Posted on 05/05/2019 11:36:12 AM PDT by billorites
Joe Biden flubbed the name of British Prime Minister Theresa May at a fundraiser Saturday night, calling her by former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's name.
Thatcher left office in 1990 and died in 2013. The mistake by Biden, 76, comes amid worries about his age after he slurred his words during his campaign announcement speech. Aides have shielded him from reporters. He leads early primary polls by a wide margin but the Democratic Party establishment has yet to swing behind him.
“Margaret Thatcher, um, excuse me, Margaret Thatcher — Freudian slip,” Biden said to laughter, according to a campaign pool report. “But I knew her too.” He then corrected himself by saying: “The Prime Minister of Great Britain Theresa May.” AD 00:11 / 00:29 Editorial Director Hugo Gurdon on the expanded Washington Examiner magazine Watch Full Screen to Skip Ads
Thatcher, who led the Conservative Party and was the first female British prime minister, served as prime minister during the 1988 U.S. election campaign. Biden made his first White House run then, but dropped out in late 1987 after backlash for plagiarizing a speech by Neil Kinnock, the U.K. Labour Party leader and a fierce critic of Thatcher.
Biden was speaking Saturday to about three dozen supporters at a $1,000-to-$2,800-per-person fundraiser in Columbia, S.C.
He used Thatcher’s name when telling the donors he had heard from 14 heads of state from around the world who’ve voiced concerns to him about President Trump. That list included Thatcher, he said, before correcting the “Freudian slip," saying he was referring to May. The U.K. head of state is Queen Elizabeth II, not the prime minister.
Biden was asked to assign a nickname to Trump and responded: “There are so many nicknames that I’m inclined to give this guy. We could just start with clown. When he says these ridiculous things he says, I mean this, I put my hand up and say, ‘Everybody knows who you are,’ because they do know.”
The former vice president said he wanted to run his campaign on a higher level. “The only place he [Trump] has any confidence is in the mud. The only thing he doesn’t know how to respond to is issues and specifics.”
At another point, Biden referred to Trump as a “no good SOB.”
Coincidentally, Thatcher became British prime minister exactly 40 years to the day before Biden was speaking. She entered Parliament in 1959 and was chosen as Conservative leader in 1975. She was first elected to Downing Street on May 4, 1979, and won reelection in 1983 and 1987 before being ousted by her own party after 11 years in office.
Biden’s citing of 14 foreign leaders who had supposedly expressed concerns about Trump is likely to be intensely scrutinized. Foreign leaders traditionally stay out of U.S. domestic politics.
He was vice president for two and a half months after Trump was elected in November 2016, and it is most likely that it was during this period — before Trump has been inaugurated — that he would have been speaking to foreign leaders. Any expressions of discomfort over Trump’s win would probably have been intended to have been private and prompt dismay that they have been used by him in an election campaign.
Biden told a South Carolina TV station it was fair to ask about his age. "All I say is watch me. Determine whether I have the energy or not to do it," he said. "But I have significant experience. I have learned a great deal. I have learned from the past.”
He needs to give that plate in his head a good whack
Brain dart Joek.
Fart.
If there were children about, that’s what distracted him.
Couldn’t cop any feels eh? Forking pedophile!
He’s remembering the PM when he plagarized a British politician.
I sense that his candidacy is not going to age well.
Even as his cognitive functions fade and fail, he can still distinguish them by the smell of their hair.
Memory associated with smell is one of the last to go, and one of Creepy Joe’s favorites.
Someone should show these Biden tidbits to Howie Kurtz on FNC. Evidently Howie thinks Biden is the man. Hello, Howie....Joe Biden is not the man and never will be...he is both buffoon & moron...100%!!!
And...Howie...you ain’t the sharpest knife in the drawer either...you should eating KFC chicken for all your viewers to see, during your air time on FNC.
I have a close friend with Alzheimer’s Disease. This is how it starts.
At least he didn’t say Queen Victoria.
Oh, the glory daze.
It got confusing when he asked “Why am I the first Kinnock?”
Creepy AND senile? Yum.
1990 was about the time Biden’s mind left him.
What could go wrong?
I bet he could tell them apart by the smell of their hair
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