Posted on 08/06/2020 5:19:24 AM PDT by Kaslin
As Joe Biden sits in his basement watching daytime TV, enjoying his ice cream or pudding, his political handlers have two important tasks.
No. 1. At all costs, avoid debates with President Donald Trump so Joe won't reveal to the entire nation what many Americans with eyes can already see. The old Joe was a fabulist, a teller of wild stories in which he was always the hero. But he's not even the old Joe Biden anymore, is he? And putting him in a debate would be disastrous for the Democrats.
And No. 2. Select a vice presidential candidate, someone who very well may become president soon after inauguration — presuming Biden is elected.
Which is why there are so many vice presidential trial balloons being floated with former Obama National Security Adviser Susan Rice's name on them, since no one in their right mind would want Biden's unsure, shaky hands on the levers of foreign policy.
And it's all being done "by the book," isn't it?
"By the book" is the curious, or rather, damning phrase used by Rice in that now-infamous White House email she wrote to herself on Jan. 20, 2017, some 15 to 20 minutes after Trump was inaugurated. She was no longer national security adviser.
Hers was a classic CYA email about the origins of the now-discredited Russia collusion fable that helped tear the country apart.
In that email, she memorializes a Jan. 5 Obama White House meeting — with President Barack Obama, Biden, bosses of the CIA and FBI, and others — that Republicans say unleashed the intelligence agencies to spy on an Obama political opponent.
was she covering? President Obama's? Vice President Biden's? Her own?
There are many things about Rice that deserve close consideration if she is to be Biden's choice as his running mate. The email is one of them. What she knew about Biden's son Hunter's lucrative dealings with China is another.
And I haven't even mentioned Benghazi. The mere mention of Benghazi, where four Americans were killed in a terrorist attack on a U.S. government compound, drives the left into hysterics.
But hysterics notwithstanding, Rice was trotted out on the Sunday talk shows to tell the nation another fib: that the attack in Libya had been triggered by a homemade video critical of Islam. The video wasn't the reason.
Rice was playing politics by the book then, too.
That's another reason why Biden is being encouraged to skip the debates. Does Biden really want to answer questions about Rice, China, his son Hunter, and the rest?
The worst thing that could happen in a debate is Biden staring into the camera with those dimming eyes and starting to stammer.
To avoid that possibility and give Biden cover, Democratic pundits now argue that presidential debates are unnecessary.
Wouldn't Americans want to see his eyes — his face — as he answers tough questions? That goes for Trump too.
The latest voice in the call for cancelling Biden in debate is liberal Washington journalist Elizabeth Drew, who tells us in The New York Times that debates don't make sense as a test of leadership, because too much attention is focused on snappy comebacks.
She doesn't like party conventions, either. "There's no reason not to throw the presidential debates on the trash heap of useless (at best) rituals that are no help in our making such a fateful decision."
Is it best to let Joe hide in the basement with his pudding?
Move along. Nothing to see here. Toss the debates in the garbage. Forget bothersome questions about Susan Rice. Protect Joe.
Let's just forget the whole thing.
And if Biden is elected, the scandal of the Obama administration using the powers of the intelligence agencies to spy on political opponents will be buried. And Joe will enjoy his ice cream or pudding as Susan Rice and the Obama crowd run the country.
At least Biden could do one decent thing: Tell America that he's found a delicious new flavor — Banana Republic.
Well; if they are prepared to see Eastwood loan Trump the use of his chair; then go right ahead!
The expectations are being set so low, If Joe just shows up for a dedate and utters just one complete sentence, the media will declare him the winner.
“What do you want me to tell Romney?” Eastwood asked the empty chair.
“I can’t tell him to do that to himself ... you’re getting as bad as Biden ... of course we all know Biden is the intellect of the Democratic Party.
Kind of a grin with a body behind it ...”
Aside from the impossibility of checking all the boxes what they really need is a VP candidate who can campaign for Joe. This will be a very odd campaign - we are going to see/hear more about the VP picked for Joe than we are of Joe. That's why the VP pick is so important, taking so long. The VP pick is the entire race for the 'rats. They know Joe has to keep his involvement, his appearances in the public eye to an absolute minimum and only under very carefully controlled and scripted circumstances.
“The expectations are being set so low, If Joe just shows up for a dedate and utters just one complete sentence, the media will declare him the winner.”
Worst case scenarios: Minutes after the polls close Biden is declared the winner in many “key states”...”battleground states”...”swing states”.
Recourse?
Joseph Stalin — ‘Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.’
Where’s Joseph Goebbels when you need him? Put nothing past National Socialists.
A stuffed Joe Biden dummy would be funny as all get out.
Are we being duped?
The bar has never been set this low for a debate candidate before.
All Biden would have to do is show up and not stumble over his words or lose his temper, and the lamestream media would joyfully proclaim him the victor.
The same thing happened with W. He was supposed to be too stupid to win a debate with Gore, so when he showed up and didn't make any self-forced errors, he came out looking good.
Rice’s infamous “zombie” email about the origins of the invented Russia collusion fable was a “get out of jail” card for the Obama criminals......including Biden.
When Susan Rice stupidly wrote a CYA memo to herself, she inadvertently confessed to a series of crimes that added the time line and inferences about what the outgoing Obama administration illegally concealed from incoming President Trump and his aides.
Why were the Democrats so determined to discredit General Flynn? Perhaps because they wanted to pre-empt any outrage that may otherwise have followed on revelations that the Obama administration’s National Security Advisor hid important facts from her successor during the transition, and may have lied to him about those facts, in violation of all American tradition.
What these criminals did was an attempt to craft a bogus record of a ‘COUNTER-INTEL’ operation that was ongoing and that Obama had instructed that everything be done ‘by the book’.
BECAUSE during a counter-intel investigation, it is permissible to lie, or in official terms ‘to disseminate disinformation’.
As long as the Obama spying was characterized as a counter-intel operation, it was legal to have words and actions left in place that might be discovered as untrue.
In other words, Rice’s final memo was an attempt to carve out a last minute get-out-of-jail pass for all those involved in the spying.
Rice likely foresaw that Congressional hearings might uncover false and perjured statements on the part of persons in the spy operation to which the response would be “So what? It was a Counter-Intel operation.”
This is why it was IMPERATIVE for Barr and Durham to investigate the ORIGINS because if the origins revealed no predicate, no basis, no genuine probable cause for launching a counter-intel operation, then Rice’s feeble stay-out-of-jail memo would fall apart.
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