I wanted to say something about Joe Biden’s teleconference with Jewish leaders, on September 2, just before the High Holy Days. But I then realized that very little comment was necessary. His own words – disjointed, confused, and in one of its key assertions, about a visit to the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh that he claims to have made, simply false – were comment enough. The report on his September 2 teleconference is here: “Biden invents ‘visit’ to Tree of Life Synagogue after 2018 shooting,” Israel Hayom, September 5, 2021:
U.S. President Joe Biden may have gotten himself in hot water during a well-meaning teleconference with Jewish religious leaders in advance of the High Holidays on Thursday.
The teleconference was facilitated by the Central Conference of American Rabbis, the Rabbinical Assembly, the Rabbinical Council of America and the Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association.
During the roughly 16-minute-long teleconference, Biden lamented the rise in anti-Semitism in the United States.
“The point I’m trying to make here is that I used to think coming out of the civil-rights movement and being involved in the Jewish community as a kid, and the civil-rights movement in Delaware, I used to think that hate could be defeated; it could be wiped out. But I learned a long time ago, it can’t. It only hides. It hides. It hides under the rocks. And given any oxygen at all, it comes out. It’s a minority view, but it comes out, and it comes out raging,” said Biden.
“And it’s been given too much oxygen in the last four, five, seven, 10 years, and it has seen itself, whether it was—I remember spending time at the—you know, going to the—you know, the Tree of Life Synagogue, speaking with the—just—it just is amazing these things are happening—happening in America,” he said.
Apparently Biden thinks that antisemitism has been “given too much oxygen” not only during the Trump years, but also “five, seven, 10 years ago” — these are all years during the Obama period of our national existence, when Biden himself was Vice President. Has he forgotten who ran the country when that “oxygen” was being given to “antisemitism”?
Biden’s most important statement is this: “I remember spending time at the –you know, going to the—you know, the Tree of Life Synagogue, speaking with the—just—it is amazing these things are happening—happening in America.”
This is false. Biden never visited the Tree of Life Synagogue, either when it had been attacked in 2018, or in the three years since. How could he have so misremembered? Or did he make the statement, and then, dimly realizing that it was false, but not wanting to take back his words in mid-sentence, allowed his train of confused thought to derail, and to tail off into the vague “speaking with the –just – it is amazing these things are happening—happening in America.”
“And I guess the point I want to make is that it just shows that if we walk away from ‘never again,’ it’s going to happen again. It can’t happen again. And so, I guess the point I’m making is that the attack in Pittsburgh, those attacks—all anti-Semitic attacks—aren’t just a strike against the Jewish community; they’re a strike against the soul of our nation and the values which we say we stand for. No matter its source or stated rationale, we have to and will condemn this prejudice at every turn, alongside other forms of hate.”
I guess the point I want to make, I guess the point I’m making, is that without a teleprompter from which to carefully read, Biden too often, as here, slides into a stream-of-consciousness that reflects a mind in a state of semi-dissolution.
But Barb Feige, executive director of the Pittsburgh synagogue where 11 worshippers were murdered by a gunman in 2018, told the New York Post that Biden has not visited the synagogue in the nearly three years since the shooting….
Was Biden consciously lying about a visit to the Tree of Life synagogue that never took place? Or had he, in the fog of his ever-present confusion, actually convinced himself that he had visited the synagogue? I think it is the latter: he believes that because he ought to have visited the synagogue, then he did visit it. And which is worse in this case, a Lie Direct or Confusion Compounded?
“Renewal. Renewal. When I was running for president, I placed the idea of renewal at the center of my campaign. I said my mission was to restore America’s soul. I got criticized for that, but I meant it in a literal sense,” said Biden. “We seem to have lost our way. We lost the—a sense of comradery. We treated each other so harshly, the way we spoke of one another and the way in which we dealt with politics.”
“Renewal. Renewal. When I was running for president, I placed the idea of renewal at the center of my campaign.” Did he, now? I don’t remember “renewal” as being the center of his campaign, do you? And what in god’s name does that mean, anyway? He meant it, he says, “in a literal sense.” What does that mean? “Renewal” means to Biden “to restore America’s soul.” How is that to be achieved in a “literal” rather than “figurative” sense? Please explain, Joe. I don’t know what he means, but it apparently sounds good to him. Apparently we had lost our national soul, and didn’t know where – like Bo-Peep with her sheep – to find it. But having been elected president, Biden is now restoring “America’s soul.” How? Don’t ask. And remember, though “we seem to have lost our way,” do not worry, for who is better than fearless Joe Biden, compassionate Joe Biden, inspired Joe Biden, to lead us in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake?
Biden spoke about his interactions with former Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir in Israel during the time of the 1967 Six-Day War, taking his children and grandchildren to visit concentration camps in Europe, in addition to his daughter’s wedding to Howard Krein, a Jewish plastic surgeon from Philadelphia, in 2012….
