UPDATED: Joe Biden, forever stupid...and bad

  Monica Showalter - American Thinker

Eric Hoffer once observed:  Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.

 

"You can tell a lot about a man about what he fears most, and with Franklin Foer's recent expose of White House doings, Joe Biden's biggest insecurity seems to be his fear of "being perceived as stupid."

 "According to the Daily Caller:

Franklin Foer, the author of a new tell-all book about Joe Biden, appeared on NBC’s Meet the Press and said he believes the president has insecurities over “being perceived as stupid” because of the plagiarism scandal that derailed his first presidential campaign.

"He said this on Meet The Press.

“ 'Yeah. I think one of the things that’s so interesting about Joe Biden is that he has these insecurities that govern a lot of the ways in which he moves through the world. And so, one of his primary insecurities is that he doesn’t want to be perceived as stupid because he had this plagiarism scandal back in the 1980s. So when he walks into an interview or walks into a press conference, he wants to have mastery of what he’s discussing. So his prep sessions can go on for long periods of time,” Foer said. " . . .

. . .It leads him to project his insecurities about himself on the public, viewing the public as stupid, and thus, gaslighting harder instead of just changing course -- so pay no attention to all that inflation in the economy, that disastrous Afghanistan pullout, that open border, those peeling-away allies, or those high gas prices. He's hard at work at that right now, viewing the public as very, very stupid indeed as he touts the economy." . . .

Biden's bad and so is the rest of the left illustrated edition - Bookworm Room

UPDATE: Biden biographer says he has insecurities about being 'perceived as stupid' – Twitchy   "So that's why they picked Kamala Harris to run with Joe Biden … so he wouldn't be the dumbest person on stage everywhere they appeared together. Biden definitely has his insecurities — question him at a campaign event and he'll challenge you to pushups — but one of his biggest insecurities is being perceived as stupid, says his biographer Franklin Foer.". . .