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I've been "trying to think it over" regarding why Joe waited so long to abdicate?
There have been many a report that his cognitive skills were deteriorating even when he was Obama's VP and definitely during the "Trump interregnum" as a private citizen.
To campaign during '20, he "lucked out" as all he needed to do was to make scripted addresses from a TV studio in his home. This resulted in his "razor thin victory", which will be disputed by some "forever".
He sold himself as a one term "bring us together" President. On that objective, he failed miserably. So far as his legislative "achievements", help those financially hurt by COVID?, sure; that's what a government is for. Infrastructure? well, too many politicians swept that under the rug for too long. After all, where's the "photo-op" with a repaired stretch of highway?
Now to the Inflation Reduction Act. What that had to do with its title escapes me. It was really just a "grab bag" for Bernie, Liz, AOC, and The Squad to have what they wanted in return for their '20 and '24 support.
But Joe should have recognized that he "didn't have it" for a full-fledged "can't hide in my studio" campaign against, Donald, Nikki, Ron, or Swami, and should have withdrawn about when this topic was originated.
Finally, I must wonder how many of "the Democrat Bench" just might be rooting for Trump. After all, Kamala never really had standing with them as she flitted from "Backbench Senator" to unsuccessful Presidential Candidate to "stageprop VP". For if Kamala wins, '28 by custom will be held open to her, so the likes of Amy, AOC, Gavin, Gretchen, Kathy, JB, and Josh, will all have to wait for '32. Several of them could well have "aged out" by then.
Just some "Homestretch thoughts" of mine.
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This Rate The Presidents is not the usual one sponsored by CSPAN that I have cited around here. That poll, which rated Trump as 41st of 44, did not rate Joe as his term was not complete when it was taken.
Now this one cited rates Joe as 14th best of 45, with Trump being last, or worse than Buchannon, who historians hold could have done much more than he did to contain the Civil War.
I highly doubt if Joe's 14th will hold when either this or the CSPAN poll is updated. I also hold that Obama (#7) is in for a dropping from his rather high "perch" that he holds in both polls.
But now to current events, I blame Joe in great part for Kamala's, anywhere between "decisive" and "landslide" defeat (I'll call it the latter should Trump also win the popular vote), he should have stepped away from the '24 nomination as soon as he realized his cognitive skills had diminished to the extent they have. His "corner" was like that of a "no match prizefighter" being told "come on kid, you can do it".
Now another group I blame is the pollsters. Those people have now been wrong, and in turn feeding the public misinformation, for each of the past three presidential elections (yes; Joe won, but by such a slim margin that it gave rise to January 6). This also leads me to wonder if the pollsters each campaign hires were also feeding them misinformation. I further have to wonder how those feeding the public could be telling the media that all seven battleground states could be within a point either way when in fact Trump will win all seven of them?
As I noted at the other active forum topic, the George McGovern quote from the '72 election where Nixon "trounced" him; "the only poll that matters is on November 7"
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A Brazilian poll? Particularly with convicted criminal hard-leftist Lula da Silva in charge of that country?
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Mr. Helfner, to allay your concerns, I have now linked the cited material to another site.
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This Journal columnist, Kimberly Strassel, sure lays the Trump victory/Harris defeat on the media:
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quote:The recriminations are flying, as Barack Obama’s and Joe Biden’s forces go to war over who’s more to blame for Democrats’ humiliating defeat Tuesday. So long as the left is pointing fingers, let it direct a big, fat digit at the outfit that played the biggest role in losing it this election: the U.S. media.
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More "Dump on Joe" - this time, by a columnist writing in The Times:
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quote:Kamala Harris lost the election this week, but I mostly don’t blame her. At least, I don’t blame her because of anything she did recently. Since she became the unofficial nominee in July, she played a difficult hand about as well as she could have, running a disciplined campaign that sought to reassure Americans about the economic issues that trouble them most, in a political environment that was very rough for Democrats and for incumbent parties around the world. But where did that bad hand come from? It was dealt to her by two people: President Biden, who produced a governing record she could not effectively defend or run away from; and herself
With his years in public service foregoing "who knows how many $$$", yes, "he stayed to long at The Fair". This defeat has robbed him of so much, so let him live out his (what I don't think will be too many) final years with a sense of dignity.
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Forgoing? Still has a reported net worth of $10 million (although the green Corvette suggests higher); should be far lower if solely as a career politician with zero private sector experience, which nobody regards as respectable.
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