Politics
NEW: Biden SLAMMED Obama In An Unearthed Email For An Ironic Reason
The steady drip of salacious information gleaned from Hunter Biden’s laptop continued on Wednesday with new disclosures showing Joe Biden as vice president griping that his then-boss, President Barack Obama, lifted portions of a speech he gave in 2008.
In a September 2010 exchange with his son Hunter, then-Vice President Biden was asked for his thoughts on a recent speech given by President Obama at a pro-union labor rally that appeared to parrot the exact phrases Biden used in an August 2008 speech where he accepted the Democratic Party’s vice presidential nomination.
“Interesting language from the President: ‘They (his grandparent) would tell me about seeing their fathers or uncles losing their jobs…how it wasn’t just a loss of a paycheck that stung. It was the blow to their dignity, their sense of self worth,’” Hunter wrote.
“Wonder where he got that from?” Hunter asked. “Im surprised he didn’t finish with the long walk up a short flight of stairs. Pretty amazing.”
“No grace,” Biden responded to his son, according to Fox News.
The lines in question reference the “long walk” taken by a father or mother who comes home to tell their children that they were laid off. Vice President Biden’s 2008 speech in Missouri was the first to carry the line.
“You know, when a job is lost or a house is foreclosed on, it’s not just an economic loss, it’s emotionally devastating for a family,” he said at the time. “It’s about a parent having to make that long walk up a short flight of stairs, like my dad did when I was 10 years old, and walk into the child’s bedroom and say, honey, I’m sorry — I’m sorry but Daddy lost his job or Mommy lost her job.”
The exchange was conducted through a personal email account used by Biden, [email protected], one of several burner accounts that disguised his official interactions with his son, some of which related to questionable family business.
Biden’s bristling at Obama’s alleged plagiarism is particularly noteworthy given his failed bid for president in 1988 which only derailed when the then-U.S. senator was accused by the dean of the Syracuse University School of Law of stealing “five pages of a published law review article without quotation or citation.” The ensuing controversy forced Biden to withdraw from the race later that month.