Joe Biden gave a fine speech last night for an aging President who is not seeking reelection. If you’re a hardcore partisan, you’ll find something to quibble over. But in its entirety, it’s one of the better speeches I’ve heard from a President I didn’t particularly care for.
However, as soon as Biden was done and the cameras were off, media outlets paraded out prominent Democrats who fawned over Biden’s speech and praised his selflessness in stepping down from the job. Even my friend David Axelrod was on CNN remarking how rare it is for someone like Biden to willingly give up power.
Except he didn’t. The same Democrats eulogizing Biden are the ones who behind the scenes organized to subvert the democratically elected nominee of their party. The same media outlets organizing these Biden parades are the ones who have been attacking him like a Republican over the past month. Democrats and the media take seriously the will of the people until the people choose a nominee they don’t believe can win. Watch:
C’mon Erick. I usually agree with you to a certain extent but this speech was awful. Perhaps you were drinking some of your bourbon while watching it. I asked my Democrat wife what he actually said and why he really didn’t address why he was dropping out. She couldn’t answer the question.
I do not know how else Biden could possibly have tried to get out of his predicament and still save himself any face.
His adherents naturally praise him because they know he was a) no longer fully compos mentis, b) being covertly ousted by the PTB in the Democrat world. Even the back-stabbers will praise him, because they ALL have to save face after the colossal failure of this presidency. Some of them are likening Joe Biden to George Washington. Delusional.
You said it, Erick--Joe Biden, like the democrat party, always puts their party ahead of the country, no matter how flowery and patriotic-sounding their speeches are.