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Sunday, September 06, 2020
Saturday, September 05, 2020
Are African Americans Truly Warming up to Trump?
Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead
I get the sense that rightward movement is occurring in
the African American community. This is more than anecdotal. It’s not random.
It is for good reason.
At least since the ’60s, the Democrats have had a lock on
the black vote, which they’ve nurtured and protected like leftists guard their
copies of “The Communist Manifesto.” Their conquest was cynical in its
inception and has grown more so through the years.
You’ve probably read President Lyndon Johnson’s overtly
racist remarks concerning his support for the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the
1965 Voting Rights Act — remarks that are in such poor taste I won’t repeat
them here. Suffice it to say that Johnson allegedly bragged his support would
secure African American allegiance to Democrats for decades to come. Even those
who unconvincingly dispute Johnson’s despicable statements don’t deny that he
habitually used racist language.
Johnson must have known what he was doing, though I doubt
that the Democrats’ monopoly on the black vote is based solely on the
misperception that Democrats have been the sacred guardians of blacks’ civil
liberties. Democrats have also shrewdly cultivated the fiction that only they
care about the economic plight of minorities.
More recently, they’ve gone further and portrayed
Republicans as not just indifferent but affirmatively racist. This slander is a
special kind of evil, violating on a grand scale the Mosaic Commandment against
bearing false witness — and causing immeasurable damage to race relations.
In some cases, Republican policies have been easy for
Democrats to mischaracterize. Republicans have historically opposed excessive
welfare programs. While supporting some level of safety net, they believe that
fostering long-term dependency on government is devastating to the recipients
and to society overall because it diminishes the work ethic and human dignity,
and sabotages the nuclear family.
Democrats have often depicted principled conservative
opposition to these programs as evidence of their lack of compassion and
outright racism. A more modern version of this smear is Democrats’ attributing
Republican support for a border wall to their racism. If they’re racist toward
blacks, they’re surely racist toward Mexicans — and everyone else who “doesn’t
look like them.”
If anything borders on racist, it’s this constant
pandering and condescension toward minorities. The suggestion is that they’re
incapable of helping themselves and benevolent politicians must do it for them.
Opposition to voter ID laws is a perfect example. Why isn’t it offensive to
suggest that minority voters will be disadvantaged if required to present legal
identification at the polling place? This is a modern case of what some call
“the soft bigotry of low expectations.”
As insulting as that is, what’s worse is many Democrats
assume the minority vote is a given. It’s no secret that in national elections,
Democrats depend on the overwhelming majority of black votes. The failing — and
thus, less circumspect — Joe Biden cavalierly displayed this presumption when
he said if blacks don’t vote for him over President Donald Trump, they “ain’t
black.”
Some seemed shocked at Biden’s remark; others dismissed
it as just another instance of weird Joe shooting off his harmless mouth again.
Nonsense. This attitude is not unique to Biden. The left
has been treating black conservatives like second-class citizens for years.
From Condoleezza Rice to Clarence Thomas to Thomas Sowell to Walter Williams to
Larry Elder, conservative blacks have been egregiously mistreated and
dehumanized by those, ironically, who claim to be the most egalitarian and
least racist.
But as I said, it seems a movement is underway in which
African Americans are increasingly rejecting the Democrats’ identity politics
and exploitation and treatment of them as part of a group rather than as
individuals.
Rhetoric eventually rings hollow if it doesn’t match
reality. President Trump’s economic policies objectively resulted in
historically low records of black unemployment and a real increase in their
standard of living. Disingenuous denials of these facts are not lost on African
Americans.
There’s something else going on as well: the torching of
our cities, the movement to defund the police, and the overall breakdown of law
and order. Democrats are miscalculating if they assume minorities are less
desirous of safe streets than everyone else. A recent Rasmussen poll showed that
64% of Americans worry about “cop shortage and public safety,” and “Blacks
(67%) are the most concerned about public safety where they live, compared to
63% of whites and 65% of other minority Americans.” Yet Democrats, until recent
polling began to scare them, conspicuously refused to denounce the violence.
