Joe Biden Stumbles on MSNBC Running Mate Question, Gives Baffling Response
July 22, 2020
Joe Biden Stumbles on MSNBC Running Mate Question, Gives Baffling Response - raw conservative opinions
Far-left Democrats will be too far gone to listen, but Joe Biden’s appearance on MSNBC Monday night should have been a warning to the rest of America.
If the former vice president botches his words under conditions where everything is set up in his favor, how can anyone expect him to perform when the going really gets tough?
The answer was on full display for the inaugural episode of “The ReidOut,” and it wasn’t what any American really wanted to see.
For a Democratic presidential aspirant, the stage couldn’t have been better:
The network was MSNBC, the leftiest of the liberal media that passes for “mainstream” these days. It’s a welcoming environment for any candidate willing to oppose President Donald Trump, much less the man who’s trying to unseat him outright.
The host was Joy Reid, an unapologetic liberal who scored a coup by landing Biden as her first “get” as a prime-time performer (replacing the ex-MSNBC star and now-disgraced Chris Matthews).
Yet Biden still couldn’t manage to answer Reid’s question about his potential running mate on the Democratic ticket in November without seeming to confirm the suspicions about his mental decline that have been building since his gaffe-filled days on the campaign trail before the coronavirus confined him to his basement.
“Have you narrowed down your choices?” Reid asked.
The response started cogently enough (if the “physical examination” part was a little odd), but got lost in a word salad.
Republican National Committee spokeswoman Liz Harrington caught part of it for a Twitter post.
“I’ll tell you what’s happening,” Biden told Reid. “We’re getting the detailed analysis that has done. I’ve been through one of these vets, as they say. It takes about six weeks and you go into everything, it’s like having a public physical examination.
“That is just being finished. I’m having a two-hour, uh, uhm, vetting report from the lawyers, and women and men of color, as well as white folks who are doing the vetting, uhm, and, uh, we’ve gone through about four candidates so far, and the two-hour vetting.
“And then when I get all the vetting done of all the candidates, then I’m going to narrow the, uh, the list, and then we’ll see, and then I’m going to have personal discussions with each of the candidates who are left.
What’s interesting about this – aside from Biden’s evident uncertainty that would make a junior toastmaster blush – is that earlier in the interview, when Reid pressed him to commit to naming a black woman as his running mate, he sounded much more confident.
Joe's not playing the game with a full sack of marbles.
Definitely a few cards short of a full deck.
When I worked for State of Illinois, the big joke about black guys was they never conquered anyone because they ate Twinkies and soda pop for breakfast.
One morning I was flagging and a black guy pulled up and stopped. I walk up to the window to talk with him. I look in there and he is eating Twinkies and soda pop. This was about 9 AM.
I said to the black guy on the crew, "Elvin, you know what the was eating?"