Someone ought to have informed Joe Biden that vacationing in St. Croix was not a good suggestion.
He may have chosen higher.
And leaving the nation at the moment was dangerous optics.
The president, in search of hotter climes, appeared to have deserted the nation within the wake of a historic blizzard that buried the U.S., killed scores of individuals, brought on large blackouts, and stranded hundreds of vacation vacationers at airports throughout the nation.
Some 37 folks have been killed within the Buffalo space, the airport was shut down and hundreds have been left with out energy there and elsewhere throughout the nation. Biden grinned and despatched prayers.
While he was aboard Air Force One flying above the nation, untold hundreds of different Americans have been caught at airports throughout the nation as flights have been delayed or canceled as a result of harsh climate and Southwest Airlines incompetence.
But the bitter chilly climate that swept throughout the nation didn’t deter hordes of unlawful immigrants from crossing the southern border into the nation beneath Biden’s merciless and legal open border coverage.
Immigrant households, turned away at overcrowded shelters in El Paso, have been compelled to sleep within the streets beneath freezing situations.
“Come to America and sleep in the streets,” appears to be Biden’s message to immigrants from around the globe.
But you possibly can’t be too harsh on Biden. He is previous and feeble, and he wants the solar to heat his bones.
But the optics of him ignoring home applications whereas vacationing in St. Croix, one of many U.S Virgin Islands, despatched the improper message, particularly as fellow Americans struggled with frigid climate and skyrocketing house power payments.
And this doesn’t even embrace the overseas issues Biden is going through, like Communist China on the verge of invading Taiwan, Japan rearming, North Korea sending missiles and drones over Japan and South Korea, lethal protest in Iran, the Ukrainians bombing Russian airfields, Vladimir Putin warning of nuclear retaliation, and so forth.
But the primary drawback with Biden’s trip to St. Croix is the island itself.
Being the woke and progressive president that he’s, one would suppose that he would have sufficient political consciousness and ethical sensitivity to trip elsewhere, and never on an island have been Christopher Columbus allegedly introduced racism to America.
Biden has made a cottage business of calling Donald Trump and the hundreds of thousands of Americans who help him racists and neo-fascists.
While St. Croix is a wonderful and plush tropical island within the Caribbean with superb seashores, heat waters, lush surroundings and pleasant folks, it’s also the island the place Christopher Columbus — a hero who progressives have became an enemy of mankind — landed in 1493.
If there may be nonetheless a statue of Columbus that progressives and anarchists haven’t torn down within the United States it could equal the miracle of Columbus’ voyages throughout the Atlantic. They have been voyages that woke up the world.
Columbus “discovered” St. Croix throughout his second voyage to the New World. Upon arriving he despatched a touchdown celebration ashore. The Spanish sailors got here throughout a abandoned Carib village the place a bunch of competing Taino natives have been held captive.
The sailors freed the Tainos. While returning with them to the ship, the group was attacked by a Carib conflict celebration. The sailors fought again, and one was killed by an arrow.
The skirmish was the primary recorded battle between Europeans and native Americans within the New World.
Many extra have been to comply with, particularly after the Spanish and Portuguese Conquistadors got here searching for gold. What they did to the native inhabitants of the Americas makes Columbus appear to be a saint.
Columbus no less than freed the Tainos — if solely briefly.
But the query is: if Christopher Columbus is such a nasty man, why is Biden honoring him by vacationing on his island?
Maybe, climate allowing, Biden ought to have gone again to Nantucket.
Peter Lucas is a veteran Massachusetts political reporter and columnist.
Source: www.bostonherald.com”