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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: dfwgator

I’m good with that. If it’s hopeless may as well make things less certain and more expensive for lobbyists.


41 posted on 08/21/2021 10:17:43 AM PDT by Irenic ( )
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To: Mr.Unique

“God’s definition of himself is : I am HE who is’’.

‘’The Devil’s definition of himself is: “I am HE who is not’’.- Bishop Fulton J. Sheen.

Joe Biden is the Devil.


42 posted on 08/21/2021 10:19:57 AM PDT by jmacusa (America. Founded by geniuses . Now governed by idiots.)
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To: RetiredArmy
Vietnam all over again. I remember 1975 like it was yesterday.

I was half way through USAF Basic Training at Lackland AFB when it was announced that Saigon had fallen.

43 posted on 08/21/2021 10:27:43 AM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken )
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To: jpsb
I cancelled my subscription to this "Never Trump'' rag over ten years ago.
44 posted on 08/21/2021 10:31:04 AM PDT by jmacusa (America. Founded by geniuses . Now governed by idiots.)
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To: pepsi_junkie

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3386852/posts?page=72

Nuff said


45 posted on 08/21/2021 10:31:21 AM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: jpsb
I cancelled my subscription to that "Never Trump'' rag over ten years ago.
46 posted on 08/21/2021 10:32:10 AM PDT by jmacusa (America. Founded by geniuses . Now governed by idiots.)
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To: dfwgator

RW harpooned every pol from Clinton to Bush to Palin.....absolutely hysterical stuff on that link


47 posted on 08/21/2021 10:34:29 AM PDT by 4Runner
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To: 4Runner

I miss that guy a lot.


48 posted on 08/21/2021 10:35:24 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Rummyfan

Dropped my subscription when WFB retired and gave the reins over to some ivy league kid, forgot his name. Never the same.


49 posted on 08/21/2021 10:37:41 AM PDT by 4Runner
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To: Mr.Unique
Joe Biden Is Who We Said He Was

Old Joe just a simple caveman POTUS.

50 posted on 08/21/2021 10:46:18 AM PDT by NautiNurse (The Swiss beach volleyball team was inspired by the Jamaican bobsled team. )
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To: zeestephen

I thought he ran for the Senate when he was 29 and was 30 when he was sworn in.


51 posted on 08/21/2021 10:49:21 AM PDT by thecodont
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To: Mr.Unique

Biden is rather dumb, a phony, a fraud but was able to bull shit his way through a political career with the help of an even dumber voting public. There’s going to be a terrible price to pay!


52 posted on 08/21/2021 10:50:37 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: RetiredArmy
Vietnam all over again. I remember 1975 like it was yesterday.

I went on active duty a few months after the fall of Saigon. I also have a vivid memory of the helicopters evacuating people off the roof. I didn't think I'd ever see anything like that again.

And yet, here we are doing the same damn thing 50 years later.

53 posted on 08/21/2021 10:52:29 AM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: Bonemaker

Dad was a used car salesman. So gene pool...


54 posted on 08/21/2021 10:53:34 AM PDT by nascarnation
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To: Mr.Unique

Die, NR! Die! You filthy never-Trumpers wanted this. Choke on a bag of Hunter’s dick pics and die. DIE!!!!!


55 posted on 08/21/2021 10:56:02 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: Mr.Unique

He’s a self serving corrupt political hack with a propensity for little girls.
So,IOW..a democrat.


56 posted on 08/21/2021 11:01:00 AM PDT by Leep (Save America. Lock down Joe Biden!)
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To: Vaduz

fabulist
[ˈfabyələst]
NOUN
a person who composes or relates fables.
a liar, especially a person who invents elaborate, dishonest stories.
“a born fabulist, with an imagination unfettered by the laws of logic and probability”


Yeah, that’s him....and every other liberal on earth.


57 posted on 08/21/2021 11:04:13 AM PDT by Salamander ("Salamander has barbaric tendencies" /Gundog)
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To: catnipman

Beck, Kristol, Erickson, Moore - garbage. They own this.


58 posted on 08/21/2021 11:19:37 AM PDT by HonkyTonkMan ( )
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To: Mr.Unique

National Review—house journal of Conservative, Inc. What a great article. They should make it the theme for their next cruise.


59 posted on 08/21/2021 1:02:56 PM PDT by Iowa Slim
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To: colorado tanker

Amen brother. I had been to Nam. Got hit and spent four months in hospital. Got out of the hospital and spent a few months on Kelly Hill at Fort Benning and off to Germany, where I was on the East-West German border pulling border patrol. I saw communism from a hot war to a cold war and the only difference was people in East Germany were dying slowly instead of fast as in Nam. Those people were still in the 1930s and 1940s, riding tractors made even then. Then I looked back into West Germany and saw men plowing their fields in brand new 1970s model tractors. Even some of the people on the East side of the border were using horses and mules to plow their fields. You could see at the end of the growing season the bounty that the West side was harvesting and the little gain the people on the East were yielding. Dying slowly, poor food, poor health, early deaths in the East. All the same. Under communism, you are ruled with an iron fist. The leadership get the best of the yield and the people starve. It is coming here. Even our local Walmart store’s shelves look like some of the pictures from the old Soviet Union’s store shelves. This past Monday we went to a local store in the city next to where we live. A larger Walmart than our store. On many aisles the shelves were nearly empty or were empty of products. I made the comment of such in the hearing of a Walmart worker and he said that they simply do not get what they order any more. They order and it is hit and miss if they get what the put in for. Mainly now, it is a miss. They may get half of what they order. Then people seeing what is happening, start hording, fear of severe shortages. It is COMING here. COUNT on it. If we do not get rid of this criminal mob in Sodom on the Potomac, we are going to be the next Venezuela!!!


60 posted on 08/22/2021 3:55:26 AM PDT by RetiredArmy (Free Will. GOD gives you the choice I accept or reject Him! Choose Him. It depends on you.)
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