As president teeters, Jill Biden faces a critical juncture

The Hill ^ | 7/02/24 | Judy Kurtz

[Libloather]

She’s served more than three years as first lady, but after President Biden’s stunningly shaky debate performance and subsequent calls for him to step down, Jill Biden — and her potential power — are suddenly being thrust into the spotlight like never before.

“It seems to be a make-or-break moment for the president, and I would say that Jill Biden will be there at every turn,” said Katherine Jellison, an expert on first ladies and professor of U.S. women’s and gender history at Ohio University.

Biden’s role in her husband’s campaign and decision-making process came into sharper focus last week, following what even allies described as his “disastrous” debate against former President Trump in Atlanta.

The showing at the CNN debate, which found 81-year-old Biden stumbling over some answers and staring blankly at times, ignited a firestorm of renewed questions about his age and fitness for office. Prominent figures on both sides of the aisle and multiple newspaper editorial boards called for Biden to drop out of the race rather than face Trump, his 78-year-old opponent.

But Jill Biden, a Northern Virginia Community College professor who also sometimes doubles as her husband’s defender in chief, made her support clear at an event held two days after the debate debacle.

“Joe isn’t just the right person for the job. He’s the only person for the job,” she said at a New York campaign fundraiser.

She doubled down the next day in a phone interview with Vogue from Camp David, where the president’s family had reportedly gathered for a photo shoot and discussion.

[Libloather]

Jill will have to give up those fancy dresses.

[proxy_user]

She will have to give up being President!

[BobL]

I think the junta that runs the country has decided that the only way to take down President Biden is to take down Jill first. She better be prepared for the “Trump Treatment”.

[CatOwner]

She’s got a big stockpile right now. But the Bidens never have enough money.

[bigbob]

BS, she faces nothing. Steady as she goes, ignore those naysayers, Joe Bidumb ain’t no quitter.

[bgill]

Hillary/Jill ‘24

[irishjuggler]

Jill ain’t going voluntarily, so the question is at what point does the Deep State arrange for her to wake up next to dog Commander’s head??

[Kahuna]

It’s never a good idea to betray our good friends in Israel.

[Liz]

Who can forget this image calculatedly posted by drjill, seen sitting at the presidential desk on Air Force One? This is when we found out Jill is a “foreign policy expert” who is making key decisions WRT American families’ safety and security.

A few months after her husband took office, Jill Biden posted this image of herself on social media, sitting at a desk aboard Air Force One, looking very important. A flight jacket with the presidential seal is draped over the back of her chair, to leave you in no doubt about the power behind the throne.

“Prepping for the G7,” she wrote on her @FLOTUS “US Government Official” account, under the photo in which a scholarly “Dr. Jill,” wearing reading glasses, pen in hand, is studying a thick ring binder of notes.

Are these classified notes? Does drjill have security clearance to view these?

As the 72-year-old wife of the oldest president in history, the effrontery of this spousal usurper on her first overseas trip was a portent of liberties to come.

Three years later, as her husband, now 81, grows increasingly befuddled, Dr. Jill is stepping up, doing solo campaign visits and TV appearances, weighing in on politics and polls as if it were she who is running for office.

And now we hear that the first lady has been pressuring her husband on Israel’s war on Hamas with these words: “Stop it. Stop it now, Joe.” At a Ramadan event at the White House last week, Joe Biden reportedly told attendees about “Jill’s sophisticated geopolitical advice.”

[politicket]

I just did an analysis of Jill Biden's "Doctoral" dissertation (more like a term paper when you're getting an EdD).

Wanted to see if see was a plagiarist like her husband.

Turns out she is!

I ran her paper through an AI engine called Claude.AI that is at least as powerful as ChatGPT 4o.

It returned many sections that she stole from previous sources without any proper citation.

The "Dr" should give her degree back and be publicly shamed.

[NetAddicted]

“Jill Biden - and her potential power...”: say what?

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

There's talk about a Harris-Buttigieg ticket

Eric Matheny; There's talk about a Harris-Buttigieg ticket

Ginger at GingerAndSpice: Blowjobs & Buttplugs

[WeaslesRippedMyFlesh]

She has no accountability. She’s immune to shame.

Back off or you’re going to get accused of sexism.

What do these democrats have against women?

[ridesthemiles]

HOW MANY CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS HAS SHE HANDLED????

[Old Grumpy]

Dr. Jill is as pushy and obnoxious as the She Beast Hillary. I’d love to see the two of them in an arm-wrestling match.

😄

[Scrambler Bob]

Joe and Jill went up the ‘Hill’.

To fetch a pail of ‘whatever’ (Gobs of $).

Joe fell down and broke his ‘Prompter’

And Jill freaked out with temper.

[angelsonmyside]

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