Compare Biden’s rhetoric to his record
To the Times:
By most accounts Joe Biden had an excellent presidential nomination acceptance speech. He was well rehearsed and read the teleprompter script confidently, with conviction, and emotion when appropriate.
With an apparent mental rejuvenation for the DNC show, it’s appropriate to look at the current Biden and try to reconcile it with the past versions. With that we can determine whether he can fulfill the role of a decisive, independent, “... American President...” who will “...represent all of us...” He has a very long, lackluster career as a politician; so we should be able to get a fix on the substance of the man. His core beliefs, guiding principles, and integrity.
Jobs, work for those displaced by the state governors’ and economic shutdowns were generally touched on by Joe. His awareness of the problem is doubly significant as we had haplessly watched our jobs and productive capacity be exported to China during his administration. Joe is aware of these threats and confidently downplayed them in May 2019 by saying, “... c’mon man...” ...they’re not competition for us...” Reassuring words? All the economic data and the CCP world wide Belt and Road Program shows the opposite. But Joe is an honorable man.
He assures us he will be a president for all the people. He claims his undefined economic plan will create 5 million new manufacturing and technology jobs. Are we confident that those new jobs and the restaffing of the jobs lost to the shutdowns will be for all the people not just for those unions who supported Joe with their member’s dues? Surely he includes all unemployed workers despite his outspoken support to push for elimination of the current Right to Work laws in 27 states - for Joe is an honorable man.
Joe moralized in his speech that our country is for “...not just the privileged few at the top.’’ That brings to mind Joe’s son Hunter and his directorship with Burisma Holdings, which is the largest Gas Company
in the Ukraine. With no qualifications Hunter got this $50,000.00 + per month job during his father’s term as vice president. (As an aside the median 2020 yearly income in the US is $45,000.00; so Hunter made more in a month than 50% of our population makes in a year). VP Biden was assigned by President Obama to calm the political unrest and allay the rampant corruption in a country that gained it’s independence from Russia in 1991. When questioned about possible influence peddling and conflicts of interest, Joe wily responds, “I don’t know what he (Hunter) was doing, I know he was on the board.” Really, we’re to believe that? The man was charged with the oversight of the stability of a country bordering Russia - but Joe is an honorable man.
How about Hunter’s deal with the powerful Bank of China? After his trip to China with his VP dad on Air Force 2, Rosemont Seneca, the firm in which Hunter held a 10% equity share received a commitment from the bank purported to be $1 billion - the exact amount is unclear. Why is that? Privilege? Established Wall Street Investment Banks have difficulty