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Re: Today In Biden Land
Good post! In the interest of keeping it short, I picked out several portions in order to comment.
Originally Posted by SlimTrae
Biden drew controversy when in February 2007 he called Obama “the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy.” He later apologized, but the remark was not forgotten.
How dare he!Call Obama, clean. Articulate..and the nerve!
To call him bright! Worse, how dare A Democrat say he was the 1st...so no other blacks were clean or bright?
Considering this is FIX
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/how...-for-president
First and foremost... we 100% agree on the media being the most divisive element in the U.S. political landscape today. It's been this way for a while... and it's only gotten WORSE. Putting a divisive media together with the most divisive President in history was like purposely bringing a lighted match into the fireworks storage shed. Be sure to be at a safe distance. The media preys on the weak and easily swayed. Back in the day, respected journalists were almost emotionless as they gave the news and even when they stated opinions in editorials. Nowadays... tears and clenched jaws and angry spittle is almost a requirement for talking heads today. So the media is as much to blame as anyone. And WHY? For the almighty dollar (read: RATINGS).
But Trump doesn't get off scot-free. Trump was divisive from birth. I can almost close my eyes and picture him in the schoolyard playground... pitting groups against one another. (His would be the entitled brat group.)
Trump and the media may hate each other... but they're cut from the same cloth.
BINGO! on the "anyone but..." vote. Count me in among the guilty in both elections (even though here in P.R. we can't vote for the POTUS). I would've said anyone but Hillary in 2016... just like I was begging anyone but Trump in 2020. It's not the public's fault, though. If a guy on Death Row is given his choice of execution methods... it STILL sucks and he's gonna die anyway. It doesn't mean he's gonna gleefully choose one over the other. All this shows is just how far the bar has fallen in the last 5 years. The office of POTUS is a shambles. Respect is out the window. Unity is but a pipedream that will never be achieved. Dignity in the office is a distant memory. Sad.
The truth is... I was one of many who cringed when the Democratic Party finally spit out Biden as the challenger to Trump. The media may be foaming at the mouth for Biden's approval ratings... but they don't manufacture them. They just report them. And the painful truth is that Biden pretty much compares favorable ONLY to Trump.
On Afghanistan, my position has been clear from the get-go.
Yes, it was a decades-old problem which another POTUS started.
Yes, it was Trump who rashly announced a timeline for withdrawal.
Yes, it was Biden who was left holding the bag when Trump left.
But as POTUS, you can walk back a timeline and say "I wasn't the one who promised that. Now I'M in charge and I will plan this correctly."
Then you go back and make sure all your "i"s are dotted and your "t"s are crossed.
Someone in the forum had a problem with that assessment, choosing to ignore the fact that withdrawals CAN be adequately planned in order to minimize the collateral damage.
Following Trump in the WH can be called both a curse and blessing.
A curse because Trump left behind a much worse American public than he inherited. He happily fanned the fans of divisiveness and hate (aided by the corrupt media, of course) and created a chasm as wide as 20 Grand Canyons.
Given today's public to work with... it would be easier to seek unity with Martians than with the opposing, polarized factions in the U.S.
A blessing because, let's face it..... there is LITERALLY nowhere to go but up.
Again... Biden's numbers are disappointingly low.
Yet they're STILL higher than Trump's.
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