“The Golden Bachelor” showed that sex isn’t just for spring chickens. Hearing aids and hot tub kissing can go hand in hand.
Now comes the Golden President. Even as worried questions about his age have flooded Joe Biden’s campaign, one thing is clear: his romance with Jill is still crackling.
I have observed this myself. At a party at his home at the Naval Observatory when he was vice president, he told me about the thrill of seeing his wife come down the stairs, dressed for a special occasion.
They had been married for decades, he said, “but my heart still skips a beat when I see her.” »
Biden’s uxorious relationship with his wife has sealed his role as primary navigator as he charts his re-election course as the oldest president in American history.
Biden’s romantic marriage is chronicled in a new book by New York Times White House correspondent Katie Rogers: “American Woman: The Transformation of the Modern First Lady, From Hillary Clinton to Jill Biden.”
Parenthetically, Rogers notes: “Joe may have toned down his public pronouncements upon winning the presidency, but he joked with aides that ‘good sex’ is the key to a lasting, happy marriage, much to their chagrin of his wife.
Rogers remembers the time in 2004 when Biden was considering entering the race to challenge John Kerry. At a meeting where aides were begging him to intervene, Jill entered the room wearing a backless top with the word “No” scrawled across her stomach. Biden followed this sexy veto.
“In 2006, Joe seemed even more interested in staying home with Jill than running for president,” Rogers writes, “and he told a group of supporters that year: ‘I’d rather be at home having sex with my wife while my children sleep,” he said of his interest in the work.
Biden aides were accustomed to his outpourings of TMI. The most famous profile ever done about him was Kitty Kelley’s Washingtonian article in 1974 – a year and a half after his beautiful young wife, Neilia, and infant daughter, Naomi, died tragically in a car accident in Christmas.
“Neilia was my best friend, my greatest ally, my sensual lover,” he said. “The longer we lived together, the more we enjoyed everything from sex to sports.” In an office with 35 photos of Neilia, he pointed to one of his “beautiful millionaire wives” in a bikini, noting: “She’s prettier than a Playboy bunny, isn’t she?”
He said he was so exhausted from his campaign for Senate in 1972: “I came back too tired to talk to him.” I could satisfy her in bed but I didn’t have much time for anything else.
Some — including Jill — might find the 81-year-old Golden President’s comments about the first lady grating.
But at least it celebrates sensuality. Conservatives seem determined to eradicate it.
Donald Trump, Mitch McConnell, and the Federalist Society conspired to install a radically conservative Supreme Court, which then overturned Roe as soon as it had the chance. Republicans thought they could make things right with voters, but now they can no longer contain the puritanical, punitive forces sweeping the country.
Even Trump pushed back against the Alabama Supreme Court’s ruling that frozen embryos have children’s rights, which is already wreaking havoc on fertility clinics and disrupting the dreams of future parents.
“I strongly support the availability of IVF for couples who are trying to have a precious, small, beautiful baby,” Trump told a crowd in Rock Hill, South Carolina, Friday afternoon.
As the Times reported, Trump told his advisers that he leaned toward a 16-week nationwide ban on abortion, with exceptions in cases of rape and incest and to save the mother’s life. He said he liked the number 16 because “it’s even.”
He campaigns more and more like a messenger of God. “No one will touch the cross of Christ under the Trump administration – I swear,” he told Nashville Christian Channels on Thursday.
The great moral philosopher Donald Trump said, “If you think about it, you have men, you have women, and you have religion. »
Gotham’s shady former playboy knows it won’t help him in the race if his party is seen as a bunch of Cotton Mathers meddling in the lives of women who are in dire straits and need abortions. , and women who are in desperate circumstances and want children.
Trump is trying to replace our democracy with a me-ocracy. But the Old Testament language used by Alabama Chief Justice Tom Parker shows that some of these court zealots want to replace our democracy with a theocracy.
In his concurring opinion, the judge cited a footnote from Genesis in the Geneva Bible that reads: “Therefore, to kill man is to degrade the image of God, and thus harm n is not only caused to man, but also to God. »
He declaimed: “Human life cannot be unjustly destroyed without incurring the wrath of a holy God,” adding: “Even before birth, all human beings have the image of God, and their lives cannot be destroyed without erasing its glory. »
ProPublica and The New Republic noted that Parker once wrote, “When judges do not rule in the fear of the Lord, everything falls apart.” The whole world is coming apart.
The world is coming apart, but it’s because of hypocrites like Trump who unleash the demons.