{"id":2309139,"date":"2024-07-26T07:32:02","date_gmt":"2024-07-26T11:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dont-let-democrats-rewrite-joe-bidens-biography\/"},"modified":"2024-07-26T07:40:31","modified_gmt":"2024-07-26T11:40:31","slug":"dont-allow-democrats-to-alter-joe-bidens-story-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dont-allow-democrats-to-alter-joe-bidens-story-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Allow Democrats to Alter Joe Biden&#8217;s Story"},"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\">16<\/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%2Fdont-allow-democrats-to-alter-joe-bidens-story-2%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=2309139&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>The text presents \u2063a critical perspective on\u200d President Joe Biden, portraying him as a poorly performing\u200b leader and a flawed political figure throughout his career. The author\u200d accuses Biden of being a manipulative \u2062politician with\u2063 a history\u200d of inconsistency, \u200blying, and aligning with problematic ideologies for personal gain. After his decision \u2064to \u200bwithdraw \u200cfrom the\u200d 2024 presidential race, \u200dBiden addressed the nation without clarifying the reasons\u2064 for his exit, leading\u200b the author to criticize the lack of scrutiny from the media and instead label\u200d it as a hagiographic reaction.<\/p>\n<p>The author highlights Biden&#8217;s past, \u200dincluding his tumultuous Senate career marked\u200c by ties to \u2064segregationists and \u2063his notorious 1988 presidential campaign, which ended infamously due to plagiarism and fabrications. They argue that Biden&#8217;s exit from the\u200c race was a result of external pressures \u2064rather than a selfless decision for the good of\u2064 the country and point out that his political life has been marked by mediocrity and opportunism, suggesting \u2063that he rode the coattails\u200b of\u200b party movements rather than demonstrated\u200d true \u2063leadership or talent.<\/p>\n<p>the piece emphasizes Biden&#8217;s\u2064 numerous failings, \u200bquestioning \u200bboth his character and the perception of his legacy, and asserts that he\u200b is \u200bnot deserving\u200d of the reverence some\u2063 commentators\u2064 attempt to afford him post-presidency.  <\/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>Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. should be remembered as a failed president, a cringy blowhard senator, perhaps&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2020\/09\/the-secret-life-of-joe-biden\/\">the most shameless fabulist in American political history<\/a>, the patriarch of a shady family, and a preternatural liar who couldn&rsquo;t hold a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dont-allow-democrats-to-alter-joe-bidens-story\/\" title=\"Don&#039;t Allow Democrats to Alter Joe Biden&#039;s Story\">single consistent principled position<\/a> in his very long career.<\/p>\n<p><em>Of course<\/em> they&rsquo;re going to try to canonize him.<\/p>\n<p>Almost a week after breaking up with voters in a letter, Biden finally addressed the nation without bothering to explain&nbsp;<em>why&nbsp;<\/em>he abandoned the race. Doing so would have entailed admitting his declining mental and physical state. But, true to form, the president used the Oval Office, typically reserved for solemn or historic moments, to deliver another divisive partisan talk, insinuating that anyone who opposed Democrats was a threat to &ldquo;democracy.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>Did the political media press the Biden camp on what the man had been doing the past week? Or what was said to him by Democrats to convince him to leave? No. They began writing hagiographies.<\/p>\n<p>After the speech, the Biden family posed for some legacy-building shots, and the media took the bait. &ldquo;A powerful photo. The hand toward his father&rsquo;s face,&rdquo;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/costareports\/status\/1816297727304647059\">wrote<\/a>&nbsp;Robert Costa of The Washington Post about one picture of Joe with his son, renowned artist Hunter Biden. &ldquo;The eyes. Put aside politics and everything related for a moment, and viewed simply on a human level, you see two men, father and son, still at each other&rsquo;s side, more than a half-century since the darkness of Dec. 18, 1972.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Ah,&nbsp;<em>the eyes<\/em>. Get a grip, man.<\/p>\n<p>This is not a normal thing for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-joe-biden-wont-tolerate-disrespect-for-mitch-mcconnell\/\" title=\"Report: Joe Biden Won\u2019t Tolerate Disrespect for Mitch McConnell\">political journalist<\/a> to write. I&rsquo;m not really here to judge the moral core of a politician &mdash; not even ones who&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/08\/02\/politics\/joe-biden-seventh-grandchild-hunter-biden\/index.html\">refuse<\/a>&nbsp;to acknowledge their inconvenient grandchildren for four years. But the job of a journalist isn&rsquo;t to idealize those in power but to act as the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/topic\/devils-advocate\">Devil&rsquo;s advocate<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, Costa&rsquo;s emotional projection and myth-building are being transposed onto one of the biggest mediocrities ever to live in the White House.