Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. should be remembered as a failed president, a cringy blowhard senator, perhaps the most shameless fabulist in American political history, the patriarch of a shady family, and a preternatural liar who couldn’t hold a single consistent principled position in his very long career.
Of course they’re going to try to canonize him.
Almost a week after breaking up with voters in a letter, Biden finally addressed the nation without bothering to explain why he abandoned the race. Doing so would have entailed admitting his declining mental and physical state. But, true to form, the president used the Oval Office, typically reserved for solemn or historic moments, to deliver another divisive partisan talk, insinuating that anyone who opposed Democrats was a threat to “democracy.”
Did the political media press the Biden camp on what the man had been doing the past week? Or what was said to him by Democrats to convince him to leave? No. They began writing hagiographies.
After the speech, the Biden family posed for some legacy-building shots, and the media took the bait. “A powerful photo. The hand toward his father’s face,” wrote Robert Costa of The Washington Post about one picture of Joe with his son, renowned artist Hunter Biden. “The eyes. Put aside politics and everything related for a moment, and viewed simply on a human level, you see two men, father and son, still at each other’s side, more than a half-century since the darkness of Dec. 18, 1972.”
Ah, the eyes. Get a grip,
