Say It Is So, Joe

The Whimpering Failure of Biden

Say it was your presidency.

Look into the eyes of the American people and say it, that everything that happened in the past four years not only happened on your watch but that also that were involved in it.

But you can’t say it, because it was not you – it was everyone and everything around you.

It was not you, Joe, but it was the system, the decision made outside of your view – it was everyone else on the team who decided to throw the World Series to make a few bucks.

No matter that you think you hit a few out of the park, no matter that you think you did your darndest for the fans, not only did you fail at all of that you never understood what it meant to be president.

You never had a chance – you were not up to the job in 2020 or ever before - and to your permanent detriment you always knew that.

When leaving you have decided to blame oligarchs, thinking that the speech will be remembered like Ike’s farewell address.

It was a depressing ape of the effort, a simulacrum of seriousness delivered under person duress.

You were trying for this:

…(W)e must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.

And you ended up with “from now on, don’t give money to people who have given me money in the past.”

You could have talked about the degradation of the scientific method, but you can, would, will, and should – if you want to pay for your ghostwriter for your biography – not.

You could have said what Ike said, reinforced one of the most serious of the day, but you did not. Ike said:

Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. For every old blackboard there are now hundreds of new electronic computers… The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present and is gravely to be regarded.

Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.

You said nothing of the kind, choosing instead to go out on the same base note you arrived.

And, essentially, you ended up with this:

I am not a crook.

And you couldn’t even match that because of how much you made on the side.

Sure, it took years but it happened as it did for much of your family.

At least, Checkers never got a check.

You leave the office diminished, the nation confused, the culture torn, the world worse.

You leave America with less than you found it.

That is what is so, Joe.