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If Biden can’t answer questions without a script, how can he run the country?
New York Post ^ | September 13, 2020 | Post Editorial Board

Posted on 09/14/2020 5:00:34 AM PDT by karpov

Wow: Joe Biden’s staff won’t even let him do a “spontaneous” Q&A session without a script. Is he really that far gone?

Obsessive scripting is the only explanation for what happened at last week’s Biden question-and-answer session with AFL-CIO union members, when the candidate responded to a young barista’s query with the non sequitur, “Move it up here” — then paused.

Anyone who’s been following Biden’s travails recognizes those words as a cue to his aides to jog the teleprompter, as he’s done time and again in recent weeks. (Why an experienced politician with a top-notch staff keeps having this trouble is also worrisome.)

Anyway, after the pause, Joe launched into his “off the cuff” response — which was utter boilerplate: “You know, there used to be a basic bargain in this country, that workers shared in the wealth they helped create.” It’s beyond appalling that Biden would need reminding of that trope.

His aides won’t even discuss the elephant in the room.

After the AFL-CIO footage made the rounds, Fox News’ Bret Baier put the obvious question to TJ Ducklo, the campaign’s national press secretary: “Has Joe Biden ever used a teleprompter during local interviews or to answer Q&As with supporters?”

Ducklo ducked the question — repeatedly, before finally saying, “I am not going to allow the Trump campaign to funnel their questions through Fox News and get me to respond to that.”

There’s your answer.

Time and again, teleprompter troubles have exposed the fact that Biden is just reading his lines in what his campaign pretends are real conversations with supporters, like Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf.

He’s not even answering reporters’ questions off the cuff: “Look, Venezuela topline message is . . .” he told an NBC Miami reporter

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 3amphonecall; biden; biden2020; dementiajoe; situationroom
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To: karpov

I’m glad they’re covering this, or else a lot of liberals wouldn’t believe it.


21 posted on 09/14/2020 5:43:17 AM PDT by tbw2
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To: Joe 6-pack

Biden is the DNC version of an ailing Brezhnev circa 1980 or Andropov circa 1983. Politburo behind the scenes calls the shots.


22 posted on 09/14/2020 5:59:34 AM PDT by slapshot (The NHL is dead to me)
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To: karpov
After the first couple of debates, the Democrats are going to be in full panic mode. I predict they will be forced to pull Biden before November.
 
23 posted on 09/14/2020 6:02:56 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (Guide me, O thou great redeemer, pilgrim through this barren land.)
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To: karpov

Jill Biden is Exploiting a Senior Citizen with severe diminished mental capacity for her own Personal gain, Why isn’t she in JAIL for Senior Abuse???


24 posted on 09/14/2020 6:19:29 AM PDT by eyeamok
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To: karpov

Good Question


25 posted on 09/14/2020 6:21:09 AM PDT by CPT Clay (Q sent me)
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To: karpov

He’s not going to.


26 posted on 09/14/2020 6:21:48 AM PDT by Renkluaf
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To: karpov

Because he’s not the actual “candidate.”


27 posted on 09/14/2020 6:21:49 AM PDT by cld51860 (Volo pro veritas)
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To: supremedoctrine

China will run the country under a nominal “Biden Presidency.” They already run the DNC and through them Antifa and BLM. Ask the question “Who benefits?” Then follow the money.

Guaranteed it all goes back to China.


28 posted on 09/14/2020 6:25:48 AM PDT by henkster ("We can always fool the foreigner" - Chinese Proverb)
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To: Kharis13

Yup-—I pointed out even before he was elected, his rather resonant sounding voice made him appear much more than he was. And to this day we still don’t know who he was and is. In Biden’s case, I saw a rather shocking compilation video somewhere on FOX last night of Biden’s plagarism history and how it has virtually defined his political career. Early on, he fessed up, saying “I’m dumb, I’ve done many dumb things, and I will probably do them again.” Yeah, the American people like to hear stuff like that apparently.we’ve made a cult out of granting 2nd,3rd,4th,5th chances....and more if needed. Won’t work this time around.


29 posted on 09/14/2020 6:28:26 AM PDT by supremedoctrine ( at this point)
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To: karpov

What a well thought out and reasonable question to ask during a Presidential campaign. How’d that enter the discussion, particularly on the left?


30 posted on 09/14/2020 6:36:00 AM PDT by cincinnati65
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The demonrats are more delusional than even I thought....presenting slojoe as a presidential candidate????ggam...he is like the wizard of oz...but the wiz was 10,000x more cognizant than slojoe...and cammy Harris as potus....????…this isn’t going to end well....slojoe will not be the head of the ticket at election time...hell he is not the head now but still is alive...I reckon...


31 posted on 09/14/2020 6:39:08 AM PDT by TnTnTn
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To: ThunderSleeps

“Tragedy for his family”?

Hardly. His wife wants to be First Lady more than anything. She is what pushed him into this. She is what keeps him in it.


32 posted on 09/14/2020 6:42:58 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom ("And oft conducted by historic truth, We tread the long extent of backward time.")
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To: karpov

The DNC is so far (left the country totally) that in it’s death throes the DNC puts an incompetent candidate forward in an effort to say that the DNC itself is corrupt within it’s communist ranks as it destroyed or breaks into two parties of CPUSA and DNC Far Left vs. GOPt (Trump) and GOPe (RINOs).

America will eventually get to see Biden’s advanced state of decline as the DNC itself exposes it’s candidate and then screams that the process of timeline for printing ballots has past as they put for their little green lizard Ca-mi-youn Ca-mil-toe SoRoS District Attorney VP for president and CPUSA on the ballot.

The far left is making a mockery of our electoral process in an effort to discredit the American people’s right to vote.

The history books will record in 2020 the USA faced both China at home and abroad.


33 posted on 09/14/2020 6:49:21 AM PDT by Jumper
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To: karpov

The cabal behind him will be. Just like Obama.

Democrats run vessels now.


34 posted on 09/14/2020 6:52:18 AM PDT by headstamp 2 (Socialism- Institutionalized Deprivation)
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To: albie

Thugs running the Washington Post and New York Times are FRIENDS with Biden’s team.

THEY KNOW BIDEN HAS EARLY ONSET DEMENTIA.

And they’re hiding that information from the public.


35 posted on 09/14/2020 6:59:45 AM PDT by GOPJ
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To: karpov

Biden is the states Moscow media boy cover up is full mode they want the socialist party to win,they will do what ever it takes.


36 posted on 09/14/2020 7:02:40 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: karpov

He can’t run the country but here’s a secret: he doesn’t have to.


37 posted on 09/14/2020 7:10:18 AM PDT by cymbeline
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To: Joe 6-pack

Yep. The Deep State sees Biden’s dementia as his best feature.


38 posted on 09/14/2020 7:32:41 AM PDT by Chewbarkah
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To: Kharis13

39 posted on 09/14/2020 8:26:20 AM PDT by shooter223 (the government should fear the citizens......not the other way around)
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To: karpov; Interesting Times

Because he will be, as we use to say in the Army for a person assigned to give a briefing, “the talking dog.” Or consider him the ventriloquist’s dummy with other putting words in his mouth, and like Blazing Saddles Governor Lepetomane. telling him where to sign any document put in front of him.


40 posted on 09/14/2020 8:51:58 AM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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