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Joe Biden Is Who We Said He Was
National Review ^ | August 21, 2021 | DAN MCLAUGHLIN

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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KEYWORDS: biden; rinorag; unfit
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To: pepsi_junkie; TTFlyer
That was one of a series of articles, accompanied with this disclaimer:

Editor’s Note: If you would like to read more pros and cons on voting for President Trump, further essays on the subject, each from a different perspective, can be found here, here, and here. These articles, and the one below, reflect the views of the individual authors, not of the National Review editorial board as a whole.

Once again: "These articles, and the one below, reflect the views of the individual authors, not of the National Review editorial board as a whole."

The original articles were "Yes," "No," and "Maybe." Williamson threw in the "Hell, No" article of his own just to muddy the waters.

21 posted on 08/21/2021 9:18:36 AM PDT by x
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To: x
The Yes article is a litany of 'Yes, we all know that Trump sucks, he's terrible, he's an awful human being, the worst, I hate him too. I don't blame you for not wanting to vote for him. I very reluctantly will."

Really made a great effort to put up a supportive case there.

22 posted on 08/21/2021 9:21:25 AM PDT by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
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To: Mr.Unique
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.

Joe's always been afraid of getting blamed for doing something and not being able to pass the buck.

Joe forgot that surrendering and bugging out is doing something too.

23 posted on 08/21/2021 9:23:02 AM PDT by seowulf (Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos...Will Durant)
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To: Mr.Unique
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.

With Carter and Obozo and now Biden, people tend to forget about Buchanan....

24 posted on 08/21/2021 9:31:36 AM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.d)
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To: Mr.Unique
Re: "He could handle the Senate because he'd been there since he was 29"

Minimum age for the U.S. Senate is 30.

25 posted on 08/21/2021 9:32:26 AM PDT by zeestephen
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To: Mr.Unique
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.

He was and is all of that. He ran for president twice in the past and won what, one hundred votes?! He needed a one hundred per cent sympathetic media (and one hundred per cent hostile to his opponent) and massive fraud to win this time. He is the personification of a nothing man. I wish Corn Pop had kicked his ass.

26 posted on 08/21/2021 9:34:10 AM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.d)
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To: Mr.Unique
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.

He was and is all of that. He ran for president twice in the past and won what, one hundred votes?! He needed a one hundred per cent sympathetic media (and one hundred per cent hostile to his opponent) and massive fraud to win this time. He is the personification of a nothing man. I wish Corn Pop had kicked his ass.

27 posted on 08/21/2021 9:34:10 AM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.d)
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To: Mr.Unique
His capacity for filling airtime at Senate hearings without actually saying anything was legendary.

And considering his company in The Senate, that is saying something.

28 posted on 08/21/2021 9:35:33 AM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.d)
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To: dfwgator

I used to subscribe to NR. When they had Mark Steyn as a regular contributor and John O’Sullivan, I dropped them a long time ago.


29 posted on 08/21/2021 9:36:57 AM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.d)
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To: zeestephen
True, but he was elected just before his 30th birthday.
30 posted on 08/21/2021 9:37:20 AM PDT by Mr.Unique (My boss wants me to sign up for a 401K. No way I'm running that far! )
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To: Mr.Unique

Came so prepared? Haven’t many of us been saying, like Trump, that Biden has been in political office for 47 years and what does he have to show for it? A true politician that is incompetent, yet so firmly imbedded in politics that he cannot be voted out! This is why we need term limits! Not that it would ever pass, but we see daily that the longer they stay in office, the more destructive they become!


31 posted on 08/21/2021 9:50:12 AM PDT by Shery ( )
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To: Mr.Unique

Now is the time to make the best possible offer to Joe Manchin to have him switch parties. Committee Chairmanships, Joe Manchin Federal Institute for Advancement of Bowling HQ in Morgantown, etc., etc., etc. - whatever it takes to end this charade of Democratic majority in the Senate. I recall Shelby switching parties during the Reagan Administration. It happens. But now is the time it is the most valuable marginal switch in history. In a state that went for Trump by 70-30 in 2020, and with a re-election in 2022 that would be a lock as a Republican - it’s time to make him an offer he can’t refuse.


32 posted on 08/21/2021 9:54:27 AM PDT by Wally_Kalbacken
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To: Wally_Kalbacken

I don’t want turncoats.


33 posted on 08/21/2021 9:55:43 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Mr.Unique
hey, NR got exactly what they wanted, so they should cut out their whining:


34 posted on 08/21/2021 9:59:38 AM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: Mr.Unique

Joe is the poster boy for term limits.


35 posted on 08/21/2021 10:00:30 AM PDT by Irenic ( )
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To: Mister Da

This is why I would like Harris to get in there pretty soon. She wont be able to fix this and will show how inept she is.

No Dem can fix this.

It takes someone like Trump.

Neither side has anyone that can fix this at the moment.

It will be all finger pointing.

Milley will probably be the first to fall.


36 posted on 08/21/2021 10:03:22 AM PDT by RummyChick (Bagram was the most logical exit point. Stand up and justify your decision (hat tip Larrytown))
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To: Irenic

Joe is the poster boy for term limits.

Romanian Term Limits.


37 posted on 08/21/2021 10:03:30 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

As limiting as possible, it also would make it harder on lobbyists and cost them a whole heck of a lot more money, also have the elected work via computers from their home districts, making it even more difficult and expensive for lobbyists.


38 posted on 08/21/2021 10:11:35 AM PDT by Irenic ( )
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To: Irenic

True but as Carlin said..

Garbage in, garbage out. If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you’re going to get selfish, ignorant leaders. Term limits ain’t going to do any good; you’re just going to end up with a brand new bunch of selfish, ignorant Americans.


39 posted on 08/21/2021 10:12:56 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Mr.Unique

National Review - chock filled to the brim with anti-Trumpers. Are they happy now?


40 posted on 08/21/2021 10:16:57 AM PDT by DaxtonBrown
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