Posted on 05/05/2019 2:52:49 PM PDT by billorites
A commenter at the wonderful blog Lawyers, Guns, and Money dug up this C-SPAN video of Joe Biden lying about his academic credentials in 1987.
He later apologized for misrepresenting his record. Here’s the New York Times report published soon after the incident.
In his statement today, Mr. Biden, who attended the Syracuse College of Law and graduated 76th in a class of 85, acknowledged: “I did not graduate in the top half of my class at law school and my recollection of this was inacurate.”
As for receiving three degrees, Mr. Biden said: “I graduated from the University of Delaware with a double major in history and political science. My reference to degrees at the Claremont event was intended to refer to these majors – I said ‘three’ and should have said ‘two.'” Mr. Biden received a single B.A. in history and political science.
”With regard to my being the outstanding student in the political science department,” the statement went on. “My name was put up for that award by David Ingersoll, who is still at the University of Delaware.”
In the Sunday interview, Mr. Biden said of his claim that he went to school on full academic scholarship: ”My recollection is – and I’d have to confirm this – but I don’t recall paying any money to go to law school.” Newsweek said Mr. Biden had gone to Syracuse ”on half scholarship based on financial need.”
In his statement today, Mr. Biden did not directly dispute this, but said he received a scholarship from the Syracuse University College of Law “based in part on academics” as well as a grant from the Higher Education Scholarship Fund of the state of Delaware. He said the law school “arranged for my first year’s room and board by placing me as an assitant resident adviser in the undergraduate school.”
As for the moot court competition, Mr. Biden said he had won such a competition, with a partner, in Kingston, Ontario, on Dec. 12, 1967.
You should read the whole thing.
There is also a very weird part of the video where Biden seems to say that Martin Luther King, Jr. and the women’s suffrage movement lacked policy ideas.
“When we got involved in the Civil Rights Movement, Frank, nobody asked Martin Luther King what his legislative agenda was. He marched to change attitudes. When the women’s movement started, it did not move with a constitutional amendment. They marched to change attitudes.”
MLK definitely did have legislative goals! And he was asked about them a lot! Gave a lot of speeches about them! And the women’s suffrage movement was responsible for two constitutional amendments.
I’m more interested in his boast that he got the Ukrainian prosecutor fired.
Only a very stupid person brags about things that are so provably false. Joe is a very, very stupid person.
Hillary’s camp is working to remove Joe, while still letting him live.
Behold the power of “stupid armor.” He will look straight into the camera and say any lie, any racist statement, any anything and knows that there will be no consequence for it. The media will just say “oh, that just Joe being Joe.”
They want Biden gone, so she can swoop in on her broomstick and be the nominee
Not a chance she runs again.
“....his misstatements were the product of a faulty memory and the fact that he lost his temper.”
Senile and angry, great traits for someone running a country.
Dumb as in graduating close to the bottom of your class is icing on the cake for the perfect Democrat presidential candidate.Forget all hat, no cattle. Joe is all hat, no brain.
Hillary’s camp is working to remove Joe, while still letting him live.
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I think you are right. Hillary is cooling her heels while the media sorts out the 21 Demacrats who think they want to be President. Joe’s initial numbers shocked her into going active, instead of waiting at the last minute to fire up her base. She is going to run again.
He also admitted to plagiarism while at the S.U. law school.
He plagiarized parts of a speech delivered by Neil Kinnock.
He may also suffer some form of social awkwardness or a form of sociopathic behavior in that he says outlandish things, hoping to manipulate people for control, advantage or social acceptance and then when caught makes an apology. It isn’t that he’s genuinely sorry, he’s just trying to change your mind. In any case he’s a scum bag.
He plagiarized parts of a speech delivered by Neil Kinnock.
“Top HALF?!” Why the hell would anyone brag about that? If you’re gonna lie, Joe, make it a good one at least!
Anyone who tells you what their GPA was more than 10 minutes after graduation needs to be beaten senseless.
Heh, heh.
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