{"id":2309392,"date":"2024-07-26T11:10:57","date_gmt":"2024-07-26T15:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2309392"},"modified":"2024-07-26T11:16:48","modified_gmt":"2024-07-26T15:16:48","slug":"dont-let-democrats-rewrite-joe-bidens-biography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dont-let-democrats-rewrite-joe-bidens-biography\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Let Democrats Rewrite Joe Biden&#8217;s Biography"},"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\">14<\/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-let-democrats-rewrite-joe-bidens-biography%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=2309392&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 a critical view of President Joe Biden over his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/near-death-experiences-a-look-back-at-famous-figures-whose-claims-drew-criticism\/\" title=\"\u2018Near-Death\u2019 Experiences: A Look Back At Famous Figures Whose Claims Drew Criticism\">long political career<\/a>. \u200dIt characterizes him as a failed leader, an inconsistent politician, and a person with \u2064questionable integrity, dubbing him &#8220;the most shameless fabulist&#8221; in American politics. The author suggests that despite Biden&#8217;s recent\u200d withdrawal from\u200b the 2024 presidential race,\u200d which some portrayed \u200das a selfless act, \u2063it was actually due\u200c to external pressures from party members and donors, highlighting a\u2062 lack of true sacrifice\u200b on his part.<\/p>\n<p>The commentary \u200cfurther critiques\u200d the media for glorifying Biden and his family, particularly in light of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-viral-image-claims-nancy-pelosi-was-executed\/\" title=\"FACT CHECK: Viral Image Claims Nancy Pelosi Was Executed\">recent public appearance<\/a> where they posed\u2063 for sentimental photos aimed at building a\u2064 legacy. The author expresses annoyance\u200b at\u200b the emotional framing of Biden&#8217;s situation, arguing that journalists should \u200dcritically examine those in \u200bpower rather than idealize them.<\/p>\n<p>Examining Biden&#8217;s past, the text references his early Senate career, his controversial relationships with segregationists, his failed 1988 presidential campaign marked by \u2063plagiarism, and his inconsistent \u2063positions on various\u2062 issues throughout his tenure. Ultimately, the piece conveys a \u2062strong skepticism regarding Biden&#8217;s political\u200d effectiveness and integrity, \u200cportraying \u200dhim as someone who\u200d has navigated power rather than\u2063 demonstrating true leadership or merit.  <\/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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-vows-to-take-effective-action-against-anti-semitismwhile-ignoring-these-democrat-anti-semites\/\" title=\"Biden Vows To \u2018Take Effective Action\u2019 Against Anti-Semitism\u2026While Ignoring These Democrat Anti-Semites\">long career<\/a>.<\/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 political journalist 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dont-allow-democrats-to-alter-joe-bidens-story-2\/\" title=\"Don&#039;t Allow Democrats to Alter Joe Biden&#039;s Story\">undistinguished career slowly fading<\/a> 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 2020 presidential election. 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, possibly 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. Almost 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 health. True to form, he used the Oval Office\u2014usually reserved for significant or solemn occasions\u2014to deliver another divisive partisan speech, suggesting that anyone opposing Democrats posed a danger to &#8220;democracy.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Did the political media question Biden&#8217;s 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, it\u2019s important to note that Biden stepped back from power not out of virtue 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 never made any real sacrifices. If Biden had genuinely 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>Biden&#8217;s narrative of &#8220;public service&#8221; is questionable, especially considering his transition from a mediocre lawyer to the head of a family involved in questionable influence-peddling. Throughout his career, he has consistently underperformed, winning his first Senate race in Delaware during Watergate largely due to Nixon&#8217;s influence on his opponent. Biden&#8217;s campaigns have often relied on attacking opponents rather than presenting a strong platform.<\/p>\n<p>His Senate tenure was marked by opportunism, including courting segregationists for political gain and engaging in smear tactics against conservative nominees. Biden&#8217;s presidential campaigns have been marred by plagiarism and fabrications, culminating in a disastrous run in 1988. Despite his lackluster performance, he was chosen as Barack Obama&#8217;s running mate, primarily to present a moderate image to counter GOP criticisms.<\/p>\n<p>Biden&#8217;s presidency has been characterized by a rapid adoption of far-left policies, leading to widespread discontent among voters. As he prepares to leave office, it\u2019s crucial to remember his legacy accurately and resist attempts to rewrite history. David Harsanyi is a senior editor at The Federalist and a nationally syndicated columnist. Follow him on Twitter, @davidharsanyi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":831,"featured_media":2309400,"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":[546],"tags":[16261,3685,32320],"class_list":["post-2309392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-biography","tag-democrats","tag-joe-biden"],"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\/2309392","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=2309392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2309392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2309400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2309392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2309392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2309392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}