That’s one question. The other would be, “In what way has Michelle Obama demonstrating an abiding interest in public life above and beyond the perks that come with it?” A decade ago, Pat Buchanan, who had observed two First Ladies up close, offered that MO was ‘not a happy camper’ and for that reason he thought it a distinct possibility that BO would retire after one term. Ask yourself what she did for a living for 17 years, and you get an answer as to what her actual technae is. In her interests, she’s a good deal closer to Nancy Reagan than she is to Hellary. If she’s fortunate, her daughters won’t turn out like Patti.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/04/with_bernie_sanders_out_of_the_way_joe_biden_gets_underfoot.html

Background from the NY Post (via the AT link):

In the email obtained by The Post, Biden’s political chief of staff Stacy Eichner told state officials that the former veep’s presidential campaign had received a “significant number of offers” from organizations and people eager to offer resources.

“In this moment of national emergency, we are eager to connect those offering help with those in need of it — we would like to provide these individuals and organizations with a way to reach your offices directly,” Eichner wrote, asking each office to assign a contact person if they were interested.

But a senior adviser in one governor’s office who received the email said the Biden campaign was making their jobs “really difficult” by operating outside of the federal process and by refusing to engage with the administration’s efforts.

Offering special goodies to certain governors, undoubtedly in exchange for political support, stinks of cronyism on its face. It also raises questions as to why he’s got these people tying their help to putting his name on it instead of just pitching in.

According to the Post, that’s actually creating problems for the governors, who must work with the federal government to get through the crisis, yet they now have to fend off Joe’s probable horse-trading offers, too.

Biden is trying to play president here, doling the goodies as if he were Trump, a parallel president, but for his Democratic counterparts, this isn’t time to play political games. They have a deadly serious mission to execute, and they already have a process with the feds for getting the job done.

This isn’t making him popular; it’s making him…in the way.

Breitbart’s John Nolte points out now that Biden’s unsolicited offerings to the governors seem to be following a pattern of political cronyism:
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In addition: If this is the way Joe Biden doles out disaster aid in a pandemic, aid in exchange for political favors, you wouldn’t want to be in a red state with a red governor. Can you imagine how he’d dole out disaster aid? It would all be based on who voted for him.

It shows how lost and wretched this longtime political swamp thing is — he can’t even think about helping in a pandemic without first planning out what’s in it for him.

As I recall, Biden learned the trick of making aid contingent on Red/Blue votes from Obama.
Contrast Trump, who is getting praise from Governors of California and New York (with some grumbling) — both Deep Blue.
For now.

Paul in Boston on April 10, 2020 at 10:00 pm said:
If it’s not Biden how do they deal with Bernie? He’s “dropped out of the race” but leaving his name on ballots to collect delegate votes. All the scenarios discussed leave him out as if he has no say. His support may require the Dems to go full commie.

Deplorable Dave on April 11, 2020 at 2:15 am said:
An explanation for Biden’s viability: Democrats are never exposed to his rambling gibberish. The Biden dementia videos never appear on Democrat media (MSM) or social media that filters disagreeable reality from Democrats. Democrats will cancel their convention so Biden won’t have to speak live to a TV audience. Only when (if) a face-to-face debate with Trump happens will Democrats see the horror. And it will be too late.

Bryan Lovely on April 11, 2020 at 4:24 am said:
Deplorable Dave — I have an inordinate number of progressive Democrats in my social circle. The Bernie Bros are not shy at all about telling the Blue No Matter Who wing how demented Biden is.

Dick Illyes on April 11, 2020 at 2:56 am said:
I am sticking with my belief that Hillary will be the nominee.

Art Deco on April 11, 2020 at 10:08 am said:
Hillary will not be the nominee. Partisan Democrats will have little trouble ignoring Biden’s cognitive decline.

MBunge on April 11, 2020 at 9:48 am said:
Perhaps the greatest criticism of Barack Obama is that 20 years after leaving the White House, eight years of another Democrat being President, and losing in the biggest upset in modern political history, the Clintons still basically run the Democratic Party.

MBunge on April 11, 2020 at 1:30 pm said:
“Michelle Obama would be presented as the potential nominee”
In what way is Michelle Obama qualified to be President?

Chester Draws on April 11, 2020 at 3:55 pm said:
In what way was Barrack Obama qualified to be president?
He looked good and spoke well.
In practical terms though he was grossly unqualified. And imo it showed.
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Biden, Bernie, Hillary, or Obama (her on the ballot, him in the driver’s seat).
Maybe Cuomo, but a lot of the news coming out of NY doesn’t look good for him.
Cue Some Mysterious Democrat leaping into the convention to Save the Day.

Up against Donald Trump.
November is going to be interesting.

Very apt summation of the Left in all it’s different factions.

If you are curious about the concept Artfl expresses, try an internet search on the phrase – his formulation does not get a direct hit, being directed specifically at the political ideology rather than business management principles.
This is a good representative article, but the point is: the Democrats (and no few Republicans) totally focus on what they can TELL people to do, not what they can PERSUADE them to do.

https://medium.com/swlh/how-to-lead-when-you-have-no-authority-9f22206356d4

If you are listening to the Daily Briefings, you can hear President Trump persuading, not telling — although he sometimes mentions that he does have the authority to do something, he’s just not using it.
Throwing decisions back to the governors is brilliant — and in accord with the Constitution, what a shock.

This site gives a lot of famous quotes on the subject, which all tend in the same directon. And that’s been true for a long, long time.
https://www.leadershipnow.com/leadershipquotes.html

“He makes a great mistake … who supposes that authority is firmer or better established when it is founded by force than that which is welded by affection.”
— Terence, born c. 195 BC

He looked good and spoke well.

In practical terms though he was grossly unqualified. And imo it showed.

sigh

“The world is like the movies…”

Have you heard the Gil Scott-Heron song, “B Movie?”
https://youtu.be/xSOp507HJMA

He wrote it in the Reagan era about Reagan, when Reagan beat “Skippy” (his nickname for peanut farmer, Jimmy Carter). It’s amazing how relevant it still is.

If Scott-Heron were alive today he would not be surprised that the President is a former reality TV star.

Lately I keep thinking about another Scott-Heron song, “The Revolution will not be Televised.”

In what way is Michelle Obama qualified to be President?

Mike