Joe Biden is a proud retail politician, a man who believes the personal touch is how elected officials cement a connection with us. So I’ll share my personal story about how he cemented a connection with me, back when I and a few hundred thousand other troops were preparing for war, and Joe wafted in to warn us we were all to get our collective ass kicked.
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Biden’s voter pitch is this: Ignore a half-century record of dishonesty, incompetence, and wretched judgment and think only this: “Joe’s a nice guy who reaches across the aisle.” It may work, given exogenous circumstances, but then again, as Barack Obama reportedly said in private during this year’s primaries, “Don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to f*** things up.”
With the aid of the electronic media that have no time to delve into the longest record any presidential candidate has ever had because they’re too busy sounding the alarm about what tweets cause Eric Trump to hit the “Like” button, Biden hopes we will turn a blind eye to how he turned a blind eye to how his family got rich dangling access to him. The corruption of these acts was comically undisguised: “Don’t worry about investors,” his brother James “Jimmy” Biden reportedly said after taking over Paradigm Global Investors. “We’ve got people all around the world who want to invest in Joe Biden.” He added, according to a former colleague, “We’ve got investors lined up in a line of 747s filled with cash ready to invest in this company.” Politico’s grueling exposé “Biden, Inc.” is sordid and thorough, and Biden’s campaign declined to comment on its swampy details.
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