What Are Joe Biden’s Fixed Principles?
A crisis reveals a president with little introspection and even less penetration into the world’s problems.
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What does Joe Biden believe? He is a rosary-carrying Catholic who is all right with abortion, allowing politics to swamp theology. Having run for president as the centrist candidate, he straightaway proposed a slate of wildly progressive programs. Does he really believe in the efficacy of these programs, or has he decided he would like to inscribe himself in history as the 21st century’s Franklin D. Roosevelt ? Can a man without discernible beliefs be counted on, say, to defend Israel or any other of America’s allies should the need arise? Who can say?
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The problem with a politician having no known beliefs is that it becomes difficult to believe him on nearly any subject apart from those touching on his own self-interest. This becomes especially so in the age of the speechwriter, when a politician is no longer the author of words for which he is held fully responsible. In his public appearances, Mr. Biden, who is properly chary of giving press conferences lest he lapse into one of his infamous gaffes, has come more to resemble the puppet in a ventriloquist’s act.