THE DEMOCRAT PARTY’S PRE-PRIMARY bloodletting is over and only two candidates are left standing.
The party faithful have a choice: Socialist Bernie (“Feel the Bern”) Sanders or Joe (“Foot in Mouth”) Biden.
The Democrats have a choice and its candidates are very different from each other.
A LITTLE HISTORY on the former senator and former two-term Obama VP.
Joe Biden, Obama’s point man for almost everything
Margaret Talev of McClatchy Newspapers writes:
- Meeting with prominent deficit and tax policy experts as President Barack Obama seeks bipartisan agreements on both fronts.
- Zipping through Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq on a whirlwind war-policy tour.
(https://tinyurl.com/udc978f)
How did any of those “point man” efforts work out?
- In Egypt, following his boss’ “Arab Spring” that threw many Muslim countries into turmoil, Biden told PBS' Jim Lehrer that Mubarak (despite protests against him at the time) "has been an ally of ours in a number of things" and "I would not refer to him as a dictator," angering Egyptian activists. Mubarak was ousted and Egypt’s current dictator is Abdel Fattah Saeed Hussein Khalil el-Sisi.
- U.S. troops still are in Afghanistan and Pakistan and Iraq.
- U.S. troops still are being murdered in Afghanistan and Pakistan and Iraq.
Did Obama place Biden as “point man” to escape blame rightly his for the failures in Afghanistan and Pakistan and Iraq?
Regardless, U.S. soldiers are still in Afghanistan and Pakistan and Iraq, and el-Sisi is in control of Egypt, trying to fend off the Islamic Brotherhood and other Iran-funded foes.
Obama praises Biden for Gun Control
In the shocked aftermath of Sandy Hook, the president asked vice-president Joe Biden to lead a taskforce to evaluate what could be done. He came back with a set of concrete proposals, including four major legislative areas of change and 23 executive orders.
But, almost three years later, progress appears stalled and the relentless carnage continues unabated.
Source: The Guardian, undated but “more than four years old” (https://tinyurl.com/v2g76ww)
Joe Biden has taken on the National Rifle Association (NRA) on the national stage and won – twice. In 1993, he shepherded through Congress the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act, which established the background check system that has since kept more than 3 million firearms out of dangerous hands. In 1994, Biden – along with Senator Dianne Feinstein – secured the passage of 10-year bans on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines.
- The Act was named after James Brady, who was shot and wounded by John Hinckley Jr. during an attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan on March 30, 1981.
The original legislation was introduced into the House of Representatives by Representative Charles E. Schumer in March 1991, but was never brought to a vote. The bill was reintroduced by Rep. Schumer on February 22, 1993 and the final version was passed on November 11, 1993.
The ban expired in 2004.
Joe Biden also knows how to make progress on reducing gun violence using executive action. After the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012, President Obama tasked Vice President Biden with developing both legislative proposals and executive actions to make our communities safer. As a result of this effort, the Obama-Biden Administration took more than two dozen actions, including narrowing the so-called “gun show loophole,” increasing the number of records in the background check system, and expanding funding for mental health services.
Source: https://joebiden.com/gunsafety/
- In 2020, guns still are sold at gun shows sans criminal and mental health records checks.
But, "During my 12 and a half years as a member of this (Senate) body, I have never believed that additional gun control or federal registration of guns would reduce crime. I am convinced that a criminal who wants a firearm can get one through illegal, nontraceable, unregistered sources, with or without gun control."
Source: NBC News (https://tinyurl.com/y4xpm22q)
Six weeks after their reelection, the president put Joe Biden in charge of the most serious push for gun control in decades, sparked by the massacre of children at Sandy Hook Elementary. It seemed like the moment when national outrage might lead to congressional action.
Biden did not deliver.
Four months after Biden took on the mission, a modest measure to require expanded background checks died on the Senate floor.
POLITICO interviews with more than a dozen people involved in the effort show that Biden made several strategic missteps that delayed action and may have sacrificed the emotional pull that offered a chance to break a historic logjam. He urged grieving families who wanted to take their case to Capitol Hill to go home, trying to protect them from difficult conversations.
Source: Politico (https://tinyurl.com/txdms9p)
Education and Racial Equality
Per EdWeek,com, Former Vice President Joe Biden, who last week made his entrance into a crowded Democratic field of 2020 presidential candidates, has a K-12 record that touches on several issues, although he never made education policy one of his signature issues during his lengthy tenure in Washington.
Biden, who served as Delaware's senator for 36 years prior to joining President Barack Obama's White House in 2009, was a fan of the No Child Left Behind Act in its early days but later soured on the landmark federal education law.
Biden’s views about race and education from several decades ago have also re-emerged in headlines. The Washington Post in March highlighted Biden’s opposition to busing as a means to promote school integration during the 1970s. “I don’t feel responsible for the sins of my father and grandfather. I feel responsible for what the situation is today, for the sins of my own generation,” Biden said in 1975. “And I’ll be damned if I feel responsible to pay for what happened 300 years ago.”
Source: https://tinyurl.com/v6wys2q
Ukraine
Hunter Biden’s leveraging of his father’s political connections appear to be routine practice. While his father was the Obama administration’s point-man on Ukraine in 2014, Hunter Biden was hired to serve on the board of a Ukrainia, an energy company making at least $50,000 a month despite no prior experience in the industry.
A Federalist analysis of Hunter Biden’s pay (https://tinyurl.com/ssp8cdc) reveals just how much the former vice president’s son was being showered in excess compensation. Hunter Biden was paid at least twice the amount of board members at comparable corporations. At Exxon Mobil, a global energy company dwarfing Burisma in size and earnings, its board members only made little more than half of Hunter Biden’s reported payout.
Hunter Biden also served on the board of a trade coalition that sought additional aid to Ukraine from the United States while his father remained the key figure in the White House dictating policy towards the eastern European nation, according to Daily Caller reporting last month.
From 2012 to 2018, Hunter Biden was on the board of the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition (USGLC) which lobbied the U.S. government for increased Ukrainian spending and assistance.
Since it seems most politicians leave office far more wealthy then when they were elected, the success of other Biden kin are ignore here. The Internet is replete with Biden stories.
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