Humpty Dumpty was a good egg.
Well, that’s what we tend to think, but the original nursery rhyme doesn’t specify an eggman (goo goo g’joob) at all. And says nothing about his character.
All the rhyme says? He had a great fall, and the king’s forces — masculine and equine — couldn’t make him whole.
This was brought to mind with yet another pratfall by President Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., along with yet another stream of journalistic puffery trying to make the octogenarian seem like a good egg — and the falls insignificant.
That was the general tenor of Adele Suliman’s Washington Post article, “Biden isn’t the only politician to fall: Why we can’t look away,” last Friday. Ms. Suliman provides a history of stumbling pols, which she relates to Biden’s most recent tumble, at the Air Force Academy after his commencement speech.
But it’s the New York Times that went all out, with four authors explaining our shared Biden moment: “The two Joe Bidens coexist in the same octogenarian president: Sharp and wise at critical moments, the product of decades of seasoning, able to rise to the occasion even in the dead of night to confront a dangerous world.”
Yet, also, Biden’s “a little slower, a little softer, a little harder of hearing, a little more tentative in his walk, a little more prone to occasional lapses of memory in ways that feel familiar to anyone who has reached their ninth decade or has a parent who has.”
The article has been roundly ridiculed, but the problem is, if anything, underplayed.
Now is not the time to be worrying about an eggman president.
It’s our eggshell republic that should be on our minds.
Goo goo g’joob.
This is Common Sense. I’m Paul Jacob.
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A little harder each day for the muppet masters to control. Still less of a potential liability than the potentate-wannabe Kamala
Harris was supposed to succeed Biden shortly after he passed the two-year mark, and thence to serve for nearly a decade as Hillary 2.0. But she has proved inept and undisciplined.
Moreover, Biden does not want to retreat from Trump.
And any Democrat who challenges Biden (or Harris) implicitly or explicitly calls into question the narrative to which the corporatist left has committed.
So Biden remains in place as the President, and as the presumptive 2024 nominee of the Democratic Party.