Joe Biden is not a quitter.
When things get hard, Biden doubles down and does what is needed to get things done.
The late Beau Biden spoke about his dad and said “Every time he has been knocked on his tail — 1972, 1979, 1988, six months later with his aneurism — never once, did I see him be a different way. I always saw, and never had any doubt, that he would go on…. There was no denying the gravity of those situations, for all different reasons, but never did I see any hint of him giving up, ever. I call this incredible resilience and I see it today.”
Biden’s parents instilled this in him. They taught him that the mark of a person wasn’t whether they got knocked down, it was whether they got back up. Biden gets back up.
Biden has shown this resilience many more times in his life. Not many people could deal with what he has dealt with — the death of his wife and daughter and hospitalization of his sons; the death of his adult son — and come back with increased faith in life and increased devotion to making a difference.
When he has setbacks, he uses them as an opportunity to move forward and learn and improve. It is not that he doesn’t suffer. Biden talks about the days after his wife and daughter died as days when he had trouble finding the will to live. The death of his son Beau was devastating to him. Biden has suffered. But Biden doesn’t give up — he digs deeper. It is how he was raised and it is who he is as a person.
Being president is full of many moments of failure mixed with few precious moments of victory. A great president is able to weather the disappointments and move on with increased devotion to helping the American people. A great president gets back up.
A great president also helps America get back up. And as Joe says in this new ad “it is time for American to get back up.” Joe can help us do that.
Stop what you're doing and watch this new ad from the Biden team. And then make sure you're registered to vote. pic.twitter.com/ToHjMWnD32— Jordan Finkelstein (@JGFink) October 14, 2020
Stop what you're doing and watch this new ad from the Biden team. And then make sure you're registered to vote. pic.twitter.com/ToHjMWnD32
Joe Biden will be a great president.
This is Day 88 in my series 100 Days of Loving Joe Biden
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