If David Axelrod stated it, you realize Barack Obama is pondering it.
And that’s the thought to dump Joe Biden. Or, extra exactly, to get the extremely shrinking Joe Biden to not run for re-election.
The polls present that folks consider he, amongst different issues, is simply too previous for the job. Biden turns 81 on Nov. 20.
Joe Biden’s presidency is in some ways Barack Obama’s third time period, and Biden has made a large number of it, regardless of surrounding himself with Obama holdovers.
Ever involved about his legacy, Obama in 2020 by no means wished Biden to run for president within the first place. “You don’t have to do this, Joe, you really don’t,” Obama advised Biden again then.
Obama didn’t endorse Biden within the primaries and solely got here aboard Biden’s candidacy after Biden had secured the nomination.
Obama additionally advised intimates, “Don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to (mess) things up.”
And Joe Biden has, which is why he’s underwater within the polls. Everything that would go unsuitable has gone unsuitable — the disastrous Afghan pullout, open borders, assaults on home vitality, rising road crime, fentanyl killing Americans, inflation, nationwide debt, excessive rates of interest, hovering fuel and grocery costs, Hunter Biden, Chinese payoffs, two wars and Islamic terrorist impressed assaults on American Jews.
So, it’s comprehensible why Axelrod, talking for Obama, wish to see Biden disappear, placing as a lot distance between Obama and Biden as doable.
Otherwise, Biden faces defeat by the hands of former President Donald Trump who, regardless of all his authorized woes — or due to them — is surging within the polls. A defeat for Biden is a defeat for Obama. So, get misplaced, Joe.
Axelrod, a former prime advisor to Obama for eight years when Obama was president and Biden vice chairman, stated that whereas Biden has been “a great president,” his age could have caught up with him.
Axelrod, a Chicagoan like Obama, made his remarks upon the discharge of a New York Times/Siena College ballot that confirmed Trump beating Biden in 5 of six battleground states that Biden should win to get re-elected.
The states are Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Michigan. Trump bested Biden in all besides Wisconsin, which confirmed Biden forward by a mere two share factors.
The ballot confirmed that 71 p.c of the registered voters consider that Biden “is just too old to be an effective president,’ while 62 percent said Biden did not have the “mental sharpness” to do the job successfully.
Axelrod stated that whereas Biden has accomplished issues that may have generational impression, the difficulty was not political however actuarial. “I mean there’s just a lot of concern about the age issue. And that is something that I think he needs to ponder.”
He famous that Obama was down within the polls when he sought reelection in 2011. But Obama was 50 years previous, not 81.
Axelrod has some extent. It can also be proper to level out that he wouldn’t be speaking about Biden had he not been sanctioned or urged to take action by Obama. That is the best way these items work.
Also, it’s fascinating to notice that the Axelrod story broke whereas Obama issued a 1,130-word assertion on the Israeli War in Gaza — appearing as if he have been nonetheless president — that sought to flee duty for the conflict by spreading the blame.
“Nobody’s hands are clean,” Obama stated.
Especially his. It was Obama, like Biden after him, who propped up the Iranian Islamic terrorist regime by sending it billions of {dollars} for the discharge of U.S hostages, lifting sanctions and unfreezing billions extra in property to get the Iranians to the nuclear negotiating desk. The Iranian mullahs responded by chanting “Death to America.”
Iran, the main terrorist exporter on this planet, used the cash to arm Islamic terrorist teams like Hamas, Hezbollah and others.
That cash was utilized by Hamas to coach and arm the degenerate Hamas terrorists who invaded Israel Oct. 7 and brutally murdered 1,400 individuals, together with infants, youngsters, ladies and the aged.
Among these murdered have been 30 Americans. Instead of doing one thing about it, Biden and Obama look the opposite approach as they do when hundreds of antisemitic Americans brazenly show and reward Hamas for killing fellow Americans.
Is this America?
Boy, do we’d like a frontrunner.
Peter Lucas is a veteran Massachusetts political reporter and columnist.
Source: www.bostonherald.com”