"The Devil can cite Scripture for his purpose." Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
September 30, 2020
By: Linda Case Gibbons, Esq.
People thought Mozart was a bit of an idiot. Even so, he was feted by princes and kings alike. His idiotic behavior didn't seem to bother them at all.
Same goes for Joe Biden.
The difference is that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a man of prodigious accomplishments. He produced 20 operas, 18 Masses, 27 piano concertos, 23 string quartets, 35 sonatas and 42 symphonies before he died, at five minutes to 1 on Dec. 5, 1791.
Joe lived twice as long as this prodigy, but cannot point to anything significant he accomplished during two vice presidencies, two failed presidential runs and as a U.S. senator.
That's difficult to achieve.
Nowadays people think anyone can be president. And it's true. You can. All you need is to be 35 years of age, a natural born citizen, and a resident for 14 years.
That's it.
It's why rapper Kanye West is running for president, and why Beto O'Rourke said he was "born to be president."
People think the job's a cinch. But remember, that qualification was written into the Constitution when guys like Thomas Jefferson and John Adams were kicking around Constitutional Hall. Men of exceptional intelligence and ability.
Bringing some of that to the presidential table couldn't hurt. But Joe doesn't have any of that to bring. He's in the Adam Schiff/Jerry Nadler class.
"I think he has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades."
That's what former Defense Secretary Robert Gates had to say about Joe in his book, "Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary of War."
Gates served under presidents Nixon through Obama, with the exception of Bill Clinton, so you could say he has a handle on what's what.
It's not that Joe has no accomplishments. It's the type of accomplishments he has. In a sense, he is a role model. But it's the type of roles he's modeling.
If you watched the savaging of Justice Brett Kavanaugh, you can credit Joe with that.
Back in the day, Biden was head of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and presided over the Robert Bork Supreme Court Confirmation Hearing.
He turned the hearing into a bloody ideological battle, and this became the prototype when dealing with Conservative nominees from that day forward.
Judge Robert Bork was considered to be one of the leading scholars in the country, but Joe didn't think Bork's "Original Intent" Constitutional philosophy was appropriate, and so he attacked and humiliated him.
Bork wasn't confirmed, but Justice Thomas Clarence Thomas was, even though Biden used the same tactics on him.
"It is a national disgrace," Thomas said to Chairman Joe Biden and the rest of the committee.
"And from my standpoint, as a black American, as far as I'm concerned, it's a high tech lynching for uppity blacks, who in any way deign to think for themselves, to do for themselves, to have different opinions.
"It is a message that unless you kowtow to an old order, this is what will happen to you. You will be lynched, destroyed and caricatured, by a committee of the U.S. Senate, rather than hung from a tree."
You can see those hearings on YouTube. Watch Joe Biden's face during these hearings. It's nasty.
It's the same face you saw when Joe called Trump "a clown," and told him to shut up during the Presidential Debate last night.
The face when he called a student a "dog faced pony soldier," and a rally attendee "fat," "too old to vote for me," and "a liar" when the man asked about Hunter.
It's the face you'll see anytime someone asks him about Hunter's Millions.
This is the man who calls himself a friend of black Americans, and a standard bearer for the working fella'.
But these claims, like Joe's attendance at the historically black University of Delaware, and graduating at the top of his class, are just another of his lies.
Joe hasn't changed. He's just gotten older.
He still considers his "defeat" of Bork as one of the most outstanding moments of his career. And he's right. It is one of his best accomplishments.
That's why he's called "The Father of Borking." Why "borking" has found a place in Webster's dictionary. And why Democrats in the U.S. Senate are currently, childishly refusing to meet with Supreme Court nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett.
You can thank Joe for being the role model for that.
Hold the line, America.
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Stay strong, Patriots.
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