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How many more blunders can we expect during the new candidacy of Joe Biden?

2023-04-27 07:42:00, Blog Nikki Schwab
How many more blunders can we expect during the new candidacy of Joe Biden?
President Joe Biden

President Joe Biden's brand is popular at best. And at worst, it's chilling and chilling, because his decades in politics have been marked by a series of sensational gaffes.

From calling to the podium a congresswoman who had been dead for months, to suggesting he suffers from cancer, DailyMail.com has recorded some of Biden's most embarrassing moments from his previous presidential races and time spent in the White House. This issue is of considerable importance now that he has officially announced his intention for a second term in the 2024 elections. 

In the past, even some of his staunchest allies have expressed reservations and raised questions about whether his penchant for gaffes could affect his political future. Former President Barack Obama reportedly told a Democrat during Biden's 2020 presidential run.

"Don't underestimate Joe's ability to screw things up," Obama told him. Nera Tanden, who now works in the Biden-led White House, said something similar when Biden was considering running in the 2016 party primaries against Hillary Clinton.

"The good thing about Biden running is that he would make Hillary look a lot better," Tanden told John Podesta, another Clinton adviser turned Biden supporter, in a hacked email that it was shared by Wikileaks.

Biden was first elected as a senator in the US Senate at the age of 29. He first ran for president at the age of 44 in 1987. If elected at that time, he would become the second youngest person after John F. Kennedy.

But just three months later, his campaign failed due to a plagiarism scandal. Biden copied the speeches of the leader of the British Labor Party, Neil Kinnock, on 2 occasions. This gaffe cost him his first chance at the White House in the 1988 election. 

He would not run again until 2 decades later. Biden ran for the White House a second time in 2008. He opened that race with a compliment about the man he would nominate as his successor. "You have an outstanding African-American first person who is articulate and smart and clean and a nice-looking guy," Biden declared as he filed his paperwork to launch his second presidential campaign on January 31. 2007.

His statement was interpreted as racist. He later apologized and said the statement was taken out of context. But Biden found himself in an even more embarrassing situation when, on the eve of announcing his candidacy in July 2006, he said: "You can't go to a 7-Eleven (supermarket chain in the US) if you don't have a slight Indian accent." .

And when Biden was running for the White House in 2020, he was criticized by Senator Cori Booker for some segregationist statements. But Biden refused to apologize. "I apologize for what. It is Kori who should apologize. I have no racist ideas. On the contrary, I have been involved in civil rights throughout my career" - answered Biden.

Pasi dështoi në fushatën e tij për të shkuar në Shtëpinë e Bardhë në vitin 2008, Bajdenit iu dha një mundësi tjetër për një promovim politik. Në gushtin e vitit 2008, kandidati demokrat Obama njoftoi vendimin e tij për ta pasur Bajden, në atë kohë 65 vjeç, si zv/president nëse do të fitonte zgjedhjet.

Disa javë më vonë, “New York Times” botoi një profil të imtësisht të Bajden, duke vënë në dukje se ndërsa senatori i atëhershëm ishte “një njeri me përvojë, serioz dhe i zgjuar”, megjithatë ai është i prirur “të thotë gjëra interesante”. Më vonë autori i artikullit e përshkroi Bajdenin si një njëri që i dreqos gjërat herë pas herë.

Ndër gafat më të tmerrshme: kur i kërkoi të ngrihej në këmbë senatorit paraplegjik të shtetit të Misurit, Çak Graham. “Çak, ngrihu, le të të shohin njerëzit”- tha në atë kohë kandidati për zëvendëspresident. Por pak çaste më vonë e kuptoi që tashmë i ndjeri Graham përdorte një karrige me rrota.

“Oh Zoti im. Për çfarë po flas?”- shtoi më pas Bajden. Por presidenti aktual bëri një gabim po aq të sikletshëm në shtatorin e vitit të kaluar, kur thirri “Ku është Xheki?” gjatë Konferencës së Shtëpisë së Bardhë mbi Urinë, Ushqyerjen dhe Shëndetin. Ai iu referua kongresmenes Xheki Ualorski, e cila kishte humbur jetën në një aksident automobilistik vetëm një muaj më parë.

White House press secretary Karin Jean-Pierre tried to explain away the error by saying that Biden "was appreciating her incredible work" and that she was "at the top of his mind," instead of saying that the president forgot her death.

When Obama and Biden entered the White House in early 2009, health care reform was a top priority. Democrats accomplished it with the passage of the Affordable Care Act. The most memorable moment was again a blunder by the then vice president of the USA./ Adapted from CNA.al





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