Last Friday, we witnessed the strange spectacle of the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the U.S. Secretary of Defense urging the American people — and the president of the United States — to prepare for a protracted war against the surging Islamic state. They spoke of its “apocalyptic, end-of-days strategic vision.” I say it’s too late to bring the 44th president on board in any such effort. So I have another suggestion. I say it’s time for president to resign from a job that he doesn’t seem to like anyway (apart from the fund-raising parties and vacations). Let him go off at taxpayer expense (no price too high) on a permanent vacation, maybe even join the PGA tour, if that is what he wants. Let Joe Biden finish up Obama’s presidency in the same way that Gerald Ford mopped up after Richard Nixon resigned the presidency in the middle of his second term. Like Ford, Biden is another journeyman — even if (in Biden’s case) a goofball and a blowhard. Unlike his boss, however, Biden is not a slacker. I would guess that he cares more about this country and thinks more highly of its people. Expectations for a Biden presidency would be low, but that in itself could be a plus. He might actually be able to grow in the job. People have joked that the gaff-a-minute Biden was Obama’s insurance policy against the possibility of impeachment. Right now, almost anyone would be better than the puffed up and “charismatic” Obama.
Posted on: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 15:45:52 +0000
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