A laundry list of items – the visit to Israel and claim of meeting with Golda Meir during the Six-Day War, of taking his family to visit concentration camps in Europe, even his Jewish son-in-law – all meant somehow to add up to proof of his pro-Israel, philosemitic attitudes. But this transparent and vulgar “some-of-my-best-friends-are-Jewish” approach does not make up for the fact that the Bidenites are offering to capitulate to Iran’s demands for returning to the disastrous 2015 nuclear deal that is a mortal threat to Israel; that the Bidenites have agreed to restore hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to the PA in defiance of the Taylor Force Act; that they plan to reopen in Jerusalem the “consulate to the Palestinians” that Trump had closed, thereby helping to legitimize the Palestinian claim to placing their future capital in Jerusalem.
And as happens so frequently with our president, Biden misremembered: he did not spend time with Golda Meir in Israel during the Six-Day War. Levi Eshkol, not Meir, was the Prime Minister of Israel then. Biden first visited Israel in 1973, six years after the Six-Day War. He was there not during the 1973 itself, either, but 40 days before the Yom Kippur War broke out. Yet he asserted in this teleconference that he had met with “Prime Minister Golda Meir during the time of the 1967 Six-Day War.” Wrong in all respects. I think that in his terminal confusion about Israeli wars and prime ministers, he really does think he was in Israel during the Six-Day War and that Golda Meir was Prime Minister at the time. Another disturbing example of his terminal confusion. We should all be worried.
Take a rest, Joe. Try to get a grip.
mortimer says
Sleepy Joe never allowed the facts to get in the way of good story. Most of his stories are self-aggrandizing and maliciously slander his political opponents. He is a gasbag who says anything when cornered by the facts.
His political career has lasted this long because he will kiss up to power and say whatever it takes to let himself off the hook.
The Afghan CATASTROPHE is different in size and kind to every other catastrophe of Joe Bribed-man … HE WRECKED AN ENTIRE COUNTRY this time!
Grace says
Some assume Joe’s lies are caused by terminal confusion. FYI, Joe Biden has always been a liar big time. I followed his career for forty seven years and the truth was never in him, not even in law school. He seems to think if you shout the lie real loud it will confirm it. Not true Joe. Too many of us remember and now your deceptions are on cable in real time for all the world to see.
Infidel says
This from the same person who once talked about walking from Soweto (which is in Johannesburg) to get to Robin’s Island (which is off Capetown) to meet Nelson Mandela. Not to mention his adventures w/ Corn Pop or his Delaware Indian 7-Eleven attendants (was he referring to dot or feather?)
The pickle that the Dems are in is that they can’t select a different candidate in 2024 – even AOC, if she runs, would be crushed! – since such a person would have to leapfrog Que Mela, and no sane Dem, such as a John Delaney – has a prayer of being elected. So they’re stuck w/ him, and they know that whoever runs will get steamrolled by Trump. Which is why they’re so desperate to get HR-4 or S11 or whatever the code is for their ‘Rig the elections’ bill they’re trying to ramrod thru Congress
mortimer says
This unredeemable gasbag gladhands and lies to American Jews who are mainly Dem-voters, while at the same time stabling Israel in the back.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
Another thing to recall is that during the campaign Zoom call with a gaggle of Moslesm Joe quoted a hadith calling for Jihad.
somehistory says
What does one expect to hear from the mouth of an idiot, one who has become a chinese noodle?…”You are what you eat,” so the saying goes.
“The point I’m trying to make….” “The point I want to make….” and they are not the same “points.” One went all the way back to his kidhood. The other back to time with his bud, the guy who was, in biden’s noodlebrain, “very articulate.”
Anyone depending on this fool, lying son of satan, for **anything**… should be afraid. Very afraid.
Walter Sieruk says
Joe Biden deserves no respect ,at all. Speaking only for myself, the only emotion that I have for Biden is a strong feeling of contempt.
tim gallagher says
Doesn’t Biden have a kind of blank, lost look in that photo? He definitely seems to have dementia from some of the videos I have seen, here in Australia, where he gets very lost trying to speak on some issue. I heard someone on the radio the other day say that, maybe, Biden has had a stroke or some such medical episode. He is, without doubt, not up to job that he is currently trying to do. This is a huge problem for the whole world.
James Lincoln says
tim,
Biden has always been a dim bulb.
But now he has evolved into a sociopathic – and demented – dim bulb.
And a fake, a phony, and a fraud.
tim gallagher says
James, it is certainly a worry to have someone as dim as Biden in charge of such an important country as the USA. I guess all he cared about was getting the position of President, a huge ego trip, because I believe that, knowing that he was on the decline mentally, a person who cared about the country, the USA, and its people more than his own ego trip, would have pulled out of his run for the Presidency. It would have been the right thing to do. I am not familiar with what Biden was like,, but the other night on her TV show on Sky News here in Australia, Peta Credlin, who I admire, said that she had noticed a big decline in Biden’s mental abilities over the years. She must have looked back at some his speeches from years ago or something and compared them to his hopelessness these days. As you say though, he was probably pretty dopey always. You have to wonder how such halfwits can climb so high up the political ladder. Having Biden in such an important position is a gigantic worry, that’s for sure.
OLD GUY says
The ego trip was as much his Doctor wife’s ego dream as his. She should be charged with elder abuse.