{"id":1660187,"date":"2022-09-27T10:49:44","date_gmt":"2022-09-27T14:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1660187"},"modified":"2022-09-27T10:50:13","modified_gmt":"2022-09-27T14:50:13","slug":"most-divisive-president-ever-condemns-personal-attacks-in-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/most-divisive-president-ever-condemns-personal-attacks-in-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Most Divisive President Ever Condemns Personal Attacks In Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmost-divisive-president-ever-condemns-personal-attacks-in-politics%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1660187&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>As the old saying goes, politics ain\u2019t beanbag.<\/p>\n<p>The phrase comes from a 19th-century novel by writer Finley Peter Dunne. One of his characters, Mr. Dooley, an Irish American, often talks politics in his favorite Chicago bar. At one point, he says: \u201cSure, politics ain\u2019t bean-bag. \u2018Tis a man\u2019s game, an\u2019 women, childer, cripples an\u2019 prohybitionists\u2019d do well to keep out iv it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Politics has been a rough and tumble game all the way back to the beginning, sharp elbows and hardball at the same time. Even the Founding Fathers dabbled in personal attacks and disinformation to achieve their goals.<\/p>\n<p>President Joe Biden knows all about the ugly side of politics and has played the blood sport for nearly half a century.<\/p>\n<p>So it was beyond ironic when he said last week that his predecessor \u201cmade it all so personal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/president-joe-biden-60-minutes-interview-transcript-2022-09-18\/\">interview<\/a> on CBS\u2019 \u201c60 Minutes,\u201d Scott Pelley said to Biden: \u201cConcerning politics, Mr. President, you were elected to the Senate in 1972. You were 29 years old. And in those days, it seemed that the parties worked together to move the country forward. And I think many Americans feel that that no longer happens, and, in fact, may be impossible now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Putting on his most avuncular mask, Biden said: \u201cWell, I don\u2019t think it\u2019s impossible. But it\u2013 it\u2013 it\u2019s changed. What we do today, think about it, it\u2019s all personal attacks. It\u2019s about motive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not about, \u2018I disagree with you on the \u2014 on the subject matter. And secondly, I think that \u2014 it\u2019s \u2014 I think it\u2019s fair to say that we\u2019ve not had a president like the last president, who has made all of it so personal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve had six Republican senators, I promised I\u2019d never say their names and I won\u2019t, come up to me in the last two years and say, \u2018Joe, I agree with you, but if I \u2014 if I vote this way it\u2019s gonna\u2019 \u2014 they\u2019re gonna\u2019 primary me. I\u2019m gonna\u2019 lose an election. It didn\u2019t used to be that way. But it\u2019s coming back a little bit. It\u2019s coming back,\u201d Biden said.<\/p>\n<p>But Biden has been personally attacking nearly half of the country \u2014 the 74 million Americans who voted for former President Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou need to vote to literally save democracy again,\u201d Biden said at an Aug. 25 rally in Rockville, Maryland. \u201cTrump and the extreme MAGA Republicans have made their choice to go backwards, full of anger, violence, hate and division, but we\u2019ve chosen a different path \u2014 forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And earlier this month, Biden said: \u201cMAGA forces are determined to take this country backwards, backwards to an America where there is no right to choose, no right to privacy, no right to contraception, no right to marry who you love.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDonald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our Republic,\u201d he later added. \u201cMAGA Republicans do not respect the Constitution. They do not believe in the rule of the law. They do not recognize the will of the people. They refuse to accept the results of a free election.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s among the top talking points by Democrats these days as the country heads toward the mid-term elections in November. Even former President Bill Clinton has popped up again, saying, \u201cdemocracy is fragile right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The whole new narrative by Democrats amused Fox News host Laura Ingraham.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese people have been personally hunting Donald Trump for what, five and a half years, and he\u2019s worried about it getting personal,\u201d she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/transcript\/ingraham-angle-bidens-60-minutes-int\">said<\/a> on her show. \u201cThey called Romney every name in the book, Bush was a warmonger. These people invented the politics of personal destruction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And a guest on her show, John Ratcliffe, former director of national intelligence under Trump, echoed the same sentiment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s more than a little bit ironic, Laura, to hear them talking about threats to democracy. When you look at the last two years, under democratic rule, things have been about as undemocratic and about as personal as they can be, you know, parents are terrorists, Republicans are terrorists, Republican leadership or opposition leaders like Donald Trump must be rated or they must be arrested,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe message is very clear: obey the state, do what we say, nobody is safe. So I think it\u2019s very clear that when things are personal, it\u2019s that democratic rule has been personal against anyone that would oppose what\u2019s been happening,\u201d Ratcliffe said.<\/p>\n<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent for a national newspaper. He was also the a.m. editor of the Drudge Report for four years. Send tips to josephcurl@dailywire.com and follow him on Twitter @josephcurl.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the old saying goes, politics ain\u2019t beanbag. The phrase comes from a 19th-century novel by writer Finley Peter Dunne. One of his characters, Mr. Dooley, an Irish American, often talks politics in his favorite Chicago bar. 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