If I hear one more liberal democrat or establishment republican pundit describe
Joe Biden as a nice guy, I’m going to throw something at my flat screen TV.
I’m sorry folks, but Joe
Biden is not a nice guy. I came to that conclusion years ago when he
tried to destroy Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas.
In fact, I truly believe the decision to demonize and distort the writings and decisions of Bork, one of the most superbly qualified candidates who was ever nominated for a position on the Supreme Court may have been responsible for some of the more diabolical decisions that the court has rendered since that tragic hearing, in which Ronald Reagan's primary attempt to alter the landscape of liberalism in our judicial system was cut off at the pass by Biden and his colleagues.
The images of Biden's toothy and condescending smile that flashed on the TV screens in millions of households Thursday evening, brought back memories of those same images during the Bork fiasco, which was my first encounter with the war against conservatives and Joe Biden had a leading role in that relatively new phenomenon. Before then most judicial nominees were approved as long as they didn't have criminal records or no familiarity what-so-ever with the american jurisprudence.
And then there was the well publicized revelations during that period when Biden attempted to run for President that he had been guilty of plagerizing speeches and had been caught in such acts during his college days at Syracuse university as well. So a nice guy, you say? A man of intergrity? Not!
He's welcome to display as much passion as he wishes in a debate that is suppose to be about the free exchange of ideas, but it doesn't give him the right to be rude and engage in personal attacks.
In fact, I truly believe the decision to demonize and distort the writings and decisions of Bork, one of the most superbly qualified candidates who was ever nominated for a position on the Supreme Court may have been responsible for some of the more diabolical decisions that the court has rendered since that tragic hearing, in which Ronald Reagan's primary attempt to alter the landscape of liberalism in our judicial system was cut off at the pass by Biden and his colleagues.
The images of Biden's toothy and condescending smile that flashed on the TV screens in millions of households Thursday evening, brought back memories of those same images during the Bork fiasco, which was my first encounter with the war against conservatives and Joe Biden had a leading role in that relatively new phenomenon. Before then most judicial nominees were approved as long as they didn't have criminal records or no familiarity what-so-ever with the american jurisprudence.
And then there was the well publicized revelations during that period when Biden attempted to run for President that he had been guilty of plagerizing speeches and had been caught in such acts during his college days at Syracuse university as well. So a nice guy, you say? A man of intergrity? Not!
He's welcome to display as much passion as he wishes in a debate that is suppose to be about the free exchange of ideas, but it doesn't give him the right to be rude and engage in personal attacks.
Just because he has undergone adversity in
his personal life and has been around for a hundred years or so, doesn’t mean he is correct about the policy actions he advocates. Nor does it make him a nice guy. I mean who hasn’t had bad
things happen to him. You're not alone Joe.
The point of today’s post however is that the image that was
portrayed Thursday night by Joe Biden was symbolic of the Democrat Party during the 12 years since
Gore vs Bush in the 2000 Presidential election, as Rush Limbaugh accurately observed during Friday’s broadcast, and their disrespectful, condescending behavior towards Republicans during most political discussions since then..
The photo at the top of the page portarys perfectly I believe the way Biden came across against Ryan and strangely enough, also reminded me of the puppet character I despised during my youth in the 1950's...Phineas T Bluster on the old Howdy Doody Show, seen on the right in the photo below..
Paul Ryan on the other hand was the face of the Republican party since that time, as he tried to
reason with an old blustery type of character, as obtuse as Mr Bluster ever was.
And Rush Limbaugh is correct as well, as he always is, by seeing Biden as todays Democrat party, out of step with the times, filled with hatred towards Republicans, and indifferent towards a country facing financial and moral oblivion.
As Rush has reiterated many times, one cannot reason with such an entity, as the tea party and conservative members of Congress have learned since their landside victory in the 2010 congressional elections, therefore Democrats must be defeated at the polls. It is the only strategy that has any chance of saving our nation from the disaster that surely awaits us
Though the base of the Democrat party was undoubtedly pleased with the VP's performance last night, after the President's dull witted response to Mitt Romney's stunning and game changing performance in the first Debate, polls show that he came across as unlikable to the more casual and less political members of the audience watching across the nation. In fact most indications are that Ryan was the clear winner and many families, especially women were completely turned off by the obtuse and obnoxious gyrations and demeanor of the old angy white guy, (another Limbaugh observation), laughing and interrupting the nice young man from Wisconsin (Howdy Doody ?) everytime he attempted to engage in intelligent and civil discourse. .
