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2020-08-06 Home Front: Politix
Joe Biden Snaps at Black Reporter over Cognitive Test Question: ‘Are You a Junkie?’
[BREITBART] Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden
...Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids....
bristled at a question about whether or not he has taken a cognitive test, asking an interviewer Tuesday morning whether he would pass a drug test and stumbling over his words several times in the course of one minute.

During an event with the National Association of Black Journalists, CBS News’ Errol Barnett asked if Biden has taken a test that would assess his mental fitness, and Biden snapped, "No, I haven’t taken a test! Why the hell would I take a test? C’mon, man!"

Biden then challenged Barnett, "That’s like saying you, before you got in this program, if you take a test where you’re taking cocaine or not, what do you think? Huh? Are you a junkie?"

The presumptive presidential nominee went on to boast of his mental acuity and readiness to debate Trump — but stumbled with word order, word choice, and pronunciation multiple times in the same sentences.

"I’m so forward looking to have an opportunity to sit with the president — or stand with the president — in debates," he insisted (emphasis added).

"I am very willing to let the American people judge my physical, mental fil—my physical as well as my mental fil—fitness," he concluded.

In May, Biden caused controversy when he told Breakfast Club co-host Charlamagne tha God that "you ain’t black" if voters go for Trump.

"If you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t black," Biden said.

"It don’t have nothing to do with Trump, it has to do with the fact — I want something for my community," the radio host shot back.

Biden claiming he has not taken a cognitive test is a reversal from a statement he made in June.

"I’ve been tested and I’m constantly tested," Biden responded when he was asked by a news hound about a mental assessment.

"All you’ve got to do is watch me, and I can hardly wait to compare my cognitive capability to the cognitive capability of the man I’m running against," he said.

Former White House Physician Dr. Ronny Jackson has said President Trump "aced" a cognitive assessment in 2018.

Posted by Fred 2020-08-06 00:00|| || Front Page|| [8 views ]  Top

#1 His handlers will never let him debate unless they find a suitable AI stand-in. Joe two-point-Oh as it were. They can't take the risk. They say they will debate until sufficient early ballots are mailed and then they will back off.
Posted by Warthog 2020-08-06 10:23||   2020-08-06 10:23|| Front Page Top

#2 Even he can smell sniff the flopsweat fear
Posted by Frank G 2020-08-06 10:47||   2020-08-06 10:47|| Front Page Top

#3 Funny (sarc) how this behavior gets brushed aside by the media, but if President Trump had ever uttered such a thing....whoa, Nellie! At best, he'd labelled (for the umpteenth time) as "un-presidential". Same old story/hypocrisy.
Posted by Clem 2020-08-06 10:51||   2020-08-06 10:51|| Front Page Top

#4 Another day,another Joe-Mentum slur on blacks:
Biden: “By the way, what you all know but most people don’t know, unlike the African-American community, with notable exceptions, the Latino community is an incredibly diverse community with incredibly different attitudes about different things.”

Posted by Frank G 2020-08-06 12:56||   2020-08-06 12:56|| Front Page Top

#5 Biden has some serious problems that the MSM is ignoring or papering over (Racism and cognitive problems). I doubt that he can stand for [a] debate(s) whether they are live or virtual.
Posted by JohnQC 2020-08-06 15:05||   2020-08-06 15:05|| Front Page Top

#6 I forgot about Ukraine--another big problem.
Posted by JohnQC 2020-08-06 15:06||   2020-08-06 15:06|| Front Page Top

#7 Well, they elected him, and now they stuck with him.

p.s. Biden candidacy shows, IMO, that there is no secret cabal running democratic party.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-08-06 15:07||   2020-08-06 15:07|| Front Page Top

#8 p.s. Biden candidacy shows, IMO, that there is no secret cabal running democratic party.

Do you mean it's no secret and it's? the entire Democrat Party
Posted by JohnQC 2020-08-06 15:18||   2020-08-06 15:18|| Front Page Top

#9 A secret cabal would not be that dumb.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-08-06 15:24||   2020-08-06 15:24|| Front Page Top

#10 A secret cabal would run Joe for 2 reasons.

1. He's the most "electable" Dem they've got.
2. He's the perfect fall guy for the replacement they'll put in as VP.
Posted by AlanC 2020-08-06 15:55||   2020-08-06 15:55|| Front Page Top

#11 Unless they use a double, he has the same chance of winning as I'm getting a job as a male model.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-08-06 16:03||   2020-08-06 16:03|| Front Page Top

#12 Funny how you don't hear anything--either from the GOP or AOC (one of the few Dems to say anything)--about Biden's sexual harassment allegations. I guess that died with COVID; or, no need to bring it up since he's so pathetic anyway. Or, it was bovine egesta in the first place.
Posted by Clem 2020-08-06 16:22||   2020-08-06 16:22|| Front Page Top

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