Now less than 50 days from the election, and I’m haunted by the nagging question, “Is Joe Biden really presidential timber, or is he just dead wood?”  Biden’s 77 years old, he’s been in Washington since he was 30.  Actually, Biden was narrowly elected to the Senate in 1972, before he was 30 years old and eligible to serve, although Richard Nixon won Delaware by 20 points.  That’s how long Biden has been around; since Republicans had a chance to win Delaware.  Biden first ran for president in 1984, and then again in1988.  He failed both times, unable to get voters excited about his candidacy, and exposed a habit of plaigerizing speeches.  Joe Biden waited 20 years, and then tried again in 2008.  His ability to motivate voters did not improve.  Ultimately in 2008, Il Duce Obama chose Biden as Vice-President, the choice coming down to Biden or Indiana Senator Evan Bayh, because Biden had more energy than Bayh.  So, an additional 12 years after his last presidential run, Biden tried it again.  Let’s be honest.  Even in his prime, Joe Biden was not too smart.  Long before he became Vice-President, Mark Levin had anointed Biden, “the dumbest man in the U.S. Senate.”  And that was in his prime, when Biden was in full possession of his faculties.  Sadly, much like dairy products, Joe Biden has not improved with age,  yet the Democrat Party decided that Biden was their best chance to win in 2020.  That raises several questions.  First, what does that say about the Democrats’ bench.  Biden is far from ideal, his only apparent  advantage being the name recognition you get when you’ve been around since dirt.  His past opposition to busing (“I don’t want my kids going to school in a racial jungle”), and his support for the Clinton Crime Bill, won’t help him with minorities.  Then there are the scandals; family members, including his son, reaping huge profits from shady deals brokered by Good Old Joe.  Then there’s the creepy touching.  Can’t you just see him as the Covid-conscious President?

Charming.  But the most troubling part of the Biden candidacy has to be the fact that, in addition to being a corrupt Washington grafter, Joe Biden also is a demented imbecile.  Now, I certainly don’t want to offend any senile dementia support groups, but it’s a simple fact that Joe Biden’s mental ship has sailed.  To put a point on it, Joe Biden is null and void, and his constant gaffes can’t just be laughed off as, Good Old Joe at it again.  Here are some of his hits, just from the last year.  Joe still thinks he’s Vice-President, telling Iowans he’ll continue policies he and Obama support.  Then again, Biden doesn’t remember when he was Vice-President, claiming he met with Stoneman-Douglas school shooting survivors as Vice-President, though it happened in 2018.  Sometimes, Joe thinks he’s running for the Senate, announcing “I’m Joe Biden, and I’m running for the U.S. Senate.”  He doesn’t know what year it is, vowing, “I’m going to make sure that we rejoin the Paris Peace Accord on day one.”  The Paris Peace Accord ended the Vietnam War in 1973.  He often mixes up Syria and Iraq.   Joe has trouble with numbers,  recently claiming 150 million Americans have been killed by guns since 2007, and claiming there have been 6,114 military Covid deaths.  The real number is 7.   He also touted a child tax credit, claiming it would bring 720 million women into the workforce.  You have to give him the benefit of the doubt on this one, as he didn’t say “American” women.  And he has a nasty habit of telling the truth.  Here’s Biden’s healthcare plan, “The public option will be available with my plan.  We’ll make sure it’s not quality, we’ll make sure it’s only affordable.”  Biden knows just what to say to court black voters, “poor kids  are just as bright and talented as white kids.”  Not good enough?  He then told a black interviewer, If  you can’t decide whether to vote for me or Trump “you ain’t black.”  Biden’s speeches often devolve into word salad,  “COVID has taken this year — just since the outbreak — has taken 100 year.  Look, here’s…the lives…it’s just … I mean, think about it.  More lives this year than any other year for the past 100 years.”  Huh?  Then there’s Biden on the Declaration of Independence, “We hold these truths to be self-evident,  all men and women – created by – go –  you know –  you know the thing.”  We know the thing, but Joe doesn’t know he’s alive.  Then there are the crotchety old man episodes.  Biden doesn’t like to be questioned, telling a woman, “No you haven’t! [been to a caucus]  You’re a lying, dog-faced pony soldier.”  Biden then told a Michigan voter “You’re full of shit,” wagged his finger in the man’s face, and suggested that they go outside.  I don’t want to bash Old Joe, but these are just his highlights from the past year, and they keep getting worse.  All of us get old, and sadly, some of us begin to lose our faculties sooner than others.  No thinking person can honestly evaluate the shape that Biden is in, and seriously want to hand the nuclear codes over to him.  That’s why both Biden and Kamala Harris this week referred to the Harris-Biden Administration.  That won’t work.  Since President Trump has been closing the gap in polls that had Biden way ahead, the Biden team has pulled him out of his basement, conceding that he will have to campaign outside.  So far, they’ve managed to have Biden answer softball questions with notes, or reading from a teleprompter.  This suggests that the questioners are carefully chosen, that they are given the questions to ask and that Biden is given the pre-programmed answers.  But he can’t even do that right, stumbling through his responses.  Biden’s outdoor events are carefully staged.

Check out his notes.  Looks like Don Corleone, right before he fell out of the chair.  This plan won’t work in the debates.  I’m sorry, I know that Biden is just the anti-Trump candidate, but I can’t imagine anyone seriously wanting to make him President.  As my late grandfather used to say, “He’s no there all.”  For fans of Star Trek, Joe Biden is President John Gill, from the episode, Patterns of Force, simply a puppet to be manipulated by sinister forces.  They even look alike.

 

Joe Biden isn’t presidential timber, he’s just dead wood.