Will Joe Biden appear weak if he makes a public statement against the Senate proceeding to impeach President Trump?
The Chicago Tribune articles report more preparations on the Senate to impeach Trump along with an article that if Trump is impeached it will set back Joe Biden campaign speech to unite our Nation.
The Purpose of This Post
Is to relate an ancient proverb with a contemporary article for interested readers to discern the conundrum question.
King Solomon
Proverbs 15:1 – A soft answer turned away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.
Proverbs 19:11 – The discretion of a man deferred his anger; and [it is] his glory to pass over a transgression.
Proverbs 10:12 – Hatred stirred up strife’s: but love covered all sins.
Psychology Today – Forgiveness Excerpt
“Both research and experience have suggested that one roadblock people face with forgiveness is the idea of being seen as “weak” and saying that what the offender did is excusable. However, let’s reevaluate the definitions of forgiveness described above. In many ways, it actually takes more strength to forgive. Staying angry and bitter is easy a lot of times. We can accommodate and get used to our angry feelings. It takes a lot more work to forgive. So, to suggest that forgiveness equals weakness is actually false, forgiveness is powerful.”
What’s My Point?
He (Joe Biden) has been hesitant to fully endorse an impeachment process, however, and said on Jan 8 that impeachment was “a decision for Congress.”
My experiences in business, CEO’s in business have to make decisions about: “grey area matters” that others may or may not agree with.
My Point is to question, was the 2020 Election a “grey area matter” when the facts is that certain States did not abide by election rules of their Constitutions?
In My Opinion
Joe Biden will be inaugurated on January 6, 2021 as President of the USA to makes decisions that former President Truman described as the role of President as “the buck stops here.”
A new report states: “He (Joe Biden) has been hesitant to fully endorse an impeachment process, however, and said on Jan 8 that impeachment was “a decision for Congress.”
In other words, should we consider Joe Biden will start off his Presidency with what I consider a “pass the buck” statement” or assuming a “neutral or present” vote on the question of the Senate proceeding to impeach President Trump?
If Interested
Read the articles in the Source Links below
You Decide
If after reading, how will you discern about Joe Biden and the conundrum question?
Will Joe Biden “be the biggest loser” by being “neutral or present” on the issue building “roadblock people face with forgiveness is the idea of being seen as “weak” and saying that what the offender did is excusable.”
Is it wise or foolish for Joe Biden to begin his Presidency by being neutral, or just present, about impeaching President Trump on a grey matter and then give a speech about uniting the Nation?
Regards and good will blogging.
Source Links
Chicago Tribune January 18, 2020
Joe Biden Is Impeachments Biggest Loser
Psychology Today
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-addiction-connection/201409/the-psychology-forgiveness
Bible Verses on Forgiveness
https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Bible-Verses-About-Forgiving/
Joe Biden Statement
https://dailycaller.com/2021/01/13/joe-biden-donald-trump-second-impeachment-trial/
Rudy u Martinka 
Would not an early step to “try” and begin some unifying administration be to defer an opinion that is purely a Legislative Branch decision, rather than field a personal opinion that provides no substance either way? There’s a big difference between deferring opinion and deferring the responsibility for making a decision on a course of action. But either can be a strategy rather than led by a personal fear and/or apprehension to avoid public scrutiny. If anything, Biden’s choice to keep mum about the impeachment/trial process can be construed to be simply not wanting to bias the process with any suggestion of his presidential influence. Nothing to see here, Rudy.
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Doug,
Joe Biden has been in Congress 50 years and has learned it is savvy for a politician who wants to become President to vote neutral on issues.
Joe is emulating his former leader Obama
who voted during his tenure in Illinois to vote neutral 129 times and wound up to be President.
President Trump was the opposite of Obama and the result in his term has Trump has: brought home hostages, revamped trade deals, rebuilt military, stopped illegals crossing our border, boosted school choice, stood up to China, created 7 million new jobs, put three hundred conservative judges on federal bench, lowered drug prices, cut taxes…& more
Sad to consider in my opinion that the election of Joe Biden is going to be a repeat of Obama and his promise “to change we can believe in result in growing a bigger swamp in Washington.”
Regards and goodwill blogging
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Oh Rudy.. none of that you’ve attributed to Trump is anything that huge… that’s assuming any of that even worked according to what he intended. The trade war with China we paid for.. not China. The tax cuts helped the rich. Those three hundred Conservative judges.. and SCOTUS … didn’t help him one bit nor advance any Conservative-only decisions. In fact, none of them went his way on the election fraud charges. Past presidents have done far more.. others have not. Obama had Obamacare.. Hostages have been brought home by other presidents as well.
A lot of “hostage returning” has to do with political timing of the moment. Trump did nothing that impactful, as a matter of legislation. He’s be hugely impactful for the national chaos we find ourselves swimming in.
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Doug,
Oh Doug, your reply reminds me of the old saying “beauty is in the eyes of the beholder.”
Keep in mind in history that most martyrs are considered for being strong like Trump and not weak like Obama.
And same as in history, Obama is a star in the eyes of his contemporary beholders and Trump will be a martyr cast out into the wilderness like a sacrificial goat only to considered in time to be a hero in history, in my opinion.
Regards and goodwill blogging.
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So.. you think Trump will be the delayed-and-appreciated-and-recognized -hero like Truman has become? That very well could be, depending how the future of the nation turns out. Fortunately that will not be in my lifetime and my decedents will have to muddle that one out if that time comes.
I’d not settle on the idea that might.. or the image of strength… makes right. Trump was/is/and will remain until his end of days, a schoolyard bully. His application of power has never come from a sense of virtue, compassion, or a righteous moral conviction to serve ALL Americans. But.. hey.. he’s got you and others believing that his “strength” is a wonderment.
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Doug.
Your use of the word “bully” to describe Trump reminded me of a same word used to describe another previous President.
An image of his face along with George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, and him are now carved into a mountain for tourists to admire
There is still room on the mountain for Trump’s face which can be added in the future.
If Interested
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Rushmore.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bully%20pulpit
And for both of us because of our ages, hopefully we won’t be around to witness perhaps Joe Biden name being associated with a former President named Herbert Hoover.
For example, the stock market is at a record high same as in 1929 and just reading what Biden has in mind to add to the National Debt, I won’t be surprised if another stock market crash and super inflation of the dollar scenario may occur during Biden’s term.
Hopeful it won’t ….and sometime in the far-off future …you and me will be sitting at a table in some afterlife location watching on a big screen the events taking place on earth while having a beer.
I will be relating what is happening to another repeat performance of the folly that occurred in previous generations and you will be debunking my opinions.
If you think about what will people be doing in after life, watching us human fools keep repeating the folly of previous generations might be one of the things we may do as a form of entertainment.
Regards and goodwill blogging.
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Rudy, From my perspective and all the information that has been disseminated-Joe Biden, is the worst kind of politician. He follows the wind and favorable currents – He is a puppet and will go with where the government can best get larger and more centralized- My opinion about trump is that he was mostly counter punching due to my perception, that the real schoolyard bullies are the media and Big tech Oligarchs – I agree that he set out to accomplish a great deal and that he followed through-giving the “establishment” a poke in the eye The democrat party is interested in ruling not leading
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jeffw5382,
Agree. But hope we are both wrong.
Regards and goodwill blogging.
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