Joe Biden: Broken Puppet in the White House

 

Obama with Rice in Oval Office (2015)

“the long-term lesson of Afghanistan: the people who lead this country aren’t fit for the task.”

— J.D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy author; Ohio GOP Senate candidate


Franklin Roosevelt reportedly said of Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza, “but he’s our son of a bitch.” While the “SOBs” often fail to pull through for us — Cuba, Vietnam, Iran, Iraq —  at least that happens over there, and America can try moving on.

But now, the puppet “SOB” is our President.

Unlike assassinated John Kennedy, Barack Obama left the White House alive, a fit 55, a key to maintaining Democrats’ grip on power. Hillary Clinton, his pliant former Secretary of State, was positioned to prolong Obama’s influence, but her secret basement server hiding shady Clinton Foundation finances helped elect Trump instead. Obama needed another puppet.

Obama is the power behind Biden. And Obama’s fingerprints are on the Afghanistan disaster (however much Obama political ally David Axelrod tries shifting blame elsewhere).

At the time Biden announced his Afghanistan September 11 withdrawal deadline, Obama praised Biden’s “bold leadership,” saying “it is time to recognize that we have accomplished all that we can militarily” in America’s longest war.

Furthermore, as the Federalist wrote, President Obama himself

didn’t listen to Pentagon officials when they told him Taliban mullah Khairullah Khairkhwa was too dangerous to release [from Guantanamo Prison]. Instead, he freed the group that came to be known as the ‘Gitmo five’ — Khairkhwa alongside four of his buddies .   .   .  in 2014 in exchange for a U.S. soldier who deserted his post.   .   . Khairkhwa has resurfaced as one of the masterminds behind the Taliban’s takeover of Kabul.

Though Khairkhwa said the Taliban wouldn’t launch a military offensive if Biden withdrew troops from Afghanistan, “it doesn’t appear that the Taliban has kept its word.”

There are five corner offices in Biden’s West Wing. Biden has one. So does Chief of Staff Ron Klain. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan occupies the third ground floor corner (the Cabinet Room is the fourth corner).

One of the second floor corner offices is for the administration’s top lawyer, counsel Dana Remus, former Obama administration deputy counsel, lawyer for the Obama Foundation, lawyer for Michelle Obama, and lawyer for the Biden campaign.

The second floor houses the fifth occupied corner office. It belonged to Donald Trump’s chief speech writer and top advisor Stephen Miller, vilified by the left as the biggest “anti-immigration hardliner.” Domestic Policy Advisor Susan Rice, Obama’s direct link to Biden, has taken Miller's corner office, which she picked after burning sage to rid it of Miller’s remaining odor.

Of Obama’s top “affirmative action” buddies, only Rice is back (see "good old days" picture from 2015) in the West Wing.

Obama joked to Stephen Colbert that from the White House basement, he would use an earpiece to guide Trump's successor. Turns out it’s done from the second floor instead, through Rice.

And after Afghanistan, our country is stuck with a puppet that doesn’t work.

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