Bill Clinton was the last normal president we’ve had.
President Clinton was a horn-dog, but many presidents or other powerful people were. Start with Benjamin Franklin up through President Kennedy, if they have the power, the ladies will come. President Clinton had policies he wanted to implement, but after two years, Newt Gingrich managed an election landslide that put Republicans in charge of Congress for the first time in four decades. After that, Clinton negotiated with Gingrich, and had a successful presidency.
President George W. Bush was the son of George Bush, and at the time, many people thought that his brother Jeb was the one who should have been running for president. Americans don’t like dynasties. Sure, the TV show was popular and many of us take an interest in the British royal family, but we aren’t comfortable being governed that way. John Adams and John Quincy Adams were father-son, but that was two hundred years ago when news moved slow, and most people couldn’t read anyway.
George W.’s opponent, Al Gore, is an unctuous prick, so Bush won the election after a bunch of boring legal stuff.
George W. had similarities to Bill Clinton. Both were affable guys who were kind of middle-of-the-road, but the dynasty business was always hanging out there. Some thought that Jeb might still eventually become president. After the 9/11 attack and the subsequent wars, the Bush family stock sank, and that was it for the dynasty.
President Obama’s running mate, Joe Biden, captured the essence of his appeal.
“I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that’s a storybook, man.”
President Obama was the cool Black guy that people in the better suburbs wanted to know from college or the office. He wouldn’t be your neighbor, because he’d live somewhere a little funky and vintage. June Cleaver would have sucked his dick after he got her to try smoking pot. June would never speak of that evening, but she’d think about it wistfully while she was sitting on the couch doing her needlepoint.
Nobody much cared what President Obama did in the past or while president, as long as he was cool and not threatening, so he didn’t do much of anything. Sure, he screwed up health care in America because he thought that’s what White people wanted. The two women in his life, Hillary Clinton and Michelle Obama were much more ambitious, but Barack just wanted to drift along being admired.
President Trump came into office with no prior experience in government. He’d never been elected to an office and hadn’t worked for the military. He did have executive experience, and was a successful real estate developer and TV celebrity. President Trump has a lovely wife with her own career, and no governing agenda, as opposed to President Clinton and President Obama. President Trump’s running mate was Mike Pence, an unobjectionable subordinate with no ideas of his own, as opposed to George W. Bush, Bill Clinton and Joe Biden.
Since President Trump came into office as his own man, he was opposed by all of the Democrats and half of the Republicans. Trump did get the economy humming along with cheap gas, low inflation and everyone working who wanted to. Since the establishment was threatened by him, Trump had the most success in areas under executive control, like foreign policy and appointment of judges. People will forget that President Trump negotiated a better deal with Canada and Mexico, pushed Europe to finance it’s own defense, made historic progress with North Korea, tightened up trade with China and kept the US out of military engagements.
President Biden was elected on the anybody-but-Trump platform. The Durham Report gives an official account of how the FBI started illegally investigating Trump without justification while he was a candidate for president and continued to work against him. Corporate media and social media platforms actively worked to keep President Trump from being reelected. Joe Biden was elected to be the not-Trump and allow the establishment to govern. Biden was elected without regard for any merit or ability of his own. Seriously, what would you say are that man’s gifts?
It isn’t clear what Joe Biden actually is. Biden is a creepy sniffer, but he doesn’t have the vitality to be a vampire. He shambles around with the aimless gait of a mummy, but has the coal pit eyes of a snowman. Biden talks like a senile See-and-Say toy. Pull his string, and he fucks up. My favorite is when he called an audience member a “dog faced pony soldier”. The media doesn’t spend time reporting or cataloguing his odd statements because they don’t mean anything. Biden seems to be an animated corpse controlled by the Progressive collective.