Joe Biden has been wrong on basically every foreign policy decision during his nearly 50 years in Washington D.C. When they finally took out Osama Bin Laden, there was only one person against that raid. Guess who it was? None other than Joe Biden. The tasks Biden handled as vice president are a morass of ineptitude, favoritism, and sleaze. In May of 2011 when Osama was finally killed, one person (Biden) said to Obama ““Mr. President, my suggestion is, don’t go.” So if Joe Biden were president, Osama, the mastermind of 9/11 would still be alive somewhere roaming the Middle-East.
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Joe Biden wants to run on Barack Obama’s record. Obama himself, speaking at the Democratic convention last month, glossed over Biden’s own record while reassuring listeners of Biden’s value as a wing man: “For eight years, Joe was the last one in the room whenever I faced a big decision.”
The single best moment of Obama’s presidency was the May 2011 raid into Pakistan that killed Usama bin Laden. It only happened because Obama ignored Joe Biden when he said, “Mr. President, my suggestion is, don’t go.”
Biden is all too aware that he got the biggest decision of the Obama presidency wrong, which is why he changed his story years later to claim that he had actually supported the raid. That history is important to remember as Biden seeks to become the next commander in chief.
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Biden has four main reasons for embracing Obama’s record rather than his own.
One, Obama won two national elections and remains popular with Democrats.
Two, the rest of Biden’s career is as a legislator, so his years as vice president are important to evaluating how he would handle an executive job.
Three, many of Biden’s own legislative stances are now sufficiently unpopular with Democratic activists that Biden has felt compelled to renounce
them.