{"id":307741,"date":"2021-07-25T03:45:45","date_gmt":"2021-07-25T00:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/joe-bidens-unity-vow-left-behind-goodwin\/"},"modified":"2021-07-25T03:45:45","modified_gmt":"2021-07-25T00:45:45","slug":"joe-bidens-unity-vow-left-behind-goodwin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/joe-bidens-unity-vow-left-behind-goodwin\/","title":{"rendered":"#Joe Biden&#8217;s unity vow \u2018left\u2019 behind: Goodwin"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a25543c7d517\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a25543c7d517\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/joe-bidens-unity-vow-left-behind-goodwin\/#Blas_stick-y_stance\" >Blas\u2019 stick-y stance\u00a0<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/joe-bidens-unity-vow-left-behind-goodwin\/#A_%E2%80%98Bible_thumper\" >A \u2018Bible\u2019\u00a0thumper<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#Joe Biden&#8217;s unity vow \u2018left\u2019 behind: Goodwin<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>With all the bucks stopping on their desks, American presidents don\u2019t often get to choose what problems to face. One exception is the inaugural address, where the slate is clean and they have an uncluttered chance to define themselves and how they want to be measured.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Joe Biden\u2019s inaugural speech was pedestrian at best, but its enduring virtue is that the new president left little doubt about his main focus. His presidency, he pledged repeatedly, would be devoted to healing a fractured nation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Speaking while the pandemic still raged and two weeks after the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, he used variations of the words \u201cunity\u201d and \u201ctogether\u201d more than a dozen times, as when he declared: \u201cToday, on this January day, my whole soul is in this: Bringing America together. Uniting our people. And uniting our nation.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After citing earlier national crises, from the Civil War to 9\/11, Biden described how he would lead the nation to a better place.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHistory, faith, and reason show the way of unity,\u201d he said. \u201cWe can see each other not as adversaries but as neighbors. We can treat each other with dignity and respect. We can join forces, stop the shouting, and lower the temperature. For without unity, there is no peace, only bitterness and fury.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Excellent ideas. Too bad he hasn\u2019t practiced what he preached. Or even tried.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Biden has pursued radical policies and a race-driven agenda that are by definition divisive, leading to doubts about whether there was an ounce of sincerity in his January 20th address.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The evidence that he never gave national healing a chance is inescapable. It begins with the massively expensive, far-left bills his party introduced in Congress and includes the threats to kill the Senate filibuster and expand the Supreme Court unless Republicans say yes to everything.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He is reversing nearly every policy of his predecessor, at home and abroad, even when they were successful. One result is the historic surge of illegal immigration at the southern border.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Another is the incomprehensible decision to woo Iran back to the nuclear deal, complete with the promise to lift sanctions without gaining anything. And Biden\u2019s decision to drop all objections to Russia\u2019s Nord Stream 2 pipeline makes him look like Vladimir Putin\u2019s puppet.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In each case, there was no discussion, no debate, no attempt to unite the nation behind him.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" alt=\"President Joe Biden interacts with members of the audience during a commercial break for a CNN town hall at Mount St. Joseph University in Cincinnati.\" class=\"wp-image-18914621 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/biden-unity-2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=300 300w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/biden-unity-2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=640 640w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/biden-unity-2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/biden-unity-2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/biden-unity-2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2000 2000w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>President Joe Biden interacts with members of the audience during a commercial break at his widely panned CNN town hall in Cincinnati earlier this week.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Andrew Harnik\/AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The only saving grace in this madness is that Democrats can\u2019t get all 50 of their senators to agree on the most sweeping legislative measures, including ending the filibuster and making DC a state, so much of the White House agenda is stalled.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But not because Biden led by example and tried to bring the nation together. Far from it. In a party bursting with flamethrowers, the president stands out for the harshness of his rhetoric.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He brazenly and repeatedly lies about the efforts in numerous states to reform voting laws. His claim that the demand for voter ID in Georgia and other states is the new Jim Crow is preposterous and proves he prefers fearmongering to facts.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The whole notion that the legal changes are forms of voter suppression is belied by the fact that many blue states, including Biden\u2019s home state of Delaware, have tighter rules than those he denounces elsewhere.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" alt=\"MLB moved its All-Star Game from Atlanta to Denver, citing Georgia's election laws.\" class=\"wp-image-18914634 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/biden-unity-3.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=300 300w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/biden-unity-3.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=640 640w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/biden-unity-3.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/biden-unity-3.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/biden-unity-3.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2000 2000w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>The MLB moved its All-Star <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Game<\/a> from Atlanta to Denver, citing Georgia\u2019s election laws.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">John Amis, File\/AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The damage went beyond words when he urged Major League Baseball to pull its All-Star Game from Atlanta. For a president to encourage a boycott of an American city over a dispute with that state\u2019s elected officials is rare \u2014 and outrageous.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The gambit was a destructive stunt that hurt Atlanta businesses, many of them black-owned, and painted Biden as willing to throw gasoline on the racial fires.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He did it again in his July 13 speech in Philadelphia, where he foolishly insisted the new voting laws are \u201cthe most significant test of our democracy since the Civil War.