I am encouraged when I see Candace Owens and countless
other young black conservatives courageously standing against the narrative
that has been shoved down our throats since the ’60s. I am encouraged that
former outspoken Democratic attorney Leo Terrell offered to campaign for
President Trump in all the swing states between now and the election, saying
the Democratic Party no longer represents him or the interests of the black
community. I am heartened by a YouTube video of four upbeat young black men
with MAGA hats saying that the rioters don’t speak for them, that they don’t
want to be treated as victims, that they appreciate American liberty, and
enthusiastically support President Trump. I am thrilled about polls reporting
double-digit support for Trump among blacks.
Even apart from the election, ideological diversity is
immensely gratifying. For too long, the Democratic Party has taken for granted
the African American vote. We shall see if it comes to regret that in November.
David Limbaugh is a writer, author and
attorney. His latest book is “Guilty by Reason of Insanity: Why the Democrats
Must Not Win.” Follow him on Twitter @davidlimbaugh and his website at www.davidlimbaugh.com.
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Friday, September 04, 2020
US employers hire 1.4M in August as unemployment rate falls sharply
By Megan Henney | FOXBusiness
The U.S. economy added 1.4 million jobs in
August as the unemployment rate unexpectedly tumbled, indicating the
nation's labor market is continuing a slow but steady recovery from
the coronavirus pandemic.
The Labor Department's payroll report
released Friday showed the jobless rate fell sharply to 8.4%, down from
10.2% in June and a peak of 14.7% in April. It marks the first time
since March that unemployment has been below 10%.
Economists surveyed by Refinitiv
expected the report to show that unemployment dropped to 9.8% and the
economy added 1.4 million jobs. It's well below the combined 7.5 million jobs
added in May and June before hiring cooled in July, with growth of just 1.9
million positions.
“We are still moving in the right direction
and the pace of the jobs recovery seems to have picked up, but it still looks
like it will take a while – and likely a vaccine – before we get back close to
where we were at the beginning of this year,” said Tony Bedikian, head of
global markets at Citizens Bank. “We continue to be optimistic that the economy
has turned a corner and that we’ll continue to see steady progress.”
Still, joblessness remains historically high.
The unemployment rate sat at 3.5% in February, a half-century low, before
the crisis began.
Government hiring helped boost the figure,
with employment increasing by 344,000 in August -- accounting for one-fourth of
the total gains. The increase stemmed largely from the federal government's
addition of 238,000 temporary Census workers. Despite fears about budget
shortfalls, local governments hired 95,000 employees last month.
Other notable gains came from retail, which
added 249,000 new jobs, and professional and business services, which brought
on 197,000 workers. Leisure and hospitality, the hardest-hit sector during the
pandemic, filled 174,000 positions, a majority of which stemmed from bars
and restaurants.
Education and health services jobs jumped by
147,000, and transportation rose by 78,000. Financial activities
increased by 36,000, manufacturing rose by 29,000 and wholesale trade was
up by 14,000.
The number of Americans
on furlough also plunged: 24.2 million people who said they not
working because their employer either closed or lost business as a result of
COVID-19, down from 31.3 million in July.
Over the past four months, the economy
has added back about half of the 22 million jobs it lost during the pandemic,
data show. There are still 11.5 million more out-of-work Americans than in
February.
The report comes amid a month-long deadlock
between White House officials and Democratic leaders over another round of
emergency relief for workers and businesses. Economists said the
better-than-expected report should not reduce the urgency in Congress to
approve more aid.
"With the national unemployment rate
still elevated, and with New York and Los Angeles recently suffering through
jobless rates above 16%, the urgency of passing another round of federal relief
legislation hasn’t lifted in Washington," said Mark Hamrick, a
Bankrate.com senior economic analyst. "While some elected officials
may be focused on the election now 60 days away, their responsibility to serve
the broader part of the American people hasn’t been excused."
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IN
OTHER NEWS
The Atlantic Peddles Total Fake News to Smear
Trump and Torpedo His Relationship with the Military
By Matt Vespa | Townhall.com
Source: AP Photo/Evan Vucci
I mean, are they this
desperate? Is the liberal media that nervous about Trump winning again? Because
it would seem that they are throwing all the things against the wall to slow
the momentum. The Atlantic is the first batter up, peddling a
totally unverifiable story that President Trump has mocked and denigrated those
who have served and died for this country. Yeah, they actually thought this
would stick. The U.S. Military loves Trump, by the way. I don’t really see the
point behind this story other than some pathetic attempt to smear the man yet
again. Oh, and we have the anonymous sources, those shadowy folks with
“firsthand knowledge.”
