Missed on that one
I’m sorry, but the editorial page column about partisanship had at least one fatal flaw. It is disgraceful for anyone who claims to be an educated person to repeat the criticism of Joe Biden due to his speech patterns when he writes “a guy who has trouble completing a sentence longer than a few words.”
It has long been documented that he is a lifelong stutterer, an actual affliction, and that he often pauses to focus on certain words — as he was taught to do as a child — in order to not stutter.
Furthermore, anyone who owns a TV, has functional eyes and ears, and a minimum of cognitive function, could see while watching Joe Biden’s most recent State of the Union address (and his fiery campaign speeches that same week) that he is eloquent and articulate in a way that his opponent (who is famous for word salads about wind and windmills, water, trees and many other subjects) is not.
Does he sometimes go off-topic and talk about his father, or his childhood in Scranton. Yes, that’s folksy Joe, not unfocused Joe.
This is not a partisan issue, it’s a matter of simple human courtesy to someone who has fought stuttering his whole life. The author completely short-circuits and undercuts his thesis. So maybe courtesy is as much the issue as partisanship.
Toby Mamis
Park City
Harassment in schools on all of us
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