4/15/21
President Joe Biden is carrying out some of Donald Trump's biggest campaign promises by leaving America's longest war, targeting economic aid at forgotten Americans and building an infrastructure plan that may actually happen. The current White House is, of course, a sharp political and behavioral reaction to the previous one. And Biden is never going to finish his predecessor's border wall, berate allies or set a mob on the US Capitol. But the 45th and 46th presidents do share an understanding of several key economic and societal forces driving modern life outside Washington. And both, in different ways, shaped their appeal by convincing ordinary Americans who feel left behind that they were committed to working for them. With his new vow Wednesday to get troops home from Afghanistan and his big legislative proposals that elevate the working class, including a $2 trillion infrastructure bill, Biden is eying achievements his predecessor talked up but failed to accomplish. Biden, like Trump and President Barack Obama before him, ran for office on a platform of extricating Americans from quagmires, spending the trillions such wars cost here at home and restoring economic fairness. While the previous two presidents made progress in various ways toward those goals, the current commander-in-chief has put them at the heart of everything he does.
But so far, Biden is not being distracted. Indeed he is turning his plans to beat the pandemic into a double purposed quest to lift up everyday Americans -- one reason why his $1.9 trillion Covid relief plan was quite popular with Republican voters, if not their representatives. And he and national security adviser Jake Sullivan envisage a foreign policy built around the needs of US workers -- Americans First, rather than Trump's "America First" philosophy. Biden never demeaned the lives that were lost in the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts, but -- like Trump -- he argued in his own way that those "forever wars" distracted from more pressing issues at home. On the campaign trail in 2020, he often noted with pride that he had argued againstObama's surge of troops to Afghanistan in favor of a smaller, more nimble footprint focused on counterterrorism. "We went to Afghanistan because of a horrific attack that happened 20 years ago. That cannot explain why we should remain there in 2021," Biden said. A majority of Americans agree with Biden's sentiments. So far, the difference between the last administration and this one has been the ability to execute.
President Joe Biden starts to execute on policies Trump abandoned by crossing off another campaign promise
Trump talked big. Biden does big.
Biden's dishonesty about the border crisis will destroy him. It is seasonal, he said. Obrador in Mexico blamed Biden.President Biden is being compared to FDR, but I think the closer comparison is to the other Roosevelt. "Speak softly and carry a big stick."
President Biden is being compared to FDR, but I think the closer comparison is to the other Roosevelt. "Speak softly and carry a big stick."
It seems the other way around-- Biden talks a lot, and then is walked back.
Meanwhile, Russia masses on the Ukraine border
Shouldn't you be supporting that? trump supporters love Russia, after all.
Russia has not, and absolutely will not stop our Navy from operating anywhere.It seems the other way around-- Biden talks a lot, and then is walked back.
Meanwhile, Russia masses on the Ukraine border and closes the Black Sea to then closes it to the USA Navy; China keeps pressing Taiwan...
Russia has not, and absolutely will not stop our Navy from operating anywhere.
One of our Navy’s primary objectives is maintaining freedom of navigation in all international waters.
what would you do if China opened fire on one of our task forces?Russia has not, and absolutely will not stop our Navy from operating anywhere.
One of our Navy’s primary objectives is maintaining freedom of navigation in all international waters.
Obrador is just happy there is something he can blame someone else for.Biden's dishonesty about the border crisis will destroy him. It is seasonal, he said. Obrador in Mexico blamed Biden.
President Joe Biden starts to execute on policies Trump abandoned by crossing off another campaign promise
Trump talked big. Biden does big.
Not what you asserted. “Russia masses on the Ukraine border and closes the Black Sea to then closes it to the USA Navy; China keeps pressing Taiwan ...”The Navy will be stopped if the American elected political leadership tells them to do so.
Depends on numerous factors, including what the ROE prescribe in that area of operations.what would you do if China opened fire on one of our task forces?
DAily chuckle.President Biden is being compared to FDR, but I think the closer comparison is to the other Roosevelt. "Speak softly and carry a big stick."
At some point, the Dems will have to face the fact that Trump was a competent president. All the stuff about Trump and Putin they constantly spouted was nothing but lies.
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