Joe Biden: ‘Well-Meaning’?

“A sympathetic, well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory”

Special counsel Robert Hur recommended against criminal prosecution of Joe Biden for his handling of classified documents and information. Mr. Hur said that in court Mr. Biden “. . . would likely present himself to a jury, as he did during our interview with him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory.” Mr. Hur concluded that a jury of normal Americans would likely decline to convict that “well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory.”

I note that the special counsel was saying that “well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory” was the image his lawyers would present in court. Not necessarily the reality. But, the special counsel proceeded to present in his report considerable evidence that the “poor memory” part of that image is probably an accurate reality. Evidence that has been commented on extensively.

But as far as I can tell, none for the “well meaning” part of the anticipated image. I posit that behind Joe Biden’s long-standing image as a kind well-meaning if occasionally misguided man is actually a Joe Biden who is fundamentally evil.

Many of us remember the decades in which then-Senator Biden was presented as “lunch bucket Joe from Scranton.” More recently the presented image has been shifted to kindly old man and occasionally "elder statesman." But in the last several years we seem to be glimpsing more of the underlying Joe Biden behind the images.

I do not like to describe people as “evil.” I go for a long time, and try very hard, to think that when people advocate for actions or policies that are evil, or do or say things that are evil, they are simply temporarily misguided or do not fully understand what they are advocating. Just because a person on occasion promotes a particular evil act or evil policy does not mean that the person evil in essence.

On occasion over the years we have gotten snippets of evidence that something different was behind the image of friendly or kindly lunch bucket Joe: His repeated lie about how his first wife was killed, to the detriment of the other driver in the car crash or his abuse of Clarence Thomas in Senate hearings. But those glimpses were rare. So I continued to think of Joe Biden as the occasionally misguided but basically decent person (even if he was always wrong on foreign policy). As we see more of what appears to be the base Joe Biden in the last five or so years, it is harder to ascribe Joe Biden’s increasingly frequent calls for death, violence, hatred, and division as merely occasionally misguided ideas or thoughts. It seems increasingly probable that death, violence, hatred, and division represent the true Joe Biden.

The real eye opener for me (and I suspect many others) was the hate-filled, divisive red and black Philadelphia speech in September 2022. That speech caused me to go back and rethink Joe Biden’s previous actions and speech. Previous actions and speech that at the time I had thought wrong, but not indicative of a fundamental problem. But in hindsight look more like the product of a fundamentally bad character. And many of Joe Biden’s speeches since September 2022 (especially those that seem to be his words and not the words of a speechwriter) point to a fundamental problem in Joe Biden’s character. Death, violence, hate and division are constant themes.

Biden routinely demonizes about half the American public, and either demeans or expresses hatred toward people who disagree with his policies. He expresses indifference to tens of thousands of deaths due to drug trafficking that he facilitates. He seems unconcerned about deaths and abuses of people he encourages to undertake dangerous treks to enter the United States illegally. He is dismissive toward evidence of slave trafficking that comes as part of the flow of people he encourages to enter the United States illegally. He is unconcerned about violent crime committed by the millions of people he encourages to enter the United States illegally. He prioritizes the interests of people who have broken the law over people who follow the law. He doesn’t seem bothered that three substantial wars have started since he became president (Russia v. Ukraine; Iran (proxy Hamas) v. Israel; Iran (proxy Houthis) v. U.S. (proxy international commercial shipping)).

Joe Biden has declared killing (abortion) to be a top priority for reelecting a Biden administration. The Democratic party (of which he is the presumptive figurehead) has declared killing (abortion) as its top election agenda priority. [Even if you think abortion may be justified in some circumstances, it is fact that abortion is killing a living thing that has human DNA different from its mother.] I find it interesting that the Democratic party, constantly trying to claim the mantle of compassion and love, puts literal killing at the top of its priorities. But that’s a topic for a different thread.

The “well-meaning” image brought back up something a Trump-hating friend of mine said a couple of months ago. He expressed his view that Trump was an evil man while Biden was benign, if selfish and sometimes wrong. I thought he had that backwards.

The point is that Biden so favors evil that I can only conclude he is a fundamentally evil man. Any indication that Joe Biden is “well-meaning” is no more than a façade. “Elderly man with a poor memory” seems to be an accurate descriptor of reality. “Well-meaning” is not.