Well, I’m pretty glad no one, “saved,” us from Biden’s first term. It will very likely turn out to be a historical Presidency. Just because you’re old doesn’t mean you automatically cannot do the job.
But they hadnt done so. He was polling better than any other potential candidate, and about the same as trump.
But then he caught covid again and was very tired- and too many were yelling at him to withdraw. So he did.
Nicely Harris got a little rebound in the polls- she is now polling a little better than trump. But not a lot.
Yes, probably the best president in recent memory.
In your opinion what made him much better than Obama?
I don’t really believe in presidential rankings, but the young man mentioned in the last post did a lot:
Obama’s Top 50 Accomplishments
One accomplishment not on the linked list: Got re-elected.
So what is your point?
It’s not “bigotry” because age is a genuine condition with genuine effects; is it “bigoted” to not let six year olds be President?
And we bother with democracy because as the old saying goes, democracy is the worst system of governance ever tried except for all the others. I don’t trust the voters; but I trust a dictator even less.
Okay, how about best presidency since January 20, 2017?
And we already have a constitutionally-established way of dealing with the effects of age on the president in the form of the 25th amendment. I’m generally not a fan of limiting who can run for office or prohibiting the people from electing the candidate of their choice, and “What if nuclear war happened and Biden was too sleepy to tell anyone what to do so they all just stood around with their thumbs up their butts until everyone died” is so farfetched a scenario to merit serious consideration.
That’s just not true. It was reported that political operatives showed him he no longer had a path to victory, and that was in his statement. You’re saying Biden lied instead of admit he doesn’t have the energy to campaign while being President. That doesn’t seem like him.
Yes, I picked Biden as the Dem for the 2020 election because I knew he was the best choice to reestablish norms destroyed by Trump. He was most qualified to restore the Presidency because he most knew how the job should be done, and how an effective government is supposed to work. I’m ecstatic that he’s done that and been so effective in the face of the worst obstruction in decades.
It’s not my opinion that age itself is a bar from office. But I was of the opinion in alignment with a statement by Biden himself that he should be a transition President and then hand over the reins to the next generation of leadership. And his declining health was becoming evident.
Well your inside baseball might well be far superior to mine but the (public) mail I had was that his Chief Strategist Mike Donilon and his Presidential Counselor Steve Ricchetti met with Biden mid-Saturday with new internal polling from battleground states (fwiw apparently the first comprehensive polling the Biden campaign had done in swing states for two months!!??) showing that Biden was “behind every where and even sinking fast in Virginia and New Mexico” and there was “almost no path to victory”. Biden with Donilon and Ricchette worked on Saturday afternoon at his beach house to draft his letter of withdrawal.
YMMV