Hunter & Joe Biden - AP Photo/Patrick Semansky
CONLEY COMMENTARY (WSAU) – Barack Obama promised us that “if we liked our insurance plan we could keep our insurance plan, and if we liked our doctor we could keep our doctor.” As Obamacare caused thousands of companies to drop health insurance altogether, or forced doctors from one network to another, the President was once asked at a news conference if his promise was still in effect. “Mostly,” was the answer.
“If you like it you can keep it” was voted the political lie of the year in 2013. Lying was more subtle back then.
Twice this year Joe Biden was asked about Hunted Biden’s legal trouble, and twice we were told that there would be no pardon, no commutation of sentence, no clemency. That was, until Sunday afternoon, when the President determined that his son was being prosecuted by his political enemies. The cases were an attempt to get at Joe Biden through his son. No reasonable person would conclude that the cases were handled fairly.
Hmmm. Can Joe Biden clear his brain long enough to think of any other cases that were politically motivated… perhaps cases that were intended to damage a political opponent’s chances of being elected? Maybe a business records case in state court, usually a misdemeanor, that was filed as a felony after the statute of limitations had run? Anyone? Anything? Joe Biden even tweeted after the jury’s verdict in that case “no one is above the law.” He left out the “except my son” part.
Hunter Biden was convicted by a jury on June 11th on a federal gun charge. And he stood before a judge in September and pled guilty to failing to pay $1.4-million in taxes. His guilt or innocence is not in question in either case.
Is this selective and malicious prosecution? Well, you try to swindle the federal government out of seven figures worth of taxes, and see what happens to you. You’d be prosecuted and your father, who isn’t the President, would not be able to bail you out.
I’m not surprised the President pardoned his son. If it was within my power, I would do anything to spare my kids of such punishment. The only thing that surprises me is the boldness of the lie.
Chris Conley
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