Tag: Joe Biden

Posted on

Kamala for President!

I absolutely HATE the way Joe Biden was forced out of the presidential race. He is a good man who continues to do his best, and now some people are talking about him as if he has abdicated the Presidency. He is still the President of the United States, my President, and I am confident he is going to finish the job he started. At the same time, he (and I) realized he needed to step aside and pass the baton for the next leg of the race: the race to save American Democracy from an avaricious, self-involved, self-serving, dangerous man and his sycophantic Republican party.

Joe Biden has passed the baton to Kamala Harris, his worthy vice president, and she has hit the ground at an explosive pace, a pace it will be hard to match or beat.

Kamala Harris is in the race for president to win, and she has what it takes to do it. There’s no question that she is smarter than Trump and quicker on the draw. She will pummel him if a debate does happen, and it won’t matter who the moderators are.

This presidential race is ours – Democrats’,  Independents’  and moderate Republicans’– to win!

Everyone who is for Kamala for president must be prepared to do her/his part. That means more than voting on November 5th.

We have fewer than 100 days to win this race. I will volunteer to text folks in Michigan and other “battleground” states. What will you do to ensure that Kamala Harris becomes the 47th president of the United States?

# # #

Posted on

The Sky is Not Falling; Biden Just Had One Bad Debate Night

President Joe Biden and Donald Trump were on the same debate stage June 27, but they were not participating in the same debate.

President Biden came to his lectern to answer the questions from the moderators for all the American people; Trump went to his lectern to score talking points with his base. While the President worked to craft cogent responses to the questions, Trump flung out stale lies which seldom addressed the questions at hand.

On the one hand, Trump did not come off as unhinged – a real accomplishment for him – he just came off as the lying liar he is. Rarely did he seem to think about his responses; he didn’t have to because he had a script in his head that had nothing to do with the questions CNN’s Jake Tapper and Dana Bash asked the debaters.

On the other hand, the President had a less than good night and seemed less on the ball than the Dems and I would have liked. But for Democrats to talk about asking him to step off the ticket is not only premature, it is too late for that. The election is less than five months away. The President and the Democrats are going to have to stay the course. Joe Biden is the incumbent, the Democratic nominee. It’s a fact everyone must live with.

Let’s face it, to some Trump may have seemed better prepared than the President but he really wasn’t, because he didn’t come to debate, he came to pound his acolytes with his favorite lies. And when asked if he would accept the results of this November ‘s presidential election, Trump, who was asked the question three separate times, never said, “Yes.”

As to the President’s performance, he did not have a stellar debate night. Though he marshaled and shared a huge amount of information with the American people, a couple of times he had trouble using his two minutes, he was sometimes hard to understand, and he was ineffective in responding. to Trump’s lies or pointing out Trump’s failure to respond to most of the questions.

However, what I ask you to remember is this: Barack Obama had a poor first debate with Mitt Romney, but he aced the subsequent debates, and he won the election that November!

So, Democrats need to pull themselves together and worry about getting out the vote. The sky is not falling after all! Joe just had a bad night.

Posted on

A Critique

Screen Shot 2023-02-12 at 8.16.58 PM
President Biden delivering the State of the Union.

 

President Joe Biden shone bright during his 8 February 2023 State of the Union message. He was vibrant as he outlined ten or more of his Administration’s numerous accomplishments over the previous two years. He stood and spoke for a little over an hour without any difficulty, even bantering with far right-wing Republicans led by Q-Anon conspiracy theorist Marjorie Taylor Green as they shouted insults at him.  He then spent another 20 minutes or more on his feet as he greeted well-wishers while leaving the chamber.

The Republican response delivered by Sarah Huckabee Sanders was simply, to use her own word, “crazy,” and not a response at all.  Rather than responding in any way to the invitation to bipartisanship that was at the core of the President’s State of the Union message, Sanders harkened to the “crazy” messages of the Republican MAGA ultra-right and their conspiracy theories. Sanders accused the President of leading “a woke mob that can’t even tell you what a woman is.” Those aren’t Biden’s words, they are hers. What do they even mean? Crazy.

Screen Shot 2023-02-11 at 8.54.24 PM
Sarah Huckabee Sanders

According to Sanders, “The dividing line in America is no longer between right or left. The choice is between normal and crazy,”  implying that the Republicans are “normal.” Crazy, right?

Sanders’s allusion to the “Little Rock Nine,” the brave students who integrated Central High School forty-plus years ago and who now have been memorialized in bronze at the Arkansas capitol came out of nowhere and seemed designed to align herself with them. Crazy, crazy, crazy!

I could go on, but why? In a mere 14 minutes and 37 seconds, Sanders revealed her true colors, her ignorance, and her disdain for every Democrat, moderate Republican, and Independent in the country. Many of the things she said about the Biden Administration fly in the face of the truth. It makes me wonder if anyone vetted her speech. It is sad and hard to believe her crazy rant really is how the Republicans want to portray themselves.  PEI

Posted on

Thoughts on the Final 2020 Presidential Debate

Week before last, Donald Trump said, “I’m not going to waste my time on a virtual debate!” What that actually meant, folks is, “I’m not going to waste my time talking to the majority of the American people.”  And, so he reverted to type. Less than a week out of the hospital with Covid-19, Trump was on the hustings creating Super-Spreader rallies with his acolytes. He makes no bones about it: He is their president, not yours and mine.

Joe Biden and Trump have  agreed to a final debate at Belmont University in Nashville TN on Thursday, October 22 at 8 PM CDT, 9 EDT. I usually tape  and alternate between both C-SPAN and PBS, and that’s what I will do on Thursday. I like those stations because they don’t do any or much talking while the candidates are sharing their points of view.

Of course, the number one question on everyone’s mind is a two-parter: will Trump act with decorum or try to wreck this final debate as he did the first; and will NBC’s Kristen Welker be able to maintain order on the set?

I’ll be watching and hope you will be, too. I’ sure you’re sick of hearing what a momentous election will conclude on Tuesday, November 3. But you know it is. Most people already have made up their minds, and millions already have voted, so the last debate is rather anticlimactic. For most of us the debate is more a thought exercise than anything else.

In the few remaining days until the debate, the media – and you and I – will speculate on how it will go, and how often Trump will misbehave and flaunt the rules he’s agreed to observe. Have fun!

pei