Joe Biden

I told him it was bullshit

That all of a sudden

He can’t stand Joe Biden

All those memes he posted

And all those nice things

About Uncle Joe

And all of a sudden

He runs for President

And he’s the devil

They did the same thing to Hillary

They do it to everyone

They like you as long as

You don’t grab for the brass ring

As soon as you show

Even a little bit of ambition

For something bigger

Than what you have

They eat you alive

And I don’t think that’s right

I don’t think that’s right at all

This on-the-pedestal

Off-the-pedestal nonsense

Has got to stop

He said to me--

I never said

I wanted Joe Biden to run

Well maybe you didn’t

But a lot of other people did

A lot of people want him to run
And you don’t get to tell those people

They’re idiots

Because they think somebody

With all that experience

Who already spent eight years

In the White House

Under a President you love so much

Can’t run a country

I mean, listen to yourself

This is why he and I can’t talk
About any of this

Because I think it all goes back to age

And how we’re supposed to just keep electing

Thirty-year-olds and let them learn

On the job

Where’s the sense in that?

Because when you’re young you’re pure

But when you’re old and you’ve been around awhile--

If I hear one more twenty-year-old

Talking about the mistakes somebody made

Back forty years ago

As if forty years from now

They’re going to be clean as a whistle

When they look back on their lives

I don’t think Biden is perfect

But I don’t think I’m perfect either

And when you go around

Trashing somebody

Because he puts his foot in his mouth sometimes

And he’s made a few mistakes

Because he lived at a time

When those mistakes weren’t mistakes
Then yes, I take that personally

Because you’re talking about somebody

That sounds a lot like me

And when they try to say--

Well don’t you want somebody

Better than you

Running the country?

Sure, I do

But when it comes to trust?

Who do you think I trust?

Somebody like me

Or somebody not like me?

You want trust to be an issue
But then when I tell you

Who I trust

You tell me I shouldn’t

Well--Well--

Well to hell with you!

I think he can get elected

And maybe I’m wrong in thinking that

Because, yes, I thought the same thing

About Hillary

But wouldn’t I be a damn fool

To support somebody

I didn’t think could get elected?

You don’t bet on a horse

You think won’t win the race

Just because you like the horse

All this purity

And all this sanctimony

And all it boils down to

Is a bunch of people stamping their feet

Because somebody who isn’t cool

Might wind up in a position

That doesn’t have a damn thing to do

With being cool

You think Lincoln was cool?
You think Eisenhower was cool?

Not that Eisenhower was all that great, but--

I told him--

Keep pushing me

And see what happens

I don’t know how he thinks

He’s going to get anywhere

Agitating everybody

Have a real conversation with me

And maybe you can get me to see things

From your side a little bit clearer

But just dismissing me outright

Means dismissing a whole lot of other people

And last time I checked

That’s not how you win elections

Except I’m starting to think

That’s the whole point

If he backed a candidate

That could actually win

I suppose he’d need some other reason

Not to call his father

This is--

This is just making it easier for him

Making it easier

For a lot of people

I guess