Good Old Joe Is a Peking Duck

Former vice president Joe Biden’s declaration for the Democratic presidential nomination seems to have back-footed his twenty-some opponents. It’s so bad that Bernie Sanders has endorsed President Trump’s negotiations with Kim Jong-Un.

How long that will last is problematic. Joe — at seventy-six years of age — is not too old to be president and is supposed to be more electable than most of the others. But let’s not forget that Ol’ Joe is a gaffe-o-matic machine. He’s tossed out so many verbal boners over the years (who can forget his telling a wheelchair-bound man to stand up?) that he’s bound to fumble and stumble repeatedly. His opponents — and the media — aren’t going to let him get away with that stuff anymore.

The problem with Ol’ Joe is that he’s the personification of what Ronald Reagan said about liberals: “It isn’t so much that liberals are ignorant. It’s just that they know so many things that aren’t so.”

Having spent thirty-six years in the Senate, he was brought on Obama’s presidential ticket as a foreign policy expert. Joe, having chaired the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, was going to lend his policy expertise to Obama, who hadn’t any at all.

Biden’s supposed expertise was on display at a campaign stop last week when he proclaimed that China wasn’t bad and that they’re no competition for us.