President Biden on Sunday appeared to mix up French President Emmanuel Macron with François Mitterrand, the former president of France who died in 1996. The apparent mix-up took place during a Sund…
I’m more inclined to give Biden a break because a) Macron and Mitterand are nominally simiar (starts with M, has an -an sound near the end) and b) Biden has a documented struggle with stuttering, so it would be super simple for the wrong name to come out.
Where I DON’T give him a pass is the France/Germany mixup. He corrected himself to say “France”, then went right back to talking about Germany.
So now I know he didn’t mean Mitterand, but did he mean France at all? Or was he trying to come up with Olaf Schultz, the current Chancellor of Germany whose name is nowhere near similar to Macron OR Mitterand?
That’s just as bad as Trump mixing up Haley with Pelosi.
Biden has a documented struggle with stuttering, so it would be super simple for the wrong name to come out.
Biden had a childhood stutter that went away long before politics tho
In his 88 campaign his eloquence was why he was doing so well.
Until he lost it on reporters over soeech plagiarism claims and started screaming how he was smarter than them and was in the top of his law class. Further investigation showed Biden had a history of plagarism back to law school, and was closer to the bottom than the top of his class.
People didn’t start talking about Biden’s stutter, until he started mixing up words and other things that are completely different from a stutter.
A 2010 piece talking about how surprising it is to find out Biden had a childhood stutter.
Speech impediments don’t just disappear for 40 years and then come back with completely different symptoms.
Biden been active in politics for decades, there’s 100s of hours of him speaking on video out there. The majority of his life he hasn’t been like this.
I’m more inclined to give Biden a break because a) Macron and Mitterand are nominally simiar (starts with M, has an -an sound near the end) and b) Biden has a documented struggle with stuttering, so it would be super simple for the wrong name to come out.
Where I DON’T give him a pass is the France/Germany mixup. He corrected himself to say “France”, then went right back to talking about Germany.
So now I know he didn’t mean Mitterand, but did he mean France at all? Or was he trying to come up with Olaf Schultz, the current Chancellor of Germany whose name is nowhere near similar to Macron OR Mitterand?
That’s just as bad as Trump mixing up Haley with Pelosi.
Biden had a childhood stutter that went away long before politics tho
In his 88 campaign his eloquence was why he was doing so well.
Until he lost it on reporters over soeech plagiarism claims and started screaming how he was smarter than them and was in the top of his law class. Further investigation showed Biden had a history of plagarism back to law school, and was closer to the bottom than the top of his class.
People didn’t start talking about Biden’s stutter, until he started mixing up words and other things that are completely different from a stutter.
For example:
https://www.nais.org/magazine/independent-school/spring-2010/joe-biden-reveals-childhood-stuttering-at-lab-scho/
A 2010 piece talking about how surprising it is to find out Biden had a childhood stutter.
Speech impediments don’t just disappear for 40 years and then come back with completely different symptoms.
Biden been active in politics for decades, there’s 100s of hours of him speaking on video out there. The majority of his life he hasn’t been like this.
That’s why I say the France/Germany thing is was more concerning.
There is no “an” sound in Macron. The two share no sound other than the first letter.