So is Virginia Heffernan really making the case that Joe Biden is an ok guy to be president because he’s a hot mess and that somehow ties into Catholic theology?
K.
An idea from progressive Catholic theology might be useful for understanding Joe Biden and why we need him: pater patitur — the father suffers.
Biden, unlike Trump, doesn’t inflict suffering. But nor does he suffer “for” us.
He suffers *with* us. https://t.co/9UKMzqYecT
— Virginia Heffernan (@page88) March 5, 2020
Did she really just compare Joe to ‘The Father’?
From the LA Times:
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We’ve seen this gracious and ultimately progressive model of fatherhood from Joe Biden in recent days in his run for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Of course, a father is a father, and in this case a white one. Biden doesn’t speak from the political or social margins. Rather he speaks from the head of the table, where — likely as not — he’s having his pot roast served to him by a woman. And that woman may be simultaneously fighting off a lunging animal-rights protester, as Jill Biden, Joe’s wife, and Symone D. Sanders, his campaign advisor, did during Biden’s Super Tuesday speech.
But if we must have a white man as president, as we have had all but once in American history, let it be a well-intentioned one, a self-critical one, one who suffers with us.
If we must have a white man as president … really?
Biden made up a story about a drunk driver killing his wife and daughter, political grifter. https://t.co/iDzB8bVwEX
— DLass (@Wwlasss) March 5, 2020
Respectfully, pic.twitter.com/JnJH5yZ5oq
— Muffin Bear’s Dad (@muffnbear) March 6, 2020
he suffers with his billionaires. Hahaha. Okay
— Tim Donner (@CastingDirectAT) March 5, 2020
Oh, he suffers. From dementia. At that very speech, he thought his sister was his wife.
Trump will eat him alive.
— Tuba?Toofpaste? (@TubaToofpaste) March 5, 2020
We almost feel sorry for him.
Almost.
