Joe Biden is old. He hugs people. He thinks China is and isn’t a challenge for America. He is for and against taxpayers financing abortion. He was once against busing for desegregation of blacks and whites. Anita Hill says he did not give her a fair chance to destroy Clarence Thomas. He hasn’t shown much oomph as a candidate for president. He came out with an upside-down climate change plan. The polls like him.
The polls may quit liking him, of course, and commentators discuss that as much as his character or policy ideas. They all agree he has name recognition working for him and aren’t sure stances of the past will overwhelm the present. He ran for president twice before, once fleeing in embarrassment because of plagiarism and other deceptions, and was President Barack Obama’s vice president for eight years, demonstrating a talent seldom mentioned. Obama did not know how to negotiate. He did.
Biden’s foremost attribute is that he appears to be sane. That differentiates him from most of the rest of the Democratic candidates who want to make everything free, give us a debt crisis and tax the rich until they are eligible for Kamala Harris’s universal income. The Democrats want to control our lives because we are all stupid and they aren’t except morning, noon and night.
Biden initially wasn’t having any of this but was then pushed on the Green New Deal and came up with a partly plagiarized or maybe just borrowed plan that includes his ambition to end President Donald Trump’s incredibly uplifting tax reform. The next steps would be to raise taxes by $1.7 trillion, punish everyone and disregard reality until all CO2 emissions are gone by 2050.
