C’Mon, Man!

Washington Post: “It might as well be Joe Biden’s campaign slogan. It’s a phrase he loves to use, one that channels indignation, a bit of an eye roll and a decent dose of macho bravado. C’mon, man! There are many Bidenisms, which have become a running joke among those who follow him closely. ‘Folks!’ is the word that starts most sentences and ‘not a joke!’ is the phrase that ends them. He’ll pull out ‘my word as a Biden’ and ‘God love ’em,’ and he almost literally uses ‘literally’ more than most other words.”

“‘Here’s the deal,’ he says to emphasize a point. ‘The fact of the matter is,’ is the way he starts another. ‘Look!’ he often shouts, urging his audience to see things the way he does.”

“But if those are verbal tics, ‘c’mon, man’ represents more in this campaign, imbuing a candidate who can meander rhetorically in sometimes pointless directions with a pithy sense of frustration and urgency.”