If a boring story was disqualification to be president, I dare say we wouldn’t have presidents. This seems like he’s running out the clock without saying anything politically relevant.
That said, the dog face pony vid was him being jokey. I hadn’t watched it. I really had thought he’d been losing it. It’s more like he doesn’t know his audience, he’s bad at comedy and he’s trying too hard.
I won’t be voting for him because he’s a copyright pollyanna and supports shitty IP laws, among other things.
I feel like I stepped back into 1948 reading that.
Its funny though, how out of touch Biden is for an old white guy, I want the other old white guy (Bernie) to win- and he’s amazingly fresh despite his age with people even younger than me (and I’m one of the first milennials at 36)
It wasn’t just a “boring story”; it was a tale about Biden fighting a black guy/gang with a chain vs. “rusty razors” . So-o-o-o, would you say this boring story is appropriate for a group of kids? Furthermore, told as a candidate whom is courting the minority vote as we speak?
Why not? It was probably a lot easier to research than many names at the time, I’d guess; from the obituary he was pretty well-known. The newspaper archives from that era are also beautifully complete, compared to current offerings. You might go a bit cross-eyed from staring at a fiche reader for a few hours, mind you, or even days if things go badly xD!
In other words, since I didn’t make it properly clear, I’d enjoy researching something like this. I’m also pretty good at it, so that’s a factor, of course.
I’d bet that the “dog-faced pony soldier” line is the result of Biden’s old man brain conflating the memory of the “Pony Soldier” movie cited in that Guardian article you linked and the 1949 John Wayne movie “She Wore a Yellow Ribbon,” which does have the line “So here they are: the dog-faced soldiers, the regulars, the fifty-cents-a-day professionals…” as well as a character named “Chief Pony That Walks.”
