While there has been lots of concern expressed about President Joe Biden’s cognitive decline, no one has accused the 79-year-old Democrat of hallucinating, but that may soon change after his national address Thursday targeting the Second Amendment.
In a speech that trampled on Americans’ constitutional right to bear arms in accordance with the inherent God-given right to self-defense, Biden talked about him and first lady Jill Biden seeing “rows of rows of crosses” and “other emblems of belief” at the Arlington National Cemetery — the problem here being that such things do not exist at the U.S. military cemetery.
“On Memorial Day this past Monday, Jill and I visited Arlington National Cemetery,” the president said to open his speech, as he endeavored to use emotion to establish the moral authority to infringe on the most basic of all rights. “As we entered those hallowed grounds, we saw rows and rows of crosses among the rows of headstones, with other emblems of belief, honoring those who paid the ultimate price on battlefields around the world.”
Biden opens his gun control speech by comparing soldiers lost in the line of duty that we honor on Memorial Day with mass shooting victims pic.twitter.com/oGlpbLuXPK
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) June 2, 2022
Biden then used the reference to non-existent crosses at Arlington to pivot to the senseless shooting at a Uvalde, Texas, elementary school by a mentally disturbed 18-year-old gunman who exhibited many of the tell-tale signs of a sociopath, even talking openly online about shooting up schools.
“The day before, we visited Uvalde — Uvalde, Texas. In front of Robb Elementary School, we stood before 21 crosses for 19 third and fourth graders and two teachers. On each cross, a name. And nearby, a photo of each victim that Jill and I reached out to touch. Innocent victims, murdered in a classroom that had been turned into a killing field,” the president continued.
Turns out, Biden is not the first to make such a blunder about crosses at Arlington, which uses upright white marble headstones shaped like a rectangle.
While speaking at the Republican National Convention in 2000, Dick Cheney did the same thing.
“And just before you settle down on the landing pad, you look out upon Arlington National Cemetery, its gentle slopes and crosses, row on row. I never once made that trip without being reminded of how enormously fortunate we all are to be Americans,” he said at the time.
It’s likely that Biden and Cheney — or more likely, their speech writers — are thinking of the American Cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer, in Normandy, France, where American soldiers killed in World War II rest in peace. The cemetery does feature row upon row of cross-shaped headstones, along with headstones in the shape of the Star of David.
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