Everyone was buzzing last week about Joe Biden’s confrontation with a voter in Iowa who had the temerity to ask about son Hunter’s extremely lucrative job on the board of Ukrainian gas company Burisma—a job Hunter Biden received one month after his father was named the Obama administration’s “point person” on Ukraine.
Biden, obviously, did not take well to the suggestion he had enabled corruption by his son. As a general rule, I’d like to see more bare-knuckles between politicians and voters in campaign settings, but the real revelation here is that Joe Biden is totally, utterly unprepared to answer obvious difficult questions he’s going to have to answer in a presidential campaign.
Perhaps it’s understandable that people have concerns about Trump’s destabilizing outbursts, but it’s also true that Trump’s presidency has illuminated lots of hypocritical ways that D.C. pretends that erratic behavior, bad judgment, and corruption is acceptable or even savvy, so long as it preserves the status quo or otherwise serves entrenched interests.In contrast to the way Trump’s insults are treated, it’s otherwise hard to explain how Biden gets a pass on calling a reasonable Iowa voter a fat, unintelligent, liar.’
"Where Revolution is the Solution" Taking back the Empire
