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Joe Biden early life and career (view source)
Revision as of 23:09, November 7, 2020
, 23:09, November 7, 2020→2012 Vice presidential campaign
===2012 Vice presidential campaign===
===2012 Vice presidential campaign===
Biden got a pass from fellow [[liberal]]s in the media despite acting like a rude clown during his vice presidential debate with [[Paul Ryan]] in October 2012. Biden repeatedly interrupted Ryan and engaged in other offensive behavior, and even complained about not getting more time despite talking more than Ryan did. At one point Biden even nonsensically interjected, "so now you're Jack Kennedy?" in interrupting a valid point being made by Ryan.
Biden got a pass from fellow [[liberal]]s in the media despite acting like a rude clown during his vice presidential debate with [[Paul Ryan]] in October 2012. Biden repeatedly interrupted Ryan and engaged in other offensive behavior, and even complained about not getting more time despite talking more than Ryan did. At one point Biden even nonsensically interjected, "so now you're Jack Kennedy?" in interrupting a valid point being made by Ryan.
==1973–2009: U.S. Senate==
[[Image:Biden_on_Meet_the_Press.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Biden on Meet The Press, 09/09/07]]
The Council for a Livable World (CLW), a [[communist front]] organization founded in 1962 by long-time Soviet agent [[Leo Szilard]], is a non-profit advocacy organization that seeks to "reduce the danger of nuclear weapons and increase national security", primarily through supporting progressive, congressional candidates who support their policies. The Council supported [[Joe Biden]] in 1972 in his successful Senate run as candidate for Delaware.<ref name=since1962>[http://www.livableworld.org/what/legacy_in_congress_who_weve_helped_elect/ CLW website: Who We've Helped Elect]</ref><ref>[http://livableworld.org/elections/2012/candidates/senate/mheinrich/, CLW bio, accessed July 2008]</ref><ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEkfSiYY3FA</ref>
Biden unseated the liberal Republican Senator [[Cale Boggs]] in the 1972 elections. In 1973, he hence became the fifth-youngest U.S. senator in U.S. history. He was later reelected six times.
Biden, as a senator from [[Delaware]] from 1973–2009, served on the Senate Judiciary Committee and subsequently the Committee on Foreign Relations, alternating as the chair or ranking member on both committees. Biden in 2007 was ranked as the third most liberal Senator by the non-partisan ''National Journal''.<ref>[http://www.nationaljournal.com/conventions/co_20080823_9669.php Biden's Senate Vote Record], ''National Journal''</ref>
Biden has close ties with lobbyists, receiving $5,133,072 in contributions from [[lawyer]]s and [[lobbyist]]s since 2003.<ref>[https://www.politico.com/news/stories/0808/12735.html Statesman known for slips of his tongue], [[Politico]]</ref> Biden requested 116 congressional [[earmark]]s in 2008 alone, resulting in $342 million in taxpayer money.<ref>[https://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/23/biden.earmarks/?iref=hpmostpop Biden, Obama helped keep 'Bridge to Nowhere' alive], [[CNN]]</ref>
During a late-night marathon debate over President George W. Bush's tax cut bill, 98-year-old Sen. [[Strom Thurmond]] began ailing. Biden told the ''New York Daily News'' "I saw Strom sitting in his seat, he looked awful. I said, 'Strom, you should go home'. He's an old buddy."<ref>https://www.nydailynews.com/archives/news/storm-concern-strom-article-1.901327</ref>
Biden was for the Iraq War before he was against it.
On June 6, 2012, the Council for a Livable World, along with its sister organizations Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation and Council for a Livable World's PeacePAC, celebrated the 50th Anniversary of their founding. An evening celebration was held at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. Congressman [[Barney Frank]] acted as the Master of Ceremonies and, in the process, received a lifetime achievement award from former Rep. Tom Downey, a member of the Council's Board of Directors. The Robert F. Drinan Peace and Human Award was presented to former Representative and PeacePAC Chairman David Bonior and the late Edith Wilkie, a longtime advocate and leader for peace and justice.
Videos were shown in which Vice President Joe Biden and Massachusetts Senate candidate [[Elizabeth Warren]] celebrated the organization's 50 years although they were not able to attend in person.<ref>[http://armscontrolcenter.org/issues/recent/council_center_50th_anniversary/, Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation website. Council for a Livable World 50th Anniversary Celebration]</ref>
===Abortion===
On the [[abortion issue]], Biden is [[pro-abortion]] and opposed President [[George W. Bush]]'s two nominees to the U.S. [[Supreme court]]. On ''[[Roe v. Wade]]'' he said, "I strongly support Roe v. Wade....That’s why I led the fight to defeat [Robert] Bork. Thank [[God]] he is not in the Court or Roe v. Wade would be gone by now."<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20130312002759/http://nrlc.org/Election2008/comparison0909084c.pdf Where Do the Candidates Stand on Abortion?], [[National Right to Life Committee]]</ref> He received a 100% rating from [[NARAL Pro-Choice America]] in 2001, 2004, 2005 and 2006,<ref>http://www.votesmart.org/issue_rating_category.php?can_id=53279</ref> but not in other years because of his opposition to [[partial-birth abortion]] and public funding for abortions.<ref>http://www.ontheissues.org/Social/Joe_Biden_Abortion.htm</ref>
===2nd Amendment===
He is a strong opponent of 2nd-amendment rights, earning an F by the [[National Rifle Association]]. Biden has also voted to give [[Social Security]] benefits and citizenship to [[illegal aliens]]. On energy, he opposes increased domestic oil production, saying proponents of offshore drilling want to "rape" the Outer Continental Shelf.<ref>http://www.votesmart.org/speech_detail.php?sc_id=400058</ref>
===Judiciary committee===
Biden was a long-time member of the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, which he chaired from 1987 until 1995 and served as ranking minority member from 1981 until 1987 and again from 1995 until 1997. Biden read the "N" word into the Congressional Record during an open hearing in 1986.<ref>https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/10/exclusive-newly-uncovered-transcripts-reveal-joe-biden-said-n-word-public-senate-hearing-1986/</ref> He almost never supported a supreme court nominee who was not in his party and presided over two of the more contentious [[U.S. Supreme Court]] confirmation hearings ever, [[Robert Bork]] in 1987 and the [[racism|racially motivated]] hearings for [[Clarence Thomas]]<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egTyaIAaqz8 Clarence Thomas High-Tech Lynching]</ref> in 1991.
