Joe Biden is not a man who likes to face reality or to be challenged.
We saw that again when he was asked about the economy and got snippy with a reporter, scolding him to "Start reporting it the right way."
"What's your outlook on the economy next year?"
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) December 23, 2023
BIDEN: "All good. Take a look! Start reporting it the right way." pic.twitter.com/dpRcDiq16S
As I noted, the translation for that is that you guys are supposed to be pumping out my talking points, the way I want them reported, not questioning me.
However, inflation, debt, and high interest rates aren't good for the American people, and snippy comments aren't going to change that.
There are not only those issues with the economy but his polls are in the basement, with people believing he isn't up to the job. That's a hard thing to overcome, as he isn't going to get any younger or more coherent.
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It's why folks like James Carville and David Axelrod were suggesting that Biden step aside and let someone else run. Biden's response? Reportedly to call Axelrod a pr**k and not take his advice. Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) threw down over the issue, telling Carville to "shut the f**k up" about Biden stepping aside.
Now, Biden's own words about Jimmy Carter back in the 1980 race are coming back to bite him, as they seem to eerily mirror his own situation now.
'That man's in trouble, politically in trouble,' Biden said at the time, according to comments found in the Wilmington Evening Journal.
The U.S. senator from Delaware expressed that he was holding off endorsing Carter because he wanted to back a candidate who could retain the White House for the Democrats in 1980.
'I'm not certain that's Jimmy Carter right now,' Biden told his local paper.
Why? The bad inflation that Carter seemed clueless about. And Carter wasn't even trying to sell us the nonsense that Biden has been doing--about how everything is actually good, just believe him. Biden criticized Carter over inflation.
'The spiraling costs of inflation are ripping into the fabric of American society,' Biden said in a full-page ad placed in the Wilmington Morning News in October 1978, weeks before the midterm elections. 'We must bring these problems under control and the first place to start is with the cost of government.'
Biden was also publicly critical of Carter's staff. [...]
'The president is learning, but not fast enough,' Biden said in October 1977 at a Delaware State Chamber of Commerce dinner, according to the Wilmington Morning News. 'Everything was important to his neophyte staff and therefore nothing was important.'
Yet Biden himself contributed to more spending, which many now believe to be responsible for making inflation worse.
Biden also knocked Carter for the "amateurish" way he reshuffled his cabinet in 1979, as well as how he was dealing with splintered coalitions.
'I think that's part of Jimmy Carter's problem,' Biden said in February 1979, according to the Wilmington News Journal. 'You've got to learn how to deal with the Bella Abzugs.'
Biden has brought more division than Carter ever did, demonizing millions of political opponents on the right and antagonizing the people on the left even as he kowtows to them.
Biden eventually was forced to come around and sign aboard as supporting Carter because the Democrats were going with Carter despite all the problems.
'Let's face it, Jimmy Carter is not the finest thing since wheat cakes; he's not the second coming,' Biden said in April 1980, according to the Wilmington Morning News. 'But he is doing a good job.'
Then Carter got absolutely decimated by Ronald Reagan in 1980.
Déjà vu all over again? Let us hope.
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