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The most amazing part of that was the relative restraint with which Trump responded. He actually spun it sort of politely along the lines of "I know you misspoke, but you DID beat medicare."
Biden's opener was insane levels of rambling and shotgunning talking point canned statistics. If he had continued that way, I think you could call it a wash. Especially by the end, Trump got lost in the sauce pretty bad as well.
But Biden's first two answers after his opener were literally convalescent home rambling half-sentences to nowhere. As a rule, I never feel second hand embarrassment for politicians, but I was covering my eyes at that point.
You can just about tell that his handlers spent the last week drilling him on short, efficient answers to questions. Probably made him cue cards and all.
And maybe they even had him getting through full sentences that made grammatical sense.
And it all jumbled together when he was put in the spotlight so he could only half-remember what he was drilled on.
Yeah, that first opener especially. It looked like a kid who crammed all night for like a 6th grade oral presentation and starts off with "George Washington was born into a two room farm house and his dad was also George and his Mom was from England and he had two dogs and they grew corn and sold it in town and his uncle had wooden teeth and King George didn't like Thomas Jefferson's slaves so they decided to have Paul Revere ride across the Delaware River on Christmas to deliver the Gettysburg address to Abraham Lincoln before he was shot on 9/11 by Lee Harvey Oswald. Grover Cleveland was elected twice non-consecutively"
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