“Biden was not my guy. Wasn’t even in the top four,” Stewart told the Late Show host on Wednesday
, Stewart said that watching Colbert interview Biden helped him realize why the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee is the ideal successor to President“Biden was not my guy. Wasn’t even in the top four or five. I was more of a Sanders, Warren [supporter],” Stewart told his old friend and former Comedy Central colleague. “I’m not crazy about the ‘Uncle Joe’ character. The Uncle Joey. ‘Hey, I took down corn pop. Hey, how you doing?’ The touchy-feely. I don’t like that schtick.
“I’ve recently been thinking about something and that is, we are a country in terrible anguish right now. We are in pain,” Stewart said. “American exceptionalism, the kind of blindfold is off, and we’re kind of seeing ourselves as who we really are. ‘American exceptionalism’ is not a title that you wear like you were Miss America in 1937 and you’ll always be Miss America. It takes effort and work to maintain. If you treat it like a fait accompli, it will erode and you will lose it.
great empathy to those who had experienced the death of a loved one during the coronavirus pandemic. “There are so many people who have gone through what I’ve gone through and worse. I look out there and I really mean this—think of all the people you know who get up every morning, having lost more—without any of the kind of family or extended family help I have. They put one foot in front of the other and they do it. They just do it,” Biden said at the time.
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