Saturday, April 18, 2020

Joe Biden has a problem – he’s a mostly recovered stutterer


I am retired and considered by some to be “over the hill.” But I still am younger than either of our U.S. presidential candidates - Donald Trump (73) and Joe Biden (77). Both have been accused of being so old they are mentally deficient. If they had more common sense and less arrogance, then they might have decided it was time for someone younger to run the country.

We can expect to hear more in the near future about Biden’s supposed incompetence. On April 17, 2020 there was an article by Zachary Evans in the National Review titled Biden stumbles through televised interview on coronavirus response: ‘You know, there’s – during World War II, you know, where Roosevelt came up with a thing.’ On March 8, 2020 there was a Fox News video titled Giuliani tears into Biden: ‘The man has something wrong with him.’ What’s wrong with Joe? It’s simple - he stutters.

There is a long article by John Hendrickson in The Atlantic on January/February 2020 titled What Joe Biden can’t bring himself to say. Another article by Jack Brewster on March 19, 2020 in Newsweek is titled Joe Biden’s stutter explains a lot about how he speaks. I should know – I have one too.

Biden’s stutter will make him appear less competent in a debate than Donald Trump’s glib stream of lies. But as some ads once said, when the White House phone rings at 3:00 AM I would rather have Joe answer it than Donald.   

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