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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Thu Sep 14, 2017, 10:30 AM Sep 2017

Biden: Trump undermining America's standing in the world

Source: The Hill



BY MALLORY SHELBOURNE - 09/14/17 09:07 AM EDT

Former Vice President Joe Biden (D) argued Thursday that President Trump’s actions during his tenure have undermined the United States in the eyes of the world.

In an op-ed for The New York Times, Biden slammed Trump’s recent decision to phase out the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), his response to the Charlottesville, Va., attack and his administration’s view of “global affairs as a zero-sum competition.”

“Mr. Trump’s shameful defense of the white nationalists and neo-Nazis who unleashed hatred and violence in Charlottesville, Va., further abnegated America’s moral leadership,” Biden wrote. “Not since the Jim Crow era has an American president so misunderstood and misrepresented our values.”

Biden, whose latest book is expected to be released later this fall, called on the United States to reclaim its moral standing in the world. “You cannot define Americans by what they look like, where they come from, whom they love or how they worship. Only our democratic values define us,” the former vice president wrote.

Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/350618-biden-trump-undermining-americas-moral-leadership-standing-in-the-world

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Biden: Trump undermining America's standing in the world (Original Post) DonViejo Sep 2017 OP
Yes, I bdamomma Sep 2017 #1
Correction: Trump and the Republican Party is Underming America's Standing in the World INdemo Sep 2017 #2
I dont get it Sucha NastyWoman Sep 2017 #4
Because the USA has not chnaged as much since the late 50s and 60s as we thought INdemo Sep 2017 #5
Seems like he's running for POTUS Juliusseizure Sep 2017 #3

Sucha NastyWoman

(2,749 posts)
4. I dont get it
Thu Sep 14, 2017, 11:49 AM
Sep 2017

How can the many Americans who aren't loyal to either party look at the last year or so, and ever think of voting Republican?

Which party nominated Trump as head of their party? Which party wants to be so cruel to immigrants of all types, but especially the Dreamers? Which party could take health care away from millions of people who need it? Which party is about to give huge tax cuts tthe wealthy, while giving crumbs to the rest of us, and calling it tax "reform"? Which party has as some of its members, Nazi-wanna-bes, racists white supremacists, and KKKers? Which party is ignoring climate change to the point of not even wanting to discuss that it might be related to all the recent natural disasters? Which party won't even entertain the thought of doing something about our lack of sensible gun laws? Which party has values closer to those of Jesus, while the other party talks Jesus all the time, but really only uses Jesus to impose thier will on others? Which parties candidates can hardly wait to get us into the next war?

I could go on and on, but don't people see that these things have an impact on thier lives and on their childrens lives?

INdemo

(6,994 posts)
5. Because the USA has not chnaged as much since the late 50s and 60s as we thought
Sun Sep 17, 2017, 02:28 PM
Sep 2017

there are those racists that still exist in greater numbers than we thought and that is very sad.
But you know I taught my children and my grand children about equal rights and know that they practice it.
But obviously there are those parents that over the generations have taught them hate and its a unfortunate reality.

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