Showing posts with label Joe Biden. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Joe Biden. Show all posts

Saturday, July 26, 2025

Even Dimly Recalled Memories Can Be Worth Ten Million


This news produced the biggest swarm of unwanted title recommendations from the general public since Hillary announced she was starting a podcast. 

My runner-up suggestion: Am I Still President? 

But the best I've seen so far is: Biden My Time. 

That one works in two different ways, since you can add a colon to make it Biden: My Time, which is perfect for a memoir. So perfect that it transcends internet hectoring to become, in fact, an excellent title for any publisher with an ounce of humor. 

Personally I'll skip the book unless Joe narrates it himself.

Sunday, July 21, 2024

"Help Me, Help Me, Aaron Sorking, You're My Only Hope!"






















The present moment calls for the fastest-talking re-write man in the business, if Hillary is going to make a convincing case at the Democratic nominating convention next month. 

By an amazing coincidence, that man has a piece in the NYT today.  

Sure, she and Bill immediately made a ritual endorsement of Kamala right after the Biden news broke, but NEVER count the Lady Macbeth of Little Rock out, not when political death is on the line. 

Get a preview of how she might handle the opportunity Joe Biden just handed her here: what would happen in The West Wing's parallel universe?

Thursday, July 18, 2024

Election 2024: Looks Like I Picked the Wrong Week to Quit Sniffing Glue

This week is the Republican's national convention, but far bigger news is coming from the Democrat side where the drama continues practically hour by hour as they try to sort out, at this late date, who'll be on their ticket.

Efforts grow to convince Joe Biden to drop out, but - C'mon Man! - he's having none of it.     

Rep. Jared Huffman of California, who in recent days had organized fellow Democrats to pressure the DNC to delay nominating Biden, called the party’s new, slower timeline [for the nomination of a candidate] “a positive step,” but said it was not likely to alleviate concerns about Biden’s viability. 

-- snip --

“Many of us are perplexed that he continues to say he’s either tied or winning in the polls,” Huffman said. “We don’t understand what factual universe that is coming from.” 
Avoiding delusion is a good thing. especially when it's self-delusion. Good luck with that, Rep. Huffman, maybe you'll succeed where no one else has so far. And plenty of Democratic leaders have tried, up to but not (as of today) including Obama. 

FYI, you can find the factual universe of adverse polling results for Biden at this NYT's article: Biden Called ‘More Receptive’ To Hearing Pleas to Step Aside

Tick ... tick ... tick ... 

Sunday, July 7, 2024

Biden Explains Away That Debate Performance to ABC News


Biden doubles down on debate explanations in ABC News exclusive interview.
"Yeah, look. The whole way I prepared, nobody's fault, mine. Nobody's fault but mine. I-- I prepared what I usually would do sitting down as I did come back with foreign leaders or National Security Council for explicit detail. And I realized-- partway through that, you know, all-- I get quoted the New York Times had me down, ten points before the debate, nine now, or whatever the hell it is. The fact of the matter is, what I looked at is that he also lied 28 times. I couldn't-- I mean, the way the debate ran, not-- my fault, nobody else's fault, no one else's fault."
If you ask me, John Belushi did it better.


Thursday, July 4, 2024

Open Labs Poll "Panic Inducing" For Democrats

It's bad news all around for Biden after that debate. In particular, this leaked polling memo ‘shook Democrats in their boots,’ says former Obama adviser.
The polling memo from Open Labs, leaked to Puck News, showed how President Biden’s support was sliding following his panic-inducing debate performance Thursday.
The Open Labs memo noted the “largest single-week drop” in Biden’s vote share since it began horse-race tracking in late 2021, which it noted came as Biden already faced a “challenging” election landscape before the debate.
You may wonder exactly who is doing all this leaking. My guess is that the White House screwed up by publicly blaming the handlers and aides who tried to prepare Biden for that debate. His piss-poor performance must be their fault, goes the blame-shifting logic. 

And what's the defensive response of desperate low-level Washington apparatchiks when their careers are threatened? To leak whatever they know that's damaging to their enemies. Every leak has a purpose.  

Whoever leaked it, this one result alone is devastating:
In Pennsylvania, the state that now represents the tipping point, POTUS trails Trump by 7.3pp.
There is much more, and none of it good for Biden. Read it all here.