Right, find me a career
bureaucrat in this town that loves Trump. The whole town hates him. Run with a
rumor and find several people who hate Trump’s guts to ‘verify’ it. It’s as
easy as scooping up baitfish in a tank.
If we’re going by this shoddy
standard, then several people told me that Joe Biden is dead and being
impersonated by a body double. They have firsthand knowledge. That’s what they
told me, so it’s totally true. Also, the British Royal Family is really
reptilian shape-shifting humanoids. We’re dealing with clowns.
When President Donald Trump
canceled a visit to the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery near Paris in 2018, he
blamed rain for the last-minute decision, saying that “the helicopter couldn’t
fly” and that the Secret Service wouldn’t drive him there. Neither claim was
true.
Trump rejected the idea of the
visit because he feared his hair would become disheveled in the rain, and
because he did not believe it important to honor American war dead, according
to four people with firsthand knowledge of the discussion that day. In a
conversation with senior staff members on the morning of the scheduled visit,
Trump said, “Why should I go to that cemetery? It’s filled with losers.” In a
separate conversation on the same trip, Trump referred to the more than 1,800
marines who lost their lives at Belleau Wood as “suckers” for getting killed.
How many conspiracy theories
and hoaxes have the liberal media fallen for in the past four years? First,
there was Trump-Russia collusion, which was busted like a pinata. Then, the
covert plot to destroy the US Postal Service, which the Left still thinks is a
thing. Then, there’s the ‘Trump had a stroke’ story. It goes on and on, and
these morons wonder why their trust with the American people is in the toilet.
Here’s the thing. How about y’all stop lying. Then again, we all know why you
keep getting faces full of buckshot. You don’t care. You’ve never cared.
Because at the end of the day, you’re all just Democratic operatives
masquerading as reporters. If you were just honest about your biases, then this
war would end, but your attacks on Republicans would seem less credible, right?
I mean, they already are, but there’s a shine to it when it’s printed on The
New York Times or in this case, The Atlantic.
Also, let's not forget that
this same publication ran with a fake news story about a police shooting this
summer. Have we forgotten that, and we're supposed to believe this crackpot
story? Nope.
Thursday, September 03, 2020
Kenosha Crowd Cheers for Trump While Dem Politicians Tell Him to Stay Away
AP Photo/Evan Vucci
President Trump flew into Kenosha, Wisconsin on Tuesday
to survey the damage done by Black Lives Matter and antifa protesters after the
shooting of Jacob Blake, who was wanted for sexual assault. The damage done to this
city is unreal. It looks like a movie set from some dystopian post-war
blockbuster.
The White House has already put together a video with
images from the trip.
Black Lives Matter, perhaps starting to figure out that
riots don’t curry public favor, is hosting a counter-protest with bounce houses
and a DJ, attempting to make people forget their supporters participated in the
burning of Kenosha.
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I visited the great city
of #kenosha yesterday to distribute water and food. The
destruction and violence should NOT be happening in America. Democratic leaders
in WI and IL have failed miserably to protect citizens! Stop the madness!
The violence should be ending soon because the National
Guard is on the ground. Julio Rosas, from PJ Media’s sister site Townhall,
reported from Kenosha.
Wednesday, September 02, 2020
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Nonsense
Check out any professional and most college basketball
teams. Their starting five, and most of their other 10 players, are black,
as is 80% of the NBA.
This does not come anywhere close to the diversity
and inclusion sought by the nation's social justice warriors. Both professional
and college coaches have ignored and threw any pretense of seeking diversity
and inclusiveness.
My question to you is: Would a basketball team be
improved if coaches were required to include ethnically diverse players for the
sake of equity?
I have no idea of what your answer might be but mine would
be: "The hell with diversity, equity and inclusion. I am going to
recruit the best players and do not care if most of them turn out to be black
players." Another question: Do you think that any diversity-crazed college
president would chastise his basketball coach for lack of diversity and
inclusiveness?
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (National Accelerator
Laboratory) is home to the world's most powerful experiments, fastest
supercomputers and top-notch physics researchers. Much of SLAC's research is on
particle accelerators that are complicated machines that are designed,
engineered and operated to produce high-quality particle beams and develop
clues to the fundamental structure of matter and the forces between subatomic
particles.
You can bet that their personnel makeup exhibits very little concern
about racial diversity, equity and inclusion.
