Joe Bidens disastrous legacy of crime at home and war abroad on full display in his final UN speech
In 1980, The Boston Globe put a place-holding headline on an editorial about a speech by President Jimmy Carter. “Mush from the wimp,” the headline read — and it appeared in more than 150,000 copies of the paper before editors caught their error and removed it. I thought about that headline as I watched Joe Biden’s UN speech Tuesday.The similarities go far beyond another mushy speech from another wimpy president. Biden now rivals Carter as the worst American president of the modern era — and maybe of all time. Both men were one-term Democrats felled by inflation and disorder at home.
On the global stage, they pursued policies that too often treated American power as a problem rather than a solution, and were rewarded with mayhem and murderous aggression. There are differences, too, with Carter constrained by his faith-based moral imperatives, while Biden’s family got rich by selling his name to foreigners, some of them adversaries. But the bottom line is that both were shown the door because most Americans had lost confidence in their ability to lead the nation safely forward. Only the details differ. To judge by his UN speech, Biden has not yet come to grips with reality.He dishonestly suggests he voluntarily passed the party’s torch to his vice president, declaring that “Some things are more important than staying in power.” That was one of several passages designed to weave a positive legacy out of thin air and rampant failure. No sale.
The nation and the world are in far worse shape now than when Biden took office and had he stayed in the race, he would have lost to Donald Trump in a landslide. Americans are generous and patient, but not stupid. Indeed, the widespread belief that we are now closer than ever to World War III captures the truth of Biden’s disastrous term.Rarely if ever have things gotten so bad, so fast. As part of his sleight of hand, he used his UN speech to paint himself as an optimist, and cited the end of o...