Sen. [[Arlen Specter]], who jumped to the Democrats in 2009, wrote in his memoirs that Biden admitted to him that Biden believed Anita Hill was lying.
===Biden crime bill===
The [[Biden Crime Bill of 1994]], also known as the Superpredator Act, came in response to the Central Park jogger case and trial of the Central Park Five. On its twentieth anniversary the Brennan Center observed, {{quotebox|It expanded the death penalty, creating 60 new death penalty offenses under 41 federal capital statutes. It eliminated education funding for incarcerated students, effectively gutting prison education programs. Despite a wealth of research showing education increases post-release employment, reduces recidivism, and improves outcomes for the formerly incarcerated and their families, this change has not been reversed.
And the bill created a wave of change toward harsher state sentencing policy. That change was driven by funding incentives: the bill’s $9.7 billion in federal funding for prison construction went only to states that adopted truth-in-sentencing (TIS) laws, which lead to defendants serving far longer prison terms. Within 5 years, 29 states had TIS laws on the books, 24 more than when the bill was signed. New York State received over $216 million by passing such laws. By 2000 the state had added over 12,000 prison beds and incarcerated 28 percent more people than a decade before.}}
===War on sovereignty===
:{{Main article|War on sovereignty}}
In 1992, Joe Biden penned a piece for the ''[[Wall Street Journal]]'' entitled, "''How I Learned to Love the New World Order''," in which he extolled "collective security" through the [[United Nations]] and called for a “permanent commitment of forces for use by the Security Council.”
On July 14, 1993, a little over a year after writing the Journal op-ed cited above, Senator Biden introduced Senate Joint Resolution 112 urging the new president, [[Bill Clinton]], to initiate discussions to establish a standing United Nations army. Under his proposal, United States bases and facilities would be made available to train UN forces, and the president would not “be deemed to require the authorization of Congress” to make American troops, facilities, or other assistance “available to the [[Security Council]] on its call.”
He also called for the creation of a “[[new world order]]” at the Export-Import Bank conference in Washington on April 5, 2013. “The affirmative task we have now is to actually create a new world order,” he exclaimed.
===Foreign Relations Comittee===
As chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Biden voted against aid to the government of [[South Vietnam]] leading to its collapse in 1975.
He called the rise of the [[Ayatollah Khomeini]] in the [[Iranian Revolution]] in 1979 a step forward for [[human rights]].
Biden opposed [[Ronald Reagan]]'s development of the [[missile defense system|Missile Defense System]] and ending the doctrine of [[Mutual Assured Destruction]].
He voted against the [[Persian Gulf War]] in 1991.
Biden voted for the [[Iraq War]] in 2002. In a 2005 interview with ''Meet the Press'', Biden advocated a troop surge saying, "I’ve been calling for more troops [in Iraq] for over two years, along with [[John McCain]] and others subsequent to my saying that." On July 23, 2007, Biden said, "there's not a single [[military]] man in this [[audience]], who will tell this Senator he can get those troops out in six months if the order goes today, let's start telling the truth."<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wylferBh3IA</ref> He advocated Iraqi [[federal]]ism based on [[nation]]al and [[religious]] differences for [[Kurd]]s, [[Shiite]]s and [[Sunni]]s.
Biden's vote for the Iraq War is expected to hurt him in the [[United States presidential election, 2020|2020 Presidential Election]], as [[Donald Trump]] opposed that war and used this issue effectively in 2016 against [[Hillary Clinton]] among [[millennial]] voters and regions which have suffered more from military casualties.<ref>https://truthout.org/articles/would-joe-biden-like-hillary-clinton-lose-to-donald-trump-over-the-iraq-war/</ref>
Biden’s membership came at a critical time for China, when it applied to join the [[World Trade Organization]] (WTO). Membership would enable China to trade more freely with the rest of the world to boost its economic development. It would also enable China’s wealthy politicians and politically connected elite to prosper and profit from the trade boom, money which they would later want to invest overseas.
During China’s application, Biden supported free-trade legislation that helped China join the WTO. In 2001, when China was admitted, Biden became committee chairman, now holding a position of significant global influence in which he should strive to act in the US national interest. At a minimum, the SFRC chairman should be free of foreign interference.
In his early days as chairman, Biden was described as a policy hawk. Prior to China joining the WTO, he argued that “...if China continues to behave as a rogue elephant on weapons proliferation, we should be prepared to retaliate with a clear and unequivocal message...denying China most-favored nation trade status.” During the Clinton presidency, the scandal on Chinese access for donations were termed “serious stuff” and should be reviewed for any “correlation of quid pro quo”.
In August 2001, Biden visited China for state-level talks with then CPC Chairman [[Jiang Zemin]] (江泽民), where Biden was tough with China on issues such as weapons proliferation, its judicial system, and human rights record. But as the 2000s progressed, Biden became gradually more accommodating of China’s rise. In 2004, he was pictured meeting the Chinese Ambassador to the US at the time, Yang Jiechi.