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;He&rsquo;s done an unnatural thing &mdash; very rare in the annals of history &mdash; he stepped away from power and he did it in the interests of the country,&rdquo; Democrat Party operative David Axelrod&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/brianstelter\/status\/1816266350240624675\">explained<\/a>&nbsp;after Biden withdrew from the 2024 race. A &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/althouse.blogspot.com\/2024\/07\/behold-selflessness.html\">selfless act<\/a>&rdquo; was how virtually everyone on the left described the president&rsquo;s bowing out.<\/p>\n<p>I&rsquo;m sorry, Cincinnatus wasn&rsquo;t elbowed out of Rome by hedge funders and George Clooney. Biden stepped away from power because big donors closed their checkbooks, the media (which had been gaslighting us until the debate) turned on him, and every Democrat heavy hitter in the party asked him to leave. Cincinnatus, an exemplar of virtue and humility, returned to his modest farm &mdash; not a tony Rehoboth Beach home &mdash; by his own volition. The Bidens never sacrificed anything.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, if Biden had put the cause of &ldquo;democracy,&rdquo; or even his own party&rsquo;s fortunes, above his own, he would have stepped aside months ago so Democrats could have an open primary.<\/p>\n<p>Then again, the story of Cincinnatus might be apocryphal, much like the story of Biden&rsquo;s exemplary &ldquo;public service&rdquo; record. Because, really, is it &ldquo;public service&rdquo; if you go from being a middling lawyer to the patriarch of a family of shady influence-peddlers?<\/p>\n<p>Biden has always been a .200-hitter trying to bat clean-up his whole life. He won his first Senate race in Delaware in the middle of Watergate, and only because Richard Nixon convinced incumbent J. Caleb Boggs to unretire and run. 1972 was the first Senate election in which 18-year-olds could vote, so Biden&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/rollcall.com\/2019\/09\/12\/even-joe-biden-was-once-the-upstart\/\">relentlessly<\/a>&nbsp;attacked Boggs&rsquo; age (63). Thereafter, he basically ran for a House-sized congressional seat every six years until 2009.<\/p>\n<p>In the Senate, Biden, by his own admission, spent a chunk of the &rsquo;70s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2019\/06\/21\/biden-civil-segregationists-ally\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sucking up<\/a>&nbsp;to segregationists like James Eastland (&ldquo;Voice of the White South&rdquo;) and Herman Talmadge, so he could grab plum committee seats. Biden&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/speaking-of-george-wallace\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sought the praise<\/a>&nbsp;of racist George Wallace &mdash; lied about it, actually &mdash; and worried about his kids being swallowed up in a &ldquo;racial jungle.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>What a swell guy!<\/p>\n<p>Biden had one of the most disastrous major presidential campaigns in American history in 1988 &mdash; where he was caught fabricating stories about his upbringing and education and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/grabien.com\/story.php?id=233352\">insulting reporters<\/a>&nbsp;who dared ask him questions about it. Joe not only lifted segments of speeches from John Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, and Hubert Humphrey but also plagiarized an entire speech, nearly&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1987\/09\/12\/us\/biden-s-debate-finale-an-echo-from-abroad.html\">verbatim<\/a>, from Welsh Labour politician Neil Kinnock because his own professional life was so uninspiring and unimpressive.<\/p>\n<p>Even after being caught, he continued to share imaginary events.<\/p>\n<p>The rest of his Senate career was spent zig-zagging and flip-flopping and lecturing people much smarter than he, while always landing exactly where the party was going. Biden helped turn once-civil Supreme Court confirmation hearings into smear-fests against conservative nominees. In 1986, the year before Biden became chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Antonin Scalia had been approved 98&ndash;0 by the Senate. The next year, Biden smeared Robert Bork, sinking his nomination. A few years later, he was<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YaMtnEO5q1U\">&nbsp;embarrassing himself&nbsp;<\/a>explaining natural law to Clarence Thomas.