Wednesday, July 3, 2024

It's That Time in the Election Cycle When We Turn On Third Party Candidates


To be very clear - he did not / not eat a dog. It was a goat. On everything else he is guilty as charged, but not the dog. Get that straight. 

Vanity Fair just took a big swing at Robert Kennedy Jr., who is polling somewhere below ten percent, but that's enough to make him a possible spoiler in swing states. 

Here it is: RFK Jr.’s Family Doesn’t Want Him to Run. Even They May Not Know His Darkest Secrets, and here's a quote from the seventh paragraph in that fairly long article.
After initially denouncing his candidacy last summer, most of the 105 Kennedy relatives —including Bobby’s eight siblings, the largest branch of the family—had hoped his campaign would collapse under the weight of his many bizarre claims and alliances with anti-vax cranks and Trumpworld figures like Steve Bannon and Tucker Carlson. Instead the family has played defense, going public only when Kennedy’s statements went so far out of bounds they had no choice, like when he suggested COVID was “ethnically targeted” to spare Jewish and Chinese people; or his claim that anti-vaxxers suffered worse oppression than Anne Frank (a statement sister Kerry called “sickening and destructive”); or when he claimed there was a mysterious alternative shooter in the death of his father in 1968 (going so far as to interview Sirhan B. Sirhan in prison and proclaim him innocent); or that the CIA was possibly involved in the assassination—claims that caused deep pain for his siblings.
Mind you, all that comes before they get to RFK Jr.'s old heroin addiction and his molestation of a young woman he employed as a nanny for his children. 

RFK Jr. blows all that off as old news, which, I have to say, it is. No less damning for being long known, though, and almost certainly a lot of it is new news to many voters, especially those who weren't even born yet when RFK Jr. was neck-deep in all the traditional Kennedy family vices.
"I had a very, very rambunctious youth," said Kennedy ... So, you know, Vanity Fair is recycling 30-year-old stories. And, I'm not, you know, going to comment on the details of any of them, but it's, you know, I am who I am," he added.
He was age 45 when he wouldn't stop feeling up the nanny, but then I suppose Kennedys have a prolonged adolescence. 

Well, you know, all that appalling history is, you know, who he is, and, you know, he isn't going to look so good to some voters before, you know, they decide between him and the other choices on the ballot.

Saturday, June 29, 2024

Fuhgeddaboudit! Trump One Point Up Over Biden in New Jersey Poll

There's a new Coefficient Poll of New Jersey voters that has Trump favored over Biden 41% to 40%, with RFK Jr at 7% and the rest undecideds. 

Well, considering that NJ has a large Democrat advantage in voter registrations, that result is likely either a fluke or the reaction of voters still stunned by that CNN debate performance. 

Either way, the link above includes many, many, crosstabs with in-depth opinion results. Please peruse for your use and enjoyment. 


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A robotic-sounding voice does a good breakdown of that expression for the benefit of the New Jerseyisms-impaired. 




Thursday, June 6, 2024

C'mon Man!©, POTUS Had a Confusing Time at Normandy

First he faced backwards, confusing his French hosts.


Not a good look for someone insisting on his mental alertness five months out from the election. 


Tuesday, May 21, 2024

Today's Polling From Blue New Hampshire, Independents Swing From Biden to Trump


It's still a long way to November, but polling results like this must be causing grief in the Biden campaign. 

Combine that with the polling averages and generic ballot questions which also favor Trump, and it's not looking good for Biden. 

C'mon Man!©, you'd better pull a rabbit out of your hat at that debate you wanted. 

Friday, May 10, 2024

Mano-a-Mano-y-Otro-Mano (Let's Settle This)


Did you see RFK Jr's debate challenge? Now we're talking! The voters need a way to judge the cognitive fitness of this year's candidates, and how better to do that than in a winner-take-all sudden death debate? 

I imagine a debate stage arranged like the three-way Mexican Standoff at the end of The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. What's Spanish for "let's get it on?"

Read it here: RFK Jr says he’ll eat brain worms and ‘still beat’ Biden and Trump in debate!!!
Kennedy was speaking after the New York Times published a startling story about a 2012 deposition in which he said a previous neurological problem “was caused by a worm that got into my brain and ate a portion of it and then died”.
“I offer to eat five more brain worms and still beat President Trump and President Biden in a debate,” Kennedy posted on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.
“I feel confident of the result even with a six-worm handicap.”
That's some great pre-fight trash talking. This is what we need in the 2024 election cycle.

