A Huge Scale Historical Tragedy!
On Saturday June 29th 2024 Formwer Fox News Host Chris Wallace During His CNN Political Panel Debate Show (Featuring Some of The Most Interesting Post Presidential Debate Analysis) Described Some Aspects of Biden’s Presidential Debate Performance On Thursday June 27th 2024 As Including:
Vacant Stares Into Nowhere,
Forgetting What He Was Talking About Less Than 10 Minutes Into The Debate,
Running Out of Things To Say As The Debate Went On,
Igniting Private Talk of Presenting A New Presidential Nominee If He Refuses To Stand Down Freely (Which Won’t Be Easy); With Potential Replacements Including Kamala Harris The Vice-President,
And Leaving Harris To Clean Up His Mess, Causing Her To Say:
I Am Not Spend All Night With You Discussing The Last 90 Minutes When I’ve Been Watching The Last 3 Years of Performance.
Commentators On Wallace’s Panel Were:
Kara Swisher (Podcaster & Author) @karaswisher
Lulu Garcia-Navarro (Podcaster & New York Times Columist) @lulugnavarro
Jona Goldberg (Editor of ‘The Despatch’ And Columist The LA Times) jonahgoldberg.com
Kurt Mills (Executive Director of ‘The American Conservative’ Magazine) https://www.linkedin.com/in/curt-mills-b1253b60/
Opinion & Commentary:
Notably It’s Quite Fascinating How Different Commentators Interpret The Same Event With The Same Set of Facts Totally Differently, Depending On Their Point of View.
Only Goldberg Said Clearly That The Democrats Need A Better Candidate And Joe Should Go For The Sake of Democracy.
Only Time Will Tell Who Is Right About The Impact of Biden’s Shockingly Poor Performance On That Historiacal Night. But A Major Question Arises Here At TO.P In The Meantime:
How On Earth Did Biden Get That Far This Time Round Knowing How Far He Had Declined Since The Presidential Debate Last Time Round?
Biden’s Resilience Is To Be Applauded For Finally Making It To The White House In 2020 After Several Previous Attempts.
(In A Free And Fair Election Which Time And Time Again Has Been Proven Not To Have Been Stolen; Raffensberger’s Courage, Guilliani’s Defamation Case Failure And Fox New’s Loss To Dominion Are Great Points of Reference And Evidence.)
Securing Jim Clayburn’s Support Was A Special Moment For Him Winning The Black Vote In Particular, As It Helped Him Get Over The Line. @repjamesclyburn
However The Incumbent Has Clearly Sadly Declined Since This Time.
His Dedication To Public Service Is Laudable. But Not Preventing His National, International, Global And Increasingly Predicatable Humiliation Was A Huge Disservice By The Man Himself And By Those Around Him Who Did Nothing To Stop Him. He & They Delluded Him, Subjecting Him To The Worst Presidential Debate In American History. It’s A Huge Scale Historical Tragedy!
We Can Only Hope Now That It Is Not American Democracy That Pays The Price As Trump Was Handed A Win of That Debate On A Plate!
Biden Made An Excellent Point About Achieving A Bipartisan Agreement On Border Control With The ReTrumplicans And Reminding Voters That Trump’s First Presidency Seperated Parents And Children And Put Them In Cages.
However He Failed To Bring Home The Point That Trump Deterred The Republicans From Signing Off On It As A Bipartisan Border Control Agreement. This Was So That He Could Keep The Immigration Debate Open During The Election And Continue To Campaign On It (Rather Than Genuinely Wanting To Achieve A Civilized Solution).
“Someone Was Going To Fall And Break A Hip”
Swisher Did Not Watch The Debate Live Because As She Put It Previously The Week Before “Someone Was Going To Fall And Break A Hip”. And As She Put It This Week “Well Someone Did!”.
Now She Expressed Her Belief That Biden Will Not Stepdown of His Own Accord After He Appeared At A Rally Earlier That Same Saturday And Afterwards At ‘The Waffle House’ Performing Much Better Just A Couple of Days Later. And Also The View That What Voters Think May Be Very Different To What Pundits Think Within The Washington Bubble. It Is Arguable For Instance To Make The Case That He’s Done Well Over The Last Three Years (Which Is What VP Harris Said In Her Post-Presidential-Debate-Defence of Him).
Goldberg Believed He Should Definitely Step Down Because If Trump Is The Existential Threat To Democracy The Democrats Claim He Is Then They Should Put Forward The Best Candidate Available To Fight Him. And Joe Biden’s Performance Demonstrated That He Is Not That Person. He Boldly Said “I Think He’s Not Qualified For The Job Or To Be The Candidate”.
He Also Highlighted The Fact That Earlier This Year in February Special Counsel Robert Hur Had Declined To Prosecute Biden For Mishandling Classified Documents After Investigating The Matter And Concluding In His Subsequent Report That It Would Be Hard To Get A Jury To Convict Him As He Would Probably Be Perceived as A Wellbeing But Forgetful Old Man. And Yet Instead of Effectively Heeding These Words of Warning The Democrats Denounced It As A Disrespect And The republicans Denounced The Decision As a Partisan cop-Out.
Garcia-Navarro Acknowledged (Like Swisher) That There Was Alot of Panic But Concluded Empathatically “No One Is Going To Have An Internal Coup In The Democratic Party To Shove Out Joe Biden. It’s Just Not Going To Happen. So To Even Speculate About That, I Think Is Irresponsible”.