The bulk of their scientists
is not only Americans of European and Asian ancestry but mostly men. My
question to you is: What would you do to make SLAC more illustrative of the
racial, ethnic and sexual diversity of America?
As for me, my answer would be
the same one that I gave in the basketball example: I am going to recruit
the brightest scientists and I do not care if most of them turn out to be men
of European and Asian ancestry.
In the hard sciences, one will find black Americans
underrepresented.
For example, a 2018 survey of the American Astronomical
Society, which includes undergraduates, graduate students, faculty members and
retired astronomers, found that 82% of members identified as white and only
2% as black or African American.
Only 3% of bachelor's degrees in physics
go to black students. In 2017, some fields, such as structural engineering
and atmospheric physics, graduated not a single black Ph.D.
The conspicuous
absence of black Americans in the sciences have little or nothing to do with
racism. It has to do with academic preparation. If one graduates from high
school and has not mastered a minimum proficiency in high school algebra,
geometry and precalculus, it is likely that high-paying careers such as
engineering, medicine, physics and computer technology are hermetically sealed
off for life.
There are relatively few black fighter jet
pilots. There are stringent physical, character and mental
requirements, which many black applicants could meet. But fighter pilots must
also have a strong knowledge of air navigation, aircraft operating procedures,
flight theory, fluid mechanics, meteorology and engineering.
The college majors
that help prepare undergraduates for a career as a fighter pilot include
mathematics, physical science and engineering. But if one graduates from
high school without elementary training in math, it is not likely that he will
enroll in the college courses that would qualify him for fighter pilot
training.
At many predominantly black high schools, not
a single black student tests proficient in math and a very low percentage test
proficient in reading; however, these schools confer a diploma
that attests that the students can read, write and compute at a 12th-grade
level and these schools often boast that they have a 70% and higher graduation
rate.
They mislead students, their families and others by conferring
fraudulent diplomas.
What explains the fact that over 80% of professional
basketball players are black, as are about 70% of professional football
players? Only an idiot would chalk it up to diversity and inclusion.
Instead,
it is excellence that explains the disproportionate numbers.
Jewish
Americans, who are just 3% of our population, win over 35% of the Nobel prizes
in science that are awarded to Americans.
Again, it is excellence that
explains the disproportionality, not diversity and inclusion. As my stepfather
often told me, "To do well in this world, you have to come early and
stay late."
Walter E. Williams is a professor of
economics at George Mason University.
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Institutional Racism
By Walter E. Williams |
Townhall.com
Institutional racism and systemic racism are terms bandied about these days without much clarity.
Being 84 years of age, I have seen and lived through
what might be called institutional racism or systemic racism.
Both operate
under the assumption that one race is superior to another. It involves the
practice of treating a person or group of people differently based on their
race.
Negroes, as we proudly called ourselves back then, were denied entry to
hotels, restaurants and other establishments all over the nation, including the
north.
Certain jobs were entirely off-limits to Negroes. What school a child
attended was determined by his race. In motion pictures, Negroes were portrayed
as being unintelligent, such as the roles played by Stepin Fetchit and Mantan
Moreland in the Charlie Chan movies.
Fortunately, those aspects of racism are a
part of our history. By the way, Fetchit, whose real name was Lincoln Perry,
was the first black actor to become a millionaire, and he has a star on the
Hollywood Walk of Fame and, in 1976, the Hollywood chapter of the NAACP awarded
Perry a Special NAACP Image Award.
Despite the nation's great achievements in race
relations, there remains institutional racism, namely the widespread practice
of treating a person or group of people differently based on their race.
Most
institutional racism is practiced by the nation's institutions of higher
learning.
Eric Dreiband, an assistant attorney general in the Civil Rights
Division of the Department of Justice, recently wrote that Yale University
"grants substantial, and often determinative, preferences based on
race."
The four-page letter said, "Yale's race discrimination
imposes undue and unlawful penalties on racially-disfavored applicants,
including in particular Asian American and White applicants."
Yale University is by no means alone in the practice of
institutional racism. Last year, Asian students brought a discrimination
lawsuit against Harvard University and lost. The judge held that the plaintiffs
could not prove that the lower personal ratings assigned to Asian applicants
are the result of "animus" or ill-motivated racial hostility towards
Asian Americans by Harvard admissions officials.