Let the best man win. Or anyway, the man with the least damage to his brain. 

Thursday, April 25, 2024

C'mon Man!©, Pay Attention Or Don't Use a 'Prompter


Or else, just pause your whole campaign and let Gavin Newsom play in the big game.

Thursday, April 18, 2024

As a Young Boy, Joe Biden Dreamed of Choosing Freedom Over Democracy - D'oh!


C'mon Man!© It was the best Joe Biden speech ever!

 

Sunday, April 14, 2024

NYT Election Poll Has No Good News For Biden

It's been an interesting news day on the domestic front, with The New York Times publishing a poll it did with Sienna College on the upcoming election. Biden's staffers will not be happy. 

Since the NYT put its story about the poll behind a pay wall, here's the Daily Mail story, which is free, the way nature intended the internet to work.

The barebones polling results are at: April 2024 Toplines NYT Sienna College Poll of Registered Voters Nationwide

The biggest bucket of cold water for Biden comes from the results for these two questions:
Who did you vote for in the 2020 presidential election between Donald Trump and Joe Biden?
Donald Trump - 36%
Joe Biden - 43%
And,
If the 2024 presidential election were held today, who would you vote for if the candidates were [Biden and Trump]:
Donald Trump - 46%
Joe Biden - 45%
Well, well, well. An interesting number of Biden voters from 2020 say they will vote for Trump this time. 

Those poll results are without including voters who only 'lean' one way of the other, and without considering election scenarios with third and fourth party candidates. Both of those contingencies favor Trump over Biden more strongly. 

Looking at the Daily Mail's story, it seems the key reason for those results is the much larger number of voters who remember the Trump years as "mostly good" (42%) versus Biden's years (25%).  

C'mon Man!© Stop the malarkey and make this election a contest!

Saturday, March 30, 2024

A Split Screen News Story For the History Books

 

Well, now, there's a hell of a split screen image in this election year! 

Trump goes to the wake of a murdered police officer, and at the same time, nearby, Biden holds the biggest campaign fundraiser of all time ever. To carry that off, he needed Obama to lend his crowd appeal, and even brought in Bill Clinton as a chick magnet. 

Meanwhile, Trump paid off the mortgage on the NYPD widow's home and started an education fund for her one year-old child. 

Even mainstream news media are framing that as a side-by-side contrast. 

Did the political geniuses on Biden's reelection campaign team think that would be a good idea? Biden must have. C'mon Man!©, stop the malarky and ask yourself why your poll numbers are dragging on the ground.

Saturday, February 10, 2024

Lots of Old-Man-Yelling-At-A-Cloud Energy But No Rebuttal of Special Counsel's Report

 
There have been only 21,000 views of Joe Biden's most ill-advised press conference, despite 2 million White House YouTube subscribers? 

Are internet surfers having trouble locating it, or something? 

Well, at least CNN has seen it, and CNN actually posted this response: Fact check: Biden makes three false claims about his handling of classified information:
Biden was combative, forcefully rejecting Hur’s claims that he has a poor memory. But the president was also repeatedly inaccurate, making three claims that were clearly contradicted by [Department of Justice special counsel] Hur’s report.
Specifically, CNN notes three times POTUS made what can only be characterized as false claims concerning where his "willfully retained" and shared classified documents have been all these years, how they were stored, and what level of sensitivity they had. 

This is black-and-white stuff. POTUS was not exonerated by the report - quite the opposite - and his emphatic denials at that presser did not rebut anything in the report. 

Hur decided not to prosecute for the embarrassing reason that a jury might take pity on forgetful and belligerent Grandpa Biden and overlook his culpability. That's a great legal dodge, but a strong political hit since that old man yelling at a cloud is the Chief Executive of the USA. 

That press conference will leave a big mark.

Friday, July 14, 2023

Thursday, July 6, 2023

You Can Double Your Money


In our latest national game of Clue, should you guess that it was Col. Hunter in the Library with the Glass Pipe that did it, and if it turns out you were right, odds-makers are offering some sweet deals.

