A Shining Moment?
Last night former Vice President Joe Biden gave his acceptance speech as the Presidential nominee of the Democrat party. The media went wild, comparing it, in some cases to Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream speech” or Ronald Reagan’s “Tear down this wall, Mr. Gorbachev!” message. It was hardly that memorable upon closer inspection. The message was not uplifting, but a well-read dark and divisive one.
According to Joe, this is a nation that is systemically racist and yet twice elected a black man as President. He brought up the Charlottesville clashes over Confederate statues of three years ago as he played, “pin the racist title on President Trump”. Joe focused on the end of the President’s statement where he said there were “very fine people, on both sides.” Naturally he ignored the beginning of his statement when Trump said, “You had a group on one side that was bad and you had a group on the other side that was also very violent and nobody wants to say that but I’ll say it right now, that there were very fine people, on both sides.” That is hardly a “racist” statement but stating the obvious that the passionate positions held by the opposing sides were held by fine people. Sure, Biden condemned the violence in Charlottesville yet not one word about the chaos in our cities today…maybe because all these municipalities are run by progressive liberal Democrats.
So, he continued to wax on about the horrors of our country…that these are our darkest times, we need to find the light. It makes one wonder why anyone would want to live here. Then, out of nowhere he said “This is a great nation. We’re a good and decent people.” If we’re good and decent people, then how can he state how awful it is. You’d think that when Obama was President, and Joe was Vice President, they might have been able to fix all these terrible systemic problems America apparently has, that have accelerated under the Trump Administration.
Joe and Barrack tell us our democracy is under threat if Trump is re-elected. Huh? What undercuts our democracy is not having a peaceful transition of power, because one party is conducting a surveillance operation on the other. Every day, as the facts about the 2016 transition shenanigans come out, it becomes increasingly evident that Obama and Biden were not as pure as wind driven snow.
You can tell the heat is on Obama and his Administration, because no former President has ever attacked his incumbent successor at a convention like Obama did. He hardly mentioned Joe in his remarks, as he aimed his 15 minutes of venomous and disparaging remarks exclusively at Trump. One would think he’d want to build up is brother Joe, right? Nope.
The convention was a national embarrassment because it was a nonstop grievance fest. The majority of speakers beat up the country, over and over again. We heard about racism, sexism, bigotry, xenophobia, et al, ad nauseum. No love of country was expressed. No gratitude for the opportunity to live in a nation that millions are constantly trying to enter, any way they can, legally or otherwise.
There was no real problem solving offered by any speaker. Although to combat the pandemic, Biden will put in place a national mask mandate, if elected, in January. Was that his shining moment?
It’s doubtful that the Republican confab next week will be a gloom and doom get together You can bet the farm on that.
