Biden says 40 were shot at Kent
State in 1970, when four students
were killed
Washington Examiner,
by
Carlin Becker
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
8/24/2019 2:07:58 AM
Democratic presidential front-runner Joe Biden added to his recent pile of gaffes on Friday when he claimed that over 40 students were shot during a 1970 Vietnam War protest at Kent State.The former vice president was making a point about when he first became politically aware in the 1960s and 1970s, comparing the hypothetical assassination of former President Barack Obama to the very real murders of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr."My senior semester they were both shot and killed. Imagine what would have happened if, God forbid, Barack Obama had been
Reply 1 - Posted by:
DVC 8/24/2019 2:12:57 AM (No. 160592)
Idiot Joe, usually wrong but never in doubt.
Say goodnight, Joe.
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Joe, stop it. Just.....STOP.
If you listened to any Rock & Roll radio back then, you would have had to hear Neil Young's big hit. "FOUR Dead in Ohio!" Four Joe. Not fourty!
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Paperpuncher 8/24/2019 6:41:45 AM (No. 160659)
Well, cut him a break. At least 40 starts with a 4 so he was 10% correct.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Petronius 8/24/2019 6:48:04 AM (No. 160664)
What a dingy, musty, rat infested, cobweb filled cave old Sleepy Joe's head must be.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
rsgonner 8/24/2019 7:51:14 AM (No. 160728)
Don't stop, Joe! Can only hope you will be the nominee of your morally bankrupt joke of a political party.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
udanja99 8/24/2019 8:33:36 AM (No. 160788)
I still don’t think that Biden has the timing right on MLK and RFK. He is 10 years older than I am and my senior semester of college was in 1975. So it would mean that he actually graduated in 1965, unless he took 7 years to get through 4 years of college. Which wouldn’t surprise me. But at least he got the right decade this time.
What a complete buffoon. And he is the best that the left has.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
gone2pot 8/24/2019 8:41:26 AM (No. 160797)
See why it's always a good idea to pay attention on karaoke night?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
jalo1951 8/24/2019 8:46:37 AM (No. 160808)
We all misspeak or get things wrong. Dan Quayle's potatoe, Obama's 57 states. But Joe isn't content to have a silly mishap and move on. His recollection of historical events is nonstop. He's like one of the people who participate in those "man on the street" interviews where you ask someone "Who did America fight against in the Revolutionary War" and Joe shouts out Italy. What do the dems see in him?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Strike3 8/24/2019 9:02:33 AM (No. 160834)
Many of us had similar concerns for the safety of Barack Obama.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 8/24/2019 9:15:23 AM (No. 160850)
Joe Biden must be pretty stupid and dumb. I had already been to Vietnam and returned home then started back to college after being drafted. I was 21 Joe the Buffon is six years older than me when they call him SloJoe it must be true.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
bpl40 8/24/2019 9:20:42 AM (No. 160860)
Potatoe is the correct English spelling (notwithstanding auto correct). I use it all the time. But forty is forty. And four is four.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
little guy 8/24/2019 9:22:48 AM (No. 160862)
Wait ... wha? He said: "My senior year ..." He was 25 in May of 1968. He must be assuming he was in high school or even college when in reality he was in LAW SCHOOL! But never mind these two slip ups, he talks about Obama in a distant way. In reality, HE would have been President if Obama "was assassinated"! Wishful thinking on his part or projection?
Now imagine if any Republican nonchalantly said "imagine Obama assassinated".
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Franz 8/24/2019 9:24:27 AM (No. 160864)
Kent State University was the epitome of an "Apathy U." The trouble was started by outside agitators who started demonstrations and burned down the small wooden ROTC building. They were the equivalent of Antifa today. That got the Ohio National Guard called in to restore order. A series of blunders, by both students and the Guard, culminated in 4 people being shot and killed.
The girl in the famous picture showing her wailing over the body of one of the dead, was not a student at the university. She was not even from Ohio. She was probably one of the followers of the outside agitators.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 8/24/2019 9:49:13 AM (No. 160889)
Imagine Befuddled Biden in high level talks with China or Russia, and he does one of these gaffes. On second thought, I'd rather not.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 8/24/2019 10:01:52 AM (No. 160907)
Once again - - everyone is jumping to a wrong conclusion.
Joe was including the 16 homeys who were shot in inner city Kent the night before. See ... 16 + 4 = 20.
Don't you feel really bad now?
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
saguni 8/24/2019 10:10:45 AM (No. 160925)
One of the symptoms of Alzheimer's is "remembering" or making up historical events, and being absolutely certain it actually happened to him, personally.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
padiva 8/24/2019 10:25:04 AM (No. 160945)
If I remember correctly, the girl standing over the body was a runaway from another state.
