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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.

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To: Southside_Chicago_Republican

Tell us about any accomplishments in Joe Biden’s career. Since the president is supposed to be working for his country(us) that would refer to his accomplishments for we the public, so it shouldn’t take long to list those “accomplishments”


61 posted on 02/10/2024 8:07:09 PM PST by oldtech
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62 posted on 02/11/2024 7:51:08 AM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> --- )
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