{"id":2307755,"date":"2024-07-25T08:21:59","date_gmt":"2024-07-25T12:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-cant-deny-responsibility-for-our-so-so-divided-nation\/"},"modified":"2024-07-25T08:27:37","modified_gmt":"2024-07-25T12:27:37","slug":"biden-cant-deny-responsibility-for-our-so-so-divided-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-cant-deny-responsibility-for-our-so-so-divided-nation\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Can\u2019t Deny Responsibility For Our \u2018So, So Divided\u2019 Nation"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/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%2Fbiden-cant-deny-responsibility-for-our-so-so-divided-nation%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=2307755&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>9\/21554990\/joe-biden-kamala-harris-victory-speech-transcript&#8221;>thought<\/a>: &ldquo;Kamala Harris is a healer and a uniter.&rdquo; And here \u200cis what the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/11\/07\/politics\/biden-victory-speech\/index.html\">mainstream media<\/a> concluded: &ldquo;Biden promised to be a \u2062president for \u200ball Americans, urging\u2064 Democrats and Republicans to \u200cgive each other\u2062 a chance and listen to one another.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Moreover,\u200b we can&rsquo;t judge the extent\u2062 to which Biden \u200dand Harris \u2062lived up to\u2062 their unity pledge without examining \u2062what they did to \u2063bridge our\u200d nation&rsquo;s divides\u2063 as president\u2062 and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-defector-emails-pipeline-to-obama-admin-seen-as-currency\/\" title=\"Hunter Biden Defector Emails: &#039;Pipeline&#039; to Obama Admin Seen as &#039;Currency&#039;\">vice president<\/a>. So, let&rsquo;s\u2063 do that.<\/p>\n<h2>The Fine Print of Biden-Harris Unity<\/hjson>    <\/p>\n<p>The fundamental problem with Biden and Harris\u200d on\u2063 unity \u200cwas that their fine \u200bprint,\u2064 their clause, was \u200dblank. There wasn&rsquo;t a \u200bplan to unify.\u200d No\u200b notable proposals. No clarion calls to action.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe worse, they did \u200babsolutely nothing on the question of national\u2063 unity. And \u2062now that Biden&rsquo;s pulling the plug, \u2064his broken promises are\u200d coming into view.<\/p>\n<p>Failing \u2062to unify the country might be the\u2062 biggest failure of the\u2062 Biden-Harris\u2063 administration. They \u200bcan&rsquo;t sell any significant accomplishment to the American public,&nbsp; but there&rsquo;s \u2063no\u200d sweeter music to the\u200c ears of an\u200d American citizen than the possibility that a president might yet make good\u2062 on his promise to unite our nation in the face of the most heated divisions\u200b any \u2064of us can recall.<\/p>\n<p>Under normal \u2064circumstances, \u200dAmericans would give a \u200ctroubled president the\u200d benefit of\u200b the doubt. They usually do this whether they supported \u2064the president or not. But not this \u200btime. Biden\u2063 first scheduled his unity progress check-in \u200cfor six months after taking off the presidential \u200dsash. The country awaits \u2063six more months than that to \u2062hear how President Biden has improved national unity.<\/p>\n<h2>Their Own Division Deepened<\/json>    <\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the most telling argument against\u2064 Biden&rsquo;s performance is that \u2064he, Harris, and their administration had promised to\u2062 unite Americans but instead succeeded in doing just the opposite:\u2063 deeper division.<\/p>\n<p>According to many polls, more Americans think our&nbsp;country is <a href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/4709\/unidentification-takes-toll-party-affiliations.aspx\">divided<\/a> than ever before \u200cin living\u2063 memory.&nbsp; This is\u200d in part because every proposal\u2064 advanced\u2062 by the Biden-Harris administration drove the nation\u200d further \u200dapart.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden-Harris legacy could already be \u200bwritten. Over two years, the\u200c administration increased anger\u200b and \u200cgave voice\u2063 to the\u2062 more vitriolic extremes on \u2063all\u2064 sides.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, the American \u200bnation is indeed \u2062&ldquo;so, so, \u200cso\u2062 divided.&rdquo; And calls for unity from the White House are nowhere to \u2064be heard.<\/p>\n<h2>Conclusion<\/hjson>    <\/p>\n<p>Joe Biden \u2063ran on a promise\u200d of national unity. As\u2064 of his\u200d decision \u2064to \u2064run for reelection, Americans count him \u2062as a failed president because he did nothing but increase \u200dthe country&rsquo;s divisions.<\/p>\n<p>Is that true? Is it false? \u2064We report. You decide.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>In March 1968, President Lyndon B. Johnson announced he would not seek reelection. It was an admission by Johnson that his administration failed in its conduct of the Vietnam War. His vice president, Hubert Humphrey, received the Democratic nomination and was trounced in an electoral landslide.