I had a conversation with a current student at Kent State. There are no classes etc on May 1st each year.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Cindiana 8/24/2019 10:41:19 AM (No. 160966)
About "potatoe". The VP was holding a flash card and that's how the word was spelled. I m sure he knew the correct spelling, but opted to move on instead of turning it into a distraction. He's been branded with this ever since. Pretty ridiculous.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Jebediah 8/24/2019 10:44:30 AM (No. 160974)
If Obama had been shot and killed, wouldn't BIDEN have become President?
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
DaBigGuy 8/24/2019 11:08:05 AM (No. 160999)
When asked for clarification, Biden said, "Yes it was 40. I remember seeing it clearly on the Zapruder film of the McKinley assassination, when Thomas Jefferson came on TV to announce that Harry Truman was now president. And it's only a rumor that a broken clock is right two more times every day than I am. It might be three. History and math are hard."
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Timber Queen 8/24/2019 12:20:06 PM (No. 161058)
When my mother was "Alzheiming" she would personalize the topic of conversation or the subject of a TV show; she helped my friend in adopting her baby, and her senior trip in high school (1938 graduate of Detroit public schools) was jet-boating the rivers of New Zealand. She constructed her memories on the fly to give herself a past.
I get the sense something like this is happening with Slow Joe. For some reason the Dims are using Biden to carry the narrative to their shrinking white working-class base. They appear to be fixating on the 60's political assassinations and student protests. My guess is they have romanticized that period as the birth of their ascendancy. They know they can't (quite yet) openly suggest Trump's assassination, but they can talk about their fallen martyrs. Joe is their only candidate that "was there, man" and he easily places himself personally in all these events. Since the "progressives" haven't taught American history in decades, they assume everyone will believe Joe's memories of the great battles. Joe is the bridge to accepting someone from the current crop of communists. He'll be "bused" when the idiot is no longer useful.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
udanja99 8/24/2019 12:59:12 PM (No. 161087)
Yes, #22! It appears that Biden is the Forrest Gump of the 2020 elections.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
RedWhite&Blue2 8/24/2019 1:45:01 PM (No. 161114)
Run joe run!
Keep revealing your stupidity.
I admit being a bonafide “STUPIDIST”
Because joe and his rat pack are so stupid!
Revealing that all the rats have is stupid!
Veterans for Trump2020
4 more years, Joe!
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
snakeoil 8/24/2019 2:15:43 PM (No. 161139)
To quote the most corrupt woman in American history: "What difference does it make"? Many of the group SloJo is trying to reach don't even know what he is saying is fractured history. Others don't care. Their Holy Grail is to defeat Le Grande Orange. The most common answer given by high school students to "What country attacked the American fleet anchored at Pearl Harbor on Dec 7,1941" was Vietnam. Getting old is not fun. But sometimes it is amusing. A friend of mine's mother used to call him and tell him that her neighbors were naked sitting on the roofs of their houses in their lawn furniture and staring at her with binoculars. This is why I never look out the window.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
DVC 8/24/2019 2:42:20 PM (No. 161154)
If Joe hadn't spent a career as an absolute snake, a corrupt, thieving, back stabbing, speech stealing, SOB it MIGHT be possible to feel sorry for him.
After the way he has lived....Nah, not a chance I will feel sorry for this old b*****d, just glad that he will soon be too befuddled to do anything, and will be GONE from the public sphere.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
Strike3 8/24/2019 2:49:07 PM (No. 161161)
Joe conveniently forgot that it was one of the guvmint's FBI informants who fired the first shot and caused the National Guard to return fire. Forgot or didn't mention for obvious reasons?
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
columba 8/24/2019 3:33:38 PM (No. 161201)
Unarmed undergraduate college stunts ought not to think they can stare down a company of guardsmen armed with M-16s.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
Rivetjoint 8/24/2019 4:43:19 PM (No. 161244)
People tend to forget one of Biden's more goofy gaffe's from back in 2008 when he declared to Katie Couric: "When the stock market crashed, Franklin D. Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about, you know, the princes of greed." The crash was in 1929 but FDR didn't become president until 1933, and there weren't and television wasn't even introduced to the public until 1939. Of course this was all summarily dismissed as simply Good Old Joe being himself.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 8/24/2019 5:59:22 PM (No. 161297)
Does handsy Joe know how many died at the Branch Davidian Compound in Waco, courtesy of Bill Clinton and Janet Reno?
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
Omen55 8/24/2019 6:49:40 PM (No. 161314)
Joe is the one!
He will lead dem to victory.
Trust US;)
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