Joe Biden For President... and Mercy For President Trump
And Chris Christie for Republican nomination
A lot of things happened on December 18th but perhaps the most consequential was the death of Joe Biden’s wife, Neilia Hunter Biden, and his infant daughter, Naomi. Every great man experiences a great tragedy, sometimes several.
That’s not to say that there aren’t other important anniversaries to be marked on December 18th. It’s the anniversary of Donald Trump being impeached for the first time. It’s the day that New Jersey became the third state to ratify the Constitution. It’s the day that Secretary of State William Seward proclaimed the adoption of the 13th Amendment, outlawing slavery.
Many years ago December 18th was a painful memory for the Biden family. I loved two women who were born on December 18th — years apart — so it’s a relatively happy day for me. What’s more important than the document is the relationship. Christmas Eve, when my marriage ended, was decidedly not. Like a lot of people I soldier on during the Christmas Season. I find it an especially difficult and lonely time of year made all the more lonely when I see the family life that eluded me. I am an Easter Christian, not a Christmas one, and I honestly feel a lot of pain, especially when I consider how my childhood was spent watching my parents struggle in their retail business to have a “good Christmas” or being forced to visit relatives who abused me. I look upon this time of year with a lot of sadness and regret.
So naturally I was clued into Biden’s greatness when I heard his Christmas message in 2022, saying this can be a time of "great pain and terrible loneliness." "I know how hard this time can be," Biden said simply, noting that it was the 50th anniversary of the crash which killed his first wife and infant daughter.
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So I had agonized about writing this column and been advised not to go there.
But this is a no malarkey time and this is a great presidency because this is a decent president. His frailty, his age, and his imperfections all remind us how human he is.
Here he is, that Silent Generation man, showing up one last time. Left to raise his two sons on his own, Biden considered resigning but he endured. He worked across the aisle. He warned against the follies of the Obama presidency and corrected many of them during his presidency.
There’s something kind of beautiful about this old man who every day gets out of bed and governs the most powerful nation in the history of the world.
He’s not concerned with his legacy and his grift like Obama. He’s not concerned with his legacy and his grift like the Clintons.
And I suspect Biden will win. We’re led to believe that because Joe Biden is behind by 3.5 points nationally with the election 11 months away he is finished. Look closer and you’ll see that Biden’s numbers are weak with the very constituents least likely to vote Republican in a general.
Biden’s retort here is great:
Q: “Why are you losing to Trump in the polls?” Biden: “You’re reading the wrong polls”
Quite right. And it’s especially interesting when the aggregator of the polling is Real Clear Politics which was funded by Barre Seid, he of Chisraeli bribing Leonard Leo fame.
Remember that Kevin McCarthy Red Wave? It didn’t happen did it? Maybe the man who has been in politics for half a century knows a thing or two about how to win an election. Then again, maybe he doesn’t because he lost two times before he ultimately ascended to the Presidency in 2020.
I can hear it now. “But aren’t you a Trump guy?” The truth is that Donald Trump’s presidency was run by Jared Kushner, who, in turn, was run by the Middle East. When Trump overruled Chief of Staff John Kelly to give Kushner a security clearance that was the tell for me. Trump had decided to listen more to the Mob world than the American deep state.
The only way out for Donald Trump is to admit the obvious — that Donald Trump was afraid of the Israelis and that many of the faults of his presidency came from his son-in-law. Only Trump can rescue us from our mental occupation. Will he do it? It’s hard to say but it’s a message which needs to be communicated to him. People loved Trump because they sensed he was alive — that anything could happen — but his nature was more or less used against him. To the extent that Trump’s presidency ended it’s when he allowed foreigners or mobsters to run it.
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Like a lot of people I watched with interest Hunter Biden’s response to the sustained Israeli disinformation attacks against him.
If you haven’t already listened to Hunter Biden discuss his addiction with Moby in two parts you’re missing out.
Part 1:
Part 2:
The Bidens wear their pain openly so that others might heal. It’s pretty beautiful, really, and it’s arguably one of the most Christian displays we’ve seen in public figures in a long time. Which makes sense because Biden is one of our most Christian presidents.
I have been warned that if I embrace Biden that I’d be attacked once against by the IDF crowd. Very well. Attack me then. Like President Biden I can take it. I’m made of the same stuff.
If I have one criticism of Joe Biden it’s that he didn’t do enough to rebuff Israeli military efforts here. It’s no secret that his own son was targeted by the IDF and their troll storms. Will Hunter return the favor against these networks in much the same way that Prince Harry did?
The recent verdict against Rudy Giuliani — what I’ve called Buma’s Revenge — and the compromised nature of Los Angeles County law enforcement suggests we have a lot of work to clean up America’s second largest city.
Well, let’s get to work.
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I paid close attention to Biden’s remark at the White House.
“I make no bones about it, I have had my differences with some Israeli leadership. I have known Bibi now for 51 years. He has a picture on his desk of he and I when he was a young member of the Israeli service here, the foreign service, and I was a 32-year old senator. And I wrote on the top of it, Bibi, I love you, but I don't agree with a damn thing you have to say. It's about the same thing today.”
If I have one criticism of the Biden presidency it’s that Biden should have been more forceful about toppling Netanyahu and Israeli military intelligence. Biden’s nice guy approach didn’t work over the decades. I don’t think he understands the magnitude of the threat. Or perhaps he’s understating it.
I had had hopes that Chris Christie might win and I will, of course, support him if he wins the primary. I suspect that Christie’s problem is that he is a Fed among criminals. Much like to him and God help the GOP.
Of course one way that Biden could do the right thing is to show Trump mercy and then drop out and endorse his fellow University of Delaware alum.