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2020-02-11 Home Front: Politix
College student slams Joe Biden after he calls her 'lying, dog-faced pony soldier'
[WASHINGTONTIMES] The 21-year-old college student who was jokingly called a "lying, dog-faced pony soldier" by Democratic presidential candidate Joseph R. Biden in New Hampshire on Sunday said after the now-viral moment that she doesn’t believe the former vice president has what it takes to win.

Madison Moore asked Mr. Biden during a campaign event in Hampton how he expected to gain momentum following an embarrassing 4th-place finish in the Iowa caucuses.

"How do you explain the performance in Iowa, and why should voters believe that you can win the national election?" Ms. Moore asked.

Mr. Biden said it was legitimate question but then fired back, "Iowa’s a caucus. Have you ever been to a caucus?"

Ms. Moore nodded yes, to which Mr. Biden responded, "No, you haven’t. You’re a lying dog-faced pony soldier."

The Biden campaign later said that the former vice president had used the phrase in the past. It’s apparently an allusion to a line in a John Wayne movie.

Ms. Moore gave a statement to The Washington Post saying her question was "fair" and that Mr. Biden blew it.

"I asked Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden
...Failed seeker of the Democratic presidential nomination on multiple occasions, vice president under Barack Obama, giving it a last try in his dotage for 2020...
 a fair question. His immediate response was to question whether I had ever attended a caucus. In my nervousness in the presence of the former Vice President, I nodded yes," she said.

She said that while she never really did attend a caucus, that fact is irrelevant.

"Joe Biden has been performing incredibly poorly in this race," she said. "His inability to answer a simple question from a nobody college student like me only exacerbates that reality."

Ms. Moore also spoke with Fox News after the event, saying Mr. Biden is a bit of a downer who doesn’t focus on solutions.

"A lot of what he’s saying seems to be really pathos-based and very sad," she said. "We’ve heard a lot about deaths and cancer and people losing their jobs. And to me, he doesn’t really seem very solution-oriented. I don’t think he has the momentum to carry this to a national election."
Posted by Fred 2020-02-11 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11127 views ]  Top

#1 Oh go the fook away, already
Posted by Lex 2020-02-11 00:42||   2020-02-11 00:42|| Front Page Top

#2 I wonder what'd happened if a male student in the same institution called her thus?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-02-11 03:13||   2020-02-11 03:13|| Front Page Top

#3 Sorry I don't get the idea.
Posted by European Conservative 2020-02-11 04:13||   2020-02-11 04:13|| Front Page Top

#4 Last Quinnipiac poll looks brutal. Enter Sandman Bloomberg.
Posted by European Conservative 2020-02-11 04:28||   2020-02-11 04:28|| Front Page Top

#5 Like #1 said....geeezus, these people just don't know when to hang it up. But, if it came down to Creepy Joe and Kamala (smoke 'em if you got 'em) Harris or Amy What's-her-face, well....
Posted by Clem 2020-02-11 04:44||   2020-02-11 04:44|| Front Page Top

#6 Psychological projection is a defence mechanism in which the human ego defends itself against unconscious impulses or qualities by denying their existence in themselves while attributing them to others. For example, a bully may project their own feelings of vulnerability onto the target. Wikipedia
Posted by Besoeker 2020-02-11 04:49||   2020-02-11 04:49|| Front Page Top

#7  In my nervousness in the presence of the former Vice President, I nodded yes," she said.

Maybe if you kiddies stopped looking at creatures like Joe as some kind of super-being you could focus and vote your interests instead of voting twitter memes.
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-02-11 08:53||   2020-02-11 08:53|| Front Page Top

#8 I happen to like John Wayne but I can't find that line in any of his movies.
Posted by European Conservative 2020-02-11 08:58||   2020-02-11 08:58|| Front Page Top

#9 Any bets Joe drops out soon?
Posted by DarthVader 2020-02-11 09:10||   2020-02-11 09:10|| Front Page Top

#10 This week or next, 'medically related.'
Posted by Besoeker 2020-02-11 09:35||   2020-02-11 09:35|| Front Page Top

#11 I thought the line was from "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon"
Posted by Warthog 2020-02-11 09:56||   2020-02-11 09:56|| Front Page Top

#12 #8, #11 The Duke never, not in a million years, would say something like this to a woman.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-02-11 10:29||   2020-02-11 10:29|| Front Page Top

#13 Its either very fine juche, or what happens when people say 2 or 3 lines at once all garbled together.

The paradigm of each are difficult to distinguish.
Posted by swksvolFF 2020-02-11 10:40||   2020-02-11 10:40|| Front Page Top

#14 It's a word salad, hoping to trick Amy Klobuchar into breaking out a comb
Posted by Frank G 2020-02-11 11:03||   2020-02-11 11:03|| Front Page Top

#15 ^ Snark O'The Day to Frank! Nice!
Posted by Lex 2020-02-11 11:16||   2020-02-11 11:16|| Front Page Top

#16 *winning slot machine noises*
Posted by swksvolFF 2020-02-11 11:40||   2020-02-11 11:40|| Front Page Top

#17 It is a civil war term by the South about Yankee soldiers. Not sure of any John Wayne movie quote.
Posted by 49 Pan 2020-02-11 14:05||   2020-02-11 14:05|| Front Page Top

#18 Mark Steyn identified it as being in a 1952 Tyrone Powers movie 'Pony Soldier'
Tyrone Powers played a Mountie Cop in Canada
Biden couldn't even get that right.
I agree with #12 John Wayne would ever say a line like that
Posted by Jan 2020-02-11 14:30||   2020-02-11 14:30|| Front Page Top

#19 Biden poached it from Neil Kinnock
buh-da-dum-KSSH!
Posted by Lex 2020-02-11 14:53||   2020-02-11 14:53|| Front Page Top

#20 Biden's campaign is like Weekend At Bernies with so many people trying to drag his carcass over the finishing line.

Bloomberg's campaign more or less ended today with the release of those audio tapes.

It will be interesting to see how this plays out.
Posted by rjschwarz 2020-02-11 15:20||   2020-02-11 15:20|| Front Page Top

#21 If Mini gets away with this and wins the Dem nomination, then the DNC fix is truly in.

Can't see how this man can gain more than a single digit % of Democratic primary votes.
Posted by Lex 2020-02-11 15:27||   2020-02-11 15:27|| Front Page Top

#22 Civil War term?

He ride for J.E.B. Stuart?
Posted by swksvolFF 2020-02-11 18:12||   2020-02-11 18:12|| Front Page Top

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