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.
“This is not a story about those who endured the fallout. t’s about those who helped set it in motion, because that’s where the responsibility lies, and where the lessons remain.”
We know now that Oregon was a big KKK state, and that Governor Walter Pierce (yes, Pierce Library at Eastern Oregon College was named after him) was a big sympathizer if not a member.
We know now that Oregon was a big KKK state, and that Governor Walter Pierce (yes, Pierce Library at Eastern Oregon College was named after him) was a big sympathizer if not a member.
“This is not a story about those who endured the fallout. t’s about those who helped set it in motion, because that’s where the responsibility lies, and where the lessons remain.”
The old trail makes time a permeable membrane. This surprising pleasure gives us glimpses of our city's earlier and ancient world marked by lights and shadows amid a modern, cosmopolitan city.
Office workers are to downtown city life what salmon are to the ecosystems of the Pacific Northwest–a foundational species. Their continuing absence is driving a collapse in property values, steep reductions in revenue for city government and our transit operators.
The local results are more mixed than the national Blue Wave. That probably translates into more instability in Seattle leadership (now four so-so mayors old), but a new generation is definitely coming, particularly if Wilson decides to seek a City Council seat and keeps up her pressure on the Mayor to perform better.