Posted on 12/28/2024 4:55:06 PM PST by Libloather
Joe Biden regrets having pulled out of this year’s presidential race and believes he would have defeated Donald Trump in last month’s election – despite negative poll indications, White House sources have said.
The US president has reportedly also said he made a mistake in choosing Merrick Garland as attorney general – reflecting that Garland, a former US appeals court judge, was slow to prosecute Donald Trump for his role in the 6 January 2021 insurrection while presiding over a justice department that aggressively prosecuted Biden’s son Hunter.
With just more than three weeks of his single-term presidency remaining, Biden’s reported rueful reflections are revealed in a Washington Post profile that contains the clearest signs yet that he thinks he erred in withdrawing his candidacy in July after a woeful debate performance against his rival for the White House, Trump, the previous month.
The president stepped aside – to be replaced as his party’s nominee by the US vice-president, Kamala Harris – after mounting pressure from fellow Democrats, who cited polling evidence that appeared to show him heading for a near-certain election drubbing from Trump, who was seeking a historic return to the White House as the Republicans’ nominee.
Harris’s ascent to the top of the ticket led to a surge of enthusiasm and improved poll numbers but ultimately ended in a decisive electoral college and popular vote defeat.
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Shad-up, You!
Tacit admission that his plan to defeat Trump was to put him in prison.
Nailed it!
Will he ever slip up and reveal WHO forced him out of the race?
Uncle Rico still dreaming he could have taken the team to the state championship.
POTATUS SALAD
How do we interpret and apply the imprecatory Psalms while maintaining the principles you’ve iterated above?
Schoolyard bullies always think they won the fight that did not happen.
Maybe the “missing 20 million voters” would have shown up!
Simple minded fools can’t be adjusted no moving parts.
How do we interpret and apply the imprecatory Psalms while maintaining the principles you’ve iterated above?
Therefore, I would refer you to the Introduction and the first three chapters of C.S. Lewis’ “Reflections on the Psalms.” It should take no more than an hour of your time, and it will help you to see the Imprecatory Psalms in a whole new light.
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