Johnny Carson comments on Joe Biden regarding this day in history 33 years ago (Sept 23, 1987)

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On Sept. 23, 1987, Joe Biden stood before a crowd of reporters and ended his first presidential campaign amid questions about a value he’d worked hard to convince voters he had: authenticity.

The collapse had begun 11 days earlier, with news that Biden had lifted phrases and mannerisms from a British Labour Party politician while making closing remarks at a debate. Examples soon surfaced of Biden using material from other politicians without attribution, and he acknowledged he had been accused of plagiarism in law school. To make matters worse, a video emerged of Biden exaggerating his academic record while speaking angrily to a voter in New Hampshire.

“I made some mistakes,” Biden, then a U.S. senator, told the press as he announced the end of his candidacy, in a speech that was by turns regretful and defiant. “But now, the exaggerated shadow of those mistakes has begun to obscure the essence of my candidacy and the essence of Joe Biden.”



https://www.washingtonpost.com/inve...af3716-7292-11e9-9eb4-0828f5389013_story.html

https://www.c-span.org/video/?820-1/biden-withdrawal

 

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C'mon man, if you don't know who to vote fo in this election, then you ain't black.
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1987:
Biden said he was “frustrated” and “angry as hell” about the media reports.
“I exaggerate when I’m angry, but I’ve never gone around telling people things that aren’t true about me,”
he told the New York Times. “It’s so easy to make things look like there’s something sinister about them.”

On the videotape, a clearly angered Biden told the questioner:
“I think I probably have a much higher IQ than you do.'"

“The first year in law school I decided I didn’t want to be in law school and ended up in the bottom two-thirds of my class and then decided I wanted to stay and went back to law school and in fact ended up in the top half of my class,” he went on.

But last week Biden released his law school records showing he had graduated 76th in a law school class of 85. The law school transcript also showed he made little progress in class standing through the three-year course, ranking 80 out of 100 in the first semester of the first year, and 79th out of 87 the second semester of his second year.

Biden also claimed in the New Hampshire speech that he had attended law school “on a full academic scholarship,” but the records show his scholarship only covered about half of his tuition.