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Congratulations to our presumptive Democratic nominee, Joe Biden!
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In reply to the discussion: Biden Knows How to Make the Moral Case Against Trump By Andrew Sullivan [View all]Gothmog
(144,905 posts)27. Joe Biden's childhood struggle with a stutter: How he overcame it and how it shaped him
Joe is very well equipped to take on trump the bully
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Valerie Biden Owens, the former vice presidents younger sister, says that one lasting impact of his childhood stutter is that it has given him more empathy and compassion for others trials, and it uniquely equips him to handle Trumps taunts.
Trump is a bully, and Joe has been standing up to bullies his entire life, Owens said in an interview. Joes stuttering, I think, is one of the principal reasons a major, major, major reason that he is the good and compassionate and kind man that he is.
About 3 million Americans suffer from the speech impediment of stuttering, marked by involuntary repetition of sounds, syllables or words. According to the National Institute on Deafness and other Communication Disorders, most children outgrow their stutter, but for 25% of them, stuttering is a lifelong challenge.
Biden has overcome the serious stutter of his youth, but remnants of it resurface on occasions such as when he is very tired, he said in a 2016 speech. Experts on stuttering who follow him closely say they have noticed it on several occasions during the campaign, such as an interview on The View when he addressed complaints about his tendency to touch and hug women while campaigning, and an April speech in Pittsburgh launching his campaign, when he struggled with words.
Trump is a bully, and Joe has been standing up to bullies his entire life, Owens said in an interview. Joes stuttering, I think, is one of the principal reasons a major, major, major reason that he is the good and compassionate and kind man that he is.
About 3 million Americans suffer from the speech impediment of stuttering, marked by involuntary repetition of sounds, syllables or words. According to the National Institute on Deafness and other Communication Disorders, most children outgrow their stutter, but for 25% of them, stuttering is a lifelong challenge.
Biden has overcome the serious stutter of his youth, but remnants of it resurface on occasions such as when he is very tired, he said in a 2016 speech. Experts on stuttering who follow him closely say they have noticed it on several occasions during the campaign, such as an interview on The View when he addressed complaints about his tendency to touch and hug women while campaigning, and an April speech in Pittsburgh launching his campaign, when he struggled with words.
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Biden Knows How to Make the Moral Case Against Trump By Andrew Sullivan [View all]
emmaverybo
Aug 2019
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everyone knows who trump is. huge chunks do not care and never will. it has to be about more
msongs
Aug 2019
#1
I think Sullivan shows how crucial Biden's grounds for attacking Trump are to
emmaverybo
Aug 2019
#4
Mahalo, Cha for citing one of the best parts. I usually avoid Sullivan. But then he has been a long
emmaverybo
Aug 2019
#7
"The sheer sociopathic narcissism in the face of such grief and trauma beggars belief."
ucrdem
Aug 2019
#6
I don't think the intention of Sullivan's essay was to cast Biden in the role of moral authority for
emmaverybo
Aug 2019
#17
It is. You have a different preferred candidate, but know his was not a campaign speech and
emmaverybo
Aug 2019
#21