Posted on 11/20/2020 2:51:02 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON - President-elect Joe Biden turned 78 on Friday. In exactly two months, he’ll take the reins of a politically fractured nation facing the worst public health crisis in a century, high unemployment and a reckoning on racial injustice.
As he wrestles with those issues, Biden will be attempting to accomplish another feat: Demonstrate to Americans that age is but a number and he’s up to the job.
Biden will be sworn in as the oldest president in the nation’s history, displacing Ronald Reagan, who left the White House in 1989 when he was 77 years and 349 days old.
The age and health of both Biden and President Donald Trump -- less than four years Biden’s junior - loomed throughout a race that was decided by a younger and more diverse electorate and at a moment when the nation is facing no shortage of issues of consequence.
Out of the gate, Biden will be keen to demonstrate he’s got the vigor to serve.
“It’s crucial that he and his staff put himself in the position early in his presidency where he can express what he wants with a crispness that’s not always been his strength,” said Ross Baker, a political scientist at Rutgers University who has advised legislators from both parties. “He has got to build up credibility with the American people that he’s physically and mentally up to the job.”
Some of Biden’s rivals in the Democratic primary also made a case on age -- while skipping Trump’s vitriol -- by raising the question of whether someone of Biden’s and Trump’s generation was the right person to lead a nation dealing with issues like climate change and racial inequality.
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That cracks me up every time. Sadly it is also very ccurate.
ccurate= accurate.
Miss, more coffee please.
And the media, in a coup de grace, manage to blame DJT for infecting him.
Oldest U.S. Media Proclaimed President Elect in the history of Media Proclamations
Like no one was coming anyways...except Hillary, Bubba, Michelle and Barak.
Quoting the Spartan response to Phillip II Macedon invasion threat... IF.
AAAAACK!
I share his birth date?
::spit::
...from this day forward, I’m going to operate on the assumption that 20 yrs after creating Joe, our Creator face palmed and said; “the planet needs a countermeasure to what I’ve done...I’ll create SheepWhisperer to offset the planetary imbalance”
...I’m going with this to keep myself sane today.
(Kidding...God loves all of his creation, even when they’re evil, despicable, looting, lying thieves)
You’ll get used to it. Imagine my horror when I realized that I shared a birthday with William Jefferson Blythe Clinton?
Except that Capt Pike selflessly executed his charge and saved the lives of cadets. I’ve been chastised for putting him on par with Creepy. My apologies to everyone...
Claiming Malachi 1:3 paraphrase...
“I have loved Jacob but I love Esau less”
Translated into contemporary English..
“I have loved Tallguy but I love WJBC less”
=o)
Brought to you by name-it-claim-it school of hermeneutic theology =o)
And then we welcome in the Harris/Buttigieg admin.
No he won’t. Because he never will be President.
One is pretend and one is for real.....
My bet is assasination by some “right wing whacko”. Think about it. What better way for them to get rid of a senile old figurehead than to turn him into a martyr?
Happy Birthday anyway, Brother!
Section 3
If, at the time fixed for the beginning of the term of the President, the President elect shall have died, the Vice President elect shall become President. If a President shall not have been chosen before the time fixed for the beginning of his term, or if the President elect shall have failed to qualify, then the Vice President elect shall act as President until a President shall have qualified; and the Congress may by law provide for the case wherein neither a President elect nor a Vice President shall have qualified, declaring who shall then act as President, or the manner in which one who is to act shall be selected, and such person shall act accordingly until a President or Vice President shall have qualified.
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Go here to read more details....
https://constitutioncenter.org/interactive-constitution/amendment/amendment-xx
One reason Hitler was appointed chancellor by Hindenburg was because Hindenburg was too old and feeble to politically oppose him.
Hindenburg though if the gave Hitler a position in the government he would become an insider that could be controlled. We see how that worked out.
Biden will not have the stamina for a public political fight with the far left of his party.
I have no doubt Biden will instead give the radical leftists in his party important positions in his administration in hopes of controlling them.
Thank you brother
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