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Biden mumbling and stumbling in New Hampshire. He decided that bringing up MLK and Kennedy assassinations weren't having enough impact. So of course, fall on Obama, asking audience to "imagine if Obama was assassinated". 2 seconds later, pivots to "over 40 people shot at Kent State on their beautiful lawn"... he sounds so much like Trump it's scary.
Biden's family and supporters need to step in and take Biden to the woodshed. He's cooked. Putting up a confused and increasingly senile and embarrassing neo liberal vs Trump is suicidal.
Biden mumbling and stumbling in New Hampshire. He decided that bringing up MLK and Kennedy assassinations weren't having enough impact. So of course, fall on Obama, asking audience to "imagine if Obama was assassinated". 2 seconds later, pivots to "over 40 people shot at Kent State on their beautiful lawn"... he sounds so much like Trump it's scary.
Biden's family and supporters need to step in and take Biden to the woodshed. He's cooked. Putting up a confused and increasingly senile and embarrassing neo liberal vs Trump is suicidal.
Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. on Friday took a series of unusual rhetorical detours at the end of a town-hall-style campaign event nominally dedicated to health care, speculating about how a political assassination of Barack Obama might have affected the country in 2008 and recalling that he was accused of being gay because of his support of women’s rights in the 1970s.
After speaking about the health care plan he introduced last month and taking a few questions, Mr. Biden grew most animated as he recalled the fraught political era of 1968, when he was in his final year of law school, and two of his political heroes, Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy, were assassinated within weeks of each other.
“My senior semester they were both shot and killed,” Mr. Biden said. “Imagine what would have happened if, God forbid, Barack Obama had been assassinated after becoming the de facto nominee. What would have happened in America?”
“Things changed,” he continued. “You had over 40 kids shot at Kent State on a beautiful lawn by the National Guard.” The shooting in question, in May 1970 during a Vietnam War protest, in fact ended with four students shot dead and nine wounded.
After speaking about the health care plan he introduced last month and taking a few questions, Mr. Biden grew most animated as he recalled the fraught political era of 1968, when he was in his final year of law school, and two of his political heroes, Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy, were assassinated within weeks of each other.
“My senior semester they were both shot and killed,” Mr. Biden said. “Imagine what would have happened if, God forbid, Barack Obama had been assassinated after becoming the de facto nominee. What would have happened in America?”
“Things changed,” he continued. “You had over 40 kids shot at Kent State on a beautiful lawn by the National Guard.” The shooting in question, in May 1970 during a Vietnam War protest, in fact ended with four students shot dead and nine wounded.
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