However, no one offered an
explanation as to why Asian American applicants were deemed to have, on
average, poorer personal qualities than white applicants. An explanation may be
that Asian students party less, study more and get higher test scores than
white students.
In court filings, Students for Fair Admissions argued
that the University of North Carolina's admissions practices are
unconstitutional. Their brief stated: "UNC's use of race is the opposite
of individualized; UNC uses race mechanically to ensure the admission of the
vast majority of underrepresented minorities."
Edward Blum, president of
Students for Fair Admissions, said in a news release that the court filing
"exposes the startling magnitude of the University of North Carolina's
racial preferences."
Blum said that their filing contains statistical
evidence that shows that an Asian American male applicant from North Carolina
with a 25% chance of getting into UNC would see his acceptance probability
increase to about 67% if he were Latino and to more than 90% if he were African
American.
In 1996, California voters passed Proposition 209 (also
known as the California Civil Rights Initiative) that read: "The state
shall not discriminate against, or grant preferential treatment to, any
individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national
origin in the operation of public employment, public education, or public
contracting."
California legislators voted earlier this summer to put
the question to voters to repeal the state's ban on the use of race as a
criterion in the hiring, awarding public contracts and admissions to public
universities and restore the practice of institutional racism under the
euphemistic title "affirmative action."
When social justice warriors use the terms
"institutional racism" or "systemic racism," I suspect it
means that they cannot identify the actual person or entities engaged in the
practice. However, most of what might be called institutional or systemic
racism is practiced by the nation's institutions of higher learning. And it is
seen by many, particularly the intellectual elite, as a desirable form of
determining who gets what.
Walter E. Williams is a professor of
economics at George Mason University. To find out more about Walter E. Williams
and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit
the Creators Syndicate webpage at www.creators.com.
Tuesday, September 01, 2020
Pelosi used shuttered San Francisco hair salon for blow-out, owner calls it 'slap in the face'
EXCLUSIVE: House
Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited a San Francisco hair salon on Monday afternoon for a wash and
blow-out, despite local ordinances keeping salons closed amid the coronavirus
pandemic, Fox News had learned.
In security footage obtained by Fox News, and timestamped
Monday at 3:08 p.m. Pacific Time, the California
powerhouse is seen walking through eSalon in San Francisco with wet
hair, and without a mask over her mouth or nose.
The stylist doing her hair can be seen following her
wearing a black face mask.
Salons in San Francisco had been closed since
March and were only notified they could reopen on Sept. 1 for outdoor
hairstyling services only.
'I am sharing this because of what everyone
in my industry and my city ... is going through right now.'
— Salon owner Erica Kious
Salon owner Erica Kious, in a phone interview with Fox
News on Tuesday, shared details of Pelosi’s visit. Kious explained she has
independent stylists working for her who rent chairs in her salon.
“One of the stylists who rents a chair from me contacted
me Sunday night,” Kious said.
A screengrab of the text message she received from one of
her stylists, and obtained by Fox News, said: “I’ll be there at 2:45 tomorrow.
Pelosi assistant just messaged me to do her hair.”
Kious replied: “Pelosi?”
A text message from a hairstylist to Erica
Kious, salon owner, that he would open the salon to provide House Speaker Nancy
Pelosi services.
“I was like, are you kidding me right now? Do I let this
happen? What do I do?” Kious told Fox News, while noting that she "can’t
control” what her stylists do if they rent chairs from her, as “they’re not
paying” at this time.
Kious cast Pelosi’s visit as a double standard.
“It was a slap in the face that she went in, you know,
that she feels that she can just go and get her stuff done while no one else
can go in, and I can’t work,” Kious told Fox News, adding that she “can’t
believe” the speaker didn’t have a mask on. (From the footage, it appears Pelosi
had some kind of covering around her neck.)
“We’re supposed to look up to this woman, right?” Kious
said. “It is just disturbing.”
Asked for comment, Pelosi spokesman Drew Hammill
maintained that the speaker was following the rules as presented to her.
“The Speaker always wears a mask and complies with local
COVID requirements. This business offered for the Speaker to come in on Monday
and told her they were allowed by the city to have one customer at a time in
the business. The Speaker complied with the rules as presented to her by this
establishment,” he said.
But the owner pushed back.
Kious said Pelosi received a wash and a blow-dry, but
told Fox News that “you’re not supposed to blow dry hair” according to
coronavirus safety precautions for hair salons.
