You may have noticed that Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign has tried to keep a certain old Democrat, President Joe Biden, as far away from the spotlight as possible.
I t doubtlessly has its reasons for this, particularly considering the fact that Harris inherited the nomination from Biden after Biden’s campaign unraveled following the June 27 debate debacle, which revealed what we should have all known from the get-go: This was not a man “in compos mentis”. (in a right mind).
However, it doesn’t help when, to convince the pockets of the electorate that usually do vote Democrat but are stubbornly clinging to Donald Trump in the polls — the working-class, “the brothers” (as former President Obama so memorably put it) and other minorities, and particularly the young — you send another doddering Democrat out in the field to essentially cut an ad for your opposition.
William Jefferson Clinton, in case you hadn’t noticed, is only three years younger than Joe Biden. He may be sharper mentally — indeed, I’ve seen chipmunks that fit this criteria — but looking at him after a long absence from the spotlight, you realize what people in their late 70s are generally like, particularly when their diet, for so long, consisted of Big Macs and adultery.
Clinton visited the swing state of Georgia on Sunday, an event most people didn’t take note of; despite being a former president, Clinton carries baggage that goes beyond just fast food and consensual sex outside of wedlock, and it’s to the point where even Ben Stiller is a more effective surrogate for the campaign.
But Clinton can still theoretically turn out the working-class Southern vote, and once upon a time, he was called “America’s first black president.”
Surely that’ll help, right?
Not when you go down to Georgia and basically criticize the Biden administration for not properly vetting illegal immigrants — a job that, in case you don’t remember, Kamala Harris could have taken up if she’d decided to make it a priority — and say that this led to the killing of a University of Georgia student, Laken Riley, allegedly by an illegal alien.
The clip didn’t really go viral until mid-Monday, when people started noticing ol’ Slick Willy wasn’t looking so slick anymore, particularly as it pertained to the Biden-Harris administration’s vetting of illegal immigrants or the focus on birth rates.
I mean, until he proposed illegal immigration done properly (whatever this means) as a solution to a birth rate that’s below replacement rates, I was halfway expecting him to accidentally make a claim about “childless cat ladies” — except not sarcastically, like J.D. Vance did, but in all seriousness.
And, as people noted, this was basically the last thing that undecided voters needed to hear to be swayed to Harris-Walz.
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