<\/p>\n<p>Biden would run for president again in 2008, famously&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.snopes.com\/fact-check\/biden-obama-articulate-quote\/\">calling<\/a>&nbsp;Barack Obama &ldquo;the first mainstream African American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy&rdquo; while coming in fifth place, winning less than 1 percent of the vote.<\/p>\n<p>No one should bemoan the fact that a C-average student somehow stumbled into power. But if political success were driven by merit, Biden would finally have been thrown onto the political scrap heap, his undistinguished career slowly fading from history. Instead, Obama, anxious about being portrayed as a radical leftist by the GOP, went searching for the most non-threatening, sycophantic &ldquo;moderate&rdquo; he could dig up to fill the veep spot. Biden answered the call.<\/p>\n<p>Joe was so bad at his job, Obama tried to discourage him from running for the presidency in 2020,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2020\/08\/14\/obama-biden-relationship-393570\">reportedly<\/a>&nbsp;telling people to &ldquo;never to underestimate Joe&rsquo;s ability to f-ck things up.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, not even Biden could f-ck up the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/what-is-going-on-minnesota-and-wisconsin-both-had-89-90-turnout-something-that-is-highly-unlikely\/\" title=\"What is Going On? Minnesota and Wisconsin BOTH had 89%-90% Turnout -- Something That Is Highly Unlikely\">2020 presidential election<\/a>. With no viable alternatives, the Democrat Party establishment rallied around Joe when it looked like a septuagenarian Trotskyite named Bernie Sanders might win the nomination. Running his campaign from his den during a once-in-a-century epidemic, under the protection of Praetorian Guard press, Biden beat Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Biden quickly adopted every far-left position imaginable. His presidency was a disaster. Even before the debate, Biden was rightly behind on virtually every major issue in every poll. But he&rsquo;s a Democrat. And Democrats fail upward, their legacies sanctified no matter how disgraceful and pathetic.<\/p>\n<p>Biden is leaving. He&rsquo;s an elderly man with a poor memory. Let him retire in peace. But don&rsquo;t let them rewrite history.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<div>\n<p>      David Harsanyi is a senior editor at The Federalist, a nationally syndicated columnist, and author of six books&mdash;the most recent, <b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.harpercollins.com\/products\/the-rise-of-blueanon-david-harsanyi?variant=41551839232034\">The The Rise of BlueAnon: How the Democrats Became a Party of Conspiracy Theorists<\/a><\/b>. Follow him on Twitter, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/davidharsanyi\/\">@davidharsanyi<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. should be viewed as a president who failed, a pompous senator, arguably the most brazen fabricator in American political history, the head of a questionable family, and a habitual liar who has never maintained a consistent principled stance throughout his lengthy career. Naturally, there will be efforts to glorify him. Nearly a week after distancing himself from voters in a letter, Biden finally spoke to the nation without clarifying why he exited the race, which would have required acknowledging his deteriorating mental and physical condition. True to form, he used the Oval Office\u2014usually reserved for significant or solemn occasions\u2014to deliver another divisive partisan address, suggesting that anyone opposing Democrats posed a danger to &#8220;democracy.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Did the political media question the Biden team about his activities over the past week or what Democrats said to persuade him to step down? No, they began crafting glowing tributes. Following his speech, the Biden family posed for photos aimed at building their legacy, and the media eagerly complied. Robert Costa of The Washington Post commented on a picture of Joe with his son, Hunter Biden, saying, &#8220;A powerful photo. The hand toward his father\u2019s face. The eyes. Put aside politics and everything related for a moment, and viewed simply on a human level, you see two men, father and son, still at each other\u2019s side, more than a half-century since the darkness of Dec. 18, 1972.