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Some Notes on 100 Days of Biden Style
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Who Does Biden Stand For?
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Martin Schram
Guest Columnist
The sunshine bathing his Rose Garden is so bright that Joe Biden can’t help but squint as he looks out and starts saying hello to the many people he invited into his backyard. He knows them so well, by now, that he simply calls them by their first names. He also understands that even in his sunlit yard, they are surely still feeling their dark cloud is somewhere overhead. It’s been following them everywhere, ever since that godawful day.
“Mark and Jackie, I want to tell you it’s always good to see you, but not under these circumstances. … (I)t takes a lot of courage to come to an event like this. … Mark and Jackie, whose son, Daniel, was a first grader in Sandy Hook Elementary School, Daniel loved sports, loves outdoor sports, getting muddy. I see my friend, Fred Guttenberg. His daughter, Jamie, was a freshman at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. She was an accomplished dancer. I see Brandon Wolf, the shooting at the Pulse Nightclub; h
New Yorker’s naysaying
That this high-flown language came on the heels of Biden’s people whispering F.D.R. comparisons in the ears of reporters for weeks, and Biden himself calling his plan “a once-in-a-generation investment in America,” seemed not to bother anyone. We live in a time when a president can be said to have “sharply cut poverty” the moment he signs a relief bill, so why not say, as CNN editorialists Stephen Collison and Caitlin Hu did, that this new bill’s passage would immediately allow Biden to “lay claim to a spot in the Democratic pantheon alongside Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson?”
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