If calling for the resignation of Joe Biden would not bring us President Kamala Harris it would be a reasonable thing to do today. However, we have to be careful what we wish for right now. There has been absolutely no indication that she is anywhere near up to the job of leading the free world.
Both Biden and Harris are in bunker mode. It worked for them during the presidential campaign and it is their continued default position when things go wrong. Lots of things have gone wrong during their brief seven months in office, though it feels much longer. It is hard to overestimate the damage done to our country due to Biden’s decisions. Biden was failing spectacularly enough on securing the southern border and tamping down the coronavirus pandemic before he allowed Afghanistan to fall to the Taliban in record time. As with the other failures in policy, he is desperately trying to blame Trump for the tragic events happening now in Kabul. Even before the deaths of 13 service members yesterday, Biden’s polling numbers were tanking over his handling of Afghanistan. Now the media is stepping up and trying to help their pal, Joe.
Even I could not imagine how catastrophically bad a Biden presidency would be. I knew exactly who he was and his history in politics before election day in 2020. I knew his bravado of promoting himself as a foreign policy expert was all malarkey. He’s been historically wrong on the subject for almost 50 years. He didn’t suddenly get smart. Do you know who else knew Joe Biden wasn’t up to the job of president? Barack Obama. Obama knows his former vice-president well and during the primary campaign he warned other Democrats – “Don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to f*** things up.” He said that to another Democrat running in the primary. Obama tried to convince Biden not to run in 2016 and then in 2020.
Before that, Obama did his best to persuade Biden not to run. “You don’t have to do this, Joe, you really don’t,” he reportedly told Biden in 2019. According to journalists Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes, authors of Lucky: How Joe Biden Barely Won the Presidency, Obama “worried that his former vice president would embarrass himself on the campaign trail and that the people around him would not be able to prevent a belly-flop.”
Obama had urged Biden not to run for president in 2016 and told an adviser that he didn’t think Biden was a viable candidate. “It had stung Biden badly in 2015 when Obama made clear his preference for Hillary Clinton,” Allen and Parnes wrote. “Adding insult to injury, Obama’s advisers told Biden aides back then that they didn’t think he could beat Clinton. They pressured him to get out of the way.”
Though he ultimately decided not to challenge Clinton in 2016, Biden ignored Obama’s advice by jumping into the 2020 primary. The rest is history.
Biden voters were desperate to get rid of Trump so they ignored his missteps on the rare occasions he emerged from his basement. When he misspoke or when he delivered a racist or indelicate comment, they were brushed off as that’s just Joe. Voters were voting against Trump, not for Biden. Now his support is cratering and he deserves every bit of it. I completely agree with Rachel Duffy – Jill Biden should never have allowed Joe to run in 2020. Unfortunately, she is too power-hungry herself and no doubt encouraged the feeble old man to run. Liberals were quick to call Melania Trump complicit when Trump did things they didn’t like so what was good then is good now, right? Their rules.
read more here: https://hotair.com/karen-townsend/2021/08/27/that-time-obama-was-right-dont-underestimate-joes-ability-to-f-things-up-n412017
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