r/tuesday Conservative Dec 02 '24

Joe Biden's Parting Insult

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/12/02/joe-biden-parting-insult-hunter-biden-pardon-00192113
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u/CheapRelation9695 Right Visitor Dec 02 '24

Biden has seldom possessed the gift of superb timing. The one great exception was his 2020 campaign, when the convergence of a fractious Democratic primary, a self-harming Republican president and a once-in-a-century pandemic vaulted Biden into the White House.

Before that, Biden ran for president repeatedly in years when he was unlikely to succeed and skipped several races he could have won. In 2024, he insisted on waging a doomed campaign for reelection just long enough to discredit the Democrats who closed ranks around him, then left the party with an unprepared presumptive nominee in Kamala Harris.

As president, Biden abandoned his past law-and-order record just in time for a national crime wave that Republicans used against him. He shed his Obama-era hesitations about pursuing titanic social policy to chase Rooseveltian greatness during an inflation crisis. He spent his first year as president agonizing over internal party politics just long enough to hand Republicans the governorship of Virginia, before abruptly moving to pass a popular infrastructure law that was stalled by Democratic infighting.

Now, Biden is exiting a presidency that he insisted was about saving democracy by delivering an ostentatious vote of no confidence in the institutions that his successor most obviously intends to attack.

There is poor timing and then there is this.

This is the best part of the whole article. Biden has been a master at misreading the room for his entire presidency, and he is responsible for so many of the problems facing the Dems right now. This is just the latest, and probably last, incident of that.

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u/nosecohn Libertarian Dec 02 '24

Great excerpt. I get the feeling he thinks he's received bad advice from party insiders throughout his career, so he no longer trusts them.

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u/CheapRelation9695 Right Visitor Dec 02 '24

I mean when he gets advice from such luminaries as Hunter Biden, I can see why he wouldn't trust them.

Speaking more seriously now, there's only so much he can do that and expect to get away with that. It sounds more like he can't accept he made some bad choices and is blaming everyone around him for that. At a certain point, the buck stops with him. In some cases, the advice from insiders may have hurt him, but in others I think they had the right idea, and he doesn't like that.