In Defense of Joe Biden

(or “How I cannot put up with Democrats who attack the Obama/Biden Administration)

First. I’m 64. So I have seen a thing or two. (This is a reaction to another Baby Boomer who thinks I am some 30 something who knows nothing. Truth is that those young folks know quite a bit!)

So I want to say that President Obama and VP Joe Biden were part of the finest administration I have seen in my lifetime.

Second. President Obama had only two years (effectively) to accomplish major programs because of the McConnell/ Republican opposition to anything he tried to do ( this included even Supreme Court nominations!). Despite all that, his ACA insured 20–40 million previously uninsured people, and he was the only president to accomplish this medical miracle of coverage that Ted Kennedy worked for decades to accomplish. And whom do you think lobbied, cajoled and arm twisted Congress to get this legislation passed? Biden. He and Nancy Pelosi accomplished the medical miracle.(He would have created under a public option if he could have gotten through the Senate. That was not to be.)

After the first two years, it became a slog and that was rooted in the right wing / Republican/ Fox attacks that are the source of why Washington can’t get much done and the root of polarization and the rise of the most inept, corrupt president the United States has had to endure. (“He who shall not be named.”)

In addition, the Obama/ Biden administration was responsible for the end of Osama Bin Laden…