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| Subject: | First, a bit of clarification... |
| From: | Justathot   |
| Date: | Mon, 08-Jul-2024 6:06:33 PM PDT |
| Where: | SoapZone Community: Politics Message Board |
| In topic: | July Politics Post ~ 🎆🇺🇸☀ posted by Andrea |
| In reply to: | It's clear to me he should not have run for a second term, BUT... posted by Marriage4All |
"in theory, any President could die tomorrow"
is about the importance of looking at the VP choice. A senior senator versus a junior senator. The senior senator picked Gov. Palin; the junior senator picked Sen. Biden. IMO, the junior senator made the better choice and Senator McCain was already behind healthwise, so his VP might have to step up. I would prefer it if President Biden decided to step down now and have VP Harris run as an incumbent. She would have to select a Senator-confirmed VP pick a la VP Gerald Ford. (I think President Ford's VP was Rockefeller? I didn't check...just going on memory...too lazy to look.) Some say that he's waiting until the NATO Summit before he makes an announcement...that's assuming he's planning to announce that he's not running. If he makes that announcement, imo, he should step down, not finish his term, and let the VP become president.
...I think realistically, it's too late to do anything about it (unless he is indeed mentally worse off than he appears). Switching to Harris now is more likely to cause chaos than to be successful, despite a couple of recent polls showing her doing a bit better against Trump. I know what the GOP will do to her and unfortunately, I know it'll probably work with too many voters.
This would be much smoother if President Biden was the catalyst and did this "on his own" instead of doing it under duress. Right now, it's looking like he's being pushed out instead of deciding to step down. If he steps down after the NATO Summit, President Harris would have three months to demonstrate her abilities.
I'm not happy with him. I'm not happy with the people around him. I could tell he was going downhill in the last year, but it wasn't clear to me until the debate how much worse he is than even a year ago (and no, I don't think he was "just tired". He really hasn't been that impressive in any attempt to look better since the debate - he sounds defiant, but he appears to unfortunately consider that better). I didn't like this with Reagan and I'm not going to act like it's magically fine because it's my party doing it. He clearly is worse off than . I seriously, seriously, seriously doubt he will be capable of being President by the beginning of 2029, when this term ends. I'm okay essentially voting for Harris to take over at some point, but that's not how it was supposed to happen. We are where we are because he either is being misled by the people around him or because his own ego would not allow him to stop at one term.
I'm much happier with some of the stuff he's gotten done; but most of that was done earlier in his term of office. As far as the people around him, I'm not sure if anyone is being a good advisor to him. I think his last "good advisor" was Ron Klain. No one else around him is close enough and politically astute enough to speak frankly to him and lead him to the door.
Yeah, I think President Reagan was a puppet during the last part of his administration and should have been removed based on the 25th Amendment. I'd rather President Biden exited before someone invokes the 25th Amendment.
At the end of the day, I'd vote for a rotting corpse over Trump. This is the third time in a row the GOP has forced us into a corner where it's "democracy or facism". But I'm worried that he has been dealt a serious enough blow - and sure, the press is less focused on Trump's failings and overly fixated on Biden's, but that doesn't change that this is largely a self-inflicted wound on Biden's part - that not enough people will agree with me. At the same time, I don't think Harris is necessarily a realistic option at this stage. It's too late. It's become very clear he should not have run again after it was already too late.
Yes, anyone but Trump; however, the case has to be made, clearly, that a RePOTUS Trump would be an existential threat to the country. President Biden isn't making that case. The DNC is busy trying to build a fire break around President Biden. The Biden surrogates are spending half their interview time trying to 'splain why the debate, interview, public appearances weren't that bad. That's not prosecuting the case against the other candidate with the clear, simple, published facts like Project 2025, "I want to be a dictator the first day," and "retribution" talk.
However, if WaPo is even a little bit right, one thing that needs to stop right ****ing now is Hunter Biden anywhere NEAR the WH. He has NO business in official affairs. He's a convicted felon. He's completely untrustworthy. Pushing other aides aside and surrounding Biden with his family does nothing to assure anyone that Biden is really okay. If Hunter has taken on more of a WH role, that needs to stop, and it needs to stop as of yesterday. That shows absolutely terrible judgment on Biden's part and it does nothing to make anyone feel better about him.
Hunter Biden can hang out in the residency of the White House suggesting more salt in the soup or that we watch a different movie together. He has no business in or near the Oval Office.
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- I don't know what Biden is doing right now. - Marriage4All - 09-Jul-2024 5:13 AM
