Washington Post’s Gist of the advertisement:
The 90-second spot does not mention his son’s death, only alludes to it, but it traces the arc of Biden’s 43-year career in Washington, beginning with the December 1972 car crash that left his first wife and daughter dead and his two sons in a hospital trying to rehabilitate.
“By focusing on my sons, I found my redemption,” the vice president says in the ad, using his own words to tell the story.
It comes from the “Yale Day” speech Biden delivered the day before the Ivy League school’s commencement, as he knew his son’s fight with cancer was unlikely to succeed. Beau Biden died two weeks after that speech.
The 90-second spot does not mention his son’s death, only alludes to it, but it traces the arc of Biden’s 43-year career in Washington, beginning with the December 1972 car crash that left his first wife and daughter dead and his two sons in a hospital trying to rehabilitate.
“By focusing on my sons, I found my redemption,” the vice president says in the ad, using his own words to tell the story.
It comes from the “Yale Day” speech Biden delivered the day before the Ivy League school’s commencement, as he knew his son’s fight with cancer was unlikely to succeed. Beau Biden died two weeks after that speech.
VOTE BIDEN FOR PRESIDENT
He’s suffered enough -
Now it’s our turn.
I can already hear the Violins playing, and I haven’t seen the ad yet. There will be a Cello dirge in the background, maybe the bloated moan of a Tuba.
Pimping your dead wife and children. Lovely, just lovely.
I could never feel right about using a personal loss to advance myself. Even in college when I had a major loss I didn’t use it to get a grade changed for missing much of the work. I just could not do it. The professor never knew.
The legend of Beau Biden laying on his death bed urging his father to run for president reminds me of Knute Rockne describing George Gipp death bed scene and urging his team to go out there and win one for the Gipper (not RR). Rockne later admitted that he made the whole thing up.
It is a shame that any young person dies of brain cancer, but most brain cancer victims close to death cannot speak or recognize people. I think Biden is full of you know what.
Joe’s wife was a SHITTY driver and killed herself and their newborn. Joe continues to blame the helpless truck driver who had to live with Mrs. Biden’s mistake. Even claimed that the driver “drank his lunch” during the 2008 campaign, even though that was proven FALSE.
And what about Joe’s other son. The one who got a deferrment to get into the Navy Reserves and then was DD’d for being a cokehead? How’d he swing a deferrment that is literally IMPOSSIBLE in today’s climate?
Biden can go run for governor of Delaware then.
The world is in too much trouble to vote for a guy because he has dead family members.
Earth to Biden: WE ALL HAVE DEAD FAMILY MEMBERS!
Selling ads on the deaths of relatives is low even by Democrat standards.
Did Obamacare kill his son or was did he refuse it?
Watch Video? No thanks -- not feeling quite that masochistic today...
Oh, yeah. I’m gonna vote for an idiot as President of the United States, just because something bad happened to him.
Not in this lifetime!
When the argument for him is “bad things keep happening all around me” do we really want to be around him? Or should we instead vote for candidate “Lucky.”
You know a candidate has nothing to offer if all he has is running on a dead son.
More parading the corpse for support and political profit. He’s lied about his wife’s death over and over again and like all good democrats he lies about this as well.
“Vote for me, I’m sad and pathetic.” won’t work very well anymore except among brainless democrats (and RINOs in the house and senate).
Joey Biden, pudding and pie,
Kissed the girls and made them cry.
When the bikers looked his way,
Joey Biden ran away.