The Plan to Replace Joe Biden...
... and an alternative vision of Obama handing power over to Trump, one more time...
Oh, my…
President Joseph R. Biden’s performance in the debate last night in Atlanta with former and likely future President Donald J. Trump was eye-popping. “JUST SAD,” blared the New York Post. He lacked coherence, looked cadaverous and is in no way suited to be president of the United States.
But then we knew that, and have known it since he campaigned from his basement in 2020.
His lack of mental acuity is, of course, much worse now. And, we don’t know the cause, so we cannot know for sure what is going on with Joe, except to intuit, as radio host Chris Plante says regarding his brain, “She’s a broke.”
It would be “JUST SAD” if Biden was sitting in a rocking chair in some remote location, waiting to “meet his Maker,” with few if any visitors, as is the case with countless elderly across the fruited plain.
But since he’s the “leader of the free world,” it’s more than “JUST SAD.” It’s “SAD AND SCARY.”
Yet, from all accounts, Biden is not running the country, former President Barack Obama is—the “O’Biden” Administration stuffed with former Obama aides as Obama, holed up not far away in a mansion behind the Mosque on Massachusetts Avenue, complete with a SCIF, calls the shots.
If true, it makes the situation that much worse—making a mockery of our democracy.
And, if it wasn’t so serious for the economic and national security of the nation, the dance the Democrats are now dancing, would be downright comical.
Now including a chorus of Democrats calling for Biden to step aside even as others maintain the gravity-defying position that Joe’s just fine.
With this good cop, bad cop routine, they hope to ease out Biden.
“The plan” all along at the highest levels has been to replace Joe Biden with Michelle Obama, an informed source told me last summer.
When I heard that I cautioned that, if true, it would mean Biden needs to step aside. And, knowing something about human nature, fat chance someone who has made so many compromises to ascend to the pinnacle of power, overlaid with the age factor and the stubbornness that sets in as one’s aging faculties fail, will do that.
So, barring incapacitation Biden will be the Democrat presidential standard bearer in 2024.
And, no doubt, the voters will do in November what the Democrats have failed to do.
Then, too, Biden will get the dose of reality he needs to get ready to meet his Maker— repenting for the great harm he has done to the nation and the world, whether wittingly or not.
Of course, this is all written without benefit of a crystal ball, which is what is really needed to see how our country gets out this morass.
Truly we need a miracle whereby come November 5, when, Donald J. Trump wins his second nonconsecutive presidential term—and all the polls show him running away with it—Obama once again hands over the presidency to Trump, this time at the 60th Presidential Inauguration on January 20, 2025, calling for peace and calm. It could be Barack Obama’s finest hour.
Mary Claire Kendall is author of Oasis: Conversion Stories of Hollywood Legends. The sequel, Oasis of Faith: The Souls Behind the Billboard—Barrymore, Cagney, Tracy, Stewart, Guinness & Lemmon—is being published on July 16. Her biography of Ernest Hemingway, titled Hemingway’s Faith,” is being published Christmas 2024 by Rowman & Littlefield, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing.