Joe Biden seems to have lived a very happy life according to his handlers. Who can forget his urban experience battling a man named “Corn Pop” at the city pool? Oder his experience driving a truck and living in the filth of working America. Or his encounter with an Amtrak worker who bragged that the current president had ridden “two million” miles?
He also visited the Tree of Life synagogue in the wake of the shootings.
What do these events share in common? You guessed it — they either never happened, were highly exaggerated, or they lack important context that would paint things in a different light. Given that, I want to examine another claim about Biden’s past.
Some days ago, Biden was in the Oval Office and made this statement about being called “Sheriff Joe.”
The president said: “It was determined that it had less than. 2.1% waste and fraud. I was — that’s how I became known, the president started calling me ‘Sheriff Joe,’ President Obama at the time, because I made a point every day to stay on top of how exactly the money was spent, what projects were being built, what projects were not being built and how it was functioning.”
Yesterday, Jen Psaki would double down, saying “they call him Sheriff Joe for a reason.” It was not immediately clear who the multiple people are that address him as such.
.@PressSec, carrying on the Biden tradition of inventing nicknames for himself, says of the infrastructure bill signing, “They call him Sheriff Joe for a reason” pic.twitter.com/6T5eLvJ5aU
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) November 15, 2021
This claim apparently dates back to the Barack Obama years, where an ABC News article made mention of Obama dubbing Biden “Sheriff Joe” for overseeing the 2009 stimulus bill. Has anyone actually called Biden that title in any capacity? I can’t find any record of it, thus, it seems rather silly to assert in 2021 that “Sheriff Joe” is some kind of longstanding, defining nickname.
Still, let’s assume that Obama really did use the moniker “Sheriff Joe” during his time as president. Isn’t it important to note that Biden actually did a terrible job at policing the stimulus bill? The bill was a wasteful and costly exercise. Can anyone name one thing it accomplished? I’m not saying some post offices didn’t get renamed or a road resurfaced, but in hindsight, it was clearly a boondoggle that served as a failed attempt to mimic FDR in the 21st century.
That leads me to my point: Joe Biden is the only one who can win this game.
The multitude of nicknames, the stories about “Corn Pop,” and the constant faux show of bravado. Biden is a man who wants his life to be a John Wayne movie when it’s more akin to a 7th grade AV project. Biden is not a transformative figure. In reality, he is just another boring government employee who has been sucking taxpayers for fifty years. He’s not cool, he’s not interesting, and he’s not actually good at any position he’s ever held. It doesn’t matter how much he tells ridiculous stories or uses of pseudonyms to make it seem different.
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