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Photo File: Bill Clinton and Joe Biden
It
was a difficult start for Joe Biden. In the winter of February, Iowa was
shocked to see the results of the Caucus vote. Doubts have been raised about
whether his candidacy for the 2020 presidency will
last. In a word, he was also a loser in the White House race last February.
This
was probably his last attempt to fulfill Joe Biden's long-cherished dream of
moving to the White House in his nearly 50-year
political career.
Mr
Biden was seen speaking out emotionally during the party's initial campaign for
the presidency - the so-called primary election. She talks about her son's
death about five years ago, about her childhood, about growing up in a poor family.
But he assured the people: "There is always hope."
He
has also had to gain momentum in the competition to select candidates in
different levels of primary. However, the identity of his personality has
emerged from his emotional appeal in various campaign meetings. A picture of
his mentality, the places of trauma in his political and personal life and the
political adversities he had to face has been made clear in these campaigns.
"I believe in fate - I believe in fate," Mr Biden
told a government advisory body, the National Journal, in 1989. "My personal life never went
according to plan. But in my personal life, what I wanted has happened - an
invisible hand has done it. "
Fighter: Mr. Biden has experienced the untimely
death of close loved ones. More than once
in Biden's life. When he climbed the ladder to achieve political ambitions,
they collapsed. Again he had to build them anew. He had to work hard to be
eloquent. Because of his tendency to use contradictory and irrelevant words, he
had to endure a lot of satire.
Joe Biden often said, "One of
my father's greatest lessons in my life - no matter how many times he pushes
you, no matter how fast you get up, that will be the key to your success as a
human being."
Previously Mr. Biden defeated the
fight for the presidency candidate too .But tried to stand up after every
defeat. Senator Bob Kerry, in Congress in the 1990s. Biden's colleague said, "Joe never gives up.
He does his job even if he doesn't need to. ‘According to many, Mr. Biden is a man who survived from
himself many disadvantaged positions in his life.
Personal Tragedy: December 18, 1982 Mr. Biden was in
Washington. The telephone rang, his brother Jimmy Biden called from Delaware.
Sister Valerie wanted to talk. The sister said, ‘There was a small accident.
But there is nothing to worry about. Later that day, Mr. Biden learned that his
wife, Mrs. Nealia, and their
baby, Naomi, had died in the crash. His wife was driving. A lorry hit the car.
Her two sons in the car, Boo and Hunter, were also seriously injured.
They went to buy a Christmas tree
for Christmas. Mr. Biden was then barely elected senator. He was busy
interviewing that day to recruit staff for his congressional office. He also
decided to buy a house for his family. He was devastated.
‘I couldn’t speak, I felt a huge
emptiness inside my chest, it felt like a black hole was pulling me inside,’
Mr. Biden wrote in his memoirs.
He thought of giving up politics,
decided to become a priest, make two sons human. He wrote that in the areas
where there was a lot of hooliganism, he used to roam in the evenings. He
wanted to fight. ‘There was a huge rage inside me. I felt like God was playing
a cruel game with me. I would be angry. Joe Biden's 30th birthday was important in his political career, as
it is unconstitutional for a senator to serve in the United States for 30 years. Mr. Biden is cutting a cake with his wife and two children at
his 30th birthday party.
Adolescence and youth: Joe Biden's
father was a businessman. Mr. He had business success before Biden was born.
But after Joe was born, his business collapsed. Joe Biden's adolescence was
marked by family deprivation.
He grew up in a simple family home
in Pennsylvania. His family was very pious. Catholic values and beliefs were
developed through family worship. Her biggest challenge as a child was
overcoming stuttering. He could not overcome this problem till the high school
class. His classmates and even teachers used to make fun of him for his
stuttering while reading. ‘I still remember those days of pain, shame, anger
and humiliation’, Mr. Biden wrote in his memoirs. Standing in front of the
mirror, reciting poems calmly and speaking with restraint, he overcame
stuttering after high school. After finishing high school, he went to study at
the University of Delaware, and from there studied law at Syracuse University.
Political Rise: I met Nealia Hunter in college.
Return to Wilmington, Delaware. He married Nealia. His political
career began in Wilmington. He started working as a lawyer in a big legal
organization. But when he went to represent the rich and powerful, he soon
gasped. He took the job of fighting the law on behalf of the defendant on
behalf of the common people. His path in politics began with winning a seat in
the city council. Then came his victory in the Senate in 1972. He lost the Republican senator who had been in that
seat for a long time.
Joe Biden was a successful young
man in political life. At just 30 years old, he
won a seat in the Senate, defeating a Republican candidate who had been a
two-term senator. After his unexpected victory in the election where the Democrats
were defeated, he has become a potential young man of the Democratic Party in
the field of politics.
Shocked
again: He lost his eldest son Bo Biden in 2015. Mr.Bo died of brain cancer. Like his
father, he was involved in politics. He served as
Attorney General of Delaware state. In his
autobiography, written in two thousand and seventeen, Mr. Biden wrote
about his son's illness, saying that his son's untimely death had devastated
him again in 2015, when he was about to announce his
intention to run for president in the 2016 election. He
changed his mind. ‘I wasn’t sure if I would get enough encouragement mentally.
I have seen in previous experiences that grief is a stress that does not matter
in the schedule or the time of work, 'he wrote. In addition to grief and injury
in his personal life, he has built his political life.
