Posted on 08/23/2019 12:16:59 PM PDT by Kaslin
One of the more poignant moments of Barack Obama's presidency came at the very end, in January 2017, just days before he left the White House. He awarded Vice President Joe Biden the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Obama spoke at great length about their personal friendship and praised Biden's leadership. In response, Biden said he knew that, no matter what, Obama would always be there for him.
Obama: "It was 8 1/2 years ago that I chose Joe to be my vice president. There has not been a single moment since that time that I have doubted the wisdom of that decision. ... Joe's candid, honest counsel has made me a better president and a better commander in chief."
Biden: "Mr. President, you know as long as there is breath in me, I will be there for you, my whole family will be, and I know it's reciprocal."
You didn't have to love Obama to appreciate that there was something sweet about it. But it was all fake. Obama won't be there for Biden. His internal friendship has ended and didn't make it through the next presidential term. Instead of helping his trusted friend run for the presidency, Obama has refused to endorse Biden. According to some reports, Obama repeatedly urged Biden not to run. "You don't have to do this," he warned Biden. Obama, it turns out, cares about one thing: himself. He is obsessed with his political legacy. Every day that Joe Biden stays on the campaign trail, he detracts from that.
As of today, the polls say Biden is the Democratic front-runner. They tell you he has a good chance of becoming president. But don't believe them. Officially, Biden may still be in the lead, but let's be honest, Biden's campaign is not a real campaign. It is a zombie effort and lurches from one blunder to another. Some catastrophe will eventually put it out of its misery. Even Biden's allies want him to stop speaking in public so often. Why? When people see Biden, they realize he's not a distinguished elder statesman but a fading one. Biden thinks Cory Booker is the president of the United States. He believes the truth outweighs the facts. He thinks he was vice president during the Parkland shooting last year.
Mistakes like these don't make Biden a bad person, but they do make his campaign look like what it actually is: a joke, not a serious play for the White House. If Biden were offering something real, a compelling message, he could get elected anyway, but he isn't. He is a Democratic fossil running for a party that sees him as too male, too pale and too stale. Biden is old enough to have public views prior to the year 2008. In American politics, that makes his old policies totally unacceptable to the party's voters. 1995 Joe Biden supported all kinds of things current Joe Biden would never admit to: a secure border, drugs off the streets, criminals in prison even.
The current Democratic Party believes in protecting criminals and even celebrating them. All the energy is with the other candidates and insurgents like Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders and Kamala Harris. One of these three will likely rise above the rest and take the nomination. That's bad news if you're Obama and all you really care about is your own cherished legacy. Biden is expressively running as a continuation of Obama's agenda. But that agenda has been completely eclipsed by a new radical political agenda. Now, Democrats are demanding single-payer health care, which would be free to illegal immigrants, the ones streaming over our open border with Mexico. Candidates are advocating reparations based on skin color, the abolition of America's history. They want to remake gender relations from the ground up. Obama could be seen as the one who paved the way for all of that. Biden could be seen as the vice president who kept it from happening sooner.
Not happening, of course.
Im still calling it. Sasquatch will run. The he-she has too much ego not to..
Willie Brown’s Mistress is more damaged by the day. I don’t see her making it to the final round of the primaries.
I think Tulsi might get VP.
The party establishment just booted her out of the next debate and even if they realize what a gaffe that move was it is too late and she will now steal part of Bernies outsider/underdog support.
Obongo wanted a hapless idiot as a VP for obvious reasons. So he picked Joe.
Obama: “It was 8 1/2 years ago that I chose Joe to be my vice president. There has not been a single moment since that time that I have doubted the wisdom of that decision. ... Joe’s candid, honest counsel has made me a better president and a better commander in chief.”
Biden: “Mr. President, you know as long as there is breath in me, I will be there for you, my whole family will be, and I know it’s reciprocal.”
2 more accomplished liars would be hard to find.
Im no Biden fan, but the country would be 50 % better had he been President instead of the illegal immigrant enemy within what’s his name
Oh he had a legacy all right, a supremely crappy one.
The only place it will be found is on a Subaru dealer's lot.
Or in a toilet.
Sasquatch?
You can’t possibly mean Hillary?
nobama’ “legacy” is being The Greatest Fraud Ever .
When he called Booker “President” he corrected himself to “Future President”, I think he was trying to troll Booker, no?
Obunga is an EXPERT at blowing smoke up the American public's A$$!
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