“We have been shut down for so long, not just me, but
most of the small businesses and I just can’t – it’s a feeling – a feeling of
being deflated, helpless and honestly beaten down,” Kious said.
“I have been fighting for six months for a business that
took me 12 years to build to reopen,” she explained. “I am a single mom, I have
two small children, and I have no income.”
She added: “The fact that they did this, and she came in,
it’s like a slap in the face.”
Kious told Fox News that she had expected to be able to
reopen her salon in July, and prepared her space in accordance with local
guidelines.
“There were rules and regulations to go by to safely
reopen, which I did, but I was still not allowed to open my business,” she
said, noting that she installed plexiglass partitions between sinks and seating
areas, and ensured that all salon chairs were six feet apart, along with proper
air circulation from open windows.
“They never let us open,” she said, while adding that she
is unable to reopen outside because her salon specializes in hair color, and
using chemicals outside is prohibited.
But Kious said she is not alone in the hardships she has
faced amid closures during the coronavirus pandemic.
“This is for everybody,” she said. “I am sharing this
because of what everyone in my industry, and my city, what every small business
is going through right now.”
Kious told Fox News that she was a recipient of a $12,000
Paycheck Protection Program loan, which was created to help small businesses
stay afloat amid the pandemic under the bipartisan CARES Act (which Pelosi
backed), but still is forced to shut down her salon for good within the next 30
to 60 days.
“No one can last anymore,” she said. “I have also lost 60
percent of my clientele because everyone is fleeing the city.”
Kious said that the area where her salon is located has
turned into “a third world country,” saying that “every other storefront is
completely vacant and shut down and boarded up.”
“And because of the shutdown, and the store closures,
we’ve lost people, my clients, and my employees, and that is due to the
politics in San Francisco,” she said, adding that the homeless population is
“everywhere” and “defecating” all over the city.
“It has gotten so extreme,” she said. “It is so night and
day from what it was a year ago, that everyone is fleeing.”
Brooke
Singman is a Politics Reporter for Fox News. Follow her on Twitter at @BrookeSingman.
Why Democrats must hide Biden from America
Democratic
presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden speaks about the
economy during an event Friday, June 5, 2020, in Dover, Del. - Photo by Susan Walsh / AP
"I mean you've got the first sort of mainstream
African American, who is articulate and bright, and clean and a nice-looking
guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man."
– Joe Biden, about Barack Obama
Dan Quayle graduated with honors from DePauw University
in Indiana with a degree in political science. While serving in the Indiana
National Guard, he earned a Juris Doctorate at the Indiana University School of
Law. After accomplished careers as an investigator for the Indiana attorney
general and an assistant to Gov. Edgar Whitcomb, Quayle was elected to the U.S.
House of Representatives in 1976. He was elevated to the Senate in 1981 where
he served until 1989.
While Dan Quayle had a noteworthy career in state
government, he stumbled on the national stage. As vice president for George H.
W. Bush, from 1989 to 1993, he was widely ridiculed by the media as a political
and intellectual lightweight due of his inability to articulate under pressure.
As a result of exploitation and ridicule by the media over his many gaffs,
after 1993 he vanished into obscurity.
When socialist Bernie Sanders became the new left folk
hero, Nancy Pelosi and her comrades knew if lefty Sanders was the victor,
selling him to hungry liberal voters would be tougher than peddling a fruitcake
at an-after Christmas sale.
“We must win this election for the entire world.”
– Nancy Pelosi
Pelosi called a conclave of the “anti-Bernie cardinals”
to choose anyone who could discredit Donald Trump’s success and replace him
with a leftist stooge who’d willingly force new socialism down the throats of
America. As they searched the archives of Sistine Chapel West, no roads led
them back to Rome. So they “canonized” a rejected Catholic, Joe Biden, by
default.
Although both Dan Quayle and Joe Biden share the same
reputation for their inopportune gaffs and miscues, their parallels stop there.
Dan Quayle was an honors student, a JD, with a proven history of ethical and
successful public service. When he failed to make the transition to national
office, after four years of fumbling through gaffs as a prime target for the
media, he called it quits.
Biden, on the other hand, is like the Energizer Bunny
that can no longer power a dime store flashlight. He doesn’t know when to quit.