The first stumbling block in the
White House race: In front of a crowd of journalists, Joe Biden had to announce
on September 23, 1987, that he was withdrawing from the Democratic Party's
race for the presidency. Just three months ago, he got into a candidacy fight.
‘I am responsible for it myself. I
am suffering from anger and frustration. This is not the true identity of Joe
Biden. It's just a big mistake of mine ', wrote Mr. Biden.
That
was the fight for the 1988 presidential election. Mr.
Biden's bid to run for president for the first time stumbles because of
embarrassment. He was forced to withdraw from the campaign when he was accused
of plagiarism and dishonesty.
Joe Biden suddenly fell ill in a
hotel room in New York a few months after announcing his decision to withdraw
from the fight. He contracted a potentially life-threatening disease called
cerebral palsy. For the next six months, he was hospitalized several times.
For fighting
to be Presidential Candidate Again: After
twenty years, Mr. Biden started for fighting
to be the Presidential Candidate again for the 2008
election. He is no longer a new face in politics, he is a veteran
politician. He said his campaign in 1986 was full of
big words and pictures. Twenty years later he changed the language of his
campaign.
"Looking at my life over the last twenty years, you
must have come to believe that I am a trustworthy person," he said at a 2006 campaign rally in Iowa. "And that's why I'm back
in the fight to run for office again." However, he did not succeed in that
fight. Barack Obama was nominated by the Democratic Party to run for president.
But to everyone's surprise, Barack Obama chose Joe Biden as his running mate.
"They're two very different people," said Kate
Anderson Brower, a journalist and author of the book Vice-Presidency. ‘Obama
spoke very cautiously, very thoughtfully. But Biden is quite the opposite. It
is his habit to speak hastily without thinking, which is why he has had to fall
into uncomfortable situations many times. Biden told Obama he would not change
"I will be as I am", said Kate Anderson Brower.
Bill Richardson, a former governor
of New Mexico who is one of Mr. Biden's rivals in that election, said Obama and
Biden developed a close relationship during the Democratic Party's primary
election campaign.
Mr.Obama
wanted a veteran politician on foreign policy in his administration and for that at a public meeting in Illinois, Mr. Biden was
declared his running mate by Mr.Obama. Mr.Obama said” Joe Biden
is a rare man - he's made a difference in Washington over the decades,
but Washington hasn't made a difference. I think, as my partner, he's the right
man to lead the country in the right direction,"
Iraq war and foreign policy: Mr. Biden
has long served on the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee. As chairman of
the Senate committee, he decided in October 2012 to approve the Republican president's decision to go
to war in Iraq. Eleven years ago, on the eve of the Gulf War, President George
HW Bush voted against allowing Bush to fight Saddam Hussein's army. Biden.
"We should try to find an alternative before pushing
the Americans to their deaths for the liberation of Kuwait," Mr. Biden told a Senate committee hearing.
Mr. Despite Biden's warning, the
decision was made in favor of the Gulf War, in which a small number of
Americans died. From then on, Biden was portrayed as weak in foreign and
national defense policy. The next few years after the vote was widely
criticized. Biden began to take a hard line on international issues, such as
the American position on the Balkan civil war, the bombing of Iraq, and his
support for the occupation of Afghanistan.
When President George W. Bush
proposed a new war in Iraq, accusing Iraq of possessing weapons of mass
destruction, Mr. Biden strongly supported it. ‘I don’t think it’s a passion to
fight, I believe it’s a campaign for peace and security,’ he said.
"The Democrats who supported the war felt that the risk
of not supporting it was that if the war were to succeed, they would fall
behind in taking political advantage of it," said Mark Weisbrot, a
documentary filmmaker on Biden's support for the Iraq war.
However, he was criticized by many
Democrats for his support.
In
his autobiography named "My mistake", he titled the
chapter on the Iraq war in 2007. He writes on
it "I misunderstood their sincerity and skill."
After the Iraq war, he turned to
the left. He opposes increasing the number of American troops in Iraq and calls
for the withdrawal of troops. As vice president, he advocated strengthening US
forces in Afghanistan and campaigning against Osama bin Laden.
He spoke in support of the US
Alliance for Democracy, but said that maintaining some independence was
important for Yemen.
He has pressed Congress over the
past few years to continue talks with Iran over its nuclear program, support
the Paris Agreement on climate change, uphold US interests in China, and
promote democratic reform in Ukraine. However, with China and Ukraine Biden’s position has been hit hard by various
campaigns. Trump said
Mr. Biden is closer to China and his interest in Ukraine is mainly to protect his
son Hunter's business interests in Ukraine.
The final stage of the fight: Although it
began with some uncertainty, Joe Biden has finally won the battle to become the
Democrat's nominee in the upcoming presidential
election in 2020. He defeated his opponent Barney
Sanders and got the ticket to run for the presidency.
Many political analysts say his
success is due to his long eight-year tenure as Barack Obama's deputy. Thanks
to this, he has received huge support from black Democrats.
He has chosen Kamala Harris, a
black-Indian woman, as his running mate.
His third attempt at the presidency in a nearly 50 years political career and his long 40 years dream finally came true. Joe Biden won the 46th US presidential election with a record number of popular votes and more than 270 electoral votes.
Edited by
MD Zahirul Haque
AI News Correspondent,
AI News Service, USA
