Joe Biden practices his own kind of political identity politics. The dishonest kind.
Matt Viser, a liberal partisan who writes for the Washington Post, acknowledges Biden’s dishonesty on the subject. He tries to give it an innocuous spin, but Biden’s record — which parallels his dishonesty about other aspects of his biography — speaks for itself.
Biden might have learned to be more truthful when a lie he told during his 1988 presidential campaign backfired. In that instance, Biden claimed that his coal-mining Welsh ancestors spent hours underground and then came up to play football. This story turned out to be lifted from Neil Kinnock, a British politician. Biden claimed he meant to credit Kinnock, but no one believed him and he soon quit the race.
Unfortunately, Biden didn’t learn from this experience. As Viser puts it:
President Biden, to hear him tell it, is as Greek as Poseidon. He was brought up by both the Puerto Rican community and the Black community. And he’s more Jewish than the Jews.
[Or, as I like to put it, Joe Biden is twenty pounds of bulls**t in a ten-pound bag, in all matters — Ed]
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