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>President Unity also attacked Republicans for not supporting Dems\u2019 effort to pass a one-size-fits-all voting bill in Washington, asking \u201cHave you no shame?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At this point, it is impossible to see such language as anything other than an intentional attempt to further divide the nation. It exposes the president as a hypocrite and reveals the desperation of his party.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" alt=\"President Joe Biden delivers a speech on voting rights at the National Constitution Center, Tuesday, July 13, 2021.\" class=\"wp-image-18914642 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/biden-unity-4.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=300 300w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/biden-unity-4.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=640 640w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/biden-unity-4.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/biden-unity-4.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/biden-unity-4.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2000 2000w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>President Joe Biden delivers a speech on voting rights at the National Constitution Center on July 13, 2021.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Evan Vucci\/AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Following the gains Donald Trump and Republicans made among black voters and, even more so, Latinos in 2020, Dems are acting as if their survival depends on racializing everything before next year\u2019s midterms.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They are doing it with a whole-of-government <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>roach that uses federal agencies for political purposes. The Justice Department sued Georgia over its voting law, the Pentagon is indoctrinating soldiers with Black Lives Matter theories, the Department of Agriculture offered special aid only to black farmers and the Department of Education supports teaching critical race theory in public schools.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If that weren\u2019t bad enough, Secretary of State Antony Blinken invited the bastion of hypocrisy and anti-Semitism, the United Nations, to investigate and lecture America on racial matters.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>All these events and others make it feel as if the inaugural address was given by another president in another era.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Consider some of the other things Biden said back in January: \u201cI will be a president for all Americans. I will fight as hard for those who did not support me as for those who did.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" alt=\"President Biden called for unity at the outset of his presidency. Michael Goodwin wants to know if that message will ever come to fruition.\" class=\"wp-image-18914648 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/biden-5.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=300 300w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/biden-5.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=640 640w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/biden-5.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/biden-5.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/biden-5.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2000 2000w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>President Biden called for unity at the outset of his presidency. Michael Goodwin wants to know if that message will ever come to fruition.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Susan Walsh\/AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>And this: \u201cWe must end this uncivil war that pits red against blue, rural versus urban, conservative versus liberal. We can do this if we open our souls instead of hardening our hearts, if we show a little tolerance and humility.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Where is that guy?\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Blas_stick-y_stance\"><\/span>Blas\u2019 stick-y stance\u00a0<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Mayor de Blasio\u2019s getting big time attention for calling on private businesses to require their workers to get COVID vaccines before they return to work. It would have more impact if de Blasio had taken his own medicine and required the city\u2019s 330,000 employees to get jabbed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The reason is that municipal unions won\u2019t agree. For example, the mayor recently declared all city hospital workers had to be vaccinated \u2014 or get tested weekly.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>From police to sanitation to teachers, the problem is the same, and will come to a head in the fall when schools are set to reopen.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" alt=\"Mayor de Blasio said he's &quot;looking at&quot; mandating the COVID-19 vaccine for city workers.\" class=\"wp-image-18914655 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/de-blasio-2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=300 300w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/de-blasio-2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=640 640w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/de-blasio-2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/de-blasio-2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/de-blasio-2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2000 2000w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Mayor de Blasio said he\u2019s \u201clooking at\u201d mandating the COVID-19 vaccine for city workers.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Charles Sykes\/Invision\/AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Expect teachers unions to balk both at returning full time and getting vaccinated. Of course, they will still demand to be paid.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"A_%E2%80%98Bible_thumper\"><\/span>A \u2018Bible\u2019\u00a0thumper<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>\u201cThere has never been anyone like him or anything like \u2018Bible 365.\u2019\u2009\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s how legendary writer and editor Norman Podhoretz describes Rabbi Meir Soloveichik and his daily podcast <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Soloveichik, the rabbi of Congregation Shearith Israel in Manhattan, is a prolific writer and lecturer who brings his vast knowledge and wit to a study of what Jews call the Hebrew Bible and Christians the Old Testament. Each podcast runs 15 to 20 minutes and full subscriptions are available for $100 at the Tikvah Fund.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Whatever your faith, or even if you don\u2019t have one, sign up. You\u2019ll learn a lot.\n            <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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One exception is the inaugural address, where the slate is clean and they have an uncluttered chance to define themselves and how they want to be measured.\u00a0 Joe Biden\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":307742,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/biden-unity.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[112755,5042,82862,10701,70793,991,42873],"class_list":["post-307741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-7-24-21","tag-bill-de-blasio","tag-covid-vaccine","tag-democrats","tag-jerusalem","tag-joe-biden","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}