Inappropriate much?
"I'm told Chuck Graham is here. Stand up, Chuck, let 'em see you." (content.time.com) (Graham is a paraplegic.)
"[Busing is] a rejection of the entire black-awareness concept, where black is beautiful, black culture should be studied; and the cultural awareness of the importance of their own identity, their own individuality." (washingtonexaminer.com)
"You got the first mainstream African American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that’s a storybook." (nbcnews.com) (Kamala Harris must therefore be "the first mainstream African American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking" gal!)
"The wrong people end up collecting the women." (slate.com) (He was trying to say, "The wrong people ended up collecting the financial winnings.")
"This is a big f—king deal." (huffpost.com) (Caught on an open mic telling Barack Obama, in a national broadcast, what a big political win his so-called "Affordable Care Act" was.)
"I am a gaffe machine" (newsweek.com)
"I value my word above all else." (nytimes.com)
"And so we have to just change the culture. Period. And keep punching at it and punching at it and punching at it." (usatoday.com) (Biden on "punching at" violence against women.)
"Anybody who can throw coal into a furnace can learn how to program for God’s sake." (newsweek.com) (Biden, on his agenda to eliminate coal-mining jobs.)
"Unlike the African American community, with notable exceptions, the Latino community is an incredibly diverse community." (usatoday.com)
"You’re a lying dog-faced pony soldier." (nypost.com) (Said to a young woman.)
"We choose truth over facts!" (latimes.com)
"If I had intended to cheat, would I have been so stupid? … I value my word above all else." (nytimes.com) (After it was confirmed Biden plagiarized a law school paper. That was before he plagiarized Bobby Kennedy and Neil Kinnock and others on the campaign trail.)
"It's easy being vice president — you don't have to do anything." (foxnews.com)
"I made it absolutely clear that I would go forward with the confirmation process as chairman even a few months before a presidential election." (nbcnews.com) (In regard to his objection to the prospect of a third Trump SCOTUS nomination, Biden’s 2016 comment on an Obama nomination has come back to bite him.)
"Like every other person who’s come here, they have to pass, they have to learn how to speak English." (newsweek.com) (Declaring his "path to citizenship" requires speaking English.)
"I have a record of over 40 years, and I am going to beat Joe Biden." (freebeacon.com)
Fast and loose
"I've had a great record, I haven't been involved in plagiarism."
"I got started out at … Delaware State. Now, I don't want to hear anything negative about Delaware State here. They’re my folks." (nypost.com) (Biden did not attend Delaware State.)
"He said, 'Sir, I don't want the damn thing! Do not pin it on me, sir! Please, sir. Do not do that!' He died. He died!" (Repeatedly lying about a war story, which was eventually exposed by The Washington Post. (washingtonpost.com))
"Those kids in Parkland came up to see me when I was vice president." (washingtonexaminer.com) (He was not vice president at the time of the Parkland shooting.)
"There are at least three." (startpage.com) (When asked how many genders there are.)
"It would put 720 million women back in the workforce." (startpage.com)
"Lobbyists aren't bad people. Special interest groups aren't bad people. The people who accept money from them aren't bad people." (startpage.com)
"Clap for that, you stupid bastards! Come on, man. Man, you are a dull bunch. Must be slow here, man." (startpage.com) (Then VP Biden in 2016, when a room full of service men and women did not respond with enthusiasm.)
"We have this notion that if you're poor, you cannot do it. Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids." (startpage.com)
"Well I tell you what, if you have a problem figuring out whether you're for me or Trump, then you ain't black." (startpage.com)
Huh?
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, all men and women created by — g'oh — you know — you know the thing."
"I carry with me — I don’t have it. I gave it, I gave it to my staff. I carry it with me in my pocket a — do I have that around anyone? Where’s my staff? I gave it away anyway."
"It happens to be, as Barack says, a three-letter word: J-O-B-S, jobs.”
"My name is Joe Biden. I’m a Democratic candidate for the United States Senate."
"If you change the tax rate it went from 38% to 21. If you just send it back to 20 uh — 38%, um, if you — 36% to 28, that’s what we started trying to do."
"If Donald Trump has his way, the complications from COVID-19, which are well beyond what they should be, it's estimated that 200 million people have died probably by the time I finish this talk."
"He promised his administration would enforce every last buy in American provision on behalf of the American people and what makes his wild claims and hopes, he now hopes we don’t notice what he said or won’t remember and when he does follow through or doesn't do when follow through, the exact opposite."
"Play the radio, make sure the television — excuse me, make sure you have the record player on at night. … Make sure that kids hear words." (Advice to parents on how to keep kids’ minds sharp during the pandemic.)
"Everybody’s been woked. Well guess what? The rest of the working-class people in America have been awakened."
"I guess, are you calling on people or how am I — I don’t have a list so you go ahead and call."
"Go to Joe 30330 and help me in this fight." (Biden’s opponent, South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, quickly booked the site "Joe30330.com" and pointed that domain to his own support page. Maybe next time, text, don't "go.")
"'Cause if you could take care, if you were a quartermaster, you can sure in hell take care runnin' a, you know, a department store, uh, thing, you know, where, in the second floor of the ladies' department or whatever, you know what I mean?"
"I pledge allegiance to the United States of America, one nation, indivisible, under God, for real."
"I have more people supporting me in the black community … the only Blafrican American woman that ever been elected to the United States Senate, a whole range of people."
"No, I haven't taken a test. Why the hell would I take a test? Come on, man. That's like saying to you, before you got on this program if you had taken a test were you taking cocaine or not. What do you think, huh? Are you a junkie?"
"I want to be clear, I'm not going nuts."
"I mean, this idea of you know, Slow Joe … I — anyway I, I shouldn't about it because uh anyway…"
"I am, uh, I am very willing to let the American public judge my physical mental fill — my physical as well as my mental fu fitness."
Cinema
Biden Gaffes, Take 1 (youtube.com)
Biden Gaffes, Take 2 (youtube.com)
Biden Hugs Hillary (youtube.com)
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