Column By Mike Bibb
No one has ever accused President Biden of being near the top of his class. His near-bottom ranking at Syracuse University School of Law, in addition to 50 years in Congress and the White House as a mediocre federal employee, is evidence of his sometimes-bewildering thought processes when deciding upon issues relevant to the success of the country.
A certain amount of this is expected. For better or worse, five decades in Washington can do a lot to a person — physically and mentally. A once-healthy body may be worn down by the rigors of Congressional hearings, staff meetings, lobbyist discussions, state dinners, and jet lag.
Being a longtime Member of the Senate, followed by eight years as Vice President and four as President, seems to have slowed Joe’s gait and his mind’s alertness and reasoning ability. At 82, Joe is now moving at about the speed of a desert tortoise.
Luckily for him and the country, his political exploits have reached an end. The Democrat National Committee removed Joe from his final White House run last summer and installed Kamala Harris as his successor.
Not a well-thought-out plan by the DNC. After spending over a billion dollars on her campaign, Kamala failed to win the coveted Presidential Trophy and soon disappeared from the public scene.
With Joe’s tour nearing its conclusion, he’s signed and issued hundreds of pardons and commutations, including bailing out his son, Hunter, from serving time in a penitentiary for felony firearms and income tax crimes. An act Joe repeatedly said he would never do.
Then again, Joe’s always had difficulty telling or recognizing the truth.
In the final weeks of December 2024, Joe removed 37 of the 40 inmates on the federal government’s death row. He simply changed their incarceration status to serving “Life without parole.”
In effect — with the stroke of a pen — Joe overrode a jury’s decision, a judge’s decision, an appeals court decision, and family wishes.
These are not your ordinary prison inmates. This group is composed of some of the most heinous criminals incarcerated today. Soulless reprobates who have murdered innocent victims merely because they wanted to.
Thirty-seven people Joe believes should have their right to life restored by his Presidential authority.
On the other side of the coin, Joe is an advocate of “Women’s reproductive rights,” “A Woman’s Right to Choose,” and “Women’s Health Care” — buzz terms for unlimited access to clinical abortions.
Joe has signed no pardons sparing an unborn child’s life from an abortion death sentence.
Which kind of illustrates where Joe’s frame of mind is on this subject. Influenced, I suspect, by the obvious fact unborn babies can’t vote, but their mothers can.
In addition to abortion doctors making money from the procedure, they can vote and be campaign donors.
In a country proclaiming a person has the right to life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness, it’s difficult for me to comprehend how an individual who spends months growing and developing inside his mother’s womb can suddenly be terminated from these rights then dismembered and discarded into a plastic disposal bag.
All without a jury trial, judge’s decision, or appeals process. No one to advocate for the child — not the mother or even the President of the United States.
Where are the hordes of television attorneys hawking their unblemished car accident win records and a willingness to defend the innocence of a soon-to-be-born child?
Yet, someone else can illegally cross into the country and immediately receive many of the benefits and protections the United States has to offer without worrying if his life will be aborted.
At the same time, a little baby who was conceived and nurtured for several months within the U.S. is not allowed the same respect or compassion.
Actually, the child isn’t read his “Miranda rights,” assigned a public defender, posted bail or offered a plea. Nothing resembling a civilized society’s due process of law.
A “persona non grata” surrounded by shelves of law books, courts, attorneys, and constitutional mandates.
Weird how the system works. We tax and spend billions of dollars yearly on militaries, healthcare, police, and government services to help ensure we continue to live a safe and comfortable life, but a small child — who is awaiting his turn to enter society — is not provided the same courtesies.
However, someone who has viciously hacked to death an innocent jogger in a public park is granted years of legal services, appeals, court appearances, delays, and an opportunity to have his sentence commutated by the highest government official in the land.
For some reason, a convicted murderer is at least allowed to exist in an 8 x 12 prison cell, fed regularly, associate with other prison inmates, and do whatever he/she is allowed — all at taxpayer expense — but an unborn child who has committed no offenses against a community is thrown out with the trash. Never given the opportunity to experience life’s trials, tribulations, and successes.
Condemned to die without ever committing a wrongful act.
The few criminals who actually receive the death sentence are carefully and compassionately injected with a chemical and drift into a permanent sleep, avoiding the torture and pain they inflicted upon their victims, friends, and families.
Maybe Joe can think about that the next time he takes communion in church, prays the Rosary, requests a few minutes in a confessional booth, or breaks bread with the Pope.
The opinions expressed in this editorial are those of the author.
