Biden’s real embarrassment, not America
Taking a page from Barack Obama’s playbook, Joe Biden — ahead of his presidential announcement — goes to Europe and apologizes for America. Biden calls our country an “embarrassment” for separating families at the border crossing. Never mind that the Obama administration, in which Biden served as vice president, also ramped up deportations — sending millions of illegal immigrants back where they came from. Biden is actively trying to rewrite his legacy on immigration.
“The America I see values basic human decency, not snatching children from their parents or turning our back on refugees at our border. Americans know that’s not right,” the former vice president told the Munich Security Conference. “The American people understand plainly that this makes us an embarrassment. The American people know, overwhelmingly, that it is not right. That it is not who we are.”
Leading Democrats like House Speaker Nancy Pelosi once favored funding for building a wall along the southern border. Now these liberals call it “immoral.” Some who are running for president even want to dissolve ICE.
Biden should not get away with slamming the kinds of policies the Obama administration also practiced.
When the issue of kids getting taken from their parents at the border first started being reported last summer one image of two kids in a cage circulated on the internet. Turned out to be a photo taken in 2014 when Obama and Biden were in office.
Currently Biden’s polling is quite strong over his potential opponents. So maybe the Democratic candidates who are farther left of Biden — Elizabeth Warren, for example — might want to remind voters what happened when Biden was Obama’s sidekick.
The 76-year-old certainly sounded like he was running during his speech.
“I have spent the better part of the last two years traveling throughout the United States of America, from Minnesota to Texas; from Boston to Birmingham,” Biden said. “I can assure you, that the American people, the ultimate wellspring of power in the United States of America, remain committed to engaging the world with decency and respect.”
If other Democratic candidates want Biden out of the way, it’s in their power to sideline him. Of course, that will also involve showing their own hypocrisy in relentlessly attacking Donald Trump for things they were silent about when Obama and Biden did them.