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Bad Karma to Refuse a Gift of Grace
In the WSJ, Lance Morrow compares Joe Biden’s rise in political heights to ancient history.
If it isn’t a Greek tragedy, then the Biden family antics are giving a Dickens novel a run for its infamy. If Herodotus were telling the story, writes Lance Morrow, he would begin by recounting how, long ago, Joe Biden lost a daughter, Naomi, when she was only a year old.
Suffer the Little Children
It happened in the 1972 Delaware car crash that also killed his wife, Neilia, who was driving, and critically injured their little boys, Beau and Hunter. The accident became the defining trauma of the elder Mr. Biden’s emotional life. He suffered. He rose from the ashes.
Years passed. Joe Biden won many elections. He remarried. His elder son, Beau, grew to estimable, prospering manhood. But cruel fate intervened again. Beau, the golden son in his prime, died of a brain tumor at 46. Joe Biden, family man, was touched once more by the sorrows of Job. On the other hand, in his old age, he became the most powerful man in the world.
Struggling with Pride and Self Importance
In the fullness of time, Providence sent Joe Biden a blessing: another little girl, a granddaughter named Navy Joan. She is 4 and lives with her mother in Arkansas. She is innocent—as blameless, one might say, as her father, Hunter Biden, is not. The Biden family has yet to come to clarity on this point: It isn’t the child who is disreputable. It is her father.
Are Americans to view this story as a classic fable? A soap opera? An irrelevant anecdote? When Grace Metolius was a young novelist, she wrote “Peyton Place” about this sort of thing, Mr. Morrow reminds readers.
Aside from a recent child-support settlement agreed to in an Arkansas court (in which the takeaway prize, God help us, was a bunch of awful paintings by the child’s father, whom she’s never met). The Bidens have decided that the little girl doesn’t exist. It would make more sense from a moral point of view if they embraced Navy Joan and declared that it’s Hunter who doesn’t exist.
Wandering in the Land of Nod
In any case, Dickens and Herodotus most likely would advise the Bidens: It isn’t wise to refuse such a gift of grace, a blameless child leads to bad karma. There is a lot of sleaze oozing from this, some of which is riveting, a lot of which is not.
The son’s strange power over the father is such that neither will acknowledge the girl. There seems something unwholesome, almost morbid, about Joe’s relationship with Hunter. One senses that Joe is afraid of his son—that there is wickedness in Hunter. His power over his father is sinister. Father and son seem to appease and protect one another.
At age 53, wouldn’t it be prudent for Hunter to leave his father’s house? Perhaps Hunter should dwell in the Land of Nod, located on the east of Eden, where, according to Genesis, God exiled Cain after Cain killed his brother.
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