Liberals in the biased mainstream media were quick to hold Obama’s number two up as the savior of the Democratic Party and the candidate who could beat President Donald Trump in 2020.
But the likes of CNN celebrities, MSNBC personalities, and New York Times columnists and others are echoing the same failed messaging they did with regard to Hillary Clinton. During the run-up to the 2016 election, outlets such as CNN went as far as to give Hillary advanced debate questions in an effort to trounce Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders. The Democratic Party’s process was rigged, and the media was in on the hit on “Crazy” Bernie.
This time around, liberal pundits came out backing “Creepy” Joe Biden, and they are already regretting that early support. It’s become abundantly clear through a series of ongoing missteps, gaffes, and faux pas that the Obama-era subordinate does not have the strength of will to take on President Trump.
“Joe Biden has truly lost his fastball,” Trump said about the former VP’s lackluster campaign performance so far.
In the months before announcing his official campaign to seek the Democratic Party’s nomination, Biden tried to liken President Trump to segregationist George Wallace. But other Wallace references should have been warning signs that Biden lacked the political savvy or common sense to defeat a successful Republican president riding the wave a robust economy he helped create.
“I think the Democratic Party could stand a liberal George Wallace — someone who’s not afraid to stand up and offend people, someone who wouldn’t pander but would say what the American people know in their gut is right,” Biden said referencing the notoriously racist Alabama governor from the Civil Rights era.
The former vice president also made statements applauding Wallace despite his party’s identity politics that favors minorities over white Americans. In a talk that should have resulted in expulsion from his party’s ranks, Biden positioned himself among the Democratic slave owners during the American Civil War.
Bragging about receiving an award from Wallace, Biden said: “We (Delawareans) were on the South’s side in the Civil War.” That implies Biden is not only a pro-segregation racist, but would have supported the institution of slavery. His bizarre statements have been reported as gaffes and excused by his supporters in the fake news media. One has to wonder if this is just him speaking the truth about his own personal dysfunction the same way Hillary said, “We’re going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business.”
But Biden’s so-called gaffes tend to have powerful racist implications. In a recent Iowa campaign stump, he managed to offend the very targeted demographic he was addressing. Again, his comments echoed of racism.
“We have this notion that somehow if you’re poor, you cannot do it. Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids,” Biden said, who then corrected himself. “Wealthy kids, black kids, Asian kids. No, I really mean it. But think how we think about it. We think how we’re going to dumb it down. They can do anything anybody else can do, given a shot.”
Many liberal pundits gave the 79-year-old ex-VP a pass for this overt racism, but some in the far left media outlets have already begun panning him. The Atlantic, among others, pushed back on Biden’s equating poverty and stupidity with people of color. If the president or any Republican had made such a statement, there would be calls for resignation and public condemnation. It escapes common sense that the faltering Joe Biden has any chance of going toe-to-toe with President Trump in a national debate. Obviously, he’s already getting trounced by mid-level candidates such as California Senator Kamala Harris.
“He isn’t as compelling verbally,” a Madison County Democratic party leader said. “There is starting to be a real fear that he cannot hold his own in the debate against Donald Trump.” Another Iowa party insider wished “he’d get his mojo back.”
Other gaffes that demonstrate Biden has lost his fastball, as the president so aptly stated, include comments such as “we choose truth over facts.” No one in the audience or media has unraveled that strange comment. One former staffer who worked for former Senator Harry Reid pointed out that Biden is stumbling while campaigning at a snail’s pace compared to other hopefuls.
“Everybody else is out there doing a heavy schedule and he’s not,” Adam Jentleson said about Biden’s light schedule. “If we’re talking about, all told, a year-and-a-half here, that’s the real distance that people have to go, so part of a primary is vetting candidates and seeing if they have what it takes to go the distance.”
What remains to be seen may not be whether Biden has “lost his fastball.” Voters may want to ask if he ever had one.
