May 21, 2025

TEN YEARS GONE:

The following year, Joe was making very ill-advised jokes about the topic: Joe Biden jokes about faking prostate cancer to get out of Obama administration.

At an event honoring former Vice President Walter Mondale, Mr. Biden recounted the conditions he placed on joining Mr. Obama’s ticket in 2008 and also made clear he would leave the administration if he encountered deep, substantive policy differences with the president.

“Two things: to be able to completely be level with you and argue with you if we disagree, privately,” Mr. Biden said of his 2008 conversations with Mr. Obama, in which the two men discussed the vice president’s role.

“And secondly, I want to be the last person in the room on every major decision, and I didn’t mean that figuratively, I meant that literally — the last person in the room,” he continued. “He’s president. He gets to make the decision, and unless there’s an overwhelming disagreement in principle, in which case I’d develop prostate cancer or something and leave, and he knew I meant that … I get to be the last person in the room. And that’s where I think I can serve best.”

Biden was cast by Obama in 2008 as the boring old grownup in the room to give the appearance of offsetting Barry’s inexperience and radical chic background. Who makes jokes like this?

Posted at 7:14 am by Ed Driscoll

JEFFREY CARTER: Buy Dips.

Posted at 7:00 am by Glenn Reynolds 2

May 20, 2025

MAY IT BE SO:

Posted at 10:19 pm by Glenn Reynolds 58

WOW, HE’LL BE LUCKY TO LIVE THAT LONG:

Posted at 9:55 pm by Glenn Reynolds 35

OPEN THREAD: Party on.

Posted at 9:30 pm by Glenn Reynolds 1311

NOW IT CAN BE TOLD: Jake Tapper Absolutely Buries ‘Sleazy’ and ‘Unethical’ Hunter Biden, Questions Why He Had So Much Power in the Family.

Flashback: The anatomy of the New York Post’s dubious Hunter Biden story.

—CNN.com, October 18th, 2020.

And from Couric: Katie Couric talks with Rep. Jamie Raskin about why the ring wing media is so obsessed with Hunter Biden.

—Half-hour video at Couric’s YouTube channel, July 26th, 2023.

UPDATE:

As Jon Gabriel tweets, “Our country was being run by a crackhead.”

With the DNC-MSM running interference for him.

Posted at 9:24 pm by Ed Driscoll 88

ASK YOUR DOCTOR IF JIHAD IS RIGHT FOR YOU:

Medicine has a serious antisemitism problem. It especially has a problem among doctors, and a lot of that problem is concentrated among doctors educated overseas.

We identified a set of over 700 people from all walks of life profiled by the organization Stop Antisemitism for displaying flagrant hostility toward Jews and Israel. We found that health professionals were more than 2.5 times more likely to be found among antisemites than their share of the workforce. Doctors were almost 26 times overrepresented in the list of antisemites relative to their prevalence in the workforce. And half of those Jew-hating doctors received their medical degrees abroad.

The fact that Jew-hatred has found a perch among highly educated doctors and other health professionals runs counter to the conventional explanations for antisemitism. According to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and other legacy Jewish organizations, antisemitism is born of ignorance which must be fought through education. As ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt frames the issue, antisemitism intersects with “ignorance and conspiratorial thinking … Ultimately, any strategy for protecting the Jewish community must include education at its core—we can’t fight hate without changing hearts and minds.”

Both the past and present put the lie to Greenblatt’s hypothesis. Campus Hamasniks at Columbia and Harvard are radical and morally depraved, but they aren’t uneducated. Nor were the architects of the Holocaust, inheritors of a German cultural tradition that was arguably unmatched in its yearning for modernity.

Read the whole thing.

Posted at 9:14 pm by Ed Driscoll 41