Biden Get Snippy and Is ‘Full’ of It During Pennsylvania Remarks – Opinion

Ah, Joe Biden.

He’s a constant font of the made-up stories. This isn’t even a new attribute; it’s something he’s been doing all of his political life. He was making up things about himself when he first ran for president in 1988 and claimed things that weren’t true about his academic record. Because he was lying and plagiarizing, he had to quit. Unfortunately, we had some sense then — not as much now.

Biden did it again Thursday. Biden was in North Carolina speaking about infrastructure. But then he claimed he had been a “full professor” at the University of Pennsylvania for four years. That’s just not true.

A full professor has a very specific meaning — it’s the highest rank of professor and means you’ve done not only your teaching but your research as well. It’s something that both of my parents worked very hard to achieve, so I resent people just hijacking the title when they didn’t earn it.

After he served as vice president between 2017-2019, Joe Biden received an honorary post at UPenn. Biden visited campus several times, and gave a few speeches. That is not what is ordinarily understood as being a “full professor.”

He used the chance to market his book though.

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Biden has visited campus nine times according to the Daily Pennsylvanian compilation. One of the visits was a November 2017 event promoting his book “Promise Me, Dad.”

The other Biden visits included Q&As with UPenn administrators, one lecture to Wharton business school graduate students and public events with former Mexican President Felipe Calderon and former UK Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg.

While he didn’t do a lot, he did get almost $1 million for it.

On Thursday, Biden wasn’t appealing enough to the people he was giving his remarks — so he had to encourage them to cheer.

Then he got into an exchange with a woman, in which he claimed he was “Professor Biden from Penn.” Biden stops her from whatever position she was taking to — I guess — say he has validity for what he is saying because he is a “Professor.”

She goes right back at him, “You’re the President.” He says, no, he’s Professor Biden from Penn.

But that wasn’t the only person he got snippy with on Thursday. He was asked by a reporter before taking off aboard Air Force One whether he planned to send any officials to Ukraine. Numerous countries have now sent personnel. Boris Johnson met President Volodymyr Zilensky, most notably. Biden didn’t like the question and snapped back at the reporter, asking if she wanted to be sent there.

The journalist would likely do a better job considering the way Kamala and Biden handle foreign trips. But what a snotty response from Biden — that’s classic Biden. He seemed to say he was ready to go, but when he was in Poland, he had said that “they” wouldn’t let him go, even though he wanted to go.

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