On Tuesday, Joe Biden, one of the 20-odd presidential aspirants, held a campaign event in Iowa where he told listeners, if he (Biden) were elected president, “you’re going to see the single most important thing that changes America: We’re going to cure cancer.” Mr. Biden lost a son to cancer in 2015. Cancer is a […]
Joe Biden and Influence Peddling
Do you remember when Joe Biden first ran for president? It was 1988. Yes, more than three decades ago. With the caveat that much can change between now and November 2020, Roger Kimball discusses why Joe Biden is an intermittent glimmer – an ignis fatuus – over The Swamp that surprises everyone and then disappears. […]
Back to the Obama/Biden Years?
Do you remember an interview on “60 Minutes” when President Obama spoke of the “new normal”? The year was 2010, and Obama was warning viewers that businesses needed to adjust to fewer employees … that the job market in America would never expand. GDP was 1.9% when President Obama and Joe Biden left office. Obama […]
Joe Biden, Foreign Policy “Expert”?
At The American Spectator, Jed Babbin reminds readers about the time Joe Biden was brought on to the Obama campaign as a “foreign policy expert.” He writes: Having spent thirty-six years in the Senate, he was brought on Obama’s presidential ticket as a foreign policy expert. Joe, having chaired the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, was […]
Joe Biden Isn’t Enough of Anything for Anyone
Joe Biden isn’t left enough for the progressives, moderate enough for the moderates, or successful enough for Americans. The Obama/Biden economic record left many Americans yearning for better times. Despite eight years to clean up the Great Recession, the big government brand of economics pressed by their administration kept a stranglehold on growth and confidence. […]
Democrats’ Trio of Old White Males – Biden, Bernie, Beto
Odd indeed that the leading presidential contenders for the Democrat’s anti “white male” party are all white males, observes Victor Davis Hanson. Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke: The lifelong beneficiary of wealth and influence – when not declaring Trump guilty of treason – has done his best to blast his own past white privilege. “As a […]
Joe Biden Pledge: Choose Georgia’s Stacey Abrams V.P.?
Probable presidential candidate Joe Biden, has a race problem, writes Pat Buchanan in The American Conservative. To solve the thorny issue of his being an old, white, man (a sin in today’s Democrat Party), Biden is considering prepackaging himself with failed Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams as his pick for vice president. It is hard […]
“Shotgun” Joe Biden is Preparing to Run for President
Emily Glazer and Ken Thomas report: Former Vice President Joe Biden told at least a half-dozen supporters Tuesday he intends to run for president and asked for their help in lining up contributions from major donors so he can quickly raise several million dollars, a person familiar with the matter said. Mr. Biden has expressed […]
Joe Biden, a Democrat to Beat Trump?
Joe Biden, who to date has not announced plans to run for the third time as a presidential candidate, has as good a chance as any Democrat of beating Donald Trump, writes William McGurn in the WSJ. Mr. Biden was a loyal member of the Obama team. He claims a Democratic ethos forged in the […]
Biden/Pelosi Raised in a Catholic Church
Democrats looking for an easy win in 2020 against President Trump must remember some of the hard facts about their own party. As Pat Buchanan explains at The American Conservative, it’s no longer the party of JFK. Pat lists some of the more outrageous ambitions of the Party’s younger generation, and details the hypocrisy of […]