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden-Harris administration is weighed down with its own major failures. That&rsquo;s why the administration&rsquo;s job approval ratings are well underwater on every major question: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolling.com\/polls\/approval\/joe-biden\/inflation\">inflation<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolling.com\/polls\/approval\/joe-biden\/economy\">economy<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolling.com\/polls\/approval\/joe-biden\/immigration\">border<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolling.com\/polls\/approval\/joe-biden\/crime\">crime<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolling.com\/polls\/approval\/joe-biden\/foreign-policy\">foreign policy<\/a>. Biden&rsquo;s decision to withdraw from the race is &mdash; no less than LBJ&rsquo;s &mdash; an implicit admission that his administration has failed on the major issues of the day. But at least Biden and Harris have pretended to defend their record on these issues from time to time.<\/p>\n<p>That&rsquo;s not true for the <em>signature promise<\/em> of the 2020 Biden-Harris campaign &mdash; uniting the country. Just days before announcing that he was withdrawing from the presidential race, Biden expressly admitted that he and Vice President Harris failed Americans on this score as well. In fact, in his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/joe-biden-medical-condition-presidential-campaign\/\">interview<\/a> with BET last week, Biden didn&rsquo;t just acknowledge that the country is divided. Instead, he conceded that things are even worse than that. In Biden&rsquo;s words, the nation is &ldquo;so, so, so divided.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<h2>Unity Was a Centerpiece of the 2020 Campaign<\/h2>\n<p>&ldquo;Unity&rdquo; was a central theme and core promise of the 2020 Biden-Harris campaign. We all remember that, even if Biden doesn&rsquo;t anymore.<\/p>\n<p>In his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wonderful-visual-emblem-glass-monument-to-kamala-harris-erected-in-front-of-lincoln-memorial\/\" title=\"\u2018Wonderful Visual Emblem\u2019: Glass Monument To Kamala Harris Erected In Front Of Lincoln Memorial\">victory speech<\/a> &mdash; which he gave days after the election because of the tight results &mdash; Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/politics\/read-joe-bidens-full-victory-speech-after-winning-the-presidential-election\">promised<\/a> Americans: &ldquo;I pledge to be a president who seeks not to divide, but to unify.&rdquo; Biden reminded everyone that he &ldquo;sought&rdquo; the office of president specifically &ldquo;to unite us here at home.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Biden stressed to the nation that it was &ldquo;time to put away the harsh rhetoric. To lower the temperature. To see each other again. To listen to each other again.&rdquo; He further proclaimed: &ldquo;Let this grim era of demonization in America begin to end &mdash; here and now.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Vice President-elect Harris got into the act too, <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/transcript-kamala-harris-victory-speech-437fa14a3116e96562f0467f581fe0aa\">declaring<\/a> to Americans: &ldquo;You chose Joe Biden as the next president of the United States of America. Joe is a healer. A uniter.&rdquo;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Do we make too much of this Biden-Harris unity pledge? Judge for yourself.<\/p>\n<p>But here is what the left-leaning media <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2020\/11\/7\/21554701\/joe-biden-acceptance-speech-2020-election\">took away<\/a> from the successful Biden-Harris ticket at the time: &ldquo;The president-elect&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/psaki-biden-to-unveil-immigration-agenda-next-tuesday\/\" title=\"Psaki: Biden to unveil immigration agenda next Tuesday\">acceptance speech<\/a> was a call to unite the nation.&rdquo; They <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/election-us-2020-54859636\">declared<\/a> that &ldquo;at the very least, the Biden presidency will mark a change in presidential rhetoric. The American people have a president-elect who talks about bringing the country together; about being the leader for all the people.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Biden and Harris promised. But Biden and Harris utterly failed to deliver. Instead, Biden and Harris gave us a country that is &ldquo;so, so, so divided.&rdquo; And now Biden has admitted as much.<\/p>\n<h2>The Passive Voice Doesn&rsquo;t Provide a Free Pass <\/h2>\n<p>Even as he admitted to the administration&rsquo;s failure, Biden implicitly denied any responsibility for it. As Biden explained it: &ldquo;When I originally ran &hellip; I said I was going to be a transitional candidate. &hellip; But I didn&rsquo;t anticipate things getting so, so, so divided.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>To Biden, it&rsquo;s a situation that must be described in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-radical-ideological-extremism-of-joe-biden-ted-cruz-goes-off-on-biden-in-interview-with-rnc-chairwoman\/\" title=\"EXCLUSIVE: \u2018Radical Ideological Extremism Of Joe Biden\u2019 \u2014 Ted Cruz Goes Off On Biden In Interview With RNC Chairwoman\">passive voice<\/a>. &ldquo;Things&rdquo; just happened to &ldquo;get&rdquo; more divisive while he was president. According to Biden, he couldn&rsquo;t even &ldquo;anticipate&rdquo; these things. Yes, that&rsquo;s right, the president who promised to end &ldquo;demonization in America&rdquo; in his victory speech now claims he couldn&rsquo;t even anticipate a divided country.