Salahuddin Haider
JOE Biden was a poor man’s son, born on November 25, 1942 in State of Pennsylvania, his father being an ordinary labourer. Ten years later his family moved to Delaware. There he started schooling, received a law degree, and then became the attorney. He was youngest senator and is oldest President of United States. He remained senator for 38 years, winning support each time from his constituency.
He is honest, and a man of integrity. As senator, he could have misused his office to fill his coffer, but he remained steadfast, held on to principle, refusing to be tempted by money, and continued to thrive on his emoluments as lawyers, and the perks and privileges of the upper house of his country’s parliament. Before that in 1930 he had won county elections. His progress as parliamentarian was gradual.
He married in 1977, but il-luck struck him and rather too early. His wife and daughter were killed in a car accident, his son survived with injuries. He kept looking after him from his own limited resources, rather than rely on government assistance. Few years later, he married second time, to a school teacher Naiela. A profession she kept on with till today, except that from school teacher she graduated to be a college professor.
Biden, despite being a senator, preferred to travel in trains from Delaware to Washington for Senat sessions. Some time he traveled standing in the train because of heavy rush in bogeys. He met with a second tragedy when his son too passed away falling prey to cancer. This was a great shock for him, but he kept praying to God for mercy. As senator, he passed two premier legislations, one for respect to American judiciary, and second for banishing barbarism against womenfolk.
In 1998, the then President Barak Obama appointed a job at a look after 788 billion dollars, but Biden never felt tempted to spent a single dollar of public money on himself. Obama offered him financial assistance but he apologized politely saying public money should never be misused. So this is the story in a nutshell of a poor boy, who struggled hard to reach to the top.
In 1998, he stood for presidency but was denied permission for a little crime of stealing some sentences from the speech of a British politician. That was against American tradition. The question is can this be possible in Pakistan politics, where money is everything. A lesson for US Pakistanis.