Biden's Decision Not to Run | National Catholic Reporter by MSW. MGB: Using the past tense in not appropriate, as he is not dead - just not running for President. I am glad for Biden that he is putting family first and not launching another run at the White House. For him to be a believable POTUS, he would have had to be a governor first, although being Governor of Delaware is like being Montgomery County Executive - and no one is considering Ike Legget for the White House (or Martin O'Malley for that matter).
It went without saying that Biden would have been a good union/social justice candidate - however I was hoping he would run so he might better explain to the hierarchy and theologians like MSW why abortion in America is not a license - license is definitely the wrong word because it implies permission - but an impossibility to regulate in our system. Aside from a few states before Roe and a handful after, abortion has been deemed outside the legislative process - which is totally unlike the rest of the world where rights are granted by the state, not innate (except Canada and England - who also have a strong natural rights tradition). If some want to assert rights for the unborn, the place to do so is Congress, but they would have to be willing to compromise to get it done -which would be bad for GOP and right to life fundraisers.
Biden's authenticity was a prize tool in his quiver, but he is not the only authentic politician out here. Bernie Sanders is drawing huge crowds because he is also the real deal. I dare MSW to mention him in that way.
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