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Granted, I have a well-documented penchant for cynicism. Therefore, you’d be forgiven for dismissing my title as me just being my cynical self. But I need only cite two unassailable facts to prove the truth it asserts: The October surprise in 2012 was that Mitt Romney defeated Barack Obama in at least two of their… Read more.
Presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden has chosen Sen. Kamala D. Harris (D-Calif.) as his running mate, elevating a former presidential candidate whose most electric campaign performance came when she criticized his record on school integration during a debate. Harris will be the first Black woman and first Asian American to run for vice president, representing… Read more.
On March 18, President Trump declared America at war against Covid-19. More to the point, he took great pride in hailing himself a “wartime president.” Except that, Trump has been so incompetent on this front, Joe Biden, his Democratic challenger for the November presidential election, has had just cause to repeatedly dismiss him as follows:… Read more.
Four years ago, I pleaded for the (liberal) media to stop derailing Hillary’s campaign with irrelevant stories about her “stupid e-mails.” What do you think FOX News, the BBC, The New York Times, The Guardian, and other news organizations would do if Assange were leaking hacked e-mails of their anchors and reporters – purportedly to expose bias in the… Read more.
For all intents and purposes, Joe Biden dealt Bernie Sanders a knockout blow in their (now two-man) fight for the Democratic presidential nomination on Super Tuesday. I duly celebrated with the Ali-like headline, “Super Tuesday: A Biden Shocker,” March 4, 2020. More to the point, though, Bernie himself effectively threw in the towel one week… Read more.
I vowed to eschew commenting on the horse race for the Democratic presidential nomination. But I feel obliged to make an exception for this: Struggling to raise money and to find a strong foothold in the crowded Democratic primary field, Sen. Kamala Harris on Tuesday dropped out of the presidential race, a dramatic fall for… Read more.
Joe Biden’s campaign is playing out as billed in every respect. Most notably, he is committing one political gaffe after another. Of course, that is supposed to endear this ordinary Joe to many voters. The problem is that he is also manifesting two of Donald Trump’s many disqualifying traits: Telling bold-faced lies Refusing to apologize,… Read more.
Joe Biden is easily the most qualified American to be president of the United States. Moreover, to recover from this Trump presidency, we will need to inaugurate a president with the experience and character to restore competence to and respect for the office of the leader of the free world. Like me, you probably thought… Read more.
All of Washington was atwitter yesterday over excerpts the New York Times and Washington Post published from former Defense Secretary Robert Gates’s forthcoming book, Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary of War. Significantly, President George W. Bush nominated Gates in 2006 and President Obama retained him until he retired in 2011, evidently, as a thoroughly dismayed… Read more.
Vice President Joe Biden set Republican tongues wagging on Tuesday for injecting the following not-so-subtle dog-whistle about race into a speech he delivered that day before a predominantly Black crowd in Southern Virginia: Romney wants to let the, he said the first 100 days he’s gon’ let the big banks once again write their own rules.… Read more.
