I take exception to your "bullshit" about the "stubborn old man". This is beneath you. Biden has been an excellent president and it wasn't obvious that the pile-on would doom him until his debate. That he took three weeks to be convinced is not the biggest failure in the world. And as many of us worried, if it hadn't been Kamala, a food fight at the convention would have been awful (even Pelosi was musing about an open convention). It wasn't a given that it would turn out this way.
It's interesting how many of those who ended up being right that Biden must step aside seem incapable of graciousness. All I can say is, as an American voter, I will be eternally grateful for Joe defeating Trump the first time around, and I think he deserves to be cut a little slack for having done so.
By every measure of the economy, domestic legislation, international affairs (especially Ukraine and NATO), Biden is the most successful president since LBJ (notwithstanding corporate media and pundits like you failing to acknowledge what Orwell might have said is right in front of our nose) and he outperformed Obama's 2012 polls in the 2024 primaries and if you were deaf and forced to read the transcripts of the so-called debate, you would have scored Biden the winner because he answered the questions with facts when Trump said nothing that was true. That is how debates are supposed to be scored. In any case, Biden's decision to leave the race when he did and endorse his chosen vice president is another affirmation of his great political stewardship. When Kamala Harris becomes president, at least some historians will attribute her victory in no small way to Biden.
The expression ‘plan for the worst and hope for the best’ can be altered to the current situation in the US, ie ‘plan for Trump and hope for Kamala’.
In either outcome Europe needs to grow up and stop NEEDING American support and resources! Without this Ukraines future is in peril and maybe other Eastern European nations too……
I take exception to your "bullshit" about the "stubborn old man". This is beneath you. Biden has been an excellent president and it wasn't obvious that the pile-on would doom him until his debate. That he took three weeks to be convinced is not the biggest failure in the world. And as many of us worried, if it hadn't been Kamala, a food fight at the convention would have been awful (even Pelosi was musing about an open convention). It wasn't a given that it would turn out this way.
It's interesting how many of those who ended up being right that Biden must step aside seem incapable of graciousness. All I can say is, as an American voter, I will be eternally grateful for Joe defeating Trump the first time around, and I think he deserves to be cut a little slack for having done so.
For what it’s worth I do have respect for Biden and I think he made the right decision to stand aside.
By every measure of the economy, domestic legislation, international affairs (especially Ukraine and NATO), Biden is the most successful president since LBJ (notwithstanding corporate media and pundits like you failing to acknowledge what Orwell might have said is right in front of our nose) and he outperformed Obama's 2012 polls in the 2024 primaries and if you were deaf and forced to read the transcripts of the so-called debate, you would have scored Biden the winner because he answered the questions with facts when Trump said nothing that was true. That is how debates are supposed to be scored. In any case, Biden's decision to leave the race when he did and endorse his chosen vice president is another affirmation of his great political stewardship. When Kamala Harris becomes president, at least some historians will attribute her victory in no small way to Biden.
High time for Europe to grow up and take care for itself.
The expression ‘plan for the worst and hope for the best’ can be altered to the current situation in the US, ie ‘plan for Trump and hope for Kamala’.
In either outcome Europe needs to grow up and stop NEEDING American support and resources! Without this Ukraines future is in peril and maybe other Eastern European nations too……