Woodrow Wilson’s wife ran the country for eighteen months, so Jill Biden’s power grab isn’t unprecedented. From David Stockman at theburningplatform.com:
This is not the first time that an invalid has occupied the Oval Office. After apparently exhausting himself in behalf of the “War to Make the World Safe for Democracy” and orchestrating the “peace conference” at Versailles that guaranteed the carnage of WWII, Woodrow Wilson succumbed to a nearly fatal stroke in October 1919 while barnstorming the nation in behalf of the League of Nations Treaty.
As it happened, America was than blessed with a perfectly serviceable Vice-President, Thomas R. Marshall, who had been a famous Midwestern lawyer, governor of Indiana, outspoken “progressive” and contender for the Democrat nomination in 1912. Wilson won the nomination on the 46th ballot but only after his advisers secretly promised Marshall the vice presidency in a very smoked-filled room in the wee hours of the Dem convention.
Perhaps that is why Marshall’s most famous quote is known to almost everyone more than 100 years later. Thus, observed America’s #2 leader—
“What this country needs is a really good five-cent cigar.”
Notwithstanding Marshall’s status as a second term almost-president, Edith Wilson was having none of a succession plan. And that’s despite the fact she did not have a degree in “education” nor did she answer to the “Dr. Edith” title.
What leaders and figureheads we deserve?
No one voted for upholstered sofa look Jill.
The first BlackRock will have some say in who will be the corporate figurehead as Kamal be like all smart n’ stuff?
And…historic!
Bwahaha! Wildly entertained in Peak Clown.
It only gets worse. (honk, honk)