Where is Joe Biden? Presidential Candidate Largely Missing Since Crisis Hit Nation

While President Trump was asking “Where’s Hunter?” Democrats were wondering, “Where’s Joe?” That would be 77-year-old presumptive Democrat nominee Joe Biden, who has been showing his age lately through dopey and, at times, unintelligible pronouncements on the current coronavirus pandemic.

Some examples:

  • On “flattening the curve” of the virus outbreak? “We know you have to—you’re tired of hearing the phrase, you got to flatten that curve where it’s going up like this, people getting it, and then it comes down…”
  • Then there was this odd comment about President Trump’s handling of China: “Now all of a sudden, [Trump] is being tough on China. He’s making sure — and now he’s being soft on his xenophobia in the past, so I just can’t figure the guy. It’s like, I don’t know, it’s like watching a yo-yo…”

Speaking of yo-yo’s, the foregoing illustrates exactly why Democrats are both concerned and wary over Joe Biden’s recent gaffe-filled media blitz. The blitz was apparently in response to concerns about his low profile in a time of crisis. While President Trump is front and center daily fighting the coronavirus pandemic, Biden is at home, probably eating soft foods and searching for his slippers.

Biden claims that President Trump is not the leader to steer the country through this crisis, but Americans believe their own eyes and the President’s 60% approval rating has put Biden’s handler’s in a Catch-22 situation.

The catch is that Joe Biden, before he received a lesson from Jake Tapper on how to cough into his elbow, had vanished from public view since the coronavirus crisis took hold. He did no media interviews, and his only alternative plans to stop/deal with this crisis was to advise President Trump to just shut up.

It is obvious that Biden’s handlers realize that when Joe must field a challenging question, he spouts confused and inarticulate nonsense.

 

Keeping Joe out of the media spotlight certainly avoids more embarrassing gaffes or stupid statements.

The problem is that a low profile provides a negative and troubling contrast in leadership skills. Our country is in the midst of one of the worst crises since World War II. President Trump has referred to himself as a wartime president, and even his worst enemies have grudgingly praised his leadership and response.

In his absence, Joe Biden has contributed nothing but criticism and misstatements. To be fair, he is in a bad position. He reminds us of the Democrat whose picture could be next to the word “boring” in the dictionary: Walter Mondale.

Mondale’s problem was that he had to provide an alternative to the vastly popular President Ronald Reagan. The best he could do was, well, nothing much.

As the pandemic worsens and hospitals begin to fill to capacity, Joe Biden may have to eat his words.  In his January 2 op-ed in USA Today: “The possibility of a pandemic is a challenge Donald Trump is unqualified to handle as President….[Trump] railed against the evidence-based response our administration put in place…in favor of reactionary travel bans that would only have made things worse.”

As things turned out, the travel ban President Trump imposed probably slowed the introduction and spread of the virus.

Then there was this: Biden bragged about that op-end but got the publisher wrong. He said he wrote it for US News & World Report. He probably couldn’t remember the name of the staff person who wrote it for him.


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