Like Wile E. Coyote running off a cliff in pursuit of the Road Runner and only falling off the cliff after noticing he is no longer on solid ground, Old Joe Biden has suddenly realized that he is indeed very, very old, and has acknowledged his age as a factor in his sudden decision to end his campaign for reelection.
Old Joe has also admitted for the first time that — despite his now admitted advanced age — he was actually forced out, and named Nancy Pelosi as one of the chief culprits in making that happen.
None of this comes as a surprise to anyone in the world except Biden himself, but it’s noteworthy because it represents a total turnaround from what has been the official line up until now, demonstrating again that the far-left ruling class is inveterately dishonest. Yeah, knock me over with a feather.
The New York Post reported Sunday that Biden said: “A number of my Democratic colleagues in the House and Senate thought that I was going to hurt them in the races. And I was concerned if I stayed in the race, that would be the topic — you’d be interviewing me about why did Nancy Pelosi say [something] … and I thought it’d be a real distraction.”
This was far more forthright than Old Joe’s ghostwriter was in the July 21 X post withdrawing from the race. In that, he said only: “It has been the greatest honor of my life to serve as your President. And while it has been my intention to seek reelection, I believe it is in the best interest of my party and the country for me to stand down and to focus solely on fulfilling my duties as President for the remainder of my term.”
Biden’s strong implication that Pelosi was the chief plotter to oust him also flatly contradicted her own words on Aug. 4: “No, I wasn’t the leader of any pressure [campaign]. Let me say things that I didn’t do: I didn’t call one person. I did not call one person. I could always say to him, ‘I never called anybody.'" Maybe she didn’t, but Biden himself clearly thinks that she applied the pressure in other ways.
No one who is even glancingly familiar with his long career of lying could ever call Old Joe Biden honest, and sure enough, he followed up his statement about Pelosi with a lie: “When I ran the first time, I thought of myself as being a transition president. I can’t even say how old I am — it’s hard for me to get out of my mouth.” Remember that just two days before Biden withdrew, his campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon said: “Absolutely the president’s in this race. You heard him say that time and time again, and I think we saw on display last night exactly why. Joe Biden is more committed than ever to beat Donald Trump.” She didn’t say anything about Old Joe being a “transition president.”
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And as for Biden being so old that even he himself can’t say it, this was a sharply different tune from the one the senescent kleptocrat was singing back in Oct. 2022, when he said: “I think it’s a legitimate thing to be concerned about anyone’s age, including mine. I think that’s totally legitimate. But I think the best way to make the judgment is to, uh, to, y’know, watch me. You know, am I slowing up?” He rambled on in this vein for quite a while, trying to make the case that he was so hale and hearty that his age was just a number on a piece of paper, for actually he was quite vigorous. Now, in contrast, he was always going to be a “transition president.”
The left is at war with reality on many fronts, and this is just another one. If men can become women and Old Joe Biden has been a terrific president, then the story of the withdrawal of the Great Man (ha) can be reshaped according to the needs of the moment. In this case, however, there could be further tension between Pelosi and Biden as each tries to spin the coup against Old Joe in a manner that is most favorable to themselves. The establishment media, however, will keep covering for them, and telling us about Kamala Harris’ campaign of joy, joy, joy, and that any dissension in the ranks is an illusion that MAGA extremists have created. They just better hope they can keep Old Joe quiet.
