Posted on 11/20/2021 3:14:37 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — A difficult political atmosphere for President Joe Biden may have become even more treacherous with the acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse.
Biden was already facing sliding poll numbers with an electorate worn down by the coronavirus pandemic and increasing inflation. Now, the president finds himself caught between outraged Democrats — some of whom were already stewing over Biden’s inability to land police reform and voting rights legislation — and Republicans looking to use the Rittenhouse case to exploit the national divide over matters of grievance and race.
“This is one of the last things Biden wants to be engaging in at this moment as he tries to finish up the big Build Back Better bill and get that across the finish line through the Senate,” said Christopher Borick, director of the Muhlenberg College Institute of Public Opinion. “Race and Kyle Rittenhouse is not the space where he wants or needs to be going deep right now.”
The acquittal of Rittenhouse has touched off new conversations about racial justice, vigilantism and policing in America.
Even before the verdict, Biden had been facing increased pressure from some Democrats over the lack of progress on passing voting rights and police reform legislation.
At the same, civil rights leaders have expressed frustration that Biden has not used the power of the bully pulpit more to push for a broad police reform bill named after George Floyd, the Black Minneapolis man whose killing last year by police touched off protests around the U.S.
Speaking at an event earlier this week where he signed into law a trio of bills to increase aid to police, Biden only made passing mention of the George Floyd act, asking legislators from both parties to work together to make it law.
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Nobody has ever accused Slow Joe of being “deep”
It’s a very sad state of affairs when this is the narrative we get - how it benefits the President politically for someone not guilty to have been found not guilty.
Extraordinary.
It’s a very sad state of affairs when this is the narrative we get - how it benefits or doesn’t benefit a President politically for someone not guilty to have been found not guilty.
Extraordinary.
This item is from AP.
There will someday have to be a way to bring them to justice.
They have endangered people lives with malice against Trump, lies spread against him as if “news” and pro Chinese Communist propaganda.
They must be bought to justice someday.
The heart of the Associated Press BS: “Republicans looking to use the Rittenhouse case to exploit the national divide over matters of grievance and race.”
If anyone is spreading dangerous and divisive lies about race it is the AP.
If it’s a problem for Brandon, it’s of his own making. He shouldn’t have referred to Rittenhouse as a ‘white supremacist’ while he was on the campaign trail. His statement to the press upon learning the verdict was fine. But then he or his handlers felt it necessary to say that he, like many Americans was “angry and dismayed” by the verdict.
If we had a press and it was allowed to ask him questions, they’d ask him why he was angry and dismayed.
Everything puts Biden in a difficult spot.
And I mean everything.
Yes, I agree. Weird and wrong on so many levels.
“Two of them are six ft. under the dirt and the third dirtbag won’t hold a pistol again...well, in his right hand anyway.”
So true. I didn’t totally believe what one of those .223/556 bullets could do until I saw the prosecution’s exhibit of the injury to the surviving shootee’s right arm. OMG!! It looked like an alligator had just taken a huge, ragged bite out of that arm. From now on he’ll be known as “Lefty.” There was no challenge to either the accuracy or authenticity of that exhibit.
He just destroyed the newly-blue Virginia for the donks. Period. Paragraph. Preview.
Guess I should have stuck with the one that had Kamala making Brandon “more comfortable.”
CatOwner never misses a chance to diss Trump about his mean tweets.
He’s just lucky that Kyle wasn’t using hollow points, like Binger claimed he should
Lefty wouldn’t have an arm left
“This author favors the mob.”
This President favors the mob, expressing “anger and sadness” at the verdict.
right, because Republicans are all about race. what a goofball
Republicans do intend to exploit one point tho. That yes, it is legal to defend oneself from bodily harm with a DEFENSE weapon. You don’t have to take a knee, or take a beating. You can stand up and DEFEND yourself.
It's the Democrats who are always exploiting race and interjecting racial angles when to an objective observer they don't exist.
Kyle is lucky that none of the three men he shot was black or the jury may have been afraid to acquit him.
V. I. Lenin
Biden was lucky that the verdict was announced on the day of his colonoscopy, when his alimentary canal was empty.
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