Evaluating the Biden Presidency

The Biden presidency got off to a good start with good Cabinet appointments, followed by some impressive legislative achievements.

But his presidency self-destructed on April 25, 2023, when he announced he was running for re-election to a second term. This contradicted his 2020 campaign promise that he would be a "transitional": president, a bridge from the older generation to a younger generation. Biden's announcement came at a time when his aproval rating was a paltry 37%, with a disapproval rating of 59%. No president had ever been re-elected with an apprioval rating of under 50%, so Biden's announcement showed that he had become completely delusional. The idea that the American electorate would choose an unpopular 82-year-old man for a four-year presidential term showed Biden to be totally out of touch with reality.

This hubris-fueled error was compounded when Biden waited until July 21, 2024 to exit the race, giving the eventual Democratic nominee, Kamala Harris, insufficient time to introduce herself to the electorate and win them over. The result was to give a second term to the worst president in U.S. history.

One could argue that this was not the first Democratic presidential electin loss that Biden was responsilbe for. When Biden was running for the 1988 presidential nomination he was forced to leave the race in disgrace after it was revealed that he plagiarized a personal life story from Bitish Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock. The unfortunate fallout from this is that the Dukakis Campaign Manager, John Sasso, was forced to resign after it came to light that he had anonymously sent the tape to the news media. Dukakis replaced him with Susan Estrich, a feminist lawyer who had no prior experience running a campaign, and has had no further experience since. As a result, Dukakis went from up by double digits to down by double digits. Dukakis finally brought Sasso back as a campaign adviser with two months left till the election, but he left the incompetent Estrich as campaign manager, and Sasso was unable to turn things around.

After the Kinnock plagiarism came out, other Biden problems started coming to light. Further plagiarisms from JFK, RFK, and Hubert Humphrey were revealed. A tape from a New Hampshire campaign stop was circulated, in which Biden claimed he had graduated in the top half of his law school class, that he had a full academic scholarship, and that he had three college degrees. None of these claims was true. In fact, Biden was 76th out of a law school class of 85. He also made a false claim that he had marched in the civil rights movement.

During his presidency Biden added more black marks to his name with his mismanagement of both of the wars which occurred on his watch. He refused to stand up to Netanyahu, and refused to stand up to Putin, so he screwed up both wars by his spinelessness, as befits someone who finished tenth from the bottom of his class at a mediocre law school.