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Things That Are Beyond Joe Biden: Knowing Where He Is
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
Pretty soon, he’ll reach peak James Stockdale
Only the media won’t cover it, because, for them, it won’t be a joke this time.
Ernst, I usually enjoy your off beat sense of humor, but comparing Stockdale to Biden is a very poor comparison. In a televised debate with the other VP nominees, Quayle and Gore, VADM James Stockdale’s opening statement was, “Who am I? Why am I here?” With that rhetorical question Stockdale had planned to introduce himself to the national audience but he never got a chance; to explain his background as a naval aviator, test pilot, senior POW of the N. Viet-Namese, Medal of Honor winner, and USNA and Stanford educated academic. He appeared disoriented because he didn’t have his hearing aid turned on during part of the debate.
To quote Dennis Miller, ” Now I know(Stockdale’s name has) become a buzzword in this culture for doddering old man, but let’s look at the record, folks. The guy was the first guy in and the last guy out of Vietnam, a war that many Americans, including our present President, did not want to dirty their hands with. The reason he had to turn his hearing aid on at that debate is because those f*****g animals knocked his eardrums out when he wouldn’t spill his guts. He teaches philosophy at Stanford University, he’s a brilliant, sensitive, courageous man. And yet he committed the one unpardonable sin in our culture: he was bad on television.”
I’m old enough to have watched that debate, CAM (back when I was still young enough to think watching debates mattered). It was meant as a criticism of the media, which was (almost) as crappy then as it is now, but I’ll concede that it was made too much at Admiral Stockdale’s expense, who obviously was in more possession of his faculties then than Biden is now.
My penance for denigrating Admiral Stockdale is I now have to live with the knowledge that that atrocious run-on sentence in the previous comment is preserved forever for all the world to see.
Biden, such a harmless old man. What’s not to like. Trump is mean and nasty. Who would you choose—if you were stupid?
I was listening to a recent Joe Rogan podcast, and was surprised by his frank dismissal of Biden’s candidacy. For those unfamiliar with the man, Rogan has what is probably the largest YouTube channel, with over nine million subscribers and many millions more in casual viewers. The man doesn’t identify as a conservative, but he utterly rejected Biden as a candidate because the man is clearly not up to the demands of the presidency. Rogan stated on air that he’d vote for Trump— in fact he’d vote for anyone else who wasn’t so obviously impaired as Biden.
If, in this year of cancel culture, a man like Rogan chooses to declare that Biden is unfit for office and Trump is the only reasonable option, then I’m guessing there’s a sizable number of other non-conservatives out there thinking the same thing.