There was nothing terribly incorrect with President Biden’s fist bump that went around the globe.
It was primarily cringeworthy solely as a result of he made it with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the incorrect man and for the incorrect causes.
So, to critics it regarded as if Biden have been British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain bowing to Adolph Hitler in Munich in 1939, returning dwelling with a nugatory piece of paper promising peace.
Biden, who inherited a rustic made vitality impartial by his predecessor, declared battle on home produced vitality and is now depending on overseas international locations for oil. Hence, a supplicant, he was now begging the Saudis for oil.
But he returned empty handed, and he didn’t also have a piece of paper to wave round. It was all a serious waste of time.
It makes you wince, simply as his picture op look in Somerset did on Wednesday when President Doom warned in regards to the “clear and present danger” of fossil fuels on the world.
Standing by was John Kerry, Biden’s much-traveled local weather envoy, who’s personally chargeable for the emission of extra metric tons of carbon dioxide flying to conferences around the globe than Air Arabia.
U.S. Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey, wanting like POWs on the Bataan loss of life march, braved the stifling 92 diploma warmth to attend the occasion, whereas Attorney General Maura Healey, a robust local weather change activist, didn’t.
Healey, the Democrat candidate for governor, apparently didn’t wish to be seen with Biden, which is comprehensible. Democrats operating for workplace across the nation are additionally operating away from him, and when he reveals up of their state, all of them all of a sudden have scheduling conflicts and disappear.
Were Biden capable of alter the downward spiral of his disastrous administration — which he can’t — he can be doing issues in a different way. He is an excessive amount of a prisoner of the laborious left.
For occasion, he might have made a visit to New York to fist bump with Jose Alba on the bodega the place the Dominican immigrant was wrongly accused of homicide by left-wing District Attorney Alvin Bragg for killing an attacker in self protection.
Video footage of the occasion clearly confirmed that Austin Simon, 35, was not a sufferer however the aggressor and that Alba, 61, regardless of makes an attempt to calm the state of affairs, had no selection however to make use of lethal pressure to defend himself.
Outside of the New York Post and Fox News, the one politician to return to Alba’s protection was New York Mayor Eric Adams. The relaxation, from Gov. Kathy Hochul to Sen. Chuck Schumer to AOC, ignored Alba’s plight.
Last week, succumbing to stress — and customary sense — Bragg dropped all prices in opposition to Alba.
A Biden go to to the bodega to satisfy with Alba would have labored wonders not just for felony justice, however for the bodega tradition, the Latin American group and for Biden himself.
A president who loves to provide taxpayer cash away, Biden might even have provide you with an appropriation to fund video cameras in all of the 1000’s of bodegas in New York.
Also, such concern would assist everybody overlook how Jill Biden, the primary woman, mangled the phrase bodega in a speech to Texas Hispanics by calling them bogadas.
In a speech Joe Biden might have given, she additionally mentioned that the Hispanics have been as distinctive as “breakfast tacos.”
Biden additionally might have flown to Indianapolis to fist bump with Elisha Dicken. He is the 22-year-old man, with a license to hold, who shot down the gunman who killed 4 individuals earlier than the cops might arrive within the Greenwood Park shopping center close to Indianapolis final weekend. The mass assassin was armed with two rifles, a handgun and greater than 100 rounds of ammunition. Dicken’s courageous motion saved the lives of numerous extra victims.
“I will say his actions were nothing short of heroic,” Greenwood Park Police Chief James Ison mentioned.
It is one thing Biden might have mentioned however received’t.
Peter Lucas is a veteran Massachusetts political reporter and columnist.
Source: www.bostonherald.com”