01-24-2020, 03:03 PM
https://www.salon.com/2020/01/18/press-w...joe-biden/
"...Biden's pattern of gibberish
If you expect a president to be able to speak coherently about the matters of the day — and that would certainly be a nice change — Biden is not your man, at least not consistently. That's simply a fact.
The bigger issue is whether his speech is a reflection of an increasingly disordered brain.
He interrupts himself in mid-sentence and goes on extended riffs, introducing new subjects that seem to have nothing to do with what he was just talking about. He is sometimes impossible to follow. And he can get quite irascible.
He is in some ways the absolute verbal opposite of Warren, who speaks in complete paragraphs and meticulously explains everything she says. Biden is more like Ronald Reagan, in that his answers can leave the impression that they make sense, even when the actual words suggest otherwise. But he doesn't quite have Reagan's talent for pulling it off.
One of his most famous servings of word salad came during the Sept. 12 debate, when Biden flailed in response to a question about segregation, suggesting, for instance, that black parents have their record players on at night...."
"...Biden's pattern of gibberish
If you expect a president to be able to speak coherently about the matters of the day — and that would certainly be a nice change — Biden is not your man, at least not consistently. That's simply a fact.
The bigger issue is whether his speech is a reflection of an increasingly disordered brain.
He interrupts himself in mid-sentence and goes on extended riffs, introducing new subjects that seem to have nothing to do with what he was just talking about. He is sometimes impossible to follow. And he can get quite irascible.
He is in some ways the absolute verbal opposite of Warren, who speaks in complete paragraphs and meticulously explains everything she says. Biden is more like Ronald Reagan, in that his answers can leave the impression that they make sense, even when the actual words suggest otherwise. But he doesn't quite have Reagan's talent for pulling it off.
One of his most famous servings of word salad came during the Sept. 12 debate, when Biden flailed in response to a question about segregation, suggesting, for instance, that black parents have their record players on at night...."