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CNN points out a few Biden lies.....Times are changing Black Veggie......
10 Jul 2024 9:30 am
Biden's speech made reference to himself and his wife Jill, and included the lines:
I started thinking as I was coming over here, why is it that Joe Biden is the first in his family ever to go to a university? [Pointing to his wife in the audience:] Why is it that my wife who is sitting out there in the audience is the first in her family to ever go to college? Is it because our fathers and mothers were not bright? Is it because I'm the first Biden in a thousand generations to get a college and a graduate degree that I was smarter than the rest?[25]
Biden went on to duplicate other parts of Kinnock's speech, such as their forebears' ability to read and write poetry, their strength in working for hours underground in a mine only to come up and play football afterward, and their being limited by lack of a "platform" upon which to stand.[25]
Biden had in fact cited Kinnock as the source for the formulation on previous occasions.[26][27] However, he made no reference to the original source at the August 23 Democratic debate at the Iowa State Fair being reported on,[28] nor in an August 26 interview for the National Education Association.[27] Moreover, while political speeches often appropriate ideas and language from each other, Biden's use came under more scrutiny because he fabricated aspects of his own family's background in order to match Kinnock's.[19][29]
I started thinking as I was coming over here, why is it that Joe Biden is the first in his family ever to go to a university? [Pointing to his wife in the audience:] Why is it that my wife who is sitting out there in the audience is the first in her family to ever go to college? Is it because our fathers and mothers were not bright? Is it because I'm the first Biden in a thousand generations to get a college and a graduate degree that I was smarter than the rest?[25]
Biden went on to duplicate other parts of Kinnock's speech, such as their forebears' ability to read and write poetry, their strength in working for hours underground in a mine only to come up and play football afterward, and their being limited by lack of a "platform" upon which to stand.[25]
Biden had in fact cited Kinnock as the source for the formulation on previous occasions.[26][27] However, he made no reference to the original source at the August 23 Democratic debate at the Iowa State Fair being reported on,[28] nor in an August 26 interview for the National Education Association.[27] Moreover, while political speeches often appropriate ideas and language from each other, Biden's use came under more scrutiny because he fabricated aspects of his own family's background in order to match Kinnock's.[19][29]