The Gift That Keeps On Giving

James Doogue

Joe Biden was speaking at an annual function named in honour of the life and deeds of civil rights campaigner Martin Luther King II. His son Martin Luther King III was co-chairing the event. It happened to be MLK III's wife, Arndrea Waters-King's, 49th birthday.

Joe Biden launched into a truly woeful rendition of the song, 'Happy Birthday'.

Maybe he thought the crowd would join in the singing? Mostly they sat in a stunned and awkward silence. Some clapped in time, but that had little impact because Joe held the microphone close.

It quickly became clear Joe Biden was desperately searching his autocue for Andrea's name. His cringeworthy singing became even shakier. When he got to the name who knows what it was he sang?

It sounded a bit like 'Valder' to me. The YouTube auto-captioning interpreted "Happy Birthday Dear Valley" . Perhaps expressing the wish of all who were there that the ground would just open up and swallow them?

How was he ever elected?

Tim adds:

Makes me think of the movie Cat Ballou where Lee Marvin sings happy birthday at the wake for his employer; he thinks the candles mean it's a birthday (he was in a drunken stupor.)

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