On Mon, 20 Nov 2023 16:23:56 -0800 (PST), narciasz@berdyczów.com wrote:
https://d.newsweek.com/en/full/2311517/joe-biden.webp
I don't know why anyone other than Trump would think it's an "unhappy birthday" for you. You are healthy, fit, in complete control, and doing
a good job serving the people and the country. You were not charged with
91 crimes. You have no right to be dissatisfied with anything. Keep it
up!
That's what I wish you, President.
poor student
an unexceptional student
ranked 76th in his class of 85, after failing a course due to an
acknowledged "mistake" when he plagiarized a law review article for a
paper he wrote in his first year at law school
In 1968, Biden clerked at a Wilmington law firm headed by prominent local Republican William Prickett and, he later said, "thought of myself as a Republican".[30][31] He disliked incumbent Democratic Delaware governor
Charles L. Terry's conservative racial politics and supported a more
liberal Republican, Russell W. Peterson, who defeated Terry in 1968.[30]
Biden was recruited by local Republicans but registered as an Independent because of his distaste for Republican presidential candidate Richard
Nixon
Corporate law did not appeal to him, and criminal law did not pay well.
[11] He supplemented his income by managing properties.[34]
Biden had not openly supported or opposed the Vietnam War until he ran for Senate and opposed Richard Nixon's conduct of the war.[44] While studying
at the University of Delaware and Syracuse University, Biden obtained five student draft deferments, at a time when most draftees were sent to the
war. In 1968, based on a physical examination, he was given a conditional medical deferment; in 2008, a spokesperson for Biden said his having had "asthma as a teenager" was the reason for the deferment.[45]
In February 1988, after several episodes of increasingly severe neck pain, Biden underwent surgery to correct a leaking intracranial berry aneurysm. [105][106] While recuperating, he suffered a pulmonary embolism, a serious complication.[106] After a second aneurysm was surgically repaired in May, [106][107] Biden's recuperation kept him away from the Senate for seven months.[108]
Biden became interested in the Yugoslav Wars after hearing about Serbian
abuses during the Croatian War of Independence in 1991.[83] Once the
Bosnian War broke out, Biden was among the first to call for the "lift and strike" policy.[83][119] The George H. W. Bush administration and Clinton administration were both reluctant to implement the policy, fearing Balkan entanglement.[83][120] In April 1993, Biden held a tense three-hour
meeting with Serbian leader Slobodan Milošević.[123] Biden worked on
several versions of legislative language urging the U.S. toward greater involvement.[123] Biden has called his role in affecting Balkan policy in
the mid-1990s his "proudest moment in public life" related to foreign policy.[120] In 1999, during the Kosovo War, Biden supported the 1999 NATO bombing of FR Yugoslavia.[83] He and Senator John McCain co-sponsored the McCain-Biden Kosovo Resolution, which called on Clinton to use all
necessary force, including ground troops, to confront Milošević over
Yugoslav actions toward ethnic Albanians in Kosovo.[120][124]
Biden has made several false or exaggerated claims about his early life:
that he had earned three degrees in college, that he attended law school
on a full scholarship, that he had graduated in the top half of his class, [144][145] and that he had marched in the civil rights movement.[146] The limited amount of other news about the presidential race amplified these disclosures[147] and on September 23, 1987, Biden withdrew his candidacy, saying it had been overrun by "the exaggerated shadow" of his past mistakes.[148]
In his first two days as president, Biden signed 17 executive orders. By
his third day, orders had included rejoining the Paris Climate Agreement, ending the state of national emergency at the border with Mexico,
directing the government to rejoin the World Health Organization, face
mask requirements on federal property, measures to combat hunger in the
United States,[317][318][319][320] and revoking permits for the
construction of the Keystone XL pipeline.[321][322][323] In his first two
weeks in office, Biden signed more executive orders than any other
president since Franklin D. Roosevelt had in their first month in office.
[324]
At the beginning of the 118th Congress, Biden and congressional
Republicans engaged in a standoff that raised the risk that the United
States would default on its debt.[362] Biden and House Speaker Kevin
McCarthy struck a deal to raise the debt limit, the Fiscal Responsibility
Act of 2023, which would suspend the debt limit until January 2025. Biden signed it on June 3, averting a default.[363] The deal was generally seen
as favorable to Biden.[364][365]
As of November 2009, Biden's net worth was $27,012.[573] By November 2020,
the Bidens were worth $9 million, largely due to sales of Biden's books
and speaking fees after his vice presidency.[574][575]
in February 2021, Gallup, Inc. reported that 98 percent of Democrats
approved of Biden.[597][598] As of October 2023, that number had declined
to 75 percent.[599] His approval rating among Republicans reached a high
of 12 percent in February 2021 and again in July 2021.[597
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