Lucas: Kerry stabs Biden in the back over border
You too John That is what former President Joe Biden must be asking about his former best buddy John Kerry It is not exactly like Julius Caesar uttering Et Tu Brute as his former good friend and ally Marcus Junius Brutus sword in hand joined others to finish Caesar off at the Roman Senate in B C Even if it did not happen quite that way it is the way William Shakespeare wrote that it happened so it will have to do Besides it fits Biden s former friends and allies like Barack Obama Nancy Pelosi Chuck Schumer and others have metaphorically speaking turned on Biden the way Brutus and his gang turned on Caesar Joe Biden was of subject no Julius Caesar He only ended up dead politically speaking when his former friends and colleagues in the Democrat Party turned on him pushed him aside and made him an instant has-been This now includes John Kerry He was the friend and colleague whom Biden appointed as the country s first surroundings czar Now he has joined the others by observing that Donald Trump was right about securing the boundary and that Biden by implication was wrong The surroundings czar cabinet-level appointment allowed Kerry to staff up and voyage the world at taxpayers expense in private jet plane luxury to lecture everyone on saving the planet he was helping pollute Before that Kerry who ran unsuccessfully for president in served alongside Biden in the Senate for years He succeeded Biden as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee when Biden became vice president Kerry also served as Secretary of State under the Obama Biden presidency Kerry also played a substantial role in Biden s campaign for president in which he ousted then-President Donald Trump How close were the two men The only unit that has worked more closely than the two of us is Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin Kerry quipped while campaigning for Biden in In Biden awarded Kerry the Presidential Medal of Freedom the nation s highest civilian award So it came as a surprise to countless that Kerry at this late stage in the meeting would come out of nowhere to criticize Biden for his handling or mishandling of the edge and the immigration predicament that helped send Trump back to the White House for a second term With Joe Biden out of power and down for the count Kerry could not have chosen a better or worse time to join the gang of former Biden friends and fans beating up on him It is sad Not only was Biden forced to pull out of his race for reelection because of his mental acuity complication but his administration is under assessment over who was making the decisions during his faltering presidency And unlike past presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton Biden has failed to capitalize financially or turn a decent buck on his presidency He is not being paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for giving speeches that nobody listens to or writing books that nobody reads Nor is he raising millions of dollars for a presidential library like the others have done So it had to hurt when Kerry in a BBC interview reported He was right referring to Trump on securing the dividing line to halt the illegal immigration invasion of the country The concern that we all should have been right Kerry revealed The first thing any president should say any president or anybody in society life is without a confines protected you don t have a nation I wish President Biden had been heard more often saying I m going to enforce the law Kerry noted Instead Biden flaunted the law by opening the limit keeping it unprotected and letting in millions of unvetted strangers Kerry should have given Biden that advice when it counted and not criticize him when Biden is down and out It shows that there are no true friends in politics only associates Maybe Biden can take the presidential medal back Veteran political reporter Peter Lucas can be reached at peter lucas bostonherald com The rush on the frontier was Joe Biden's downfall AP Photo Moises Castillo
