by J. Peder Zane
When a candidate shows character, you know their track record can’t be good.
Hence President Biden’s idea declared expenditures of $50 million in the advertisement entitled “Character matters”, which features unflattering photos of Donald Trump while focusing on the Republican Party candidate’s legal problems. Hey, we paid good taxpayer money organizing these lawsuits and we’re not going to waste it.
“Being negative,” as they say in politics, has worked for Biden before. He was on the ballot in 2012 when Barack Obama became the first up-to-date president to win re-election with fewer votes than he received the first time. And Trump gives Democrats much more reason to work together than Mitt Romney.
Biden will try to keep the discussion focused on Trump’s flaws, and for good reason: Only in the strange world of American politics could a sitting president be considered a candidate of decency and integrity.
Thanks to the continued support of the corrupt corporate media, which, instead of revealing evidence of Biden’s disturbing character, the president will forget about his long history of dishonesty, fraud and disturbing behavior to present himself as a man of compassion and honesty.
Fortunately, we have bills.
Most politicians are comfortable with the truth, but Biden stands out for his insistence on repeating completely debunked claims. Last week at a Hollywood event with Obama he taken over that Trump promised a “bloodbath” if he did not win in November – the former president used this term to describe the consequences Biden’s climate policy towards the automotive industry. Biden also repeated the bullshit that Trump told people inject bleach to fight Covid-19. Washington Post. was among those giving these lies the stamp of approval without providing context or correction, as is the case with most every word Trump utters.
Biden’s propensity for lies runs so deep that the New York Times recently tried to sleek over the issue by reporting on it (nice trick) by referring to what is called his tendency to tell “extraordinary stories”. Describing several small-beer lies – that he turned down an appointment to the Naval Academy and that his uncle might have been eaten by cannibals – the article ignored his bizarre way of turning personal tragedies into political talking points.
For decades, Biden has talked about his wife and daughter they died in 1972 by a truck driver who “allegedly… drank lunch.” Accident investigators found no evidence to support this claim, that’s a fact Biden finally admitted it in 2009, under pressure from the man’s desperate family. Biden continues to suggest this is his son Beau lost his life in Iraq – died of a brain tumor six years after brave service. These tragedies are terrible enough – what kind of person persists in lying about such matters?
Not someone of high character. A person for whom dishonesty is a habit.
Consider his long history of plagiarism. The first recorded case occurred in 1965, when he allegedly stole not a few sentences or paragraphs, but… five full pages of a 15-page law school paper. He was immediately caught and scolded by the school, which considered expelling him. He later described it as a youthful “mistake”.
For most, such an experience would be punishing. Instead, Biden continued to steal the work of others. He was forced to withdraw from the 1988 presidential race after he was shown to have raised the emotional heart of his speech – including details he presented as autobiographical – z British politician.
Still working on it. Although this did not reach the level of plagiarism, excerpts from the D-Day commemoration speech Biden’s speech earlier this month bears an uncanny resemblance to Ronald Reagan’s notable 1984 speech. The New York Times reported “Forty years later, Biden seeks to repeat Reagan’s legacy of American leadership.”
Biden told one of the most significant lies in the history of American politics when he declared that his son Hunter’s abandoned laptop was a “Russian factory” during his final debate with Trump in 2020. Polls later showed that many of his voters in a tight election might have had second thoughts about supporting him if they knew that the damning material – which contradicted his claims that he knew nothing about his son’s suspicious overseas dealings – was true.
Biden’s primary proof of decency is his deep devotion to his family. His “boundless love” for his two children and his almost “religious piety” his grandchildren are the basis for articles describing his character. However, this narrative requires that we ignore the words of our own son and daughter.
In a diary entry from July 2019, his daughter Ashley wonders why she was “hypersexual” at a adolescent age. “What is the reason for this?” Among the reasons he gives are “showers with dad (probably inappropriate).”
Emails from Hunter’s laptop suggest the son thought his father was using him as a conduit for the family’s influence-peddling schemes. “Unlike Pop” Hunter wrote the script for one of his daughters in 2019“I won’t make you give me half your salary.”
Perhaps Hunter and Ashley’s words should be taken with a pinch of salt, given their long histories of substance abuse. However, it’s difficult to believe that they made these charges out of whole cloth. We know Hunter and Joe mixed assets and joint accounts, and Hunter handled payments for many of them Joe’s bills. Ashley’s account is consistent with other women who have made this claim Joe touched them inappropriately.
One sec many movies showing Biden pressing himself against the bodies of adolescent women and girls and smelling their hair, his former Senate aide Tara Reade’s 2020 allegations go much further. In 1993 she told the New York Times.Biden pressed her against the wall of the Senate building and inserted his fingers into her vagina. “He looked at me like he was surprised or shocked,” she told the newspaper. “He said, ‘Come on, man, I heard you like me.’ …He pointed his finger at me and simply said, “You are nothing to me. Nothing,” she said. “Then he took me by the arms and said, ‘It’s okay, it’s okay.’”
The Times confirmed Reade’s claim that she told two people about the attack at the time. Her story was further strengthened when a 1993 video surfaced of a live phone call with Larry King, later identified as Reade’s mother, who said, “My daughter just went there after working for a prominent senator and she couldn’t deal with it at all.” with your problems. , and the only thing she could do was go to the press, but she chose not to do so out of respect for him.
The Times article also stated that “Last year [2019]Mrs. Reade and seven other women came forward accuse Mr. Biden z by kissing them, hugging them or touching them in a way that made them feel uncomfortable.”
Biden denied Reade’s allegations and – poof – the topic disappeared, even as the media and Democratic Party lawyers turn allegations of Trump’s sexual misconduct into attack ads and criminal convictions.
We live in strange times when a man as morally defective as Joe Biden can emerge as a shining beacon of integrity. Many distinctions can be made between the two leading presidential candidates, but character is not one of them. My advice: hold your nose and vote for their recordings.
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J. Peder Zane is the editor and columnist of RealClearInvestigations. He previously worked as a book review editor and columnist at the News & Observer (Raleigh), where his writing won several national accolades. Zane also worked at The New York Times and taught writing at Duke University and St. Patrick’s University. Augustine.
“Joe Biden” photo by Gage Skidmore. CC BY-SA 2.0
