Few Presidential candidates have appeared to be faltering more than Joe Biden. The U.S. Presidential election is seven months away, and Biden’s prospects look dismal. His cognitive abilities have been up for question these last few months, with Biden losing his train of thoughts mid-speech several times.
Biden has long had a reputation for being the drunk-uncle-at-the-picnic type, a “lovable deviant,” according to the Washington Post in relation to The Onion’s portrayal of Biden. The Onion famously portrayed Biden as a freewheeling, unpredictable man of the people in its Diamond Joe series of articles beginning in 2009 when Biden was Vice-President to Obama. Shirtless Biden Washes Trans Am In White House Driveway is the first and the funniest of this series.
To combat accusations that Biden is a bit too touchy-feely, not the man for America, The Onion has been put in the uncomfortable position this spring of keeping the series live on the site while simultaneously walking it back. Writer Joe Garden wrote on VICE that he regretted creating the meme.
Whether the product of a secret master plan or the product of circumstances, Biden might be the vehicle for a different, better-qualified Democrat to assume the office of the President. Call it the Joe Biden Trojan Horse Project?
Michael A.Walsh in the NY Post article “How the Obamas Could Easily Win Eight More Years in the White House” describes the inner workings of this machine with conspiracy-thriller-like detail.
It could go this way. Joe Biden is elected, survives the November-to-January stretch to the inauguration, then quickly abdicates to his Vice-President by dying or stepping down due to health reasons.
Are there provisions in the 25th Amendment to prevent a political party from slipping in their true choice under the Vice-President guise?
What about a President who, desperate to please his or her party, agrees to be killed soon after inauguration?
Or a party that, without agreement or knowledge by the President, kills the President to slip the Vice-President into that position?
