Diversity Is Our Strength 
President Joe Biden acknowledged again Tuesday night that he underperformed at last week's debate while saying he "wasn't very smart" for having traveled extensively in the weeks leading up to the event in Atlanta.
"I decided to travel around the world a couple of times … shortly before the debate," Biden said at a campaign fundraiser in McLean, Virginia.
"I didn't listen to my staff … and then I almost fell asleep onstage," he quipped.
"It's not an excuse but an explanation," he added. Aides previously said Biden had a cold during the debate.
It wasn't immediately clear to what extent Biden was joking about almost falling asleep. Cameras aren't allowed into his fundraisers, and the media relies upon written pool reports. Biden has a track record of making frank or unexpected comments at fundraisers.
In apologizing for his lackluster performance, he also stressed that it was "critical" to defeat former President Donald Trump in November.
Biden last month went to France to commemorate the 80th anniversary of D-Day and then returned to the U.S. before he departed for the Group of Seven Summit in Italy. He then had a Los Angeles fundraiser and later spent several days at Camp David, Maryland preparing for the debate.
Biden continues to defend his ability to take on Trump after a debate performance punctuated by a raspy voice and rhetorical missteps that left many Democrats anxious.
Rep. Lloyd Doggett, D-Texas, on Tuesday became the first sitting Democrat in Congress to call on Biden to withdraw from the race.
At a campaign rally Friday, Biden first addressed his performance from the previous night.
"I know I'm not a young man," Biden, 81, told supporters in Raleigh, North Carolina. "I don't walk as easy as I used to. I don't speak as smoothly as I used to. I don't debate as well as I used to, but I know what I do know — I know how to tell the truth!"
Biden is the oldest president in American history. Trump, 78, is the second oldest.
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What? They sequestered him for a week or two to prep him for the "debate."
Poor guy can't even keep time straight. Starting to feel really bad for him.
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"I don't walk as easy as I used to. I don't speak as smoothly as I used to. I don't debate as well as I used to, but I know what I do know — I know how to tell the truth!"
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11 day jet lag
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Don't forget about the cold!
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Imagine your grandpa at 84 and forcing him to do all these press conferences and debates
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his wife is evil
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Frick the Rethuglicans.
That being said Democrats need to acknowledge how they are killing democracy.
People don't like to vote for a bad candidate just to avoid a worse one.
Telling someone they need to drink piss to avoid eating shit isn't going to make them smile.
I really wonder how many voters are going to avoid voting this year.
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Straggy reddit qualifiers. It's okay to make fun of dems, you fricking dork.
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It's great to make fun of dems, I'm making sure chuds know I'm not one of them
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They could keep biden
if they had better 
VP and they admitted old man is gone.
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Well they needed a dark woman to balance out the old white man and apparently that's the best they got.
I'm surprised Condoleezza Rice isn't more in the spotlight. She can easily pull off the Candace Owens grift to snag the boomers and millennials and the black vote.
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Stacy Abraham would have been an okay choice but they decided she was too valuable where she was to give her the Veep (She gave Biden wins in Georgia).
As is the case in the Democratic Party, if you bust your butt to help the party gain support they'll snub you in the end. e.g. her, Bernie
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Anyone but Stacy Abrams, she'll do literally anything to advance gun control.
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Isn't she the one that lost in Georgia and did a whole lotta election denying over it?
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Trump will surpass Biden as the oldest if he's elected in November by a few months, though not at the moment of first election (this would be Trump's non-consecutive re-election)
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Judges are forced to retire at a certain age. I don't see why we shouldn't hold the rest of federal officials to the same standard.
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thats not true for judges accross the board. RBG
famously refused to step down and handed Drumpf an extra SCOTUS nom effecrively ensuring the end of roe v wade
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It would require a constitutional amendment. But it would probably have a decent chance of actually passing.
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Those geezers don't want to put any term limits on themselves
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That was pretty funny
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such a prankster, lol
!slots123
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Oh good! We're continuing our common sense democracy where we rely on the word's of Biden's campaign staff on the president's mental condition instead of actual video evidence
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Eepy prez
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The spin is just bonkers. Just LOL at the thumbnail they used for Biden's "fiery" speech after the debate:
And r-slurs in the comments are like "WAOW where was this Biden during the debate?"
Have these tards never dealt with a demented person? He can deliver a prepared speech on a teleprompter but can't function in a debate where he has to think on the fly, neat
And even with the teleprompter, he's slurring his words the entire time and fricking up his sentences. But oh yeah, "He's had a stutter LITRALLY his whole life!" Okay, where was that epic stutter 4 years ago? Fricking dipshits, my lord. The guy is demented. Any random r-slur off the street could run the DNC better than them. How in the FRICK did they let this happen?
And people keep saying Biden performed poorly. Oh boy, he really fricked up. If a dementia patient gets cast in a play and forgets their lines, they didn't frick up. The casting director fricked up. Saying Biden fricked up is just more spin, acting like he's capable of functioning but just screwed the pooch. Wow that box turtle really fricked up the commencement speech at Yale, what a naughty turtle.
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So we're just going to gloss over how this was a blatant lie from Biden's campaign, k
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I think everyone immediately ignored it because it was such an obvious lie.
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I think most intelligent
people in burgerland know their politicians are lying to them, I just hate when dems do it so blatantly "but only rethuglicans are liars"
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"Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule -- and both commonly succeed, and are right."
Snapshots:
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/biden-quips-almost-fell-asleep-onstage-debate-rcna160075:
ghostarchive.org
archive.org
archive.ph (click to archive)
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