Joe Biden’s Happy Things
Joe Biden plays an ambiguous role in this malevolent charade. He is not the prime mover but merely the public face of the machine.
By Roger Kimball
July 3, 2021
McDonald’s has its “Happy Meals,” so it’s only fair that Joe Biden has his “Happy Times.” The Fourth of July weekend is one of those bright, smiling occasions that normally begets happiness, though in truth the White House occupant was not smiling on Friday when reporters ventured to ask him about the decision (I won’t say his decision) to turn over Bagram Airfield to the Afghans after nearly 20 years, $2 trillion in taxpayer money spent, and thousands of U.S. casualties.
Question for the future: what did we get for all that blood and treasure? Don’t answer now, just put it on your mental to-do list.
Anyway, the leader of the free world didn’t want to talk about Afghanistan. “I want to talk about happy things, man,” he snapped. The Taliban is such a downer, you know, and besides “It’s Fourth of July” weekend. “I’m going to celebrate it. There’s great things happening.”
Like gasoline prices about double what they were last year? Out-of-control inflation? A humanitarian and national security crisis on our Southern border?
Mr. Happy did not mention those items.
Nor did he dwell on the deeper question, viz what are we celebrating on the 4th of July? After all, many college students say they are “embarrassed” to be Americans. “Are you proud to be an American?” an interviewer asked. “Hell no,” was the answer, or words to that effect.
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