Posted on 08/21/2021 8:40:26 AM PDT by Mr.Unique
Nobody should, any longer, pretend that Joe Biden is fit to lead this nation.
Joe Biden has badly, visibly bungled America’s withdrawal from Afghanistan. He has compounded the problem with his sluggish and dishonest public statements. This has gone so badly that even people and institutions that are normally sympathetic to Biden and his party have noticed. American allies have been appalled, and vocal about it. What is slowly dawning on people is that Biden’s critics were right about him all along. Not since James Buchanan has America had a president who came so prepared by experience for the job, yet had so little clue how to do it. That reality will be shoved from consciousness soon enough by people with a professional stake in not acknowledging it, but a growing number of the American people are likely to remember. So will our allies and enemies around the world.
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Yet, longtime Biden-watchers knew better. Two sets of critiques of Biden have followed him over the course of his career, and Republicans and conservatives have hardly been the only ones to level them. First were the things people noticed about Biden before 2019. For all his time-serving in Washington, Biden was widely understood to be a lightweight, a fabulist, a plagiarist, an exaggerating braggart, a walking gaffe machine, a purveyor of malarkey who covered his inch-deep grasp of everything with his Irish charm and his ability to talk fast and at length until the listener had long since lost track of the topic. Biden rarely had ideas of his own, and when he did, they were usually the subject of mockery. His capacity for filling airtime at Senate hearings without actually saying anything was legendary.
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He could handle the Senate because he’d been there since he was 29, and there are lots of places to hide from accountability as one of a hundred. When Obama made the biggest right decision of his career to take out Osama bin Laden, Biden was the guy in the room saying “Mr. President, my suggestion is, don’t go” because there would be nobody to pass the political buck to if it failed.
Biden never actually ran anything bigger than a Senate committee (which runs on its staff) until he was vice president. The things he ran as vice president (such as overseeing the stimulus) were notable disasters. Politico reported that Biden’s own boss, Barack Obama, warned another Democrat in 2016, “Don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to f*** things up.”
Yeah, they don't get to complain.
FUNR, you wanted Biden...OWN IT!!!
Last fall they could find no difference between Biden and Trump, couldn't bring themselves to endorse secure borders and integrity in the military.
Now they seem surprised. What a bunch of intellectual light-weights.
I subscribed to NR from 1980 to 2016.
Dumped them over the NT nonsense.
Vietnam all over again. I remember 1975 like it was yesterday.
As if obamy telling him not to run wasn’t a clue.
Even Robin Williams (RIP) back in 2009 warned us....
(Language)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHHUkTRFvew
Damn right.
And, BeijingBiden is exactly what his paymasters wanted and the <50% who voted for him. His voters wanted all of this. To them there have been no disasters. They support this. Don’t expect to woo any of them away from him. They are all mental light weights and socialist parasites.
Imagine yourself an absentee landlord farmer (there has to be a name for them) and your tenants have not been weeding as expected. Your farm is half weed, and the weeds are killing everything. If you are from the South, think kudzoo (sp?), and weed killer has been outlawed.
You are no longer a successful farmer.
Bump! NR has lost all credibility, F the nation review. I will never read it again.
Dan, Joe Biden had nothing to do with this.
He was installed to do what he was told.
He had the right amount of corruption and dirt on him to be counted on to sign the orders written to bring down the United States.
He is not who you said he was, he’s who you guys wanted!
So F Off!
The worst part of this is that Biden didn’t make ANY of these decisions - he is incapable of thinking clearly in his demented state. These decisions were made by his “handlers” - supposedly rational, intelligent people.
So, even if he was not demented, these would still be the IDIOTS (or traitors) advising him. They will probably still be the people advising a future President Kamala when Biden is forced to resign.
This nation is in serious, existential trouble when a major political party is actively working toward the destruction of it.
They didn’t endorse or campaign for Biden. The “Against Trump” issue came out in January 2016 when a lot of people were still skeptical about Trump and assumed he wasn’t a serious candidate.
Joe always has been a poorly motivated, low IQ politician for almost 50 years of living off the dole.
Bull.
Right.
National Review Oct 2020: Hell No! The Case Against Trump
To balance this, they had another essay to reflect the "pro" side of Donald Trump. It begins like this: "I know what I think of Donald Trump. I think that he’s a shallow, ignorant, capricious, incorrigible, self-destructive fool."
They were NOT neutral in 2020.
IMHO it is the likes on the National Review that we are in the situation that we are in. They did not support President Trump and this is the result.
A lightweight, a fabulist, a plagiarist, an exaggerating braggart, a walking gaffe machine.
Shows it IQ of the people who voted for him and the never Trump mob.
You feel safer now?.
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