WAR HAWK AND PROFESSIONAL LIAR JOE BIDEN HAS TAKEN TO DECLARING THAT HE WAS ARRESTED IN SOUTH AFRICA BECAUSE, IN 1977, HE WAS TRYING TO VISIT NELSON MANDELA.
"NO, I WAS ARRESTED IN JUNE OF 1972, YEAH, AT THE RING AROUND THE CAPITOL. ME AND JOAN BAEZ WERE SINGING 'WE SHALL OVERCOME' WHEN THE PIGS CAME IN WITH BILLY CLUBS. YEAH, PLENTY OF TIMES. I WAS ARRESED IN OCTOBER OF 1954 IN MONTGOMERY. NOT FOR THE BUS BOYCOTT, YOU UNDERSTAND, BUT PROTESTING THE ALABAMA CRIMSON TIDE'S VICTORY OVER MISSISSIPPI STATE. AND WAY BACK IN 1899, I WAS ARRESTED PROTESTING THE SAM HOSE LYNCHING IN GEORGIA," JOE EXPLAINED.
WHEN THESE REPORTERS POINTED OUT TO JOE THAT 1899 WAS YEARS BEFORE HE WAS BORN, JOE EXPLAINED, "I'M A VERY OLD SOUL."
AS WE CONTINUED TO STARE AT HIM, HE EXCLAIMED, "HEY, DON'T BUST MY NUTS. JUST PRINT WHAT I SAY."
FROM THE TCI WIRE:
Over the weekend, the front runner for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination, Bernie Sanders, won another caucus -- Nevada. Jake Johnson (COMMON DREAMS) reports:
In an appearance on MSNBC Sunday morning just hours after Sen. Bernie Sanders' decisive victory in the Nevada Democratic presidential caucus, author and political commentator Anand Giridharadas said the senator's win could represent the dawn of "a new era in American life" and called out establishment forces—including MSNBC—for reacting like "out-of-touch aristocrats in a dying aristocracy."
"Last night was a historic win that I think a lot of us are still struggling to understand," said Giridharadas. "Something is happening in America right now that actually does not fit our mental models. It certainly doesn't fit the mental models of a lot of people on TV."
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Nevada entrance polls: @BernieSanders won “men & women, whites & Latinos, voters 17-29, 30-44 and 45-65, those w & w/o college degrees, liberal Dems (by a lot) & moderate/conservatives (narrowly), union & non-union households.”
The idea that Bernie only speaks to a few is dead.
Bernie took 47% of the votes in Nevada. The distant second was Joe Biden who took 21% of the votes. It's not going well for Joe. Igor Bobic (HUFFINGTON POST) observes:
It’s come to this: Former Vice President Joe Biden badly needs a primary victory to keep alive his chances of winning the Democratic nomination, and his firewall state of South Carolina is finally heading to the polls later this week.
But in a place where he once looked unassailable (with support as high as 46% at one point), Biden is suddenly facing a competitive fight as other candidates in the race continue to make inroads with Black voters, his core constituency.
A disappointing finish here would be devastating to his campaign and his path forward, especially after repeated assurances from his staff that he was positioned to do best in more diverse communities like those in the Palmetto State.
“It’s not looking great. He has the opposite of momentum,” South Carolina Democratic strategist Tyler Jones told HuffPost. “He’s gotta win South Carolina convincingly to stay in the race. Expectations are also very high for him, which they set for themselves. It’s win or go home for him.”
At THE ATLANTIC, Ibram X. Kendi takes on the myth that moderates win. Lies are all that prop up Joe Biden's campaign. Becket Adams (WASHINGTON EXAMINER) notes one lie that should be front and center at the next debate:
Former Vice President Joe Biden’s penchant for misstating the facts is so severe his opponents often question his mental acuity.
But they may want to consider the possibility that he is merely dishonest.
Biden told an audience at a recent campaign event in South Carolina that he was arrested decades ago in South Africa for attempting to meet with then-imprisoned Nelson Mandela.
“This day, 30 years ago, Nelson Mandela walked out of prison and entered into discussions about apartheid,” the former vice president said. “I had the great honor of meeting him. I had the great honor of being arrested with our U.N. ambassador on the streets of Soweto, trying to get to see him on Robbens Island.”
Biden has told this story at least three times this month, including a version that pegs the year of his alleged arrest at around the time he proposed to his wife in 1977.
There is only one problem with the former vice president’s story: No one seems to have any idea what he is talking about, least of all the aforementioned U.N. ambassador, Andrew Young, who told the New York Times, “I was never arrested and I don’t think he was, either.”
The Times scoured for evidence of the supposed Soweto incident. It came up empty-handed, which is astonishing considering Biden was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1973, four years prior to his alleged arrest in South Africa. It should not be difficult to find evidence of a member of the U.S. Congress being forcibly detained in a foreign country during an overseas trip in the late 1970s. Also, there is the fact that Soweto is roughly 900 miles away from Robbens Island.
The Biden campaign declined to respond to five separate requests for comment from the Times, which obviously does not bode well for the credibility of the anecdote.
It never happened. Never. He's a liar. He's a liar who will say anything. He is not to be trusted. He is a War Hawk and, as he flounders, the other War Hawks rush forward to protect him. Tyler MacDonald (INQUISITR) reports:
After Bernie Sanders‘ victory in Nevada, conservative commentator Bill Kristol called on former President Barack Obama to hit the campaign trail in South Carolina for his former Vice President, Joe Biden, and help him take down the Vermont Senator.
Bill Kristol is a raging idiot who should be barred from public discourse due to the blood on his hands. We should also grasp that any candidate who can't win a state without Barack stepping in to campaign for them isn't someone we need on the ticket.
In other news, Joe Biden has claimed that Russian bots are attacking him on Facebook. Then it was pointed out to Joe that he was holding an Etch-a-Sketch.
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