Democratic Primaries
Related: About this forumprimary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Thekaspervote
(32,778 posts)Anyone who has overcome it has taken a disability and turned it into possibilities
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Demsrule86
(68,593 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
George II
(67,782 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Mr.Bill
(24,303 posts)It forced me to expand my vocabulary so I could substitute synonyms for a word that would make me stutter.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
beaglelover
(3,486 posts)When I fell in love with another person and felt his love in return, my stutter went away. It sometimes comes back if I'm very tired, but most of the time I can communicate with confidence these days.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
that's what I did with a coworker who stuttered - when when he was REALLY stuck I would say, think of another word! And he did, and he got very good at it!
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Mr.Bill
(24,303 posts)such as someone's name. I still have trouble sometimes with any name beginning with Mc. Of course now I can just say Moscow Mitch.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Skittles
(153,169 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
emmaverybo
(8,144 posts)World needs you Joe, for your expertise and your unflagging heart. :
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
oasis
(49,390 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
BannonsLiver
(16,397 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Kingofalldems
(38,459 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Mr.Bill
(24,303 posts)I literally raise my voice and say "For fuck's sake, he is running against a guy who said we won the Revolutionary War by taking the airports!"
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
BigmanPigman
(51,611 posts)before having him removed from the area.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Cha
(297,323 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Fla Dem
(23,692 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
catbyte
(34,406 posts)got help from a wonderful speech therapist in Chicago after the war and his stutter almost disappeared. I was born 10 years after he was discharged from the Marines, so I never heard it, but I heard about it from family. I had a mild stutter as a kid, too, especially when I was very tired. I grew out of it, though.
I've always had a soft spot for Biden. My mom loved him and so wanted him to run for president but he was diagnosed with that brain aneurysm and he couldn't. She was so disappointed. I know she'd be so excited this year.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
3Hotdogs
(12,393 posts)He went through every rank in the army, from buck private to Lt. Colonel. He was told he couldn't be a commissioned officer if he stuttered.
Somehow, he solved it.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Gothmog
(145,335 posts)Biden is a very kind and caring man
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Gothmog
(145,335 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Celerity
(43,419 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Gothmog
(145,335 posts)Link to tweet
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.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Gothmog
(145,335 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Cha
(297,323 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Tarheel_Dem
(31,235 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Gothmog
(145,335 posts)Link to tweet
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primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Gothmog
(145,335 posts)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
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
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.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden