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Age matters. Which is why Biden’s age is his superpower
The Los Angeles Times ^ | February 9, 2024 | 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.

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


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To: Trump20162020

Have to take a shower after just reading the excerpt.

Shudder.


21 posted on 02/10/2024 2:46:12 PM PST by Reddy (BO stinks)
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To: Trump20162020

He has to say this thing because he has been brainwashed since he was probably a little person Democrats are good, Republicans are bad, and anybody who loves America must be destroyed.

If the truth ever Was released into his brain and he actually thought about it, he probably would heal over from an aneurysm.


22 posted on 02/10/2024 2:49:38 PM PST by hoagy62 (Evil won...again.)
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To: Trump20162020
"...And that’s one big reason why his first term has been so full of accomplishmen..."


23 posted on 02/10/2024 2:50:44 PM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: hoagy62

24 posted on 02/10/2024 2:53:19 PM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Trump20162020

What drugs is this author on? He is delusional.


25 posted on 02/10/2024 2:57:53 PM PST by EastTexasTraveler
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To: Trump20162020

Why does this read like propaganda from 1950’s Soviet propaganda? Pravda is circling the keyboards around the evil, old creep.


26 posted on 02/10/2024 3:04:14 PM PST by wildcard_redneck (He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.)
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To: hoagy62

“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, “
Bill turd-head McKibben thinks that everything about your political views depends on the “era” in which you were “socialized”. The stupidity is beyond comprehension. This shows the danger of combining modern spell-checking with Peyote.


27 posted on 02/10/2024 3:04:47 PM PST by brookwood (If we pay $400 billion for Green New BS, do we get a guarantee that the weather will improve? )
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To: wildcard_redneck

It’s just like the Soviet press with the stroked-out Brezhnev in his final years.


28 posted on 02/10/2024 3:05:49 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Trump20162020

California is home to incredible big dreams:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/09/us/california-high-speed-rail-politics.html

Btw so is the Los Angeles Times:

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2024-01-23/latimes-layoffs-115-newsroom-soon-shiong

Lol.


29 posted on 02/10/2024 3:07:38 PM PST by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: Trump20162020

The left is pissing on us and telling us it is raining. They are desperate because they have no real argument defending Biden...he’s either incompetent mentally or a criminal.


30 posted on 02/10/2024 3:10:34 PM PST by vetvetdoug
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To: Trump20162020

Shameless cognitive dissonance....a mans mental weakness is overpowering strength, yeah right. The piece has all the earmarks of AI generated slop. The fact that purported author is a named scholar at his institution would mean all graduates who learned from him are immediately disqualified as scholars.


31 posted on 02/10/2024 3:11:14 PM PST by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and harder to find.)
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To: Getready

Good point—an article this stupid does sound like AI—Artificial Insanity.

The writer of the article reminds me of my old lefty Economics professor I had in college who said not to worry about the national debt “because we owe it to ourselves”.

;-)


32 posted on 02/10/2024 3:16:01 PM PST by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: Trump20162020

This from the LA Times? No wonder it’s losing so much revenue.


33 posted on 02/10/2024 3:16:10 PM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.)
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To: ChildOfThe60s
Seriously, if this was an internet column and not the L.A. Times I would have assumed it was satire.

I thought it must be from The Bee!

34 posted on 02/10/2024 3:17:46 PM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.)
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35 posted on 02/10/2024 3:20:07 PM PST by kiryandil (Free Zaluzhny!)
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To: DAC21

“Yuge vomit projectile alert.”

That’s a fact.


36 posted on 02/10/2024 3:24:37 PM PST by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: kiryandil

This is your brain on drugs.

;-)


37 posted on 02/10/2024 3:25:18 PM PST by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: DAC21

Wow this is weapon grade BS, how does someone even write this pap.


38 posted on 02/10/2024 3:26:50 PM PST by gibsonguy
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To: Trump20162020

Spinning so hard.


39 posted on 02/10/2024 3:27:29 PM PST by xoxox
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To: Trump20162020

The white, racist scribblers at the LA Times are delusional, dancing at Edgar Allen Poe’s Masque of Red Death, believing they are immune. The deep state is about to fall in LA.


40 posted on 02/10/2024 3:27:40 PM PST by sergeantdave (AI is the next iteration of a copy and paste machine.)
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