Email from a politically unhinged friend yesterday:
I had a nap dream a few minutes ago, heard, "Joe made
himself a noose and hung himself."
Someone sent me this, and it was there when I woke up.
It was spammed out.
BUT, I WATCHED IT, AND: FUCK!
I watched the video and replied:
Gadzooks!
And, Biden's about to name his lady running mate, of whom I read online a few days
ago, he said she was so close that he could smell her.
I emailed my friend this morning:
This
May 7, 2020 POLITIFACT article seems to flesh out what happened and
Biden's much later response:
I especially was moved to trust Biden ;-) by these parts of the
article:
"I went to law school on a
full academic scholarship, the only one in my class who had a full academic
scholarship," Biden said. "The first year in law school, I decided I
didn’t want to be in law school and ended up in the bottom two-thirds of my
class. And then decided I wanted to stay, went back to law school and, in fact,
ended up in the top half of my class."
Biden
also claimed he "graduated with three degrees from undergraduate
school."
"I’d
be delighted to sit down and compare my IQ to yours if you’d like, Frank,"
he said.
Biden graduated from Syracuse University’s law
school in 1968, but not in the top half of his class. He also did not receive
three undergraduate degrees. And, according to a September 1987 Newsweek report, Biden didn’t
attend law school on a full academic scholarship, either.
In a
statement published in response to the Newsweek story, and covered by the New York Times, Biden said
his "recollection of this was inaccurate.''
"I
graduated from the University of Delaware with a double major in history and
political science. My reference to degrees at the Claremont (N.H.) event was
intended to refer to these majors — I said 'three' and should have said
'two,’" Biden said in the statement, according to the Times.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Biden
graduated 76th of 85 students in his law school class, and Newsweek reported
that Biden had attended Syracuse on a half scholarship based on financial need.
The Democratic candidate did not directly dispute the reporting, but he said
that he also received money from the school itself and the Higher Education
Scholarship Fund of Delaware.
"I
exaggerate when I'm angry, but I've never gone around telling people things
that aren't true about me," Biden told the Times.
We
reached out to the Biden campaign for a comment, but they did not provide one
on the record.
In his 2007 autobiography "Promises
to Keep," Biden addressed his comments on the 1988 campaign trail. He said
he lost his temper because he was getting sick with the flu, and "it
sounded to me as if one of my own supporters doubted my intelligence."
"At
a small campaign event in Claremont, N.H., I lost it. I shouldn’t have been
there in the first place," Biden wrote. "I didn’t feel any better
afterward; what I’d said was a quick and stupid rant that I wished I’d never
said. Worse than that, without realizing it I’d exaggerated my academic
record."
"Thank God, I thought as I
left the event, there weren’t many people in the room to see my outburst."
Reminds me of Donald Trump's exaggerated claims about his own
education.
We very much need another president who exaggerates when he is
angry.
Biden has been teasing America for quite a while with suspense
about who he will pick as a female running mate. Reminds me of a little girl
pulling up her dress and showing her underwear to a boy, then giggling and
dropping her dress and running away.
Maybe the noose was put around America's neck when Biden became
the Democrats’ candidate this year, as if the noose was not already put there
by the current White House resident.
I suppose we should not speak of nooses, we might be accused of
being white supremacists.
sloanbashinsky@yahoo.com
J.D., University of Alabama School of Law, 1968;
LLM, in Taxation, 1979;
somewhere near the middle of both classes
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