Subject: Trump’s surge makes the case for Joe Biden - The Washington Post
From: "Eric Schwerin" <[email-masked]>
To: "Hunter Biden" <[email-masked]>, "Alexander S. Mackler" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2015 15:19:06 -0400

> http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2015/08/24/the-trump-surge-could-be-good-for-joe-biden/ <http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2015/08/24/the-trump-surge-could-be-good-for-joe-biden/>
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> Trump’s surge makes the case for Joe Biden
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> Vice President Joe Biden. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)
> The great potential strength of a Joe Biden presidential campaign can be summed up in two words: Donald Trump.
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> Biden is what Trump pretends to be: a garrulous, blunt, down-to-earth guy who loves politics and people and tells it like it is, sometimes to a fault. He’s even got that weird hair thing going.
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> The difference is that Biden is the real deal. He has a lifetime of public service to back up his blarney and braggadocio. He has been in the arena of public policy nearly his whole life, serving the public while Trump was squiring around movie stars, navigating four of his companies through bankruptcy, and flaunting his billionaire lifestyle.
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> Trump’s weaknesses become clear when he’s compared to Biden, in a way that is less true with most of the Republican candidates or Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton. To many Americans, these other candidates represent the double-speak and insincerity of modern politics. Biden is a throwback to a different campaign era.
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> Trump may be a good reality-TV star, but he’s playing at politics; when questioners press him on issues, such as his foreign-policy strategy, it often becomes clear he doesn’t know much beyond what he watches on television. Not so with Biden: He has made mistakes, but he is deeply informed about national security and social policy. He’s one of the architects of our Iraq mess, for example, but hopefully he has learned from it.
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> Biden has one more trait that distinguishes him from the glib and bullying Trump. He is a man with a moral center that was forged in two great personal tragedies—the death in a car wreck of his first wife and one-year-old daughter in 1972, and the loss of his son Beau to brain cancer this year. He bore both tragedies nobly, in a way that inspired his colleagues and the country.
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> The qualities that make Biden admirable can be summed up in the sentences that Matt Damon’s character speaks at the end of “Saving Private Ryan,” to express what he hopes he has accomplished: “Tell me I have led a good life….Tell me I’m a good man.” Few of us would measure up to that standard, but I suspect most us would say that Biden does, and Trump doesn’t.
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