Ok, I watched the whole speech, most of this? Seems like a partisan attack, and, for the most part, none of these criticisms are grounded in actual and factual grievances, TBH.
This? IS just a stoopid and fumbled attempt at humor. Anyone that has ever taken a public speaking class knows, you start public speeches with a joke or an attention seeking gimmick, to engage your audience and to gain their support and attention. This was just a terrible. .. joke? From a clearly out of touch old man. The speech itself was a mere five minutes before the Q & A started, so I am not really sure it even was needed, clearly no speech writer wrote it, it was off the cuff and he probably did it out of force of habit, from nearly five decades of doing this type of shit.
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This? again is not a surprise at this point. We all know that all of these, "press conferences," are not spontaneous, they are rehearsed and well scripted. There is some extemporaneous joking, but for the most part, he know what questions are going to be asked, and who he will be calling on. . . (The entire exchange is at the C-Span link.)
At this point, he is surprisingly candid about the garbage paces the DNC politburo is putting him through, and most of the apparatchiks on this site, are likewise honest about this reality.
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This was filmed from two different directions, I am not sure he was distracted, because he went on to answer the question just fine. . . it looked like he was just stretching his legs. This is at minute mark
14:38 that the question was asked, that he seemed to wander a bit, I looked at two different camera angles, but he answered just fine at minute mark
15:02.
Here is what the GOP should have focused on though, IMO. He actually said, in that answer, that nuclear war, is LESS OF A THREAT, to global humanity, that a 1.5 degree in global temperature!!!! Do Americans really want an administration in power, challenging the Russians, who really believe
THAT!!!!?!?
". . . And guess what? In addition to helping the environment overall - and the only existential threat humanity faces even more frightening than a - than a nuclear war is global warming going above 1.5 degrees in the next 20 - 10 years. We're - that'd be real trouble. There's no way back from that.And so, there's a lot we can do in the meantime. For example, that - that pipeline - that railroad we're talking about going across from the middle - from India, throughout the Middle East, and to - across the Mediterranean and all through Europe, that's going to have a hydrogen pipeline there.. . "
Yes. . . that was in his answer, to that question he was listening to, while he was wandering. .
Why doesn't the GOP nail him on reality?
And lastly this. . .
I noticed that at about minute mark; 25:00, the very last significant thing he says, he put in. . .
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"He may have a gameplan; he just hasn't shared it with me.But I tell you what,
I don't know about you, but I'm going to go to bed."
That? Is not normal. That is when his staff cuts in, and it all falls to pieces. I am nearly certain that is a code word, for he is out of there. . because when you can't handle things anymore, or you have to go, you got to go.
I remember when my grandmother was in the last year or two before she died. . . when she had enough, that was it. She would excuse herself.