The optics of the President's trip to the 80th remembrance of D-Day late last week in Normandy was spectacularly awful. At one point, you can see the uncomfortably aging 81-year old standing next to French President Emmanuel Macron, starting to sit down in a chair that wasn't there, looking perpetually lost, and being whisked away early by his wife, leaving Macron to talk to American D-Day survivors. It was embarrassing to watch. 

His speech, reading off the teleprompter, was lethargic. It was basically a speech paraphrased from Ronald Reagan's masterpiece 40 years earlier. If you've ever been a high school student, taught one, or known one, you recognize when someone has a report to write, and when you read it, it's nothing more than a restatement of what they supposedly read, faking their way through the paper. That was Biden's speech. 

But it was his off-prompter moments that have gradually circulated on the web that are the true stunners. 



Yes, the memory of Uncle Bosie has returned. Being in Normandy reminds Joe of Uncle Bosie. If you'll recall, Uncle Bosie has quite the colorful bio, according to the way Joe Biden tells it. 



Uncle Bosie wasn't shot down. He wasn't flying. He wasn't trained to fly. He was part of the ground crew. It wasn't a top secret mission. He filled in on this flight as a courier. The plane's navigation failed, they had flown hours off course, ran out of gas, and ditched in open water, killing everyone on board, save one person who told the story of what really happened. There were no cannibals snorkeling miles off-shore to haul up Uncle Bosie from Davy Jones' locker and eat him. And the real story was documented in the papers at the time. None of what Joe Biden said was true, other than he did have an uncle nicknamed Bosie. 

Now, in Normandy, the memory of Bosie resurfaces. Why? God only knows. New Guinea is off the northern coast of Australia, which as a crow flies, and it would be a very tired crow once it got there, is 8,862 miles away from Omaha Beach. For the benefit of you math and/or geography fans, that's 35.5% of the Earth's circumference away. The cannibals weren't Nazis in machine gun pillboxes. The South Pacific is nothing like the European theater in World War II. But in Joe Biden's cranium, it's all eerily familiar. 



Well, no wonder the Republicans in the House were so upset with the jam down of foreign aid passed a couple months ago. I was totally unaware that Iraqi aid had been pending for months and finally appropriated. Of course, he has no clue what he's talking about. I'm sure he meant to say Afghanistan, but all those Arab-looking people look alike to Joe, apparently. 

At the dinner Saturday night, Joe Biden gave some more remarks, sans teleprompter. 



Okay, pull up a chair. This is going to take a bit to work through. You don't have to worry about Glenn Kessler fact-checking this at the Washington Post. We're too close to the election, which means you won't see anything resembling an accounting of what Democrats say, especially this Democrat. 

If Joe Biden talks about a legend in his family, it's a very good chance the legend resides squarely within the confines of his own mind. He is famous for pandering to whatever ethnic group he is in front of during one of his stem-winders. Remember Greek Independence Day? He claims he's always been known as Joe Bidenopoulos. In front of Puerto Ricans, he claims he grew up in a Puerto Rican neighborhood. It's the same neighborhood that was also majority Black, majority Latino, majority Jewish, majority Irish Catholic, and majority Italian, depending again upon the group to whom he is addressing his remarks. 

In France, he is now claiming French heritage, because his middle name, Robinette, is probably the result of Biden descending from a Revolutionary War compatriot of Lafayette. He's never publicly pronounced his middle name this way, but being in France, decided to make it sound as French-sounding as possible. 

Here's the problem. There's not a sole French speaker that would pronounce it that way. Robinette actually is a thing in French. It's a faucet. It's pronounced just like it reads - robin-ette. And I'm not the world's authority on either speaking French or pronouncing Biden's middle name. For the latter, I'll refer to someone who ought to be an authority on how to pronounce it - Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., taking his oath of office on January 20th, 2021.



The Chief Justice pronounced Robinette the correct way. Joe Biden sat on Senate Judiciary when Roberts was confirmed to be Chief Justice. He has known Joe Biden for a very long time. He knows how to pronounce his name. But I'd bet cash money that conversations were had between staff to make sure all pronunciations were verified in advance of the inauguration.

But it wasn't just John Roberts. Joe Biden himself pronounced it the right way as well. His pandering in France wasn't just embarrassing to Americans, it was offensive to the French, too. Back to his Saturday remarks.

Biden claimed that there was an American Revolutionary War hero named Robinette, for whom he was ultimately named. There were several Robinett names listed, but only one Robinette, according to the Daughters of the Revolution. His name was Clemuel Robinette. He did serve in the Revolutionary War, and may have come over here with Lafayette, but may not have. There's simply no record. There's also nothing exceptional about his military service. He might have been a hero, he might not have. History just records he's a name in an unmarked grave, and his family at the time couldn't verify it was really him in that cemetery. And there is zero genealogical evidence that this is the same Robinette that eventually begat Joe Biden. 

As far as military men named Robinette in Biden's actual bloodline, there is one, actually, that stands out. Moses Robinette was a Civil War Union officer, and was tried and convicted as a felon for the attempted murder of another Civil War officer. Yes, Joe Biden is the direct descendant of a convicted felon, which I'm told is a very bad thing to be these days. Moses was pardoned by Abraham Lincoln just a few months before he was assassinated, because he felt the punishment was a little too severe. He did the crime, he slashed another officer with a knife, almost killed him, but Lincoln didn't believe the length of Moses' sentence was warranted. 

On issues of substance, Biden-Harris continues to be a train wreck. After the Israeli Defense Forces rescued 4 hostages over the weekend, the concern from Team Biden was Netanyahu still sucks, the cost in Gazan casualties for the hostages was too high (something that would never be said about any loss of life in order to rescue American hostages), and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan lamenting that this hostage rescue may have caused Hamas to leave the negotiating table, as if that should be any sane person's primary focus. 

Vice President Kamala Harris was stumping in Michigan over the weekend, and while she wanted to talk non-stop about abortion and Orange Man bad, she was repeatedly heckled by the anti-Semites in the Democratic base. 

Kamala Harris gets interrupted by another rabid pro-Hamas protester in Michigan: "I value and respect your voice, but I'm speaking right now" pic.twitter.com/CYUqnOxqow

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