I've tweeted many times that Biden is too old. He's had many "senior moments" on the debate stage and on the campaign trail. Ironically, what is actually benefiting Biden is his longstanding history of making gaffes. His habit of foot-in-mouth disease and/or garbling what he meant to say is allowing him to skate free now with what appears to be early-onset dementia of some sort. The media just gives him a pass, whereas if Warren or Buttigieg shook Bernie Sanders' hand and called him "Mr. President," there would be real concern.
But showing signs of age is not the only reason Biden needs to drop out. The other is his son, Hunter. All informed, sane people know there's nothing there with this supposed scandal. Along with the G-7 and the IMF, Joe Biden was urging Ukraine to remove the prosecutor because he was not doing enough to investigate corruption. Republicans and right-wingers have reversed this 180 degrees, claiming Biden was trying to get Ukraine to fire the prosecutor because he was investigating Burisma, the company in which Hunter sat on the board. In short, Biden Sr. was looking to protect Biden Jr. All not true, with the truth being the exact opposite.
All of that aside, what we do know is if Joe Biden were to become the nominee, Trump and Republicans would look to incessantly hound him with this Hunter/Ukraine "scandal," to the point where it's all the media would focus on. They did it to Hillary with her private email server. It smelled just enough like a credible scandal that Fox News and right-wing radio pressed it hard, 24/7. It became this perfect distraction for Trump, allowing him to deflect from his extensive resume of corruption by saying "You think I'm bad? Look at her, she's no saint!" Followed by the "Lock Her Up!" mantra.
We can't have that happen again. Sure, no matter who becomes the nominee, they will always look to find some kind of supposed scandal to inflate and pound home to the Fox News rubes. But we cannot make it so easy for them. And with Biden, it's fairly low hanging fruit. I'll take Pocahontas nonsense over this Hunter/Ukraine BS, without question.
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The problem for Uncle Joe is not that he or his son (or his brother) did anything 'illegal'. Joe's problem is that tRump and the republicans will smear him with slime that will stick.
Hunter Biden IS slime...
- Used Daddy's name to get an appointment as an officer in the Naval Reserve at age 43 then 1 month later dishonorably discharged for failing a drug test (cocaine)
- Screwed his dead brother's wife for two years starting while he was still married
- Used Daddy's name to get a $600,000 a year part-time gig for a Ukraine Fossil Fuel company
None of it illegal per se, but all of it slimy and Uncle Joe looking the other won't exempt Joe from getting covered in that slime.
Also, Uncle Joe's brother John got put on the Board of Directors of a construction company while Joe was VP & then shortly thereafter that company got a $1.5 BILLION contract to build housing in Iraq. Not illegal, but more slime.
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