Posted on 07/18/2024 6:15:40 AM PDT by Red Badger
Joe Biden got nasty at times in a “tense” Zoom meeting with dozens of moderate Democratic lawmakers who called his viability on the presidential ticket into question on Saturday.
Among them was Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO), a former Army Ranger who served three tours in the Middle East, who found himself on the brunt end of a personal attack from Biden after he asked about the importance of national security to voters in November, Puck reported.
“First of all, I think you’re dead wrong on national security,” the president said to Crow. “You saw what happened recently in terms of the meeting we had with NATO. I put NATO together. Name me a foreign leader who thinks I’m not the most effective leader in the world on foreign policy. Tell me! Tell me who the hell that is!”
Biden’s response then got personal with Crow.
“Tell me something you’ve never done with your Bronze Star like my son,” Biden said, according to Puck.
Crow reportedly remained calm, responding, “It’s not breaking through, Mr. President, to our voters.”
“You oughta talk about it!” Biden shot back, according to Puck. “On national security, nobody has been a better president than I’ve been. Name me one. Name me one! So I don’t want to hear that crap!”
Crow didn’t appear to take offense to the interaction. After the meeting, he told CBS on Sunday that politics can be a “tough business” and that “there’s a lot at stake.”
“Emotions can run high,” he said. “I think the President heard our message very clearly, and in fact he promised to come back to us with more information.”
The Bronze Star is awarded for either heroic achievement, heroic service, meritorious achievement, or meritorious service in a combat zone.
Biden’s son, Beau Biden, received the medal for his service in Iraq in 2008 and 2009 as a member of the Judge Advocate General (JAG) Corps. Crow received his citation in 2003 for his actions as a platoon leader in the 82nd Airborne Division during the Battle of Samawah—the largest sustained urban combat that paratroopers of the 82nd Airborne had been involved in since World War II.
Calls for Biden to bow out of the presidential race have reduced to a minimum after the assassination attempt on Donald Trump, which took place about an hour after Biden’s Zoom meeting. That’s despite polls showing Biden is slated to be soundly defeated in key battleground states.
Biden’s call on Saturday did little to calm the nerves of Democrats in tight races of their own, with lawmakers telling Puck that Biden was “rambling,” “dismissive of concerns,” and “unable or unprepared to present a campaign strategy.”
One lawmaker on the call told the website that they’d lost “a ton” of respect for Biden after the meeting.
“He was rambling,” the unnamed lawmaker said. “He’d start an answer then lose his train of thought, then would just say ‘whatever.’ He really couldn’t complete an answer. I lost a ton of respect for him.”
Publicly, however, many lawmakers praised Biden after the meeting, including Reps. Lou Correa, Veronica Escobar, Robert Garcia, Pramila Jayapal, Brad Sherman, and Nanette Barragan.
“What I saw was the President Biden that we saw at the post-NATO press conference, not the Biden we saw in the debate,” said Sherman.
What does that even mean?...................
rep Crow, you served your country honorably, so why do you now consort with those who hate your country and want to destroy it?
It means Traitorjoe is now descending into the final stages of dementia. The last of his marbles have slipped away.
Once you have dementia whatever bad traits you have get a lot worse.
In Biden’s case it is lying.
The lies get bigger and crazier.
Agitation. Classic symptom of of vascular dementia.
He was an asshole even when he was younger, so now he’s an even bigger asshole.
Biden’s son Beau was a JAG officer, a military lawyer, Crow was a Combat officer in the 82nd Airborne.
If I were Crow, I’d switch parties immediately........................
Handed out like candy to officers in Iraq…..thanks for showing up.
It means Traitorjoe is now descending into the final stages of dementia. The last of his marbles have slipped away.
His cheese has slipped off the cracker.
He’s about half a bubble off plumb.
He’s nuttier than a squirrel turd.
Nuttier than a porta potty at a peanut festival.
The wheels are still turning, but the hamsters died.
> “On national security, nobody has been a better president than I’ve been. Name me one. Name me one! So I don’t want to hear that crap!” <
Standard Biden nonsense. But here’s the thing. It sure doesn’t sound like someone who’s thinking about dropping out of the race.
When you have dementia, you can’t even realize you’re lying.
Once a bully, always a bully?
Well Beau was a JAG Officer, so gonna go out on a limb and say he got it, in part, for meritorious service, and daddy was a senator or VP. Meanwhile the other earned his in battle. Biden is a nasty POS.
He keeps saying this as if it’s true. Tell me one foreign leader who thinks he IS the most effective leader in the world on foreign policy?
It is one thing to lose respect for someone with a sound mind, it is ugly on the person losing respect when someone has dementia who can’t help how they respond. No doubt he said what he feels but as a, cough, leader, he has no filter.
Pray you go in your sleep rather this tragic slow decline. Bottom line, he should have stepped down years ago or not have run at all. Trotting him out to the public is abuse. If nothing else, the demonrats and Jill should have corrected this image of the country long ago.
It means “emsapobn adslmlm 3*&T@!QM nsaallkn aaew; d90()(*& !!!!!”
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