The Buck Stops With Somebody | RealClearPolitics

Sep 05, 2021 View Original Article
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  • Policy Leaning

    32% Medium Conservative

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Bias Score Analysis

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"In January 2019, his administration played chicken with congressional Democrats over funding his beloved (by him) border wall."
Positive
6% Conservative
"It was that the administration had sold lethal armaments to the ayatollahs at a time the U.S. was leading an embargo against Iran in hopes of retrieving American hostages."
Negative
-28% Liberal
"The mission, Biden proclaimed, was an extraordinary success."
Positive
54% Conservative
"Getting the message, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton chaeled John Poindexter."
Positive
0% Conservative
"These Gold Star families are not alone: Biden's job approval rating has plummeted in the past two weeks."
Negative
-4% Liberal
"It will surprise no one that Donald Trump was almost uniquely the un-Harry Truman."
Negative
-4% Liberal
"We weren't told they wanted more security, Biden insisted during an Oct. 11 vice presidential debate."
Negative
-6% Liberal
"I take responsibility for the decision, Biden said Tuesday."
Negative
-14% Liberal
"A man who actually boasted that he'd never read a presidential biography, Trump didn't even give lip service to the ethos espoused, if often in the breach, by his predecessors."
Negative
-22% Liberal
"And though Trump had a valid point about the shutdown, this attitude would foreshadow his style of leadership when things really got scary: i.e., when COVID-19 hit these shores."
Negative
-22% Liberal
"The buck stops with everybody, Trump replied before launching into an attack on the Democrats' record on crime."
Negative
-26% Liberal
"Biden went on to blame many others (though never himself) while adding a new wrinkle to the presidential avoid-the-blame game."
Negative
-26% Liberal
"Among those who haven't appreciated Biden's buck-passing are the families of the 10 U.S. Marines and three other service members killed by a suicide bomber at the Kabul airport."
Negative
-28% Liberal
"Asked by NBC's Kristin Welker whether he bore any responsibility for the CDC's botched and tardy rollout of a coronavirus test, Trump replied, No, I don't take responsibility at all."
Negative
-30% Liberal
"In the Obama administration, one might say, the buck stopped with a dedicated career public servant named Eric Boswell."
Negative
-32% Liberal
"Most incongruously, Biden even blamed the Americans left behind in Kabul who couldn't make it past Taliban checkpoints to the airport."
Negative
-34% Liberal
"On the 20 day of the partial government shutdown that resulted, Trump was asked on the White House driveway whether the buck stopped with him on the shutdown."
Negative
-34% Liberal
"And presidents are all too human, as Americans have been reminded in the last few weeks watching Joe Biden pass the buck for the violent and chaotic U.S. exit from Afghanistan."
Negative
-36% Liberal
"In a subsequent tweet, Trump amplified, President Obama made changes that only complicated matters further."
Positive
4% Conservative
"In a subsequent tweet, Trump amplified, President Obama made changes that only complicated matters further."
Positive
4% Conservative
"In the aftermath, President Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, and leading Capitol Hill Democrats pointed fingers in every direction other than the White House."
Negative
-42% Liberal
"In the aftermath, President Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, and leading Capitol Hill Democrats pointed fingers in every direction other than the White House."
Negative
-42% Liberal
"Joe Biden has returned the favor in the wake of the awful Afghanistan pullout."
Negative
-42% Liberal
"Except that he has blamed, in turn, faulty intelligence, Afghanistan's president, the Afghan army and, of course, Donald Trump."
Negative
-48% Liberal
"So, for Trump, the buck stopped with Obama."
Positive
2% Conservative
"So, for Trump, the buck stopped with Obama."
Positive
2% Conservative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : In January 2019, his administration played chicken with congressional Democrats over funding his beloved (by him) border wall.
36% : It was that the administration had sold lethal armaments to the ayatollahs at a time the U.S. was leading an embargo against Iran in hopes of retrieving American hostages.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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