Tuesday, May 2, 2023

Deadbeat Dad Goes to Court, Political Repercussions May Follow

Somebody rode on Air Force One and all I got was this lousy T-shirt 

























"Email correspondence between then-Deputy Secretary of State Blinken and Hunter Biden shows that meetings were set up by Blinken using his personal email address instead of his government address." 

Oh? We haven't heard the last of that, I'm sure. From the Washington Examiner:
On May 22, 2015, Hunter Biden asked Blinken to get together to get his "advice on a couple of things," in response to which Blinken set up a meeting using an AOL address instead of his state.gov address. At the time, Hunter Biden had been working for over a year on the board of the Ukrainian energy giant Burisma. 
[Representative] Wittmann had asked Blinken in December 2020 if he was aware at the time that Joe Biden’s son was serving on Burisma’s board, and Blinken replied, “To the best of my recollection, I was not.”
Maybe those emails will refresh his memory. 

By the way, concerning the mother of that adorable four-year old, I had been under the impression - based on news accounts - that she was a stripper when she encountered the POTUS's son, but that is not correct. 

Texts retrieved from that abandoned laptop of Hunter Biden's show that she was employed by Rosemont Seneca, Hunter’s own firm, and so presumably in a capacity that required clothes. 

She might be missing a workplace harassment angle in her legal campaign to pry some of his millions loose from Hunter.

Friday, April 14, 2023

Biden Reaches Out to Republicans - Not That Kind!


Amid the expected gaffes and flubs of an overseas POTUS trip, Joe Biden topped himself today by posing for a selfie with Gerry Adams, the former President of Sinn Fein and someone who, while definitely not the political front man for a terrorist group, you understand, exercised quite a bit of influence with the 'hard men' of the IRA Army Council. 

The two have met and done grip-and-grin photos together a couple times before. Way back in 1993 Biden lobbied the Clinton administration to issue visas to Adams and his close colleague Martin McGuinness and allow them to visit the U.S. over protests from the UK. 

McGuinness, unlike Adams, made no bones about being the IRA's chief of staff during some of the worst of the IRA's campaign against the British. 

The IRA war may be over now and all that, but you have to wonder how our British allies see that friendly gesture.


Wednesday, December 28, 2022

Who? Who? Who? Who Said My Dog Bites? Who? Who? Who?

There are distburbing relevations about President Biden's relations with his Secret Service detail in a book that's coming out in January (here), with some quotes released today.
President Joe Biden was so disturbed by the Secret Service’s handling of text messages sought by the House January 6 select committee that he stopped speaking candidly in the presence of special agents assigned to his protection detail, a new book on the Biden White House has revealed. 
In The Fight of His Life: Inside Joe Biden’s White House, author Chris Whipple writes that Mr Biden’s discomfort with the post-Trump era agency began early on in his presidency, when it became clear that “some of” the agents charged with protecting him from assassination were strong supporters of the man he defeated in the 2020 election, former president Donald Trump. 
-- snip -- 
He added that Mr Biden’s trust in his protection detail was further shaken by a March 2021 incident involving a Secret Service agent and his then-three-year-old German Shepherd, Major. 
Major, who Mr Biden adopted from the Delaware Humane Association in 2018, was the first rescue dog to serve as First Canine. He allegedly bit a Secret Service agent in the private residence portion of the White House on 8 March 2021, and was temporarily relocated to Delaware for training in the wake of that incident, though he later bit a National Park Service worker just after returning to the White House at the end of that month. 
According to Whipple, Mr Biden was quite sceptical about the details of the first alleged biting incident. He writes that although no one disputed that an incident had taken place, the president “wasn’t buying the details,” particularly the alleged location of the biting. 
Whipple reveals that Mr Biden expressed his concerns to a friend while he was giving a tour of the White House family quarters. The president reportedly pointed to the alleged location of the biting — on the second floor of the executive mansion — and told the friend: “Look, the Secret Service are never up here. It didn’t happen”. He added that Mr Biden thought “somebody was lying ... about the way the incident had gone down”.
C’mon, man, stop the malarkey. First the poor old guy has to keep quiet around Secret Service agents who he thinks might be spying on him. Then, those agents spread all kind of lies about his dog. 

Next thing you know, someone will be stealing his favorite Jello cups right out of the Oval Office refrigerator. There is nobody you can trust in Washington.