by Frank Holmes, reporter
Even as former Vice President Joe Biden widens his lead over other presidential hopefuls in the polls, Democrats are whispering that a slew of mistakes, gaffes and misstatements prove their worst fear: Joe Biden doesn’t have the mental capacity to be president of the United States.
Liberals know he’s lost his marbles!
And the rambling 76-year-old hasn’t done much to convince anybody otherwise — just this week in Iowa, he did it again in a doddering speech about what decade it was when he got motivated to get into politics.
What follows are 6 of Biden’s biggest flubs —
1. Biden flubs the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Bobby Kennedy assassinations
“In my generation,” he said, “when I got out of school, when Bobby Kennedy and Dr. King had been assassinated in the ’70s, the late ’70s… ” But King and Kennedy were killed 10 years earlier, in 1968. Biden got so confused on the stump last Friday that he even seemed confused where he was, mixing up Iowa with Vermont.
2. Biden confuses national tragedies
Biden made another geographically-challenged comment when he said the mass shootings in El Paso, Tx. and Dayton, Ohio happened in “Houston and Michigan.”
It’s a never-ending pattern of mistakes that show the veep’s mental train is slowing down, or maybe coming to a stop entirely.
3. Biden screws up his own campaign signature
At the end of the last Democratic debate, Biden mashed up his website with his campaign’s text service and told viewers to “go to Joe 30330.”
But misspeaking isn’t Biden’s real problem — the deeper problem is that Joe makes up life events and seems to live in his own reality.
4. Biden claims he met with victims of Parkland, Fl. shooting… as vice president
He claimed that victims of the 2018 Parkland shooting met with him as vice president in the White House… even though he hadn’t been vice president for more than a year. He even told the media, “Some of you covered it.”
Biden has been living in a fantasy land for years.
5. Biden says he confronted an old foe in the White House
He said he confronted then-President George W. Bush in a tense talk inside the White House.
“I remember President Bush saying to me one time in the Oval Office, ‘Well, Joe,’ he said, ‘I’m a leader.’ And I said: ‘Mr. President, turn around and look behind you. No one is following.’”
But people inside the White House say not only didn’t that meeting happen, but the two never met in the White House.
“I don’t ever remember Biden being in the Oval (Office),” said Candida P. Wolff, Bush’s White House liaison to Congress.
6. Biden lies about a “sticky” situation in Afghanistan
Back in 2008 Joe Biden bragged about being shot at in Iraq, “forced down” in Afghanistan, about knowing the exact location of Osama bin Laden — and none of it ever happened.
“If you want to know where al Qaeda lives, you want to know where bin Laden is, come back to Afghanistan with me,” Biden rambled.
Biden said that he rode “the superhighway of terror between Pakistan and Afghanistan where my helicopter was forced down.”
But his helicopter landed in the mountains because of the cold… not because anybody shot at him.
Even his fellow liberal, John Kerry, ratted him out and admitted, “Other than getting a little cold, it was fine.”
Democrats weren’t willing to back up his lies, mistakes, gaffes, slips and blunders then — and it doesn’t look like they’re lining up to do so any time soon.
Frank Holmes is a reporter for The Horn News. He is a veteran journalist and an outspoken conservative that talks about the news that was in his weekly article, “On The Holmes Front.”