Posted on 09/11/2020 1:08:04 PM PDT by karpov
The portrait of Joe Biden that emerges from What It Takes (1992), Richard Ben Cramer’s thousand-page New Journalism–style report on the 1988 presidential race, in which Biden ran for a few steps until he stumbled over his own shoelaces, is a familiar one. Biden is the grinning, overconfident oaf, a strutting salesman who keeps selling himself loads of bull manure even as everyone around him becomes alarmed by his obliviousness to facts. Or to cite another figure for comparison: He’s the lord of Swamp Castle in Monty Python and the Holy Grail: “Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp. But I built it all the same, just to show them. It sank into the swamp. So I built a second one. And that one sank into the swamp. So I built a third. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp . . .” The story of Joe Biden is where staggering incompetence meets irrepressible self-confidence. The more he fails, the more convinced he becomes that he’s right.
Ladies and gentlemen, Joe Biden, managerial visionary. We turn to page 248 of Cramer’s tombstone-sized book. A couple of years into his Senate career, Biden has a dream of living grandly by buying on the cheap a former du Pont manse, together with a huge chunk of land, for $200,000. The house was boarded up and soon, probably, to be torn down. But Biden saw something in it. Sure, it needed some fixing up. Never fear, Joe is here! Joe is a can-do fellow. The first winter he and Jill spent in the house, it used up 3,000 gallons of fuel oil. It turned out the third floor was wide open, to the stars. Squirrels were living up there. Oops.
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I was wondering when people were going to start referencing that book.
“cash arsonist”
Catchy label.
Amazingly, he gets away with all of it.......
<><> pleasuring himself with children,
<><> lying about his academic standing, the plagiarizing (both Dinesh D’Souza’s new video),
<><> lies about his 2nd marriage, said he met her on a blind date,
<><> he diddled the wife of a campaign worker,then broke up the marriage,
<><> using his govt positions to enrich his entire family.
And do on and so forth, ad infinitum, ad nauseam.
this 47 years of swamp behavior.
this is who the deep state likes career grifters.
Amen.
Bill Stevenson accused Democratic candidate, Biden, of being a home-wrecker.
Says Joe lied......made-up the feel-good story of meeting a single Jill on a blind date.
Both Jill and Bill were campaign workers for Biden's then-Senate bid.
The story about Biden's managing his property is similar to the comedy movie "The Money Pit. He bought a messed-up property and managed to make it worse. Which is what he'll do with the U.S.A. if elected. Disaster Biden!
And you just described the perfect Senator for a state like Delaware.
Skimmed it too fast. Thought they were still talking about Biden's brain.
I liked that movie.
How long for Biden to get America all fixed up again after Trump ruined it?
Two weeks.
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