I watched the speech last night and I wondered why Joe went on and on about his family but why he didn’t mention his Dad? That is a true thought that came to mind during his speech. His Mom was cute … she obviously loved her son and was enjoying the moment. If he mentioned his Dad I don’t remember it.
I felt sympathy and shades of empathy for Senator Biden during his speech when he was talking about his home life and the tragedy of the early death of his first wife. His son was amazingly moving when recounting his memories of his Dad during that time. However, there has always been something about Biden that just hit me as a little fake. I am not sure I quite believe everything else he is saying.
Now … Ann is … well … Ann. She really tears into him regarding the allegations of plagiarism against him. Here she is on a part of his family life he didn’t share. The quote and more thoughts after the jump.
… According to Vice Plagiarist Biden’s own autobiography, his father was to the manor born. Biden’s grandfather was an executive with the American Oil Co., and his father had all the advantages in life. “My dad,” Biden writes in “Promises to Keep,” “grew up well polished by gentlemanly pursuits. He would ride to the hounds, drive fast, fly airplanes. He knew good clothes, fine horses, the newest dance steps.”
But, in the blunt language of the Vanity Fair election blog, “he pissed away his fortune and Joe and his siblings grew up in a decidedly, and proudly, working-class Catholic home.”
So why was Biden concluding his Kinnock-”inspired” speech with clenched fist, claiming that his family “didn’t have a platform upon which to stand.” The executive offices at the American Oil Co. sound like a pretty good platform.
The problem wasn’t that Biden’s father didn’t have a platform, but that he fell off the platform …
Of course, in the whole article, Ann goes well beyond the line of what is appropriate but she does point out some serious things to consider. Now, Obama and Biden are accused of plagiarism. She does point out that the context of Biden’s history isn’t not fully and fairly represented.
But then, even if he did share all that about his irresponsible and once rich father … would it really change the story of his home environment that much? Not really. What it could do is take some of the steam out of his vision casting for public policy pushes he believes in. That’s something to consider … what do you think?
This is why I will read Ann from time to time. She brings up facts that tend to get buried in the fluster and can cause one to pause and consider. Sometimes, she’s just mean and inappropriate but other times she says things that really do deserve consideration. Is what she shares in the above article just partisan meanness or appropriate or both?
Sidenote: As a man who has a very irresponsible biological father, I feel empathy on that level for Biden regardless of how he deals or doesn’t deal with it.
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