It’s time to put to bed the debate over whether it was intention or incompetence that forced Joe Biden’s convention speech into a slot well past prime time.
It’s time to put to bed the debate over whether it was intention or incompetence that forced Joe Biden’s convention speech into a slot well past prime time.
All the evidence points to intent.
Organizers scheduled too many speakers and knew what they were going to say because it was all loaded on to TelePrompters.
No matter their lame defenses Tuesday, they had to assume there would be time spent on applause and transitions, so Biden’s finishing well after midnight on the East Coast could not be a surprise to them.
Then again, who can fault the organizers for wanting to hide him?
Biden is well past his prime, as he demonstrated repeatedly with his angry shouting and repetitive asides of “I’m not joking” and “That’s not hyperbole.”Little-watched late show
Put it this way: If it was your job to convince America the party can be trusted to find a new leader who is ready to guide the nation for four more years, would you want Biden’s dreary performance to be seen by as many as 40 millions voters?
Even worse, would you want to take a chance that the same Joe who delivered the June debate debacle would show up and destroy the fiction that he and the party are even modestly competent and honest?
You’d be crazy not to fear that his stumbles, mumbles and brain freezes would remind the nation that Dems put a dangerously declining figure in the White House and tried to hide him from the public.
And remember — Biden would be accepting his party’s renomination this week instead of saying goodbye had he put on even a halfway decent debate performance against Donald Trump.
So it’s clear — the star of the “Thank You Joe Biden” evening was purposely put out to pasture in the wee hours precisely because most people would be asleep before he finished.
Seen that way, the scam reveals a larger point, namely that the Chicago convention is running as fast as it can because the party’s hopes for November are built on Three Big Lies.
It needs to open and close the show before voters see what’s really behind the curtain.
Lie No. 1 is the claim that Biden is still compos mentis enough to remain in the Oval Office for five more months.
