A twisted but revealing GOP attack on Joe Biden

[Zorro]

Republicans are now attacking former vice president Joe Biden for giving voice to the principle that our founding ideals should apply to not just all men in America, but all “people.”

Bear with me here. This article isn’t just going after low-hanging fruit. This latest folly gets at a larger flaw with ongoing Republican attacks against the presumptive Democratic nominee right now.

On Fox News, Republican National Committee spokeswoman Liz Harrington was asked to respond to this scathing piece by Biden, in which he accused President Trump of eroding the foundations of American democracy.

“It’s amazing for Joe Biden to talk about eroding our foundation when his party is taking a sledgehammer to it,” Harrington said on Sunday. She added this:

His party is trying to rewrite history, tear it all down. It’s very fitting that Joe Biden, in this op ed, has the audacity to literally rewrite the greatest foundational document in the history of mankind — the Declaration of Independence. His woke staffers changed it to, not all “men are created equal,” all “people are created equal,” and are guaranteed equality throughout life.

“That’s the same radical left socialism that has taken over his party,” Harrington concluded.

The relevant portion of Biden’s op-ed says:

Independence Day is a celebration of our persistent march toward greater justice — the natural expansion of our founding notion from “all men are created equal” to “all people are created equal and should be treated equally throughout their lives.”

That pursuit of a more perfect union has been thrown off course in recent years — and no one bears more responsibility than President Donald Trump.

It is remarkable that the position of the Republican Party is that the first half of that is radical or objectionable.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/07/06/twisted-revealing-gop-attack-joe-biden/

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1. "woke staffers"

They seriously just cannot help themselves.

Peace

[2naSalit]

2. No, they can't.

[safeinOhio]

3. Suggestion.

Change a word in the General Welfare Clause in the preamble.
Then, at least, the Publican would have address that clause.