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.
There were two sides to the bargain of 1855. For the settlers, a gain of the right to settle and own the land. For the Indians a recognition and preservation in perpetuity of their sovereign reserved right to fish, hunt, and gather food and medicine on the lands that had always sustained their ancestors and themselves.
Luckily the nation’s cuisine hasn’t been remotely touched by Trump. A current New York Times heralded the nation’s 50 best dining spots. None show any MAGA influence.
There were two sides to the bargain of 1855. For the settlers, a gain of the right to settle and own the land. For the Indians a recognition and preservation in perpetuity of their sovereign reserved right to fish, hunt, and gather food and medicine on the lands that had always sustained their ancestors and themselves.
Luckily the nation’s cuisine hasn’t been remotely touched by Trump. A current New York Times heralded the nation’s 50 best dining spots. None show any MAGA influence.
Armstrong's book exhibits a massive amount of research and is a handy compendium for the genre of musical theater. It also has a strong, Trump-defying thesis, that Broadway musicals are "created almost entirely by people who were marginalized -- immigrants, Jewish, Queer, Black,...and women."