A key problem for the Biden team and for the Democratic Party is Kamala Harris. If Biden decides to not seek a second term, it is almost certain that Vice President Harris will be the shaky nominee.
The Democrats should embrace this opportunity to produce a splendid, news-dominating American pageant. For once, horse race coverage will actually be more important than issues coverage. With the nominee unknown, Putin and Trump will have a hard time targeting or strategizing.
This “debate” was incredibly sad. Sad to watch Joe Biden, like a fighter well beyond his prime, taking blow after blow. Always on his heels. Always reactive.
What rubs salt in the wound of American pride in its democratic system is the mockery from China: the fact that netizens of the one-party authoritarian state are laughing over the debacle.
Polls showed that an unnamed Democrat could beat Trump, but they also consistently show that people don’t approve of Biden’s performance and think he’s too old to be President and is a weak leader. He had one chance Thursday to demonstrate all that was mistaken—and he utterly failed to do it.
I was pleasantly surprised (starting from very low expectations) how much he recalled and how cogently he recited it. The downside to all the prepping is too much detail and no zingers.
When the nation’s voters – many millions of them – tuned in to last night’s debate, what they first heard was the nation’s president, an aging white man struggling with a mouth full of cotton.
While few tears were shed over Maduro's political demise, the United States' unlawful and unauthorized hostile action in Venezuela has signaled to other powerful countries ruled by authoritarians that there are no longer any guardrails confining the use of deadly force to attack, occupy and loot a sovereign state.
As the Court ponders (or pretends to ponder) Slaughter, is the late Justice Antonin Scalia getting a kind of posthumous revenge? His dissents seem to be all over this case.
While few tears were shed over Maduro's political demise, the United States' unlawful and unauthorized hostile action in Venezuela has signaled to other powerful countries ruled by authoritarians that there are no longer any guardrails confining the use of deadly force to attack, occupy and loot a sovereign state.
In terms of spectacle per cubic foot, San Francisco last weekend even topped the Seahawks' astonishing 38-37 win over the Rams two weeks earlier in Los Angeles that knocked the Rams down the playoff seedings ladder.
As the Court ponders (or pretends to ponder) Slaughter, is the late Justice Antonin Scalia getting a kind of posthumous revenge? His dissents seem to be all over this case.
After stepping down on January 1, Frank Blethen will continue as board chair while the Times chief financial officer, Alan Fisco, will become CEO and work closely with the new publisher, Ryan Blethen, Frank's son and the fifth generation of Blethens to lead the daily.