were 40, feelings trump facts.
Dementia isn’t a pretty thing.
What if you knew hers and found hers dead on the ground.
“He can’t run this country. All he can run is his mouth.”
That applies to the entire Democrat Party.
40 dead in Ohio....
:)
And Staten Island man too!! :)
YES!!
WHY am I forgetting so much at 51!!!????
But then, I was not in the thick of it or a big follower of either.
Not because I was born in ‘68, as I was a big Beatles and Elvis and Deep Purple fan, but I became attached to the bands my older brother of 10 years liked.
And I don’t know a whole lot about that whole episode.
biden is an idiot who keeps saying things that are far from factually correct. He needs to go home and put his feet up.
Tin soldiers and Biden coming...40 dead in Ohio
40 shot is the truth to Biden and he always chooses truth over facts. He said so.
C’mon, what’s another zero or two to Joe?
Everyone know Slow Joe had a brain bleed from ruptured brain aneurysm in 1988 (31 years ago!), right?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2945034/posts
Do we EVER hear it in media? (nooooooooo)
FYI, you have to actually HAVE a brain (rather than Biden’s cranium filled with nothing more than HOT AIR) to have a brain-bleed. = No wonder that the media doesn’t mention it.
CHUCKLE, TMN78247
Thanks for that, I appreciate it.
I read a book called “Kent State” way back in the late 70s/early 80s (don’t remember the author), but it seriously demonized the Guard.
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