IT ISN'T THAT BIDEN PARDONED HUNTER. BUT...
The fact that he said he wouldn't was the stance that Democrats used all year as a gauge of how the Democrats are more ethical than the Republicans.
And now they're changing their tune. This is what so many people despise about the path they've taken. It's all rationalization, justification and tail turning in an effort to get away with whatever they want to get away with. They have no choice but to change. They're just not ready yet.
As for old Joe..
Sure, it's his kid. I get it. But even Jon Stewart made the point that everybody is someone's child. And if you use power to just take care of your own, with preference to that of the American people, then you've failed as a servant of the people. And that he has. In so many ways.
This is just the final stamp on it all -- which seems oddly appropriate.