Former Vice President Joe Biden may have tried to come out with guns blazing during Thursday night’s Democratic debate in Houston, but he repeatedly rambled in his responses to questions and also, at one point, seemed to suffer a dental-related malfunction that had the internet buzzing (and has kept it buzzing on Friday morning) — even from those on the liberal side.

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The presidential candidate, who is 76, faced a steady stream of attacks from his opponents, notably Julian Castro, the former Housing secretary under Barack Obama — who pointedly jabbed at Biden over his memory.

Castro said to Biden at one point, “I know that the problem with your [health care] plans is that it leaves 10 million people uncovered … Barack Obama’s vision was not to leave 10 million people uncovered.”

After Biden pushed back, Castro jabbed, “Are you forgetting what you just said two minutes ago?”

The strong exchanges were not surprising.

It was the first time the top Democratic candidates were all on stage together — so the opportunity was ripe for those lower in the polling to go after him.

But Biden, when discussing inequality in this country, acknowledged the existence of “institutional segregation” and then proposed tripling the amount of federal money that “poor schools” receive.

He also said teachers should get raises — and that “problems from home” need to be addressed. He said very young children should have the option to attend school at three and four years old — “not daycare.”

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Shortly after that, Biden talked about how American families should spend evenings together so that children are exposed to plenty of dialogue: “Play the radio, make sure the television — excuse me, make sure you have the record player on at night.”

The hard-to-follow commentary had people scratching their heads and elicited scores of comments on social media about his advanced age — with some people even calling him “Gramps.”

Then, when answering a question from ABC News anchor David Muir, Biden seemed to suffer some sort of odd oral issue, which lit up social media even more.

Take a look at some of the comments about Biden’s performance and appearance; some folks held nothing back, while some expressed sadness over what they saw on Thursday night. Then see the text (below these tweets) of one of his full answers, word for word.

One of the moderators, Linsey David, questioned Biden about schools and inequality.

He asked Biden, “Mr. Vice President, I want to talk to you about inequality in schools and race. In a conversation about how to deal with segregation in schools back in 1975, you told a reporter, ‘I don’t feel responsible for the sins of my father and grandfather. I feel responsible for what the situation is today, for the sins of my own generation, and I’ll be damned if I feel responsible to pay for what happened 300 years ago.’ You said that some 40 years ago, but as you stand here tonight, what responsibility do you think that Americans need to take to repair the legacy of slavery in our country?”

Here is Biden’s full, word-for-word answer: “Well, they have to deal with the — Look, there is institutional segregation in this country. And from the time I got involved, I started dealing with that. Redlining, banks, making sure that we are in a position where — Look, we talk about education. I propose that what we take is those very poor schools, the Title 1 schools, triple the amount of money we spend from $15 to $45 billion a year. Give every single teacher a raise to the equal of — a raise of getting out of the $60,000 level.”

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“Number two, make sure that we bring in to the help with the stud — the teachers deal with the problems that come from home,” Biden continued in this answer to the same question. “The problems that come from home, we need … We have one school psychologist for every 1,500 kids in America today. It’s crazy. The teachers are required — I’m married to a teacher. My deceased wife is a teacher. They have every problem coming to them.”

“Make sure that every single child does, in fact — have three-, four-, and five-year-olds go to school. School! Not day care, school. We bring social workers into homes of parents to help them deal with how to raise their children. It’s not that they don’t want to help. They don’t know what — They don’t know what quite what to do. Play the radio. Make sure the television — excuse me, make sure you have the record player on at night. The phone — make sure the kids hear words. A kid coming from a very poor school — er, a very poor background — will hear 4 million words fewer spoken by the time they get there.”

Then Davis said, “Thank you, Mr. Vice President.”

And Biden kept going: “No, I’m going to go like the rest of them do, twice over, OK? Because here’s the deal. The deal is that we’ve got this a little backward. And by the way, in Venezuela, we should be allowing people to come here from Venezuela. I know Maduro. I’ve confronted Maduro. Number two, you talk about the need to do something in Latin America. I’m the guy that came up with $740 million to see to it those three countries, in fact, change their system so people don’t have to chance to leave. You’re all acting like we just discovered this yesterday! Thank you very much.”

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