Biden: Not Quite as Adored as Obama

Townhall.com ^ | November 27, 2020 | Tim Graham

[Kaslin]

Joe Biden came out with his first Cabinet picks before Thanksgiving, and the media were falling all over themselves with compliments. Oh, they are all so thoroughly professional, deeply experienced and manifestly competent. The media even tried to suggest with a straight face that this warmed-over pile of Obama administration appointees is "not going to be political."

How ridiculous. Elected people -- and their appointees -- have to be political.

At least they're not demanding Joe Biden be inaugurated early. In 2008, they were so deeply enchanted with then-President-elect Barack Obama that they wanted to slash the transition period in half and get those wonderful Democrats back in power. Al Neuharth, founder of USA Today, wrote in his Nov. 14, 2008 column: "We should move the President's inauguration up to the first Tuesday in December, one month after the election. ... People who elect a new president are eager for the change to take place. The sooner the better."

New York Times columnist Gail Collins wanted then-President George W. Bush to do the patriotic thing ... and quit. "Thanksgiving is this week, and President Bush could make it a really special holiday by resigning," she wrote. "Seriously. ... just to be on the safe side, the Vice President ought to turn in his resignation first. (We're desperate, but not crazy.) Then House Speaker Nancy Pelosi would become president until Jan. 20. Obviously, she'd defer to her party's incoming chief executive, and Obama could begin governing."

Her Times colleague Thomas Friedman had to get in on the fun, writing: "If I had my druthers right now we would convene a special session of Congress, amend the Constitution and move up the inauguration from Jan. 20 to Thanksgiving Day. ... Just get me a Supreme Court justice and a Bible, and let's swear in Barack Obama right now -- by choice -- with the same haste we did -- by necessity -- with L.B.J. in the back of Air Force One."

To be blunt, he was implying Bush had suddenly become as useless as an assassinated president.

After all this brouhaha, PBS "Washington Week" host and Obama superfan Gwen Ifill declared on Dec. 5, 2008, that a generic group of "people" wanted Obama sworn in pronto: "Maybe what people are beginning to say is that this president-elect should be president now?" New York Times reporter Peter Baker repeated after her, responding: "That's right. Exactly. People voted for change, and this strange, odd 77-day waiting period that we impose, in effect, between our election and our inauguration ... it's such a long period ..."

Disgraced former CBS anchorman Dan Rather refused to be outdone in throwing dirt on George W. Bush. On "Morning Joe" that same day, Rather argued: "We can't afford to waste an hour, much less a day or a week or a month. And this business of being a lame-duck president and saying, you know, 'Adios. I'm going to the ranch. I'm just not going to do very much during this period.' We can't afford it. ... (W)e're in possibly, possibly the biggest crisis we've been in since Dec. 7, 1941, and maybe since the time of the Civil War. So we can't afford to have this interregnum."

Remember, these are some of the same badly disguised Democrats who would later lecture us for four years about the importance of "democratic norms." The only norm they seem to revere is having Democrats in power.

[Ingtar]

Impossible! He got more fraudulent votes than Ozero! /s

[ronnie raygun]

8 years of adoration for a puke who enriched himself and set the stage for the destruction we see today
adoration...........

[Terry L Smith]

I have vehemently disliked this piece of flesh named Biden since his first being elected to the Senate, all those years before.

[JLAGRAYFOX]

The overwhelming and vast majority of the American people are aware and believe that the 2020 POTUS election was illegal and a 100% fraud from A-Z!!!! Democrat Sleepy, Joe Biden is no more the 2020 POTUS,then I am. The man is not all there..period!!!

The real master puppeteer criminal is none other then ex-POTUS, Barack Hussein Obama, who truly & really believes in that warped insane brain of his, that he is the SATAN/DEVIL, appointed, hidden behind the dark dropped curtain of “Oz”, to orchestrate the puppet strings that totally control the words and actions of the Obama’s “Weak Demented, Sister” Democrat, Joe Biden and his useless running mate, the 100% brain dead, Democrat, Kamala Harris!!

Obama with his written rants and raves in his just released tome and his harsh bitter words in public utterings, is the true Socialist, Communist leader of the Democrat Party, the revealed student & study & applier, of the Black Racist, America Hater, Obama’s true Idol & Mentor, the “America, American, Hater”, Reverand, Jeremiah Wright!!!

America, Americans, danger is afoot, alive and well, Freedom in the America Republic is short lived, very short lived. Take heed, take action....Barack Hussein Obama believes he the Satan, Selected Magic Negro, the “One” with the evil, all powerful Magic Wand to put you the American people at his tyrant, despot, dictator, command & rule.

Wake up, Americans...like the American, minute men of old, the path is clear, action is needed to protect the “Republic, The Nation, Our Freedom, Our future. Join POTUS, Donald J. Trump, not by the thousands, but by the millions...like right now!!! The seizure of the USA by Obama and his evil minions must be stopped like right now this very day!!!

Trump, DOJ, Supreme Court..take immediate, heed and action to protect and defend the Republic and the American people. Cancel this 2020 POTUS, election filled with fraud...hold another election, or, cancel the illegal votes, declare, Donald J. Trump, POTUS, or rule that the individual state legislatures choose our next POTUS!!! Americans await your call!!!

[Bullfrogg]

Biden, can you look in the mirror, and honestly say that you won this election fair,and square?

[mo]

The manner in which the election was corrupted-in so many states and in the same fashion in each state - should automatically take the issue out of those states hands and courts.

It obviously is an external assault upon those states=-making it a Federal issue

The Electoral College should be post-poned until this emergency has been clarified and remedied

[Flick Lives]

At some livel it must frost Obama to know Biden “won” with more votes and is therefor more popular than Obama. Of course the whole operation was a giant fraud, but the media will hide that, so officially a senile old mad who stayed in his basement is more popular than Obama.

[Liz]

Remember, the aforementioned Obama-kissers are part and parcel of the same shifty Democrat cabal
who lectured us deplorables for four years running about the importance of "democratic norms."

Democrats put in power by any means possible is their definition of "democratic norms".

[Robert DeLong]

He must be, he got a lot more votes than Obama. /sarcasm

[DNME]

Did they lose the video of Gropey Joe fondling little girls, sniffing women’s hair and unwanted kissing? Short video but very, very disgusting and sure to put a dent in any “adoration” the public might feel for that creepy pedo.

[Demiurge2]

Just give the MSM a few more months of assuring us how “adored” he is.

[Eddie01]

The dog faced pony soldier has DEMENTIA

[Eddie01]

since you brought it up, what ever happened to the flash in the pan #metoo movement?

turned into the #toldtoSTFU movement.

[Eddie01]

Not before Chris Matthews, Matt Lauer and Harvey got pinched though.

[MinstrelBoy]

He told us before the election that he was in charge of a massive voter fraud organization and that he didn’t need his voters to win the election.

[Vaduz]

Joe Biden came out with his first Cabinet picks.

Anybody want to buy a bridge in NY?.

[Elsie]

Mike; how would you like to be President?

I think I'm going to just stay home after Christmas and let you run the place for about the next 3 weeks.

Of course; then YOU will have to sit on the inaugural platform and watch The LOSER being 'sworn' in.