Why Joe Biden Will Be Our Most American President

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Opinion
Why Joe Biden Will Be Our Most American President
WHO HE IS
He does not have to tell us what he’s lost. His job now is to make sure we do not lose our country.
Mike Barnicle
Updated Jan. 19, 2021 10:14AM ET / Published Jan. 19, 2021 5:00AM ET



On that day when he stood for hours at the foot of the altar inside St. Anthony of Padua Church in Wilmington greeting each of the hundreds who had come to pay tribute to his son, Beau Biden, the vice president of the United States had to wonder if the pain and heartache would ever stop. Nearly six years later Joe Biden, like so many others, deals daily with the forever fresh memory of loss simply by going to work, doing his job.

“My God, the suffering that guy has endured,” his friend, former Senator Bob Kerrey was saying yesterday. “He has suffered immensely and that’s given him a rare ability to truly understand the lives of so many he’s now going to lead.

“In a very real way he’s maybe our most American president since Harry Truman. He is uniquely American. He’s not a celebrity. He’s not some Ivy League hot-shot. He’s Joe,” Kerrey continued. “He’s Joe Biden. He used to finish up a day’s business in the Senate by grabbing his lunch bucket, well not a lunch bucket but he’d grab his briefcase, walk down to Union Station, get on the train and go home. Nearly every day. That’s a huge part of who he is. A working guy headed home at the end of the day.”

Tomorrow, Joe Biden will be sworn in as the 46th president of the United States. He will follow four years of damage, lies, cruelty, ignorance and incompetence that resulted in our inability to cope with a global virus that has killed more than 400,000 Americans, crushed our economy, closed schools, stripped hope from millions, encouraged tyranny and treason, created deeper chasms of intolerance and opened fresh wounds of racism, all of it bullied forward daily by a man constantly running from accountability: Donald Trump.

“We need a president who knows mercy. We need a president who knows how to listen. We need a president with soul and grace—and that’s what and who Joe is,” Kerrey pointed out.

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Joe Biden, our next American president, has spent a long time thinking about and preparing for the oath he’s about to take and the job he’s about to do. He’s been ready for this moment for a long, long time.