Commentary

Journalists worth their salt, endeavor to get a scoop.  I once considered myself a journalist, but now as a writer of political commentary, I still like the idea of getting a scoop.

When I wrote “Is the First Lady Making the Decisions in the White House,” on July 7, 2024, I recalled things that were said about Jill Biden in Vogue magazine, the New York Times and by Joe Rogan, who said, “it’s very clear watching Joe Biden talk, very clear, that he’s not making all the decisions.”

Half of my blog that day included the story of Edith Wilson, President Woodrow Wilson’s wife, quoting from “Edith Wilson: The First Lady Who Became an Acting President Without Being Elected.”

With that, imagine what I thought when I spotted Peggy Noonan’s Wall Street Journal column, “The President Who Wasn’t There,” in which she writes, “What we’re learning about the Biden White House is reminiscent of Woodrow and Edith Bolling Wilson.”  As in my blog, Noonan wrote of the role Edith played in the Wilson White House. Noonan even included the identical photo of the Wilson’s I used in my piece.

Noonan tells of the Wilson’s departing the White House on Inauguration Day, March 4, 2021, and though Woodrow Wilson lived another three years, “the Wilson’s historical reputation was never the same.  Nor will the Biden’s be.”

She wondered why the Biden White House and those close to them might have felt justified in misleading the public about the president’s true state.

Not a scoop in the true sense. Cori Anthony told the story about Edith in “Famous Political Figures,” providing me with material for my July 7, 2024, blog, but I did scoop Noonan, and that was rewarding.

The Biden Legacy

During an interview just before Christmas, Ben Meiselas of the Meidas Touch, asked President Biden, “What do you want your legacy to be?”

“I kept my word,” he responded, “that when I said I was going to do something, I did it.” That’s fine, Mr. President, but what about the things you said you didn’t do or would not do?  Like having knowledge of your son Hunter’s business dealings and that you wouldn’t pardon him.

Then there’s the $42 billion expansion of broadband internet service your promised that has yet to connect a single household, and the $7.5 billion effort to install EV chargers from coast to coast.  Just 47 have been installed in 15 states.  

After repeatedly lying about his interactions with foreign clients over a 10-year period, a new photo further contradicts the president.  Despite the lack of interest by most media outlets in the alleged multimillion dollar influence-peddling scheme, Miranda Devine, who has doggedly pursued the scandal, has written a new expose’.

Now, while some say he has abandoned the office of the presidency, 52 percent disapprove of Biden’s performance, with 41 percent “strongly disapproving,”

And with Democrat strategists conceding on national television that the Democrat Party brand is “in the toilet,” we learn that homelessness under Biden worsened again in 2024, an 18 percent increase over last year.

Here’s a title for his memoir, “Legacy Lost.”

Stuck on Stupid

After a brief. “Happy Holidays, everyone!”  Michelle Obama told Instagram followers, “I know it’s been a difficult few months for so many of us who are anxious, but even during these tough times, there are plenty of times to be hopeful.”

RedState’s Rusty Weiss, recalling Michelle’s concern voiced in a previous podcast, about “things that keep me up,” believes it is Michelle herself who is anxious, so all of us should feel that way, too.

After the Obama’s outright failure to help Kamala Harris win last month, despite their pleas to celebrities to appear at Harris campaign events to win over voters, it just led to a heavy campaign debt for the Democrats to absorb.  And Barack’s scolding of black men with thoughts of voting for Trump wasn’t appreciated among blacks.

May God continue to bless the United States of America.