Wanted: Leaders with Spines

It took nine full days for President Joe Biden to publicly address the pro-Hamas protests that have disrupted college campuses, blocked city streets and bridges, and threatened the safety of Jewish students. Because nature – and news cycles – abhor a vacuum, the void was filled by antisemitic apologists and October 7th massacre deniers.

All because Joe Biden, a career politician with no core values other than his own selfish ambition, is afraid of further alienating the Muslim voters in Michigan, Minnesota, and other swing states.

Instead of speaking out in unequivocal terms and denouncing both the protesters and their virulent hate speech, President Biden cowered in the Oval Office in the same way he did his basement bunker during the 2020 election. Meanwhile, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre relied on decades-old sound bites to restate Biden’s outdated positions.

Most presidents would have called out the National Guard by now, but our Coward-in-Chief has been reluctant to do so because of the potential optics. The last thing the powerful Progressive wing of the Democrat Party wants to see on the evening news is a live feed of violent protesters being handcuffed, arrested, and carted away… and yet, that is exactly what law-abiding Americans crave to see.

If enough students were arrested, expelled, and charged with hate speech and making terrorist threats, I am willing to bet that some less-than-hardline Hamas sympathizers would pack up and go home… and think twice before engaging in such shenanigans again. But that would require officeholders with backbones and college administrators who follow a strict moral code, both of which are in extremely short supply these days.

In September 1957, when nine black students decided to attend the all-white Central High School in Little Rock, President Dwight Eisenhower initially laid low, leaving the enforcement of the Supreme Court’s Brown vs. Topeka decision to Arkansas Gov. Oval Faubus. However, when Faubus used the Arkansas National Guard to block the school’s entrance, Eisenhower had enough. Drawing on his vast military experience, President Eisenhower federalized the National Guard and sent in 1,000 U.S. Army troops from the 101st Airborne Division to ensure the Little Rock Nine’s safe admission.

That is called bold leadership, something you would expect from the former Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in World War II. Unfortunately, Joe Biden is no Dwight Eisenhower. In fact, he is more like Little Orphan Annie or the Cowardly Lion from the Wizard of Oz… all roar but no fangs.

Or perhaps a better comparison would be to Emperor Nero, because while America burns, Joe Biden continues to fiddle.

(President Biden finally addressed the college campus crisis this morning with a few scripted words, popping out of his hole like Punxsutawney Phil on Groundhog Day, but refusing to take reporters’ questions. How shameful!)