Mills Maintained That The Democractics Could Have Been More Democratic By Biden Being Challenged In An Open Primary. Yet He Was Not Challenged Seriously (Dean Phillips A Would Be Challanger Only Got 1% of The Vote). And There Was Talk of An Open Covention Being Conducted In July Over Zoom. Regarding The Latter Mills Said He Could Not Imagine Anything Less Democratic.
Curiously In Addition He Also Said He Thinks It’s Funny How Doubted Biden Is, Describing Him As “The Most Implacable Opponent Trump Has Ever Had”. (This Promoted Wallace To Ask If He’d Actually Watched The Debate). He Said He “Sort of” Brought Into The Line That Biden Had A Cold And Could “See No Reason Why He Should Be De-Frocked Because He Had A Rasby Voice Last Night”. (Sic.) The Debate Was Thursday Night June 27th 2024.
Asked By Wallace If There Was A Democrat Who Had A Better Chance of Beating Trump The Panel Had A Number of Different Suggestions;
Swisher @karaswisher – Felt It Was Too Late For A New Candidate And That It Was Not Going To Happen. “It’s Just A Washington Fantasy”. But Nonetheless Kamala Would Be The Natural Choice. And Gavin Newsom Possibly @cagovernor
Goldberg jonahgoldberg.com – Suggested The Governor of Michigan Getchen Whitmer @whitmermi The Governor of Pennsylvania Josh Shapiro @joshshapiro
Opinion & Commentary:
Walk On! Walk Off!
As Per The First Video Above (Third Column) Joe Biden Had A Shakey Start To The Presidential Debate. Sadly He Also Had A Shakey Finish. The Ajudicator Announced He Had 82 Seconds Left (Virtually A Minute And A Quarter). But There Was No Dynamic Finish In The Last Minute.
What’s Worse Is That It Seems Clear That Dr. Jill Biden Was Aware of His Shakey Condition As She Gingerly Helped Him Down The Stairs After The Debate (Whilst Trump Confidently Strode Off The Stage Unaided).
Later, Reminisent Of A Teacher Talking To A Child, Dr Jill Told Joe How Well He’d Done In Answering All The Questions.
Voters Want To Have Confidence That Their Leader Is Strong. So Image, Perception And Appearances Are Very Important. That’s Why Any Failure To Address His Decline In Condition Was Wrong. That Concealment May Have Helped Change The World For The Worse As The American Dream Descends Into The American Nightmare And American Democracy Disappears!
“I Did Not Sleep With A Prosititute”
Trump Confidently Strides On. Biden Gingerly Shuffles On. Biden Looked Weak From The Outset.
Trump Nicknamed Him Sleepy Joe Years Ago And It Did Not Help That Biden Lost Hs Train of Thought Ten Minutes In To The Presidential Debate.
But Biden Did Have A Couple of Moments Where A Punch Landed. Including One Where He Categorically Said That Trump Lied About Democrates Supporting Late Abortion And The Murder of Newborn Babies. Plus He Said That Trump Has The Morals of An Alleycat!
Trump & Biden Were Questioned On Voter Concerns About Ability Their To Serve. Typically Bragadocious Trump Says He’s Aced A Number of Cognitive Tests, Is Smart And In Good Shape. Feels The Same As 25-30 Years Ago. Just Won Two Golf Championships. References Tests At The White House Under MAGA Supporting Dr. Ronnie Johnson (Who Delivered His Covid Treatment Narrative During The Pandemic).
Biden Looked And Sounded Frail.
The Economy. Roe v Wade And Abortion Access. Veterans.
Trump Revised His Previous Talk of Retribution.
Trump Denies Saying War Cementry Full of Suckers And Losers. He Is However Documented On Video Record Saying He Prefers Winners To Losers (In A Military Context) And Those Who Never Became POWs. Both Claim To Have Done More Than The Other For Veterans.
Biden Naturally Took Great Umbridge At Trump’s Apparent Implication That His Late Military Son Was A Sucker And A Loser. He Came Across As Understanably Riled And Emotional. But Not Strategically Srong And Prepared.
Access To Abortion And The Roe v Wade Case, The Immigration Issue, The Economy, Inflation, Isreal And Palestine, Putin, Climate Change, Comey And “Drain The Swamp”.
Each Claimed The Other One Was The Worst President. Trump Says Biden Was So Bad He’s Going To “MAGA”. But MAGA Was Conspired Long Before Biden’s Presidency And Is A Racist Backlash To Obama (Along With The Birther Movement, The Big Election Lie And The January 6th Insurrection Riot). But Biden Did Not Fight Back On That Strong Enough.
Biden’s Lack of Fight Back Disappointed Alot of People. As Did The Apparent Failure of The CNN Moderators To Pull Trump Up On A Series of Mis-statements, Misrepresentations And Blatant Untruths.
Opinion & Commentary:
Biden Could Have And Should Have Made A Stronger Defence of His Economic Policies And Achievements As They Are Reportedly Good. As Pointed Out By Analysts On ‘The Amanpour Show’ (Which Followed The Chris Wallace Programme). And Biden Would Have If He Was On Top Form (…At Least As Good As He Was Five Years Ago). But Again He Was Literally Tongue-Tied, Flayling, Bumbling, Stumbling And Self-Destructive. Catastrophically He May Have Taken American Down With Him.
Video Below: Veteran Civil Rights Leader And Dr. MLK Protege Reverand Al Sharpton Declares Now May Be Time For Biden To Standdown For The Good of The Country. @nationalactionnetwork
Video Above: Commentator David Axelrod Also Indicates That Those Conversations Are Now Inevitable. @thedavidaxelrod
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