Now time for some reality.
Keeping with the meme of the day….the debate….I would like to talk about the Democrats.
I gave my analysis earlier about this disastrous debate….disastrous in the case of Joe Biden….his performance was slip shot at best and now the Dems are scrambling to explain his poor showing….from he has a cold to whatever else the spin doctors come up with to explain his lack of clarity.
But in case you missed anything…..
President Biden’s campaign hoped the first presidential debate would push him ahead of Donald Trump in the polls. Instead, some Democrats are calling for him to step aside after a hoarse, faltering performance. His performance “left the field largely clear for Trump, despite the former president displaying his usual tendencies toward hyperbole and belligerence,” writes Niall Stanage at the Hill. He writes that for once, “virtually no one outside of the most hardcore partisans” disagreed about who won and lost the debate. David Graham at the Atlantic calls the debate a “disaster” for Biden that was “at times almost physically uncomfortable to watch.”
- Biden’s “biggest weakness exposed.” Hopes that Biden would alleviate concerns about his age “died within minutes,” according to Shane Goldmacher and Jonathan Swan at the New York Times. With his voice raspy, Biden “grasped to recall some specifics, and labored to articulate the statistics he could remember,” they write. “In one early answer, he confused trillionaires with billionaires. Sometimes, he lost his train of thought entirely.”
- Biden “lost in the first 15 minutes.” Biden “lost this debate within the first 15 minutes—probably the highest-viewed portion of the debate,” according to Elena Schneider at Politico. “Biden landed some strong rebuttals to Trump, particularly on Trump’s role during the Jan. 6 insurrection. But voters might’ve missed it if they turned off the debate after the first 30 minutes.”
- A “low-water mark.” Biden, who “seemed to embody the right-wing caricature of the president as an old man who has lost the plot,” lost the debate, but Trump digressed into “bouts of verbal diarrhea” and showed “flashes of menace,” writes Tim Dickson at Rolling Stone. “This debate was a disgrace,” he writes. “It will stand as a low-water mark in American electoral politics. Despite profound differences on policy, neither man seemed capable of clearly outlining their intentions for the country’s future.”
- A failed gambit. Molly Ball at the Wall Street Journal describes the earliest presidential debate in history as “Biden’s attempt to shake up a race that has appeared stalemated for months.” His campaign “believed Trump was benefiting from being somewhat out of the spotlight and that voters whose view of Trump was unduly colored by nostalgia would recoil when confronted anew with his abrasive persona,” Ball writes. “In the end, Biden may have succeeded in jolting the race out of its long stagnation, drawing a sharper contrast with his rival—just not in the way he wished.”
- Mutual dislike was evident. The debate was “more personal than policy-focused,” and the candidates’ “mutual dislike shot through a night filled with invective and name-calling,” Goldmacher and Swan write at the Times. “Instead of a steady drumbeat about the stakes, the debate devolved to the point where the two men had a prolonged discussion about golf handicaps.”
- False claims from Trump. Trump delivered his “usual stream of false and misleading claims,” Aaron Blake writes at the Washington Post, including his “false claim to having capped insulin costs before Biden did; blue states executing babies after birth; there being no terrorist attacks on his watch; Biden’s wanting to quadruple people’s taxes; and Biden’s having indicted him.”
- Memorable lines. “We finally beat Medicare,” Biden said in a bungled description of healthcare initiatives. Later, talking about Trump’s hush-money trial he told him: “You have the morals of an alley cat.” The Guardian reports that in a “historical first for a presidential debate,” Trump replied: “I didn’t have sex with a porn star.”
- Other winners and losers. Stanage at the Hill has alternative Democratic candidates alongside Trump in the winners’ column, as well as CNN, which “pulled off a coup in getting the debate in the first place.” Beyond Biden, another loser was the facts, Stanage writes, noting that the “amount of actual falsehoods uttered was striking,” and not all of them came from Trump. After Biden claimed that he had been endorsed by the Border Patrol Union, the union pushed back with a post on X.
Even this early there are some that are shaking their heads and thinking that maybe it is time for the old geezer to go…
Biden needs to step aside—for the sake of his own dignity, for the good of his party, for the future of the country.
President Joe Biden needs to end his campaign. The first presidential debate, held on Thursday night, was a disaster. It was clear from the outset that Biden looked old, sounded old, and yes, is in fact very, very old.
This has been rumored for a while. Thursday night, it was confirmed.
Panic seemed to set in among Democrats within minutes of the candidates taking the stage—on social media, at shell-shocked “watch parties.” Full freak-out mode was achieved by the 20-minute mark.
(theatlantic.com)
A fine idea and some of us have been saying that since March….I personally have never thought Biden was the best person for the job….but that is just me.
But how can it be accomplished…Biden being removed that is…..
Panicked Democrats might be ready to shove President Joe Biden to the side. But they need him to take the first step.
Within minutes of Biden’s poor debate performance concluding on CNN, the network’s commentators were openly discussing the possibility of replacing Biden on the ticket.
For apoplectic Democrats, the good news is that there is a way to do it before November.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/06/28/can-democrats-replace-biden-00165684
But not to worry I do not see the Dems having the balls to rep[lace Biden. If he loses they have something to piss and moan about for four years and a stage for the next election.
Nowhere does that benefit the people just the party and after all that is what this system is all about in the long run.
I believe you are stuck with Biden and unless something changes you are stuck with another 4 years of Trump and his strong arm tactics.
Again I wish I could say who I will vote for at this time but I am still making that decision and standing at a crossroad (future post).
The most pathetic showing ever! I told them it was way too early for a debate and did they listen….Noooooooooooooo!
Better luck next time.
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