Alright, I’m dating myself, but I remember Joe Biden’s 1988 run for President. I happened to vote for Jesse Jackson in that primary, not our current President, but I remember that campaign well. And what do I remember about every time Joe Biden ran for President? Gaffes. I mean, he would constantly say something wrong. He insulted voter’s IQ’s. He got names wrong. He would even say the opposite of what he really meant.
If any journalist wanted to actually do us all a service right now, they could go through their archives and pull all the articles about Joe Biden’s gaffes over the last 40 years, and that would show us that this guy is THE SAME GUY HE HAS ALWAYS BEEN. It would also show us that gaffes don’t mean s**t. I don’t have a lexus Nexus account so I can’t do the research, and searching youtube is opening up a hornet’s nest of idiocy. So perhaps some intrepid reader can do that.
But in light of this, I need to say that what Jim Himes and “40 other” congressional Democrats are doing right now is disgusting. The timing of Himes’ statement about Biden, immediately following a press conference wherein our President showed a level of cognition that the other guy couldn’t transcribe was shocking and rude. And then he has the audacity to go on CNN and say that all this “needs to stop.” You can’t play Brutus in William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar and yell, “stop it you guys” at the same time you are plunging in the knife. You want it to stop, Mr. Himes? Stop releasing statements attacking our nominee and start running. on. his. record. It is YOUR job to campaign for your own office and for our President. It is YOUR job to sell the accomplishments. Quit pointing fingers inward and get out there and make the case with the ample appearances your staff books for you on CNN. They are creating a self-fulfilling prophecy and doing the GOP’s job more effectively than the Trump GOP ever could.
All of the energy these guys are directing at questioning our nominee is a smokescreen. This is clearly a coordinated campaign. The question of the moment now is, what donor or group of big money donors doesn’t like Biden’s tax plan and is pulling the strings to try and get a new candidate who will let them continue to get rich and return the Democratic party to the mythical American “center?” Alternately, which shadow candidate is waiting in the wings, quietly encouraging all of this backstabbing?
This is no longer happening in a bubble. The polls are meaningless this far out… and guess what… they statistically have not shifted. Yeah, Biden is underwater in opinion polls. You know who else is? TFG.
If the preferred candidate of any of these people is NOT Harris? What will that do to the base? I don’t think anyone is thinking this through… which only furthers my speculation that this is some moneyed donor hissy fit. We should be listening to the black voters. This is my anthem and it should be yours as well.