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What makes our current president unique is, surely, that his unbroken record policy implosions have been accompanied at all points by boasting. Jimmy Carter, for all his dismal cardigan-wrapped malaise, could not be accused of being a shallow braggart. Surely no president other than the one we have now has ever so overpromised while so underdelivering. The combination is deadly and deadly excruciating.
It is not just that Biden shamefully ran away from Afghanistan, abandoning Americans and our allies there - it's that just a couple of months earlier, he airily declared that such an outcome was "highly unlikely."
It is not just that he is filching purchasing power from everyone's pockets with inflation month after month it's heading for double figures it's that he promised the price squeeze would be "temporary." Now, it is expected to continue throughout this year, at least.
It's not just that he has presided over as many COVID-19 deaths as his predecessor, despite being bequeathed several effective vaccines it's that he repeatedly said, in speeches, in debates, and on social media, "I'm going to shut down the virus, not the country."
It is a stunningly consistent record of empty and swiftly demolished claims. But we should not be surprised. The gulf between Biden's claims and achievements has been exposed again and again though five decades in political life. He has always been an empty suit, or rather a suit filled to overflowing with hot air. His unvarying modus operandi is all about making himself look better than he is, less like a hack pol who on his early presidential runs mustered so little support that his percentages would have been a rounding error for more impressive candidates.
His desperate need for acclaim, to be seen as more admired than his skills can command, was evident all along, there from the beginning. It's why he plagiarized a paper at law school to pretend he was something he wasn't.
It is why he plagiarized a campaign speech originally delivered by Neil Kinnock, leader of the British Labor Party, to burnish a record and tug at heartstrings he could not pluck legitimately.
It is why he boasted on the campaign trail that he was in the top half of his law school class when in truth he placed 76th out of 85, did not get three university degrees, and was not awarded a full scholarship.
Biden is a congenital and habitual boaster, an empty vessel making a lot of noise, all of it resonant of hollow falsehood. Deep inside that echoing void, he knows he's less than he needs to be to be where he is.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/bidens-pride-comes-before-the-fall
