Cosmopolitics by Elise Labott

Cosmopolitics by Elise Labott

Biden's deeper amnesia

Will Democratic voters remember the Biden who promised to champion human rights or the one who has applied that pledge selectively?

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Elise Labott
Feb 10, 2024
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President Joe Biden's memory lapses about the president of Mexico may have become fodder for late-night banter, but his selective memory on human rights is no laughing matter.

That lapse isn't just a faux pas; it symbolizes a Freudian slip into his administration's deeper amnesia: forgetting the core values and lofty human rights promises Biden brought …

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