Biden Unity Bark OK But Will He Bite Us In (Hind) End?

In addition to its editorial conditionally lauding President Biden’s call for “unity”, another WSJ article was titled “Biden’s Dogs Shepherd In New Era of Pets at the WH.” OK touchy feely piece. But looks can be deceiving. As it happens, I was walking my Cavalier King Charles Spaniel this morning & he playfully went up to a seemingly welcoming new kid on the block, a German Shepherd, who suddenly growled & charged. Bad doggie. Stupid, too. My Lincoln returned the favor by going for the stunned Shepherd’s throat, who whined. I ask, “Whose bark was bigger than his bite?”

In the Lincolnian tradition, the WSJ’s hopeful editorial likewise questioned Mr. Biden’s unification bark, er, address if it meant his political competitors [in an anti-Lincoln way] must agree with every progressive idea that comes into his head or is planted there by Bernie Sanders & other Marxists in his Administration:

Mr. Biden’s message “sounds too much like Barack Obama’s habit of casting differences of ideology or policy as divisions between enlightenment and bigotry. This is divisive in its cultural and moral condescension, as the Obama years proved in creating the political opening for Mr. Trump…we heard too little in Mr. Biden’s speech to reassure conservatives now being purged and ostracized that he will call off the emboldened progressive censors. If his pursuit of social justice becomes a drive to blame every iniquity in American life on racism, he will divide more than unite. If he insists that those who disagree on climate change are ‘deniers’ who care nothing for the planet, he will alienate millions. The test of Mr. Biden’s unity pledge will be in how he governs.” Lincoln & Lincoln would agree with this WSJ walk in the park outside the WH.

Davd Soul