That Time Biden Sided With the NRA, Said Bad Guys Will Get Guns 'With or Without Gun Control'
One of my “favorite” characteristics of liberals is how they “evolve” on key issues. And by “evolve,” I mean how brazenly they do complete 180s after sticking their wetted fingers in the political wind, and when they believe the time is right, they turn on a dime. Like Hillary Clinton “evolving” on same-sex marriage — within the first 72 hours of her 2016 presidential run. Or in this case, Joe Biden’s views on gun control.....
Hot Air "To whom did Joe Biden aim his Thursday night address on gun control? Politico’s Jack Shafer can’t figure it out either, except to conclude that Preacher Joe may have only desired to sermonize to the choir. Not only did Biden not offer anything substantively new in an extraordinary prime-time address, Biden made clear that he’s only interested in the choir:
It’s hard to imagine that any of the gun rights faithful were swayed by Biden’s talk, as he provided no new argument for the cause of gun control, and aside from the recent examples of gun massacres, no new compelling data. As a veteran horse-trader from his years in the Senate, Biden knows all about high-stakes compromise, negotiation and persuasion. If the speech contained a persuasive lesson about gun control, it must have been written in code. Although Biden directed his comments primarily to the citizenry, he also appealed to members of the Senate Republican minority — the people he must reach in order to pass such new, politically ambitious measures. But nothing in his call to action showed the slightest promise of moving them; it provided them no political reward for switching. Biden neither menaced the Republican senators with threats nor caressed them with promises or compromises that might have split off a Republican supporter or two. Unless you are already one of Pastor Biden’s congregants, his words, his expression of sorrow and his emotional pleading came across as the usual Democratic Party white noise. Filled with good intentions that he drove into a semantic dead end, Biden sounded like a bad Aaron Sorkin speech. Why did he even bother with his address?
"Is there such a thing as a good Aaron Sorkin speech? I kid, I kid, as I enjoy much of Sorkin’s work. This speech did remind me of one particularly bad Sorkin speech at the end of The American President, in which Michael Douglas’ character reveals himself as a gun-grabber in what is supposed to be a heroic moment:"
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