Unlike Quayle, Biden was a terrible student yet claimed he was on the honor
role in law school. Yet he graduated in the bottom 10 percent of his class and
was caught plagiarizing and almost expelled. He asserts he was a college
professor but only gave three lectures in 2017.
“My dad use to say, always tell the truth or you will get
in trouble.”
– Joe Biden
A review of Biden’s political record illustrates his
checkered history, which borders on the criterion of dishonesty and unethical.
The Senate he entered in 1973 was a bastion of insider backslapping, by a
Democratic Party heavily influenced by segregationists mixed with Northern
liberals and many moderate Republicans. Biden, eager to advance his career,
allied with anyone and everyone who benefited him. And soon, senators on both
sides of the aisle referred to Biden as “any-way Joe.”
For decades, Biden has changed his position on major
issues more times than Barack Obama has said “change you can believe in.” He is
known for protecting the interests of corporate donors and hiding his personal
unethical affairs, such as in the Ukraine. This is the guy who spent four years
as chair of the Federal Foreign Relations Committee, and eight years as chair
of the Judiciary Committee.
Biden’s Senate voting record does not reflect the image
he’s peddling to minorities and millennials. For 40 years, Biden was a
chameleon. He authored the racially discriminatory 1994 imprisonment bill. Now
he favors defunding police departments and diverting the money to identity
group causes.
“I am comfortable defunding these departments and using
the money for racial justice.”
– Joe Biden
Biden supported NAFTA, Obama’s Asian Trans-Pacific
agreement and other trade deals but told labor unions he would oppose all trade
deals.
When questioned about his zealous support for Obamacare
and single-payer socialized medicine, he told this same group he never thought
that government run health care would work in America. And he now advocates for
more public options.
Biden criticized Donald Trump’s attempts to bring China
to their knees with a new trade deal. He said: “China is going to eat his
lunch? Come on, man, he can't even figure out how to deal with the fact they
have this great division between the China Sea and the mountains in the east –
I mean the west.” When Trump won the trade war, Biden retorted: “We need to get
much tougher with China.”
During the Democratic primary debates, Kamala Harris
challenged Biden for his longtime support of the Hyde Amendment, a law that
prohibits taxpayer funding of abortions. Biden said he always favored funding
abortion with or without Hyde. After the debate, Planned Parenthood said since
he “no longer supported Hyde” they would endorse him, which they did
unanimously one week later.
Biden avoids his decades-long record of race-baiting,
praise for segregationist senators, and role as the architect of mass incarceration
that disproportionately hurt Black Americans. In 1975, as a freshman senator,
Biden sponsored a bill to restrict the federal power of school desegregation
with busing. Biden wrote he did not wish to force busing on Delaware families.
Civil rights lawyer Jack Greenberg said, “Joe Biden heaved a brick right
through the window of school integration.”
Biden claimed busing would turn schools into racial
jungles. He also stated, “A rejection of the black awareness concept, where
black is beautiful, and black culture and identity must be studied.” Yet when
chosen as Obama’s running mate, he said the GOP would put black Americans “back
in chains.” Recently, he called Trump supporters’ sexist, racist bigots, and
said “Blacks who do not support him are not Black?” America will never know
which Joe Biden to vote for on Election Day?
Boxer Joe Louis said, “He can run, but he can't
hide," yet that’s what Biden does best. All the leftist propaganda in
America can’t hide Biden’s past. The left is running scared. If he is forced to
debate Trump, it will expose his ambiguous campaign promises as more hot air at
a local whistle-stop. Biden spent decades befriending segregationists, passing
laws to incarcerate minorities, and supported trade deals to export American jobs
to China. No wonder China said they support him!
Biden was the left’s booby prize. That’s why he is locked
in a cage until after the election and why they will not allow him to debate
President Trump. With his obvious cognitive impairment about his flip-flop
views on race, abortion, law enforcement, Obamacare, police, gaffs and lies to
defend, he could suffer an epic meltdown on national TV. Can the greatest
country on the face of the earth take a chance electing someone president whose
word is worth less than the Colombian peso?
“I’m trying to say without boring you, and you all look
dull as hell, I might add. The dullest audience I have ever spoken to. Just
sitting there, staring at me. Just pretend you like me!" (Joe Biden)
Contributing Columnist William Haupt III is a retired
professional journalist, author, and citizen legislator in California for over
40 years. He got his start working to approve California Proposition 13.
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