Opportunity
POST 1086
Preface
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Opportunity
The post that should have been in your Inbox last Friday was a proposed address by President Biden. In it he leaves the campaign, steps down from the presidency, turning over the Helm of State to Kamala Harris and fully endorsing her. He did two of the three and it will be enough. In fact, it’s a BFD.
President Biden has cemented his place in history, which will be seen as enormously positive. He will be seen as transformational in making a national turn from autocracy and re-establishing democracy in the hearts of the American people.
Assuming that Vice-President Harris will be the carrier of the Democratic torch for this election, her choice for vice-president will be the obsessive focus of talk. That’s a very good thing.
Aaron Sorkin explained the foundational point of this choice in his movie The American President, having fictional President Andrew Shepherd saying,
I’ve been here 3 years and 3 days and I can tell you without hesitation being president of this country is entirely about character.
Character – backbone, grit, integrity – is what we need. We need it as the under-girding of leadership, both behind the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office and in the office of the Vice-President in the Executive Office Building.
Focus, focus, focus on the one and only imperative:
Protect and defend our Constitution and our democracy.
Lost Opportunity
Upon hearing that President Biden had bowed out of the race, the twice impeached, found liable for sexual assault and defamation, 34 times convicted, 88 times indicted felon of a former president had an easy opportunity for grace and respect for the presidency. Instead, he commented on CNN, saying,
“He is the worst president in the history of our country. He goes down as the single worst president by far in the history of our country.”
And he posted on un-Truth Social:
This temper tantrum is from the head of the MAGA Party, where he called for national unity – just once for only a few minutes. Then he reverted to his standard bratty form.
This was a lost opportunity to be presidential. It’s much like his refusal to attend Biden’s inauguration, preferring instead to sneak out of town with his stash of top secret documents he had no right to possess.
As I said, character – backbone, grit, integrity – is what we need. We won’t find that anywhere in the cult of Trump. Instead, he never misses an opportunity to miss and opportunity.
“Friends do not let friends vote for con artists.”
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– Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), 2016
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Our governance and electoral corruption and dysfunction and our ongoing mass murders are all of a piece, all the same problem with the same solution:
- Fire the bastards!
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