Biden’s malarkey
When the United States sneezes, we catch a cold. It’s a crusted old cliche most apply to international events in which we are vulnerable and whose effect on us is magnified. In the ongoing Democratic Party primaries and the partisan attempt to unseat their president with little less than pure hate and absolutely no court-acceptable evidence of a crime, our friends across the ocean might take a lesson or two from our own unfortunate experiment when we blindly caved in to spin and then installed a bungler.
If the Democratic Party’s dangerous political gambit is successful, the United States may just have their own version of a bumbling and bungling president like we once had.
As the Duterte administration spends a good number of money and man-hours to clean up the mountain of mess created and discharged by Benigno Aquino III and his cabal of corruption-tainted Cabinet alteregos, there are lessons the folks from across the Pacific might learn from us should they risk it all on the Democratic frontrunner.
Joseph Biden currently leads the Democratic wolf pack and as his opponents fall by the wayside, given the polling numbers and the demolition jobs their Lower House is inflicting on Donald Trump, while unlikely to actually convict the latter, there remains that remote possibility that the Americans will end up with a Biden presidency.
Never mind that Biden remains substantially platform-less and whose presidential agenda merely mimics from Obama’s most of which essentially unraveled under Trump.
The current White House had to undo a lot of the damage inflicted by the Obama administration from international weaknesses wrought by a foreign policy that allowed the annexation of the Crimea, the threats to the Ukraine with Obama even denying it aid, the escalation of ISIS in the Middle East, to the rise of a nuclear-capable North Korea, and, closer to home, a failed pivot to Asia that, along with Aquino’s reckless bravado, catalyzed the militarization of the South China Sea.
Meanwhile, in the domestic American economy, due to high taxation, work-generating enterprises migrated elsewhere creating unprecedented unemployment spawning coast to coast civil strife and the rise of racial tensions in spite of the historicity of having the first black president in a country where black slavery and segregation were once the norm.
The foregoing characterizes the Obama-Biden record. As detrimental as it was to the American economy then, it is set to resurrect should Biden be elected president.
Unfortunately it may be too late for them if they continue on the course the Democratic Party has set the American public on.
Biden is 77 years old. If he wins the presidency, he will end his first term at 81. He sought the presidency before but was denied it twice at the primaries. His age should not matter save for the issue of his gaffes.
He’s confused Iowa with Vermont and Vermont with New Hampshire. Same with El Paso and Houston, and Michigan with Dayton, Ohio.
He claimed visiting survivors of the 2018 Parkland shooting before the shooting occurred.
He confuses Margaret Thatcher with Theresa May and Angela Merkel.
He’s described Barack Obama as, “the first African American who is articulate, bright, and... clean.”
He lost a whole decade when he once said “Bobby Kennedy and Dr. King had been assassinated in the ’70s, the late ’70s, when I got engaged.”
These gaffes might be forgivable for as long as they are not evidence of a mind slowly sinking into dementia. Biden’s biggest liability however is his son Hunter.
Hunter Biden had questionable dealings in Ukraine and China including being on the board of a company accused of corruption and money laundering. On the home front, he had a relationship with his dead brother’s wife, he used cocaine and had racked up unpaid debts from his drug use, and in spite of those debts he spends good money on strip clubs and prostitutes.
Joe Biden would probably label all these as malarkey. He once said, “We choose truth over facts.” Unfortunately the police records are there to prove it.
“These gaffes might be forgivable for as long as they are not evidence of a mind slowly sinking into dementia. Biden’s biggest liability however is his son Hunter.
“If
the Democratic Party’s dangerous political gambit is successful, the United States may just have their own version of a bumbling and bungling president like we once had.