Commentary

In my August 28, 2022 post, I took you through a timeline from President Biden’s inaugural day “unifier” speech, in which he called for “stopping the shouting and lowering the temperature” of the rhetoric, and his current attack on supporters of former President Trump as extremists and semi-fascists.

That’s just one of several reversals we’ve seen in Biden since he campaigned and won the presidency, watching him move from a moderate to the radical progressive left in just eight months.

I began writing this post with comments from his remarks earlier this week in Wilks Barre, after hearing it was just a warm up for his Thursday night speech in front of Independence Hall.

Earlier in the day, it was billed as an attack on supporters of Make America Great Again, so I expected more of the same from his recent insulting assaults on Republicans, but I was shocked.

There he stood, at the birthplace of our democracy, with an ominous background of red lighting – no red, white and blue – with two Marines standing guard, as he inferred those millions of MAGA extremists represented a threat to our democracy, determined to take our country backward.

If ever an American president sounded like a dictator, it was Joe Biden Thursday night.  He views half of the American population as the enemy.  Clearly, it was a shameful display of leadership, never before exhibited by a sitting U.S. president.

Back to Wednesday Night

Coincidental to hearing President Biden ramble during his Wednesday appearance in Wilks Barre, Pennsylvania, I came across a review of Gabriel Debenedetti’s book, “The Long Alliance: The Imperfect Union of Joe Biden and Barack Obama,” soon to be released, in which Joe’s tendency to ramble was noted by Obama.

As Obama saw it, Biden tended to “ramble, clearly loving every minute of it,” adding that “Joe Biden is a decent guy but man, that guy can just talk and talk. It’s an incredible thing to see.”

For the most part, his handlers have controlled his ramblings with his speeches on teleprompters, but on occasion, as in Wilks Barre, he was allowed to go off script.

And when he did, he wandered off into a tale of his days “when I was the only white guy that worked as a life guard,” in a predominantly black, high-crime area of Pennsylvania, where “best basketball in the state is.”

“It’s so racist.  He’s the only white guy?  Basketball – many black people,” remarked Leo Terrell, the black civil rights attorney. “Joe Biden’s in a 1955 time warp.”  Terrell became a member of the Republican Party when the Democrats abandoned him, and now provides commentary for Fox News.

Terrell wasn’t the first to remark about Biden’s frequent trips down memory lane. The tiresome stories Biden repeats about his Dad have been fodder for Kramerontheright since he took office.

As it turns out, in Debenedetti’s book, he references remarks about Obama’s first impressions of Biden was that he was “old school” and that he was “condescending at best, borderline offensive at worst.”

Obama felt Biden represented a generation of Senators who had “overseen Washington’s decline into impracticality.”

Two speeches with no answers to inflation, baby formula or the high cost of groceries and gas, and an open southern border allowing illegal migrants and drugs to cross freely,

May God continue to bless the United States of America.