I leave you with one closing thought or actually a question to ponder..
Whatever happened to the great old political party that I grew up admiring in my blue collar Irish Democrat family on the Massachusetts South Coast i.e. the party of Franklin Roosevelt and John F Kennedy?
I remember them as being young, confident, and looking towards the future with hope and a willingness to role up their sleeves and solve difficult problems. And I don't remember Democrats barring Republicans from attending meetings particularly on important legislative matters like the Civil Rights Legislation and Medicare in the 1960's as they did during the recent Obama Care debacle.
They were not the party of class warfare, mean spiritedness, and Phineas T Bluster, mayor of Doodyville, thowing his hands in the air at every suggestion Paul Ryan made to create more jobs and set small businesses loose from excessive taxes and regulations, a stiffling big government mentality and out of control spending. Nor were they the party of condescending big, toothy smiles.
No...my memory of my father's and grandfather's democrat party was that it was very likable as well as responsible, always willing to put party politics aside when national security matters like World War II and the Cuban Missle Crisis took center stage.
Can you imagine Franklin Roosevelt or John F Kennedy laughing and smiling uncontrollably when the topic turned to the rape and murder of an American Ambassador as Joe Biden did at the very beginning of the debate, as seen in the photo below. You don't have to answer that. The whole country knows the answer to that question.
The photo at the top of the page portarys perfectly I believe the way Biden came across against Ryan and strangely enough, also reminded me of the puppet character I despised during my youth in the 1950's...Phineas T Bluster on the old Howdy Doody Show, seen on the right in the photo below..
And Rush Limbaugh is correct as well, as he always is, by seeing Biden as todays Democrat party, out of step with the times, filled with hatred towards Republicans, and indifferent towards a country facing financial and moral oblivion.
As Rush has reiterated many times, one cannot reason with such an entity, as the tea party and conservative members of Congress have learned since their landside victory in the 2010 congressional elections, therefore Democrats must be defeated at the polls. It is the only strategy that has any chance of saving our nation from the disaster that surely awaits us
Though the base of the Democrat party was undoubtedly pleased with the VP's performance last night, after the President's dull witted response to Mitt Romney's stunning and game changing performance in the first Debate, polls show that he came across as unlikable to the more casual and less political members of the audience watching across the nation. In fact most indications are that Ryan was the clear winner and many families, especially women were completely turned off by the obtuse and obnoxious gyrations and demeanor of the old angy white guy, (another Limbaugh observation), laughing and interrupting the nice young man from Wisconsin (Howdy Doody ?) everytime he attempted to engage in intelligent and civil discourse. .
I leave you with one closing thought or actually a question to ponder..
Whatever happened to the great old political party that I grew up admiring in my blue collar Irish Democrat family on the Massachusetts South Coast i.e. the party of Franklin Roosevelt and John F Kennedy?
I remember them as being young, confident, and looking towards the future with hope and a willingness to role up their sleeves and solve difficult problems. And I don't remember Democrats barring Republicans from attending meetings particularly on important legislative matters like the Civil Rights Legislation and Medicare in the 1960's as they did during the recent Obama Care debacle.
They were not the party of class warfare, mean spiritedness, and Phineas T Bluster, mayor of Doodyville, thowing his hands in the air at every suggestion Paul Ryan made to create more jobs and set small businesses loose from excessive taxes and regulations, a stiffling big government mentality and out of control spending. Nor were they the party of condescending big, toothy smiles.
No...my memory of my father's and grandfather's democrat party was that it was very likable as well as responsible, always willing to put party politics aside when national security matters like World War II and the Cuban Missle Crisis took center stage.
Can you imagine Franklin Roosevelt or John F Kennedy laughing and smiling uncontrollably when the topic turned to the rape and murder of an American Ambassador as Joe Biden did at the very beginning of the debate, as seen in the photo below. You don't have to answer that. The whole country knows the answer to that question.
In defense of Joe, I'll just say that like most democratic politicians and activists these days, I'm afraid he was simply acting like a jerk, totally consumed with politics as well as hatred towards republicans, especially Christian or teaparty conservatives, and is incapable of having a rational conversation with them anymore, and neither is the angry MSNBC/Democrat base, clamoring for revenge since Romney's
overwhelming victory in the first Presidential Debate, that actually thinks he did very well in his performance Thursday evening.
Fortunately for the Romney campaign, the early polls and TV ratings don't agree with those findings, as millions especially women changed channels in disgust at Biden's blustery and rude antics..
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