Democrats have responded to the release this month of former First Lady Jill Biden’s memoir, View From the East Wing, with great anger over how it has revived in the public consciousness all the worst memories of the cognitively addled President Joe Biden’s idiotic campaign for the White House.
Time, which sympathetically interviewed the former first lady about the backlash, said Democrats have “lambasted” Jill over her memoir. And former White House spokesman Andrew Bates, formerly ever-loyal to the Bidens, said he didn’t see “why that painful conversation for the party needed to be publicly reopened right now.”
This week, another former first lady added her voice to the mixture.
Joe Biden, said Hillary Clinton, made “a terrible mistake” by running for president in 2024. She drove home the dagger. Virtually “anybody else,” Hillary said, would have beaten Trump.
“He made a terrible mistake for himself, his legacy and for the country,” she told New Yorker editor David Remnick.
Whichever candidate emerged from a primary, “whether it was the vice president, or a governor, or a senator, or anybody else,” Hillary said, “would have beaten Donald Trump.”
Now Hillary didn’t go after Jill Biden by name. But coming, as this tirade did, upon the release of Jill Biden’s book and the backlash to it, Hillary might as well have declared her outrage for Jill’s enablement of her cognitively deficient husband, as well as her disbelief in Jill’s claims in her memoir that Joe always acted entirely differently than he did on that debate stage in Atlanta.
In her interview with Time, Jill said her reaction to the debate was to be “scared to death.” She explained that she thought, “Oh my God, what’s happening? Is this a stroke?” But she “knew he was fine” once she talked to Joe after the debate.
In her book, Jill writes that she wondered if Joe had “been drugged” and that she worried “Oh God — will people watching assume that this is how he is all the time?”
However, Jill spends little time in her memoir backing up this assertion that Joe’s debate performance was a deviation from the norm. She simply writes that the notion that there was a coverup of Joe’s health condition is “absurd.”
This brings up the other health controversy surrounding Joe Biden: his diagnosis with stage IV prostate cancer that had metastasized to his bones four months after he left office. Many have asked how this could have possibly been missed in someone as closely watched by doctors as the president the United States. Making matters more inexplicable, Jill writes in her book of how one night in the last year of his presidency Joe woke up seven times to use the bathroom. Yet she maintains that nothing having to do with his stage IV cancer was ever detected by doctors during his presidency.
We do get a window in the book into just how bad the cancer is and how difficult the treatment is. “Prostate cancer was one thing, but the metastasis turned it into something infinitely worse,” she says. Jill adds that the hormone pills to treat Joe’s cancer cause “serious side effects,” especially fatigue and moodiness.
The cancer reads as all-out validation that a run for a second term was absolute insanity, yet Jill does nothing to acknowledge this. Instead, she acts as though Joe only dropped out of the race because Democrats made him, and not because it was the right thing to do. Her husband, Jill says, told her of his decision, “Jilly, I had no choice.”
Jill’s excuses, misdirection, and refusal to contemplate her fault for hiding her husband’s cognitive deterioration from America have so fed up Democrats that even Hillary is seeing fit to come out of the woodwork to publicly denounce Biden’s reelection campaign.
If Jill thought this memoir would help her husband’s legacy, she was entirely wrong. All it has done is unite Democrats in concluding that the Biden “legacy” should be in the dumpster.
