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Does Joe Biden Really Want to Be President? He’d be a hostage who issues reassuring bromides from a cell in the White House family quarters.
Wall Street Journal ^ | September 28, 2020 | Gerard Baker

Posted on 09/29/2020 6:15:57 AM PDT by karpov

Here’s a question that won’t get asked in Tuesday’s presidential debate: Does Joe really want this? Is his heart truly in the project that the modern Democratic Party has become?

This is a man whose entire adult life has been spent in the embrace of a political culture that is now denounced by the ideological shock troops who drive much of the agenda of his party.

On Planet Biden, somewhere in that America he thinks he still inhabits, Joe is running for president in about 1956, back when he had his first full head of hair, an age when the Democratic Party still regarded white men as human beings rather than patriarchal oppressors and racial supremacists.

(Come to think of it, maybe he did run for president in 1956? It’s easy to lose count. He’s taken more shots at the presidency than your average Molotov cocktail-wielding peaceful protester has taken at a police cruiser in the past few months.)

I actually believe Joe when he says he’s running in part to restore some dignity to national politics. Like many Americans, he’s genuinely repulsed by President Trump’s vulgarity, his preening narcissism, his evident disregard for the obligations of leading a fractured nation. All Joe really wanted to do was be a normal president, like we used to have before all-caps Twitter rants, before House speakers tore up State of the Union addresses on live TV, before news organizations became propaganda arms of the “resistance.”

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1 posted on 09/29/2020 6:15:57 AM PDT by karpov
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Oh Please, he will not even know that he is President. The Democrat party is holding his family and him hostage.


2 posted on 09/29/2020 6:17:36 AM PDT by LoveMyFreedom
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To: karpov

“Like many Americans, he’s genuinely repulsed by President Trump’s vulgarity, his preening narcissism, his evident disregard for the obligations of leading a fractured nation.”

The Author is a deluded moron.


3 posted on 09/29/2020 6:19:06 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: karpov

Maybe that’s why the hole was being dug during the *Crinton years. Front lawn of the White House I believe.


4 posted on 09/29/2020 6:19:33 AM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: LoveMyFreedom

He doesn’t want anything. His wife wants to be first lady. That’s what this is all about.


5 posted on 09/29/2020 6:19:56 AM PDT by Helicondelta (Deplorable)
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To: karpov
If Biden is the basemen now, Biden will be in the basement in the White House too.
Good thing Trump is going to beat him like a drum.
6 posted on 09/29/2020 6:22:06 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: karpov

He wouldn’t be in the family quarters, he’d be in his rocking chair down in the basement, not unlike Norman Bates’ mother.


7 posted on 09/29/2020 6:25:59 AM PDT by euram
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To: karpov
I actually believe Joe when he says he’s running in part to restore some dignity to national politics.

Dignity?

The same guy who called a military audience, "stupid bastards," called a voter a "dog-faced pony soldier," threatened to beat down another voter, and called for a phyisical attack on President Trump, now seeks "dignity" to national politics?

8 posted on 09/29/2020 6:33:10 AM PDT by ScottinVA (First, letÂ’s deal with the election; then weÂ’ll deal with BLM.)
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To: gibsonguy

“....his evident disregard for the obligations of leading a fractured nation.”

Translation: Trump is not caving to our demands and is the cause of the nation being fractured.


9 posted on 09/29/2020 6:33:20 AM PDT by billyboy15
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To: karpov

Leading Democrats love power.

RBG foolishly held out until death claimed her.


10 posted on 09/29/2020 6:36:48 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: Brian Griffin

Its not the election its the post election. Biden is the worst candidate in History.


11 posted on 09/29/2020 6:42:48 AM PDT by magua (It's not racism, it's just that thisBecause itÂ’s being reported that a lot of this started in 2015.)
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Democrats are getting desperate. Nanzi told her hairdresser they are making a last-ditch effort to get votes.

Democrats are making arrangements for:
<><> mercy killing of celebrities, and,
<><> assisted suicide of movie stars.

12 posted on 09/29/2020 6:57:06 AM PDT by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: karpov

“...from a cell in the White House family quarters.”

Pretty sure the Whitehouse has a bigger basement than Joe’s house. He should be happy wondering around in the supersized space. His handlers will have to child-proof the place though.


13 posted on 09/29/2020 6:58:10 AM PDT by moovova
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To: karpov

The question should be does Pelosi see this as her only way into to the oval office.


14 posted on 09/29/2020 6:59:24 AM PDT by bgill
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Joe is at a stage where he is just calling it in. He and his Democrat backers may be convinced that he may as well change his name from Joe Biden to Not Orange. For he has not made a very convincing argument why one would vote for him other than the fact that he is not Trump. No one can name one positive reason why they are voting for him. At least Obama had his empty headed hopey changey slogan. Sounds like the only lawn sign in this election should be Trump and Not Trump. The question is are there enough negative voters that hate Trump enough to accept the low expectations of putting a wheezing 77 year old whose heart is not in it in the oval office or, in his case, the oval basement


15 posted on 09/29/2020 7:00:30 AM PDT by chuckee
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Count on it-he’ll never get that far.


16 posted on 09/29/2020 7:02:53 AM PDT by SMARTY ("To choose is to invent." Sartre)
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To: Helicondelta

It will end up same as Wilson’s wife after he had his stoke after WWI. She tried to run the WH.


17 posted on 09/29/2020 7:04:37 AM PDT by DownInFlames (Gals)
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To: Helicondelta

His wife wants to be Elena Ceausescu.


18 posted on 09/29/2020 7:06:19 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: karpov

“Wayne” invented the podcast from your basement concept.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0SnHs7De3c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVbAsWH-6Jk


19 posted on 09/29/2020 7:13:10 AM PDT by Steven Tyler
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To: karpov

Jill wants to be in charge


20 posted on 09/29/2020 7:14:50 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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