<\/p>\n<p>The passive voice does not provide the administration with a free pass. As president, the buck stops with Biden. If Biden is less than competent &mdash; as it certainly appears &mdash; then, constitutionally, the buck stops with Harris. And now that Biden has apparently withdrawn from the presidential race, the buck stops with Harris politically as well. They are responsible for the national discord even if they hadn&rsquo;t pledged that, under their leadership, Americans would experience the precise opposite &mdash; which is what they did.<\/p>\n<h2>Deliberately Divisive<\/h2>\n<p>Yet this is not just a question of responsibility. It&rsquo;s a question of unclean hands. Biden and Harris have played a leading, active role in dividing the nation. A mere year and a half into his presidency, Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/biden-maga-republicans-semi-fascism\/\">declared<\/a> he had no &ldquo;respect&rdquo; for &ldquo;MAGA Republicans.&rdquo; Those people &mdash; i.e., people who want to make America great again &mdash; represent at least one-half of the country. And Biden labeled them &ldquo;semi-fascists.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Harris dutifully <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/meet-the-press\/first-read\/kamala-harris-calls-domestic-threats-dangerous-harmful-rcna47177\">defended<\/a> Biden&rsquo;s outrageous comments: &ldquo;[T]here are moments in time when we have to also agree, all good people who care about our country, that there are those who are right now vividly not defending our democracy.&rdquo; To the vice president, if you don&rsquo;t support Biden-Harris, you&rsquo;re not a good person, or you just don&rsquo;t care about our country.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Since that time, Biden and Harris have not just stated their disagreements with Republicans. They have uttered a continuous stream of incendiary falsehoods. They claimed that their fellow Americans <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/09\/10\/politics\/kamala-harris-republicans-abortion-dnc\/index.html\">stood<\/a> as &ldquo;threats to our freedom&rdquo; who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2023\/09\/19\/biden-says-trump-maga-republicans-are-threat-to-democracy.html\">were<\/a> &ldquo;determined to destroy our democracy.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Even as the public began to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2024-election\/biden-trump-describe-maga-extremist-rcna117796\">see through<\/a> these attacks, Biden and Harris doubled down on, and ratcheted up, their strategy of fear and hate. They <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2024-election\/biden-trump-describe-maga-extremist-rcna117796\">claimed<\/a> Republicans and their supporters were &ldquo;worse&rdquo; than &ldquo;real racists.&rdquo; They <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2024\/07\/08\/congress\/defiant-biden-tells-donors-were-done-with-the-debate-00166834\">said<\/a> we needed to put Trump in a &ldquo;bullseye.&rdquo; Then somebody did.<\/p>\n<p>Even longtime allies have recognized, for some time, the administration&rsquo;s total failure in this regard. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m just tired of hating,&rdquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/bill-maher-warns-countrys-polarization-late-night-stop-tired-hating\">explained<\/a> Bill Maher. &ldquo;Half this country seems to hate the other half.&rdquo; &ldquo;No one would wear a MAGA hat here&rdquo; in New York City, and &ldquo;nobody would wear a Biden T-shirt in &mdash; I don&rsquo;t know &mdash; Tennessee. &hellip; That&rsquo;s not a good place for the country to be.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s a place Biden and Harris promised not to take us. Yet they led us there willfully and callously. Now Biden leaves the political stage for the last time just like LBJ &mdash; admitting a colossal failure of leadership by his administration.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Joseph LoBue is a retired Naval officer and attorney.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>9\/21554990\/joe-biden-kamala-harris-victory-speech-transcript&#8221;>thought: &ldquo;Kamala Harris is a healer and a uniter.&rdquo; And here \u200cis what the mainstream media concluded: &ldquo;Biden promised to be a \u2062president for \u200ball Americans, urging\u2064 Democrats and Republicans to \u200cgive each other\u2062 a chance and listen to one another.&rdquo; Moreover,\u200b we can&rsquo;t judge the extent\u2062 to which Biden \u200dand Harris \u2062lived up to\u2062 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2785,"featured_media":2307756,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/acceptance-e1721770949452.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[8831,3620,36125,3753,5017],"class_list":["post-2307755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-responsibility","tag-biden","tag-divided-nation","tag-political","tag-unity"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/acceptance-e1721770949452.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2307755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2785"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2307755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2307755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2307756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2307755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2307755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2307755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}