"Look, there’s so many young women who have been – including a young woman who just was murdered and he went to the funeral. The idea that she was murdered by – by – by an immigrant coming in and (inaudible) talk about that.
But here’s the deal, there’s a lot of young women who are being raped by th…
"Look, there’s so many young women who have been – including a young woman who just was murdered and he went to the funeral. The idea that she was murdered by – by – by an immigrant coming in and (inaudible) talk about that.
But here’s the deal, there’s a lot of young women who are being raped by their – by their in-laws, by their – by their spouses, brothers and sisters, by – just – it’s just – it’s just ridiculous. And they can do nothing about it. And they try to arrest them when they cross state lines."
And there's a lot more like this in the transcript.
“But, reading the cold transcript, we get a very different picture of Biden. Substantively, he ably and forcefully made the case that that Trump should not be allowed back in the Oval Office.” Then Zirin proceeds to detail those comments by Biden.
Yes, there were gaffes, as I've said. Stumbles. But mostly not - there were lots of cogent remarks that were on point. Judge the whole thing in its entirety. Every one of us has brain farts at times, but those singular events don't define who we are. Every one of us gets sick. Are we going to allow this president to be human, or not? I’ve certainly gotten sick to the point I was hoarse, stuffed up and coughed so much I could hardly talk let alone think. His debate stumbles are credibly explained by exhaustion and illness. That's not even considering the fact that he was born with a severe speech impediment – a bad, bad stutter. Biden has overcome that obstacle amazingly well, although he still has to contend daily with this neurodivergence. It’s not gone or cured. He has been known as a gaffe machine (possibly a side effect of his stutter?) all his career. Yet voters have reelected him continually over 5 decades. Voters like him. Maybe they particularly like his humanity. His authenticity. His ability to get back up when he falls. His debate stumbles don't rise to the level of evidence of dementia or senility or lack of mental acuity - at all - when examined in context of all he said at the debate itself. Certainly not when considered in the fullness of his presidential record and his daily performance. In fact, that he felt so terrible and still got up on that stage and tried to perform is a mark of his determination and character. He failed to beat back the braggadocio of Trump in that moment. The moderators failed, too. They let Trump run roughshod all over them – and they weren’t even sick. By the way, Biden called in to the Morning Joe show on Monday and answered unscripted questions quite well.
This is Biden's transcript, on ABORTION:
"Look, there’s so many young women who have been – including a young woman who just was murdered and he went to the funeral. The idea that she was murdered by – by – by an immigrant coming in and (inaudible) talk about that.
But here’s the deal, there’s a lot of young women who are being raped by their – by their in-laws, by their – by their spouses, brothers and sisters, by – just – it’s just – it’s just ridiculous. And they can do nothing about it. And they try to arrest them when they cross state lines."
And there's a lot more like this in the transcript.
I’ll point again to the piece by James Zirin - https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/4745771-biden-lacked-oomph-but-the-transcript-tells-a-different-tale/ Zirin says:
“But, reading the cold transcript, we get a very different picture of Biden. Substantively, he ably and forcefully made the case that that Trump should not be allowed back in the Oval Office.” Then Zirin proceeds to detail those comments by Biden.
Yes, there were gaffes, as I've said. Stumbles. But mostly not - there were lots of cogent remarks that were on point. Judge the whole thing in its entirety. Every one of us has brain farts at times, but those singular events don't define who we are. Every one of us gets sick. Are we going to allow this president to be human, or not? I’ve certainly gotten sick to the point I was hoarse, stuffed up and coughed so much I could hardly talk let alone think. His debate stumbles are credibly explained by exhaustion and illness. That's not even considering the fact that he was born with a severe speech impediment – a bad, bad stutter. Biden has overcome that obstacle amazingly well, although he still has to contend daily with this neurodivergence. It’s not gone or cured. He has been known as a gaffe machine (possibly a side effect of his stutter?) all his career. Yet voters have reelected him continually over 5 decades. Voters like him. Maybe they particularly like his humanity. His authenticity. His ability to get back up when he falls. His debate stumbles don't rise to the level of evidence of dementia or senility or lack of mental acuity - at all - when examined in context of all he said at the debate itself. Certainly not when considered in the fullness of his presidential record and his daily performance. In fact, that he felt so terrible and still got up on that stage and tried to perform is a mark of his determination and character. He failed to beat back the braggadocio of Trump in that moment. The moderators failed, too. They let Trump run roughshod all over them – and they weren’t even sick. By the way, Biden called in to the Morning Joe show on Monday and answered unscripted questions quite well.