All of sudden anyone who points out that one of the main contenders for the presidency is addled is picking on poor old Joe. Of course, back when it was Democrats picking on poor old Joe, nobody seemed to care. The important point is that Joe is definitely addled. From Glenn Greenwald at theintercept.com:
Former Vice President Joe Biden speaks during a campaign rally in Kansas City, Mo., on March 7, 2020.
Photo: Charlie Riedel/AP
IT IS VIRTUALLY REQUIRED in Democratic Party politics to periodically express revulsion about the bigoted political attacks wielded for years against former President Barack Obama: images designed to emphasize his African roots, false claims he was Muslim, the campaign of de-legitimacy based in the racist allegation that he was born in Kenya.
But that mandated Party denunciation often obscures the undeniable fact that — while Republicans seized on and drove them — all of those attacks also emanated from within the Party, particularly from the 2008 Hillary Clinton presidential campaign, which employed them to try to sink Obama’s rival presidential candidacy. In February, 2008, Clinton campaign officials widely circulated a photo of Obama meeting with tribal elders while dressed in Somali garb on a trip to rural Kenya, an act which Obama’s campaign chief David Plouffe angrily denounced as “the most shameful, offensive fear-mongering we’ve seen from either party in this election.”
