The American people deserve better
Most Americans, including most Democrats, don’t want President Joe Biden to run for reelection. The 81-year-old is obviously unfit to serve another four years in the White House. He should be relaxing on a beach in Delaware, not constantly cheating death on the Air Force One staircase. So why won’t he just retire?
One reason Biden has to run again is because Democrats really don’t want Kamala Harris to run either. They know she’s a terrible candidate, but they don’t want to be accused of racism for admitting that in public.
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That’s not the only reason why Biden, sometimes referred to as “Sleepy Joe,” is campaigning for a second term. According to presidential historian Douglas Brinkley, the president’s wife and primary caregiver, Dr. Jill Biden, Ed.D., was the driving force behind the decision to run again in 2024.
“She is the vital part [of the campaign]. Dr. Jill Biden is it,” Brinkley said on Face the Nation over the weekend. The historian went on to recount how the wives of previous presidents such as Harry Truman and Lyndon Johnson ultimately persuaded their husbands not to seek reelection.
Bess Truman “wanted to go back to Independence [Missouri], she didn’t like it in Washington,” Brinkley said. Lady Bird Johnson persuaded her husband to step down because “his health was bad, he had a bad heart, he was smoking, high blood pressure, tension,” and she didn’t want to stay in Washington.
“Truman could have stayed on, and Johnson, and they both said no, it’s because their wives, their spouse[s], said enough,” Brinkley said. “That’s not the case with Jill Biden. She likes power. She wants to stay. She wants some sense of revenge.”
Brinkley’s alarming assessment received hardly any coverage in the mainstream media. At a time when even hardcore Democratic partisans such as Ezra Klein of the New York Times are urging Biden to step aside, the octogenarian is being forced to endure another grueling presidential campaign because his petty wife, who insists on being called “doctor” because of her education degree from the University of Delaware, wants to punish her political enemies.
Americans deserve better.