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>This kind of emotional commentary is unusual for a political journalist. My role isn\u2019t to assess the moral integrity of politicians\u2014even those who have ignored their inconvenient grandchildren for years. Journalists should not idealize those in power but rather serve as the Devil\u2019s advocate. Costa\u2019s emotional projection and myth-making are being applied to one of the most mediocre individuals ever to occupy the White House. <\/p>\n<p>Democrat operative David Axelrod claimed that Biden&#8217;s withdrawal from the 2024 race was a &#8220;selfless act&#8221; for the country&#8217;s benefit. However, Biden stepped back from power not out of selflessness but because major donors withdrew their support, the media turned against him, and prominent Democrats urged him to leave. Unlike Cincinnatus, who returned to his farm voluntarily, the Bidens have sacrificed nothing. If Biden truly prioritized &#8220;democracy&#8221; or his party&#8217;s success, he would have stepped aside months earlier to allow for an open primary. <\/p>\n<p>Moreover, the story of Cincinnatus may be apocryphal, much like Biden&#8217;s purported &#8220;public service&#8221; record. Is it genuinely &#8220;public service&#8221; if one transitions from being a mediocre lawyer to the head of a family involved in questionable influence-peddling? Biden has always been a .200 hitter trying to bat clean-up throughout his life. He won his first Senate race in Delaware during Watergate, largely because Richard Nixon persuaded incumbent J. Caleb Boggs to run again. In 1972, the first Senate election allowing 18-year-olds to vote, Biden relentlessly attacked Boggs&#8217; age. He continued to run for a House-sized congressional seat every six years until 2009. <\/p>\n<p>During his Senate tenure, Biden admitted to spending part of the &#8217;70s courting segregationists like James Eastland and Herman Talmadge to secure favorable committee positions. He sought the approval of racist George Wallace and expressed concerns about his children being caught in a &#8220;racial jungle.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Biden&#8217;s 1988 presidential campaign was one of the most disastrous in American history, marked by fabrications about his background and confrontations with reporters who questioned him. He plagiarized parts of speeches from prominent figures like John and Robert Kennedy and Welsh politician Neil Kinnock, revealing a lack of originality in his professional life. Even after being caught, he continued to share fabricated stories. <\/p>\n<p>His Senate career was characterized by inconsistency and opportunism, often aligning with the prevailing party sentiment. Biden played a role in transforming Supreme Court confirmation hearings into smear campaigns against conservative nominees. In 1986, before he became chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Antonin Scalia was confirmed 98-0. The following year, Biden derailed Robert Bork&#8217;s nomination. <\/p>\n<p>Biden&#8217;s 2008 presidential run saw him infamously refer to Barack Obama as &#8220;the first mainstream African American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy,&#8221; finishing fifth with less than 1 percent of the vote. While no one should lament the rise of a mediocre student to power, if political success were based on merit, Biden would have faded into obscurity. Instead, Obama, concerned about being labeled a radical leftist, sought a non-threatening &#8220;moderate&#8221; to fill the vice-presidential slot, and Biden fit the bill. <\/p>\n<p>Biden was so ineffective that Obama reportedly tried to dissuade him from running for president in 2020, cautioning others to &#8220;never underestimate Joe\u2019s ability to f-ck things up.&#8221; Yet, even Biden managed to win the 2020 election, as the Democratic establishment coalesced around him when it appeared that Bernie Sanders might secure the nomination. Running his campaign from home during a pandemic, with favorable media coverage, Biden defeated Donald Trump. <\/p>\n<p>He quickly adopted every far-left position imaginable, and his presidency has been a disaster. Even before the debates, he lagged behind on nearly every major issue in polls. However, as a Democrat, he is likely to fail upward, with his legacy preserved despite its disgraceful nature. Biden is stepping down as an elderly man with a poor memory; let him retire peacefully, but don\u2019t allow history to be rewritten. <\/p>\n<p>David Harsanyi is a senior editor at The Federalist, a nationally syndicated columnist, and the author of six books, including &#8220;The Rise of BlueAnon: How the Democrats Became a Party of Conspiracy Theorists.&#8221; Follow him on Twitter, @davidharsanyi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":831,"featured_media":2309140,"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\/Biden-.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3620,3685,11665,5894],"class_list":["post-2309139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-biden","tag-democrats","tag-narratives","tag-politics"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Biden-.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2309139","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\/831"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2309139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2309139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2309140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2309139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2309139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2309139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}