Joe Biden, A Moral Colossus
Like Hillary, he is going to lose.
by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.
August 26, 2020, 12:03 AM
Washington
Norman Mailer used to say when he was upright that Americans tend to admire their politicians, if for nothing else, for getting older. That I think explains the nomination for president of the United States of former Vice President Joe Biden. He did not only get older, he got ancient. He is almost an antique.
Joe, a proven plagiarist and a cheat, is now running for president as a moral paragon. How is the thing possible?
If he is elected president this autumn, he will be the oldest man to ever be elected. He will come into the White House even older than Ronald Reagan was when Reagan left office. The American people watched President Reagan struggle with colon cancer, skin cancer, a prostrate operation, and an intermittent hobbling in his right leg, to say nothing of an assassin’s bullet. I called the Old Cowboy one tough hombre. His Democratic opponents called him a boob. So did the mainstream media. Through President Reagan’s economic revival of the country and victory in the Cold War the Democrats still called him a boob. So did the media. President Reagan’s enemies call the winner of the Cold War and the reviver of the American economy a boob. What do they call Joe Biden?
Well, the Democrats could call him a plagiarist. He has been caught plagiarizing many times. Most famously he plagiarized from a speech given by the British politician Neil Kinnock. That instance of thievery forced him to pull out of the 1988 race for the White House. He also plagiarized from the work of Robert Kennedy and John Kennedy. More recently Joe plagiarized, we are told by Reagan speech writer Ken Khachigian, from a speech given by Ronald Reagan years ago. Joe has also been called gaffable. He is the most gaffe-prone politician in modern times. Finally, he has been called a cheat. Starting with his law schoolwork back the 1960s and going right up to recent years in his dealings with the Russians, he has been called a cheat. Joe, a proven plagiarist and a cheat, is now running for president as a moral paragon. How is the thing possible?
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