Recalling Biden History (Plus Another Presidency Nearly As Painful to Recall)

Jimmy Carter, elected President in 1977 by a malaise-vulnerable country, passed away on December 29th. The Carter presidency can no longer be called the worst in American history. Credit for that goes to the presidency soon to end amid mumbling, stumbling, governing by unseen far-leftist handlers, and the pardoning of odious criminals.

The disaster of Carter’s single presidential term now seems vaguely remembered, maybe because his presidency was overshadowed by the disco era. Post-mortem he’s being glowingly recalled mainly as a successful “humanitarian and statesman” by pundits more focused on sentimentality than history.

After the merciful end of his term that tanked America’s economy, stoked double-digit inflation, and encouraged the Soviet Union’s global advance, Carter began meddling without any authority in American foreign policy. This was something former presidents had — by long tradition — refrained from doing. Much of Carter’s efforts pushed back against the policies of the candidate who trounced him in 1980 (a man busy building a historically great presidency). Employing his natural talent of failure, Carter’s belated international efforts at “peace and justice” largely went nowhere.

Before leftist media experts and better-paid showbiz experts start lionizing the current one-term president, let’s revisit just four of the many remarkable Joe-isms of that career.

Slander As a Political Strategy — In July, 1987 President Reagan nominated Judge Robert Bork to fill the open seat on the Supreme Court. A respected constitutional scholar and advocate of “original intent” in constitutional rulings, Bork was not remotely a legal extremist or a threat to any right except the right of courts to create law.

Biden saw an opportunity to create a dangerous monster of judicial tyranny out of thin air. Teamed with his buddy in public morality Sen. Ted Kennedy, he began ranting about Bork being a Puritan activist who wanted to invade the bedrooms of married couples, suggesting that a strict constitutionalist might even limit the use of birth control products.

After much Democrat fearmongering and demagoguery, Bork’s nomination was defeated and his reputation permanently smeared. This prototypical judicial smear produced the term “to Bork.” It was so despicable that even The Washington Post editorialized eloquently against Biden:

While claiming that Judge Bork will have a full and fair hearing, Senator Joseph Biden this week has pledged to civil rights groups that he will lead the opposition to the confirmation. As the Queen of Hearts said to Alice, “Sentence first—Verdict Afterward.”

Yes, that was The Washington Post in 1987. Tempus fugit.

A retrospectively interesting comment on the campaign to ruin Bork was made by Joe’s wife Jill (who would eventually demand being addressed as Dr. Biden): “It was about Bork’s politics, but it was also about Joe.”

Joe Steals Someone Else’s Family History — If you haven’t heard of this blowhard blunder from 1988, you’re probably young or maybe you thought CliffNotes was a legitimate research tool. After successfully plagiarizing his way through law school and borrowing liberally from the late Bobby Kennedy, Joe went drama-plagiarist in his first presidential campaign. He gave a passionate speech about being the first person to go to college in the history of his struggling family, whose brave men climbed up from a hard day’s work in the coal mines to play football and — well, his story had a genuinely pathetic ending. The whole biographical drama had been staged truthfully earlier that year in a speech by British politician Neil Kinnock.

That’s right, Biden’s deep-seated falsity extends even to stealing someone else’s family history. Hail to the thief.

Progressive Prejudiced Pals — If there’s one thing you know about Democrats, it’s that they’re deeply opposed to every manifestation of racial prejudice, especially prejudice against Black people. Democrats would be presumed not to countenance such prejudices bye powerful men . . . from dear old Dixie.

Well, maybe you never heard about Joe Biden’s best Senate buddies and mentors: the Hon’able Ol’ Senators Eastland, Stennis, Thurmond, and Byrd.

James Eastland, a Mississippi Senator 1943 -1978, carried on proudly his family’s tradition of believing that the Confederacy was nothing other than a principled defense of a noble culture, and in effect the Rebels won the Civil War, though it took all of “eleven years.” He called a young, doting Senator Biden “son.”

John Stennis, a Mississippi Senator 1947-1989, had the same family and political values as Eastland, with a special devotion to segregated schools. Stennis was another close Senate Cloakroom buddy of Joe’s. Biden compared him to legendary Confederate General Stonewall Jackson. High praise.

Strom Thurmond, a South Carolina Senator 1956 – 2003, also stayed a vigilant segregationist, though he was less old-school Dixie gentleman in his persistent sexual harassment of female Senate staffers. His final term was shortened by death at age 100. A laudatory eulogy was delivered at his funeral service by his long-admiring Senate colleague Biden.

Robert C. Byrd, a West Virginia Senator 1959 -2010, was a longtime Senate powerhouse. Biden also deeply admired and collaborated with this segregationist and opponent of civil rights, also gave a heartfelt eulogy at Byrd’s funeral. Oh, one colorful achievement not noted by Joe: Young Democrat activist Byrd had actually been an “Exalted Cyclops” of the Ku Klux Klan.

He’s been protected by Karine Jean-Pierre since May 2022 . . . but in April 2022 . . . . — . . . Joe’s protection against awkward questions and incoherent answers was provided by someone with more mysterious credentials than Jean-Pierre’s: the Easter Bunny.

This episode is the Biden presidency as improv comedy, a blend of farce and grim chain-of-command reality.

April 18, 2022 started out innocently enough as the annual Easter egg roll event at the White House. The kiddos would hunt for the eggs and Joe would silently smile. What could go wrong? Joe wandered off and seemed ready to entertain questions from attendees; that’s what went wrong.

White House staffers charged with keeping the public from recognizing that Joe had lost the ability to converse went into a panic. They ordered the staffer dressed in an Easter Bunny costume to rush to Joe’s side, wave his bunny arms in warning, and lead Joe away before some aggressive reporter or clever kid decided to win the egg-hunting contest by discovering Scrambled Joe. This actually happened.

Those four episodes are just a small fraction of the cumulative public embarrassment that was Joe Biden’s career, but dozens of similar episodes are available: the time he invited a man in a wheelchair to stand up, the White House event in which he called out a greeting to a congresswoman who was no longer alive, the time he announced that “America is a nation that can be defined in a single word: asufutimaehaehfutbwand.”

And so on.

Less amusing was Joe’s compelled attendance at the airport arrival of the coffins of American soldiers murdered by terrorists in his administration’s rushed, botched withdrawal from Afghanistan. Joe honored America’s fallen soldiers by repeatedly checking his watch.

Anyway, Joe will be gone soon enough. Actually, he was effectively gone much earlier. A late estimate might be 2021.