https://newsmax.com/newsfront/biden-naval-academy-navy/2022/05/27/id/1071866/The New York Post in a report Friday questioned President Joe Biden's claim that he applied to the Naval Academy in 1965, stating that the dates don't pass muster.
Biden on Friday during a speech in Annapolis to this year's graduating class at the Naval Academy said he was appointed to the academy in 1965 "by a senator who I was running against in 1972 — never planned it that way. I wasn't old enough to be sworn in. I was only 29 years old when I was running."
"He was a fine man. His name is J. Caleb Boggs," the president went on. "I didn't come to the academy because I wanted to be a football star. And you had a guy named [Roger] Staubach and [Joe] Bellino here. So, I went to Delaware."
Biden, the Post said, graduated from the University of Delaware in 1965.
But still
The academy doesn't offer graduate degrees, the outlet noted.
But still
Additionally, the Post said, Bellino and Staubach had already finished up at the academy — Bellino, who won the Heisman Trophy in 1960, graduated in 1961 and Staubach, who won the Heisman in 1963, graduated in 1965.
But still (Bellino and the Navy squad handed the national champion Huskies their only loss in 1960) (Hi ducks)
Biden has a history of sharing questionable anecdotes, per the Post, including in September when he told Jewish leaders he remembered "spending time at" and "going to" the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh after 11 people were shot and killed there in 2018.
He never visited.
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sharing questionable anecdoteslying, per the Post, including in September when he told Jewish leaders he remembered "spending time at" and "going to" the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh after 11 people were shot and killed there in 2018."At least we don't have any mean tweets from the Orange Man to deal with. Geezus.
I don't blame Biden. I blame 81 million idiots who overlooked what disqualified him 25 years earlier. AKA Herr Dazzler and his merry band of retards
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Yet the Biden of the 1970s and the Biden of 2022 might as well be two different people, with the latter challenging economic orthodoxy and alleging that new entitlements and stimulus in the form of Build Back Better will actually bring consumer prices down. As a young, reform-minded senator in the 1970s, Biden introduced bills to slash tens of millions of dollars from what believed were ineffective and useless federal agencies and insisted the only way out of America’s stagflation nightmare was massive spending cuts. His 180-degree change reflects the leftward lurch of a Democratic Party and White House staffed with ideologues (many of whom never lived through the 1970s) able to convince a nearly 80-year-old president that everything he once understood about how the economy worked was completely wrong.
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After reviewing then-president Gerald Ford’s budget, Biden expressly attacked the White House for not doing enough to address high gas prices and for its tax hikes on corporations, arguing there were better ways to cool demand. During a Senate hearing in 1974, Biden chastised liberals for forgetting “the vast resources of the ocean and their importance to us … [which] range from lobsters to oil.”
Although Biden called for some tax hikes on the margins, his plan to curb inflation was defined mostly by spending cuts. During his Senate reelection campaign in 1978, Biden took out a full-page advertisement in the News Journal, one of the largest newspapers in his home state of Delaware, to promote his “sunset bill” that would force “a thorough and complete review of federal spending programs every four years … [that] would automatically end a program that wasn’t proved useful or effective.”
“The spiraling costs of inflation are ripping into the fabric of American society,” the ad reads. “We must bring these problems under control and the first place to start is with the cost of government.”
Today of course, spurred on by his far left base, Biden sings a quite different tune, proclaiming that inflation-hawk “Milton Friedman isn’t running the show anymore,” and leading others to wonder: Why Team Biden might be purposefully grinding down the middle class.
Also, Milton Freidman never "ran the show" but basic economic facts ran the show and they still run the show. If the Dems don't think so, fuck around and find out.
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You were 4. Vivid memories?
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Good poasting topic.
HTH. Dumbass.
Ralph Nader is more exciting and passionate at 138 years old.