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Nebojsa Malic is a Serbian-American journalist, blogger and translator, who wrote a regular column for Antiwar.com from 2000 to 2015, and is now senior writer at RT.<\/p>\n
A far more civil debate saw Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden make multiple unforced errors, doubling down on ‘Russiagate’ and the Obama administration policies that President Donald Trump got elected by criticizing.<\/p>\n
Thursday night\u2019s second and last presidential debate in Tennessee went far more smoothly than the previous one. There was still plenty of emotional manipulation to go around, however. On at least three occasions, Biden changed the subject to start waxing worried about American families and how they were coping with the pandemic, economy, health insurance and so on. No doubt, these were focus-grouped by the best political consultants, but those are bold words coming from someone who spent almost half a century in the corridors of power.<\/p>\n
Trump would not let Biden forget that, either, repeatedly hammering Barack Obama\u2019s vice-president for having years to implement all these hopes and dreams he was promising, but failing to do so. When confronted with his record, Biden\u2019s excuse was\u00a0\u201cwe made mistakes.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cNever interrupt your enemy when he\u2019s making a mistake,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0says a maxim attributed to Napoleon Bonaparte. Over the course of the night, Biden made several.<\/p>\n Biden\u2019s first blunder was to admit he would shut down the country due to the Covid-19 pandemic, however much he tried to qualify it. Democrats have blamed Trump personally for every single coronavirus death, but Biden\u2019s plan to deal with the virus amounted to what the Trump administration was doing now, only with national mask mandates, lockdowns, and throwing money at the problem.<\/p>\n Circling back to coronavirus relief later in the night \u2013 and trying to make it about race \u2013 Welker blamed the president for the inaction of Congress. Trump used the opportunity to argue that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-California) has been holding up the aid. When Biden claimed that Pelosi\u2019s HEROES Act is just waiting for Trump\u2019s approval, Trump countered that it was a partisan\u00a0\u201cbailout\u201d<\/em>\u00a0that would reward Democrats for lockdowns and rob US taxpayers to pay illegal immigrants, among other things.<\/p>\n Biden\u2019s response? When immigration was brought up, he promised amnesty and\u00a0\u201cpath to citizenship\u201d<\/em>\u00a0to 11 million illegal immigrants within the first 100 days of his administration, the very issue Trump ran against in 2016!<\/p>\n Under fire by Trump about his role in the 1994 crime bill \u2013 another\u00a0\u201cmistake\u201d<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 Biden made an emotional argument for decriminalizing drug abuse and abolishing\u00a0\u201cminimum mandatories\u201d<\/em>\u00a0(that is, mandatory minimums) in sentencing.<\/p>\n We should fundamentally change the system, and that\u2019s what we\u2019re going to do.<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n No doubt the Democrats will scramble to\u00a0\u201cclarify\u201d<\/em>\u00a0what Biden must have\u00a0really<\/em>\u00a0meant by that, just as they did when he\u00a0told an activist<\/a>\u00a0back in July he was\u00a0\u201cabsolutely\u201d<\/em>\u00a0in favor of redirecting funding away from police.<\/p>\n Leaning into\u00a0\u201cclimate change, global warming\u201d<\/em>\u00a0as\u00a0\u201can existential threat to humanity,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Biden again pitched a program of creating millions of jobs by retrofitting the US to green energy \u2013 including net zero carbon emissions by 2025 or 2035, he wasn\u2019t exactly sure himself.<\/p>\n Trump called it the\u00a0\u201cGreen New Deal\u201d<\/em>\u00a0in all but name and mocked the idea of rebuilding millions of homes with\u00a0\u201ctiny, small windows, crazy!\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Biden then literally committed to eliminating the oil industry, throwing out all his previous careful equivocating on the subject.<\/p>\n \u201cI would transition from the oil industry, yes. Because the oil industry pollutes, significantly,\u201d\u00a0<\/em>he said.\u00a0\u201cIt has to be replaced with renewable energy, over time.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\nMasks and Covid-19 shutdowns<\/h2>\n
Promise of amnesty<\/h2>\n
Green New Deal<\/h2>\n
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