"...I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal; this was the moment when we ended a war and secured our nation and restored our image as the last, best hope on earth."
Fucking hubris is dangerous.
"I am absolutely certain that generations from now..."
I've always felt that leaders described as "visionaries" in history books usually had the benefit of a lot of luck to reach whatever it was they were trying to do. And I'm gonna go on a limb here and assume he ain't gonna be no visionary.
"provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless..."
What exactly did he have in mind when he said "good jobs?"
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Good piece in The Daily Beast about Biden.
"...I watched the proceedings on a big screen together with 250 listeners from the Seattle flagship station for my radio show. In the discussion afterward, one of the women present said that Biden made her cringe by reminding her precisely of her abusive ex-husband. Another 23-year-old came up to me afterward and emphatically agreed, saying she had just left her own abusive relationship and that watching Biden’s antics gave her the creeps in the same way that her former boyfriend’s dismissive snickering always made her feel inadequate...."
No kidding his facial expressions were infantile. It's been said Biden won on "substance" but to me he was trying to manipulate the room and voter. We've all met people who do things like that. How does it make YOU feel? I know what I do. Once the urge to slug them is past, I ignore them.
Let's look at it this way, if you have children and you're teaching them all the civil cues we expect from one another, who would you point to to further your point, Ryan or Biden?
That wasn't a strategy, it was satire unhinged.
It was more like a hack hockey team with no talent going out and playing old time hockey by not actually playing but smashing people into the ice.
Now you get the picture why his behavior was bad? You don't have to be from any party to conclude it was rude - interrupting someone 82 times is annoying.
Plus. And this is a BIG plus, he's the acting VP. A leader of a nation of America's stature simply shouldn't be acting that way.
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Did anyone catch Biden takes swipes at the intelligence community with Benghazi and then use their reports to cite the state of Iran's nuclear capabilities when it suited him?
I don't know about the people who thought Biden won, but where I come from that's poor debating when you contradict yourself.
Indeed, there's plenty of lying going around. The only trouble for the Democrats is that their in power and they're lying counts more.
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In the end it all came off as...
Excellent analysis.
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