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Joe Biden Shares Touching Message with Young Man with a Stutter
https://nowthisnews.com/videos/politics/joe-biden-shares-touching-message-with-young-man-with-a-stutter
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Joe Biden Shares Touching Message with Young Man with a Stutter (Original Post)
highplainsdem
Aug 2019
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Biden's reportedly given his own personal phone number out to many grieving people he's met over the
highplainsdem
Aug 2019
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George II
(67,782 posts)1. "Give me your phone number"!
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
highplainsdem
(48,910 posts)2. Biden's reportedly given his own personal phone number out to many grieving people he's met over the
years, so they can call him if they need to talk.
So I wouldn't be surprised if he's given his own number out to young people who stutter.
He obviously can't go around giving out his own number in a campaign setting. But it's so clear he wants to help people.
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)3. K&R
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Gothmog
(144,919 posts)4. This makes me smile
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Gothmog
(144,919 posts)5. I really like Joe Biden
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Gothmog
(144,919 posts)6. Joe Biden's childhood struggle with a stutter: How he overcame it and how it shaped him
Link to tweet
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.
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Tarheel_Dem
(31,222 posts)7. K&R
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Gothmog
(144,919 posts)8. What Joe Biden Can't Bring Himself to Say
I was a stutter until about 4th grade. I find these attacks on Biden to be sad. This article about Joe's stuttering really hit home with me. The discussion of the movie The King's Speech was very moving for me.
Link to tweet
In Bidens office, the first time I bring up his current stuttering, he asks me whether Ive seen The Kings Speech. He speaks almost mystically about the award-winning 2010 film. When King George VI, when he stood up in 1939, everyone knew he stuttered, and they knew what courage it took for him to stand up at that stadium and try to speakand it gave them courage
I could feel that. It was that sinking feeling, likeoh my God, I remember how you felt. You feel like, I dont know
almost like youre being sucked into a black hole.
Presidential candidates usually dont speak about their bleakest moments, certainly not this viscerally. It resembles the way Biden writes in his memoir about the aftermath of the 1972 car accident that killed his first wife and young daughter and critically injured his two sons, Beau and Hunter: I could not speak, only felt this hollow core grow in my chest, like I was going to be sucked inside a black hole.
A few weeks later, I ask Jill Biden what she remembers about sitting next to her husband during the movie. It was one of those moments in a marriage where you just sort of understand without words being spoken, she says.
As he watched The Kings Speech, Biden accurately guessed that the screenwriter, David Seidler, was a stutterer. He showed me a copy of a speech they found in an attic that the king had actually used, where he marks hisits exactly what I do! Biden tells me, his voice lifting. My staff, when I have them put something on a prompterI wish I had something to show you.
Presidential candidates usually dont speak about their bleakest moments, certainly not this viscerally. It resembles the way Biden writes in his memoir about the aftermath of the 1972 car accident that killed his first wife and young daughter and critically injured his two sons, Beau and Hunter: I could not speak, only felt this hollow core grow in my chest, like I was going to be sucked inside a black hole.
A few weeks later, I ask Jill Biden what she remembers about sitting next to her husband during the movie. It was one of those moments in a marriage where you just sort of understand without words being spoken, she says.
As he watched The Kings Speech, Biden accurately guessed that the screenwriter, David Seidler, was a stutterer. He showed me a copy of a speech they found in an attic that the king had actually used, where he marks hisits exactly what I do! Biden tells me, his voice lifting. My staff, when I have them put something on a prompterI wish I had something to show you.
I agree with Joe that it would be difficult for trump to use Joe's stutter against him
In Bidens office, as my time is about to run out, I bring up the fact that Trump crudely mocked a disabled New York Times reporter during the 2016 campaign. So far, hes called you Sleepy Joe. Is St-St-St-Stuttering Joe next?
I dont think so, Biden says, because if you ask the polls Does Biden stutter? Has he ever stuttered?, youd have 80 to 95 percent of people say no. If Trump goes there, Biden adds, itll just expose him for what he is.
I ask Biden something else weve been circling: whether he worries that people would pity him if they thought he still stuttered.
He scratches his chin, his fingers trembling slightly. Well, I guess, um, its kind of hard to pity a vice president. Its kind of hard to pity a senator whos gotten six zillion awards. Its kind of hard to pity someone who has had, you know, a decent family. I-I-I-I dont think if, now, if someone sits and says, Well, you know, the kid, when he was a stutterer, he must have been really basically stupid, I-I-I dont think its hard toIve never thought of that. I mean, theres nobody in the last, I dont know, 55 years, has ever said anything like that to me.
I dont think so, Biden says, because if you ask the polls Does Biden stutter? Has he ever stuttered?, youd have 80 to 95 percent of people say no. If Trump goes there, Biden adds, itll just expose him for what he is.
I ask Biden something else weve been circling: whether he worries that people would pity him if they thought he still stuttered.
He scratches his chin, his fingers trembling slightly. Well, I guess, um, its kind of hard to pity a vice president. Its kind of hard to pity a senator whos gotten six zillion awards. Its kind of hard to pity someone who has had, you know, a decent family. I-I-I-I dont think if, now, if someone sits and says, Well, you know, the kid, when he was a stutterer, he must have been really basically stupid, I-I-I dont think its hard toIve never thought of that. I mean, theres nobody in the last, I dont know, 55 years, has ever said anything like that to me.
This is an issue that I have strong feelings about.
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Gothmog
(144,919 posts)9. This made me smile
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden