The Los Angeles Times [Bill McKibben]
Posted on 02/10/2024 2:24:59 PM PST by Trump20162020
Joe Biden is old. Like each of us, he comes from a particular place in history, in his case the LBJ years. And that’s one big reason why his first term has been so full of accomplishment: His age, often cited as the greatest obstacle to his reelection, is actually his superpower.
The first presidential election in which Joe Biden was eligible to vote featured Lyndon Johnson beating Barry Goldwater. History remembers LBJ’s presidency as chaotic because of his tragic adventuring in Vietnam, but in other respects it was remarkable. His Great Society echoed Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal (FDR was Biden’s childhood president). Under Johnson, the federal government took ambitious steps to advance civil rights, to rein in poverty, attack disease, beautify human landscapes and conserve wild ones, and to further science — these were the Apollo space program years. Not every project worked, but lots have lasted: Medicare, Medicaid and food stamps, for instance.
So Biden was socialized in an era when government took on big causes, and you can see it reflected in his first-term commitment to rebuilding infrastructure on a grand scale, boosting a new sustainable energy economy with billions of dollars for solar panels and battery factories, dramatically increasing the number of people with healthcare, and standing up for gun control, voting rights and reproductive rights.
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Yuge vomit projectile alert
Tell us another story, Uncle Bill!
Huh-sham-wow? Diving head first into the wood chipper, or what?
From the same newspaper that is fully behind Adam Schiff for the Senate. The LAT continues to spiral down the toilette into the sewer.
Able to drive a locomotive, faster than a speeding bullet, anle yo gill a fisper in a single bound...
Good grief.
What’s this clown smokin’? ROTFLMAO. He needs to stop breathing in all that saltwater.
This is “journalist logic”, which has to rank at the top of oxymorons. They are in a large and deranged group who are successfully removing all respect of their profession - along with a good portion of the liberal arts. I used to pity them. No longer. It’s revulsion and a promise that should their idiocy continue, I welcome what will happen to them. They will not welcome what will happen to them, but we’ll enjoy it.
Wow! I need hip waders...
NO!
Dementia does not age well!
Sounds like the author would like to give Joey Diapers a BJ.
Seriously, if this was an internet column and not the L.A. Times I would have assumed it was satire.
Of course! McKibbon is nothing but a rabid environmentalist who avidly believes in global warming. He does it for the cause; Joe Biden does it for the money, power and control.
Name a Biden accomplishment.
The Los Angeles Times [Bill McKibben]
Democrats were thinking for years that it was still 1932 or 1964, and that New Deal and Great Society policies would appeal to the public and work in practice. None of that was true. Why would it be true now?
It’s also not true that the country is waiting for another Ronald Reagan. What works in one era doesn’t work in others.
To even suggest that represents some seriously delusional thinking ...
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accomplishments? like record illegal trespassers, record federal debt and record infringement on the Rights of American citizens? guessing it depends on what one considers “accomplishments”. Hitler, Stalin and pol pot have GREAT accomplishments...depending on your version of “accomplishments.
“From the same newspaper that is fully behind Adam Schiff for the Senate. The LAT continues to spiral down the toilette into the sewer”
Yep this piece of trash publication just layed off 20% of the newsroom last month. Some Asian tech Billionaire bought the paper 5 years or so ago and it has never stopped bleeding. The problem is compounded by the Owners far left Stanford “Educated” progressive Daughter who has been known to brow beat via social media Writers who’s articles that are not left of Stalin like she is. Daddy apparently can’t or won’t tell her to STFU.
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