Posted on 01/19/2021 8:09:18 PM PST by rey
Joe Biden paces as he dictates long portions of his speeches to aides, spinning out thoughts that quickly pile into six, seven or eight paragraphs of copy, only to later be scrapped.
On the 2020 campaign trail, he’d keep groups of supporters waiting inside while he’d hole up in a black car with aides, refining lines of his prepared remarks.
Revisions go up to crunch time; it isn’t uncommon for a staffer to be scurrying to the teleprompter with a flash drive just before an event is to begin.
For higher-profile remarks, he’d obsessively rehearse portions until he committed them to memory. And at times through the various iterations of outlining remarks, Biden could grow downright ornery.
“I would never say this,” Biden once snapped at an aide, aghast over the prepared remarks he was reviewing, according to a person in the room during a speech prep session last year. “Where did you get this from?’”
The aide explained that Biden had just said it in a public speech a couple of weeks earlier.
Such are the hallmarks and unpleasantries that are the sausage-making of speech writing with Biden.
Whether it’s his second stump speech on the same day in Michigan or a nationally televised address, there are few tasks in politics that Biden takes more seriously than speaking. And, perhaps, the struggles he had with speech in his childhood explains why.
On Wednesday, Biden, the boy who grew up talking with a stutter, will deliver an inaugural address that carries more weight than any of the speeches he has obsessed over in the past.
“He is well aware this is the most important inaugural speech since Lincoln,” said Sen. Chris Coons, a Delaware Democrat who is a close Biden ally.
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Hell, he might not survive his own speech...I’ll be checking FR for news of his demise because I surely won’t be watching him.....
Umm... his purported practice of committing to memory is something I don’t think he should rely on any more. I think reading the words off the teleprompter that his puppet master wrote from him + not drooling, should be the extent of his ambition
Is Natasha Russian, perchance?
Yabba Dabba Do!!! I’m crazy and Nancy is too!!! Hahahahaaaaa.... Come on man!
Gosh, I won’t be able to hear that important speech. I have to take a dump at the very hour he is speaking, whenever that might be.
Was Lincoln a communist?
Yeah, too bad no one is interested in hearing it.
“We’re all Mexicans now!”
Dear Leader Biden Il Gong has bowled such a stupendous number of games of a score of 300, Dear Leader has lost count.
To a bunch of flags encased in barbed wire fencing...
Maybe he’ll outlaw the GOP.
Biden is about to give ‘the most important inaugural speech since Lincoln’ to 200,000 intently listening American flags!!
never before in US history have so many US flags gathered for a presidential inaugural speech!!
lol
We need to come together... you racist haters Trump voters.
Well I wouldn’t know because my TV and internet will be off tomorrow. For sure I hope there is not a live thread here. If I were Jim Robinson, I wouldn’t pollute this site with garbage.
I would open up the forum to President Trump if he would choose to come join us for a virtual rally!!!
What ya say Mr. President?
Joe Biden paces as he dictates long portions of his speeches to aides
Biden couldn’t dictate what to say on in a birthday card.
As much as I hate to say it, I hope he does last, but I don’t think he’s lasting more than 6 months and that’s being very generous. In reality, I think he’s a deadman walking. Either that or his own VP and party will open all the Ukraine stuff and threaten to put his son and brother in prison, forcing him to resign.
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