Cleveland City Club Speech, 1973

Let’s talk about Joe Biden’s speech. Yes it was a long time ago. Normally it would not be an issue. We are to believe that the President wasn’t a racist, or a sexist, etc, until recently (historical evidence that he never was ignored by liberals). We find that in this speech, Sen. Biden makes a lot of racist and sexist statements. He also is quoted as saying that he is a fake Liberal.

Democrats can’t have it both ways. If Joe Biden used to be all that but has seen the light and mended his ways since becoming the new Senator from Delaware 47 years ago, why is Trump the opposite? If anything the President has shown a consistent support for minorities and women since he was a young man. He has even improved his level of commitment to those ideals.

Other Biden Seventies Statements

Joe continued his path of paying lip-service to progressive ideals but voting the opposite. Like on the segregation of schools and busing, he said all the right things to support the party views, but realized they would alienate a lot of voters. He voted against it. His political tactics were described by one recent article as “clever but disingenuous”.



Biden is not a good public speaker. He has a long and colorful history of gaffes and bad optics. One of his big problems is, as put by many, “Biden being Biden”. Irregardless of his personal needs of the moment, which are to be touchy-feelie to women and girls (and even some men ), he has to straighten up and act like a Presidential candidate. It’s embarrasing and creepy. I don’t envy the tasks of his handlers.

2007 and Beyond: Still Making Racist Statements

This time the subject was test scores of the students in Iowa being above average. Joe proceeded to put both feet in his mouth by talking about the difference in demographics between Iowa and DC. Recently, as he was announcing his bid for the 2020 campaign, he couldn’t dodge controversy. President Obama did not endorse him and his previous comment about him was brought up:

“I mean you’ve got the first sort of mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and nice looking guy, I mean that’s a storybook man.” Biden said this back in 2007.

As a future candidate, Joe Biden brings more baggage than a tour bus. Despite hopeful-sounding but suspect polls from CNN, it makes for an easy reelection for the President barring some Biden-level gaffes and scandals. Given the indicators from AG Barr and others on current investigations, that is unlikely.