Joe Biden told mourners at Jesse Jackson funeral ‘I’m a hell of a lot smarter than most of you’
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Former President Joe Biden turned heads Friday when he declared his own intellectual superiority to a crowd gathered to honor the late Rev. Jesse Jackson.
Biden, 83, made the remark during a eulogy at Chicago’s House of Hope, where he shared a lengthy personal story about growing up with a stutter. He told the audience that people with speech impediments are often dismissed as unintelligent, according to a full transcript published by CBS Chicago.
“Now, if I told you all earlier, when I was a kid, I had a cleft palate or club foot, none of you would have laughed, but it’s okay to laugh at stuttering,” Biden said. “It’s the one place where people think you’re stupid. Oh, really? I’m hell of a lot smarter than most of you.”
He followed with “all kidding aside, it makes you feel really small” before moving on.
The former president also delivered a rambling passage about Nelson Mandela and the African continent, according to the CBS Chicago transcript. Biden told the crowd he once informed Jackson about plans to visit a man in South Africa before veering into a claim that Africa would become “the largest continent in the world” by 2050 in terms of population.
The disjointed remarks drew widespread mockery online. The X account Libs of TikTok shared the clip and wrote that Biden “just told the attendees at Jesse Jackson’s memorial service that they’re dumb.” “Does he know he’s at a funeral?” one user wrote. “That’s scary he thinks he’s smart at all,” another added.
Biden was not the only speaker who used the memorial as a platform to attack the current White House. He told mourners the Trump administration “doesn’t share any of the values that we have,” NBC News reported . Former President Barack Obama referenced “those in high office” and called the present moment difficult, while former Vice President Kamala Harris opened by saying she had “predicted a lot of what’s happening right now.”
Jackson died Feb. 17 at age 84 after a prolonged fight with progressive supranuclear palsy, as the Fox News reported . A protégé of Martin Luther King Jr., he built the Rainbow PUSH Coalition and launched two White House bids in the 1980s that reshaped Democratic primary politics.
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I wonder how the black community feels about that one!
I only wish they had a camera on Obama's face at the time.
I'm shocked maga republicans don't agree. biden really needs to step up his game. Pedo/POTUS in DC this year said he was smarter than all the generals in his last term and a stable genius ...
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the moron who would be king ...
Could you list the actions that he has taken or even spoke about that will make him a king, or the left's last narrative that failed, a "wannabe dictator"?
BTW...I honestly appreciate the courteous back and forth we had earlier.
thanks I appreciate the feed back, but I won't be wasting my time on posting anything like that in this particular author's seeds or articles ...
if you want to believe that POS/POTUS's "my way or no way" approach is a legitimate negotiation tactic, that's your opinion, and I don't share it. democracy is, and has been until recently, a government based upon compromise.
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Not sure, bet they are still pissed that the flags were ordered to half staff for that bottom feeding loser charlie kirk but not Rev. Jackson.
Another day, another distortion.
Here is the paragraph in question:
That really doesn't change the substance of what the idiot said.
It doesn't? I think it does. It was a joke. In the audio you can hear the audience laughing after he says it. It was not him calling anyone an idiot, no matter how some people want to make it appear that way. I think that those are the true idiots.
I'm not sure which joke black Americans thought was funnier: Biden telling them that "I am a hell of a lot smarter than most of you" or Newsom telling them that he is as dumb as they are.
Are you really going to set yourself up like that?
half the story, half the facts, half the context, but a full maga measure of bullshit ...
Biden and Newsom exposed themselves.
We all know how they feel about Black Americans.
You obviously don't have any black family members or Jews or Filipinos or Mexicans
because almost every time you pick up the Victims' banner for one group or another you are mistaken.
You either ignore context deliberately or it's a medical condition.
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Do we? Or do you? Tell me how you feel.
This is false. The whole basis for the story is a lie. He did not claim intellectual superiority over anyone. It was part of a joke. The only people who didn't get it were the ones who were taking things out of context.
Try again. I doubt your luck will improve.
Take the defeat gracefully. You tried but it was an impossible task.
Not possible for our friends on the left here. First one needs to be dealing with reality. Strike one. Second one must be mature enough to admit that they were bested. Strike two. Third one must be marginal sane. Strike three ….. they’re out.
Ain’t happening
when Trump dies there wont be a single ex president at his funeral
MAGA!
Obama should break out the tan suit for it, and maybe a boutonnière and some brightly colored socks.
Wonder if Michelle would show. Seems she has been keeping her distance from him lately.
What a weird thing for anyone to wonder about.
Almost as weird as fetishizing a comment made about Obama's clothes for 15 years. But I guess when anyone dares criticize their god, the devotees don't forget.
He has ODS
‘He has ODS’
Yes the author of 2.1 must have. He is the one that brought Obama up.
it pays to read a thread before spouting.
At least mine was funny and had a true story behind it. You guys suck at this.
To paraphrase my friends on the left.
No such thing.
Another “opinions do vary” moment on Newstalkers.
Is it your opinion that Obama did not get ridiculed by the right for wearing a tan suit? Lol.
none of the monkeys in trump's obama video he posted were wearing tan suits ...
Keep grasping at straws ….
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Africa would become “the largest continent in the world” by 2050 in terms of population.
At 1.58 billion currently it just may.
No fair! You must have watched all 21 minutes to hear that one, lol.
"I drink to the general joy of the whole table."
Biden is more articulate and together than Trump!
it really shows.
Interesting, but not horrible.
Horrible. Just shows how little the media covered for him and ignored the obvious decline between 2020 and 2024.
SMH