The political afterlife of former President Joe Biden continues to unfold in halting, awkward fashion, offering a stark reminder of how close the country came to four more years of visibly diminished leadership at the highest level of government.
According to RedState, Biden largely disappeared from public view after Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi (CA-11), Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), and other senior Democrats effectively pushed him out of the 2024 presidential race following his disastrous June debate performance. Party leaders then transferred control of a billion-dollar campaign war chest to thenVice President Kamala Harris, whose own presidential bid quickly imploded in what many observers regarded as one of the most inept and unintentionally comic campaigns in modern American history, punctuated by the theatrical behavior of Minnesota Governor Tim Jazz Hands Walz.
In the rare moments Biden has surfaced since leaving the race, he has often appeared frail and disoriented, prompting many Americans to ask, What on earth made anyone think this guy could have served four more years? Can you imagine him as commander-in-chief nowadays?" That question resurfaced on Friday, when Biden released a videotaped endorsement of Keisha Lance Bottoms, the former Atlanta mayor and exSenior Advisor to the Biden White House for Public Engagement, who is now running for governor of Georgia.
For a candidate seeking statewide office in a politically competitive Southern state, Bidens backing is arguably the last thing a savvy strategist would request, given his deep unpopularity and ongoing questions about his fitness. Yet in a twist that underscores how deeply progressive Democrats remain invested in the Biden brand, Bottoms appears genuinely delighted by the endorsement and has eagerly promoted it on social media.
The video itself, however, raises more questions than it answers about Bidens current condition and the judgment of those still putting him in front of a camera. Although the rhetorically-challenged former president manages to string together several sentences without a catastrophic lapse, the clip is riddled with edits and jump cuts, suggesting producers may have had to record the message in extremely short segments just to get him through it.
Some of the transitions are so quick and subtle that a casual viewer might miss them, but the cumulative effect is unmistakable: this is not a man delivering a fluid, confident endorsement; this is a heavily managed figure being shepherded line by line to the finish. The campaigns own framing BREAKING NEWS: President Joe Biden just endorsed Keisha Lance Bottoms for governor! From her time as mayor to serving in the Biden Administration, Keisha has a record of delivering for Georgians. #gapol only highlights the disconnect between the polished message and the visibly edited messenger.
For many conservatives, and for some honest observers across the spectrum, this spectacle is not new but still deeply troubling. Look, back when Joe was still in the Oval, I didnt enjoy pointing out his obvious mental difficulties, but I had to, because they were real, and they were dangerous to the United States of America, the author notes, adding that personal experience with relatives in cognitive decline made Bidens deterioration painful to watch.
The criticism, however, is aimed less at Biden himself than at those who insisted on keeping him in power despite his condition. Who I faulted heavily, however, and still do, are former First Lady Jill and her Democrat cohorts who propped him up and wanted so desperately to cling to power that they didn't give a flying fig that they were committing elder abuse, the piece argues, framing the episode as a moral and political failure by the Democratic establishment.
Bidens characteristic slurring is again on full display in the Bottoms endorsement, reviving a long-running debate over his verbal struggles. The article dismisses the official explanation outright: His omnipresent slurring is back on full display in this latest video and no, the BS narrative about his lifelong stuttering problem was always a flat-out gaslighting attempt, as I wrote back in the day.
Beyond the personal drama, conservatives see a broader national security and governance issue that cannot be brushed aside. This is the man that the Democrats, with their collaborators in the media, tried to tell us was prepared to serve four more years as the most powerful man on the globe, the person who was supposed to protect the country against a hostile world, be ready to make the most grave decisions, and lead us to the future, the author writes, arguing that Bidens visible decline exposes the recklessness of those who insisted he was fully capable.
The more Biden reappears, and the more his chosen successor Kamala Harris resurfaces with her trademark word salads, the more many Americans feel they dodged a bullet in 2024. As the piece puts it, The more Joe appears, however, and the more his chosen (failed) successor Kamala Harris makes appearances and spouts gibberish, the more we realize just how fortunate this country was to avoid seeing either one of them occupying the Oval Office.
Even Bidens written statements are now met with open mockery from critics who doubt he is the true author. LOL! Who wrote this post? We know it wasn't Joe, it has more than 3 words, one quip notes, capturing the widespread suspicion that staffers, not Biden, are behind most of his public communications.
Yet the article argues that these clumsy attempts by Biden, Harris, and their allies to reclaim relevance serve a useful civic function. Their ongoing presence remind[s] us that the threat of extremist, failed progressive politics is still very much out there, the author warns, stressing that conservatives won a battle in November 2024, but we did not win a war, a reality made plain by the disastrous socialist experiment in Gov. Gavin Newsom's California.
The piece urges Democrats to keep making nonsensical speeches, Kamala, keep slurring, Joe, keep making violence-baiting fools out of yourselves, Schumer, and your buddy, House Minority Leader Hakeem Maximum Warfare Jeffries (NY-08). The hope is that, If, God willing, a majority of the American people pay attention to this ongoing buffoonery, perhaps we have a shot of making sure these out-of-their-depth zealots never get into power again, though the author concedes That is far from assured, however.
Against that backdrop, the call to action is direct and urgent: Do whatever you can between now and November to make sure that doesnt happen. Otherwise, the country can expect more of the ideological agenda embodied by Bidens chosen allies, typified by Bottoms own words: Equity is at the center of what we do from this administration, says top Biden advisor Keisha Lance Bottoms.
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