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Send a HeroBox Care Package Today!As Hot Air's Karen Townsend notes, President Joe Biden is fond of storytelling. He's well known for embellishing crucial details for dramatic effect.
And it appears he's done it again.
While speaking to U.S. Naval Academy graduates at this weekend's commencement ceremony, the commander-in-chief attempted to regale the crowd with a story about whether to serve his country or build on his high school sports achievements.
Biden likes to discuss dabbling in college athletics at the University of Delaware. However, Biden told the midshipman he applied for the Naval Academy in 1965 with a letter of recommendation from U.S. Sen. J. Caleb Boggs.
The New York Post has more on Biden's speech:
“I was told the Class of '72 is here. I 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,” Biden said.
“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.”
In 1965 Biden would have been graduating from the University of Delaware, and Annapolis doesn't offer graduate courses. Moreover, Biden received five deferments from the draft, raising doubts about his commitment to serve.
By the time Biden left the University of Delaware, President Johnson had already accepted Gen. Westmoreland's request for 44 combat battalions in Vietnam.
Instead, Biden pursued a career in politics as soon as he earned his law degree from Syracuse University.
The Post adds:
“But all kidding aside,” Biden continued on Friday, “the best line of the debate was after it's all over, the announcer, the questioner — who was a good guy, but supported my opponent, who was a good man as well, I might add — and he said, ‘Sen. Boggs, is there anything else you want to say?' And he said, ‘Yes, just one thing.' And he took the microphone. He said, ‘You know, Joe, if you accepted my commission to the — my appointment to the academy,' he said, ‘you'd still have one year and three months' active duty and I'd have no problems right now.'”
It's unclear if Biden has told the story before, but it surprised political journalists who have covered his many campaigns and his presidency. Biden's 2008 autobiography “Promises to Keep” does not mention the Naval Academy.
(H/T Hot Air)
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This was nothing but Biden being Biden. When he goes off the script provided by his handlers he always manages to trip himself up. The longer he’s in office the more of an embarrassment he becomes to this country. Biggest trouble with him leaving office before being voted out is that look what we would be stuck with, Harris, who would be an even bigger disaster than Biden.
Actually it would fall to piglousy and I don’t know who would be worse of the two. By the second 1/2 of the first sentence of the 14th Amendment, the camel is totally ineligible to assume the presidency and the pig may be an idiot, but she does know the Constitution and most likely the reason she has decided to throw her bonnet back in the 2022 elections, hoping the libtards can maintain control of the house!
We need to vote accordingly and to act responsibly both in 2022 and also in 2024! We need to vote every progressive left-wing radical out of office and vote conservative bible believers into to public office! In the meantime we are instructed by Jesus Christ to pray for our leaders, who rule over us! Let us hope and let us pray for a gigantic red wave to hit America! The sooner the better and maybe God will hear our prayers and heal our land! Biden is an old man but Harris is not old! And yes she would make Biden seem to be a choir boy!
Joe Biden is nothing but a lying criminal who is in office illegally just like illegal aliens are her illegally.
Brinda, you are spot on. We have got to get back to running this country like a business (America First) instead of a social justice experiment. GO TRUMP!!!!!
Lying Biden strikes again. Nobody but the hardcore left believes this fool. Look at his poll numbers. He’s a been a fraud since day one.
Memo to the Journalists covering Joe Biden:
Please let us know the day Joe Biden speaks the truth for the first time in his life.
We will insistthat day be declared a National Holiday called “JOE’S SLIP UP HOLIDAY.”