WHAT IS WRONG WITH BIDEN – JILL BIDEN THAT IS?
It is so good to have Joan Swirsky back writing on my Blog. This time Joan brings her mind to bear on Jill Biden and her mysterious desire to encourage her ailing husband to hang onto the world’s number one job. Thank you Joan. If you click on Joan’s name just below, you will see links to all her latest articles. To subscribe to her daily comments on Israel and the wars e-mail your request to her: Joan Swirsky joanswirsky@gmail.com Gibber! Gibber! Chugley July 7, 2024 What is wrong with Biden – Jill Biden, that is? By Joan Swirsky For generations, women whose husbands were sick have plied them with tea and honey and chicken soup (aka Jewish penicillin), bought over-the-counter bromides that promised relief, kept them away from people and people away from them, and even tried folk remedies, for instance smearing Vicks VapoRub on the bottoms of their feet (before putting socks over them) at nighttime, the better to wake up with clear nasal passages and lungs. In other words, they did everything possible to protect their husbands from harm or hurt to help heal them. No doubt, that was Jill Biden’s intention when she married the senator from Delaware in 1977, and raised not only the daughter they had together, but his young sons, Beau and Hunter, after the senator’s first wife and baby daughter were killed in a horrific car accident in 1972. AN EARLY PICTURE OF JOE AND JILL CIRCA 1972 As the years elapsed, Senator Biden became Vice President Biden – for eight years – and the power couple Jill and Joe gained worldwide fame and huge wealth. But before that, Jill juggled raising their three children with earning a doctoral degree in education and then teaching for years in a psychiatric hospital where her…