If you’re into hypocrisy, this blog, based on Jennifer Epstein’s article for bloomberg.com, should absolutely thrill you.
A few key excerpts:
Joe Biden said he doesn’t intend to try to match Donald Trump in the nickname game but nonetheless offered one for the president while speaking to donors on Saturday.
“There are so many nicknames that I’m inclined to give this guy. We could just start with clown,” Biden told about three dozen supporters at a $1,000-to-$2,800 per person fundraiser in Columbia, South Carolina. “
A donor urged the former vice president to respond with his own nicknames for Trump, but Biden said he’d aim to keep discourse at a higher level.
Even so, at another point in his response to the question, Biden referred to Trump as a “no good S.O.B.” who would likely turn to attacking his children and grandchildren, “the last people I want to go through” what Trump is likely to hurl their way.
Biden also told donors that he’s heard from 14 heads of state from around the world who’ve voiced concerns to him about Trump. That list included Margaret Thatcher, he said, before correcting what he called a “Freudian slip,” that he was actually referring to current British Prime Minister Theresa May.
So let’s see:
Joe Biden tells his supporters that he objects to the nasty nicknames Donald Trump uses against his political opponents…and then proceeds to call Donald Trump a “clown”, and a”no good S.O.B.”
If they ever create a Hall Of Fame For Hypocrisy, that should occupy a hallowed place within it.
But wait, there’s more. Those “14 heads of state from around the world who’ve voiced concerns to him about Trump”? Tell us Joe: what do they want you to do that Trump is not doing? What are they prepared to do to help you win in 2020 so they’ll get it? And what are you prepared to offer for their help?
We just spent over two years looking for the twin fantasies of collusion and obstruction. Well, here are 14 more possible collusion opportunities for you to investigate. And, unlike the Trump/Russia non-starter, these are built on an actual admission by the candidate that he was approached.
When do you figure media will be demanding an investigation? Convening one of their own?
A note to MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, Chris Hayes, Lawrence O’Donnell and the crowd at CNN: your office is NOT calling.
As for Margaret Thatcher, who died on April 8th – of 2013? Maybe there’s a really, really good medium out there…
Good Golly Miss Molly how did I miss this one. A cup of Jo in the morning, what could possibly be worse? Oh, the ultimate Democrat Dynamic Dual; Mr. Biden and Mrs. Clinton in the White House again! This time the tables turned; Joe for President and Hillary for V.P. The only potential benefit would be defeat and H.R.Clinton melting as a green haze like Margaret Hamilton in The Wizard of Oz. Joe, just go away, far away and northwest.