American Thinker by Terry Paulding 3/13/2021
Watching Biden’s first official address to the nation on Thursday night, I was reminded of nothing so much as the life-like carved wooden Indians that, beginning in the 19th century, used to grace the sidewalk in front of the tobacconist’s store. While they advertised a product, as actual Native Americans, they were nothing but blank fakes. They certainly weren’t the real thing – and in 2021, there’s nothing real about Biden.
You can still find lots of these “cigar store Indians†for sale online, many of them new, so I guess they haven’t yet been canceled. They operated as a reminder to customers, many of whom used to be illiterate, that tobacco originated with the Native Americans. The product was so alien to Europeans that, when Native Americans first gave it to them as a gift, they threw it away as they didn’t know what to do with it.
We’ve taken quite the journey when it comes to tobacco over the last couple of centuries, but we’re just starting the journey with our newest cigar store Indian. Why do I say that? Because that’s what our President reminded me of on Thursday. Animated? Not really! Expressive? Hardly! Wooden would be the better descriptor.
We Americans haven’t yet figured out what to do with Biden. Do we treat him as we would a cherished, but mentally dimming, granddad? Do we empathetically excuse his lack of grasp of the basics of his job? Do we ignore his lack of engagement? Do we start making noise about trotting out the doctors and getting him examined?
More:
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/03/biden_the_cigar_store_indian_of_the_white_house.html
