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Reagan on Biden: ‘Smooth But Pure Demagogue’ The American Spectator; posted by Jeffrey Lord

October 11, 2012

Ronald Reagan was not impressed with Joe Biden.

In fact, writing in his diary in his usual abbreviated style on June 15, 1987, Reagan described Biden this way:

He’s smooth but pure demagog [sic]– out to save Am. [America] from Reagan Doctrine…

As America settles in tonight to watch now-Vice President Biden face off in debate with Congressman Paul Ryan, whom no one has ever accused of being either a “smooth but pure demagogue” much less part of “a lynch mob,” it’s worth a look at exactly why the nation’s 40th president saw Biden this way — and how Reagan’s assessment is reflected in the conduct of today’s Obama-Biden administration…

To be a demagogue, of course, is to exhibit a personality trait not a policy. To appeal to prejudice… And he has three policy favorites in which his addiction to demagoguery most frequently surface: foreign policy, race, and economics….

Yesterday, Reagan biographer Paul Kengor shared a story about then-Senator Biden’s treatment of William Clark, Reagan’s appointee in 1981 as Deputy Secretary of State. The story is a classic of Biden demagoguery for which Reagan had such disdain. And there’s more to the story….

In other words, … Joe Biden has never changed…

Joe Biden, Ronald Reagan concluded, was nothing more — or less — than a “smooth but pure demagogue.”

The Gipper called it as he saw it.

Read the complete post at: http://m.spectator.org/169477/show/f06436edfd5f24a8799b5e67d03592ab/?

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