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After Biden’s first year, the virus and disunity rage on
The Associated Press ^ | January 16, 2022 | By ZEKE MILLER and CALVIN WOODWARD

Posted on 01/16/2022 7:33:40 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

WASHINGTON (AP) — From the inaugural platform, President Joe Biden saw American sickness on two fronts — a disease of the national spirit and the one from the rampaging coronavirus — and he saw hope, because leaders always must see that.

“End this uncivil war,” he implored Americans on Jan. 20, 2021. Of the pathogen, he said: “We can overcome this deadly virus.”

Neither malady has abated.

For Biden, it’s been a year of lofty ambitions grounded by the unrelenting pandemic, a tough hand in Congress, a harrowing end to an overseas war and rising fears for the future of democracy itself. Biden did score a public-works achievement for the ages. But America’s cracks go deeper than pavement.

In this midterm election year, Biden confronts seething divisions and a Republican Party that propagates the delusion that the 2020 election — exhaustively vetted, validated many times over, fair by all measures — was stolen from Donald Trump. That central, mass lie of a rigged vote has become a pretext in state after state for changing election rules and fueling even further disunity and grievance.

In the dispiriting close of Biden’s first year, roadblocks stood in the way of all big things pending.

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


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: brandon; journalism; media; press
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To: tomkat

“Sounds like Pedo Joe is losing the Ass Press too.”


No, the snippet I read paints Brandon as fearless leader who is facing adversity brought on by a disease he ‘had a plan for’, and an opposition party that dares to oppose him. No, Joe is blameless according to the A.P.


21 posted on 01/16/2022 8:10:37 AM PST by hanamizu
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

When a Democrat is president, any bad thing that happens is all beyond his control or due to his enemies. When a Republican is president it is their fault.


22 posted on 01/16/2022 8:27:11 AM PST by alternatives? (The only reason to have an army is to defend your borders.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Associated Press = Deep State Media feed.


23 posted on 01/16/2022 8:27:56 AM PST by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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"Zeke & Calvin" (co-authors)

Sounds like a comic strip. It also reads like one.
24 posted on 01/16/2022 11:40:47 AM PST by Steve_Seattle
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Calvin Woodward must dress up like a gimp sex slave for the DNC and Biden.


25 posted on 01/16/2022 12:44:19 PM PST by KC_Conspirator
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To: tomkat

No, the article is excusing Biden failure on either Republicans or just plain bad luck, gosh darnit.


26 posted on 01/16/2022 12:46:19 PM PST by KC_Conspirator
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To: Steve_Seattle
Oh, check the bottom of the article too.

Associated Press writers Ellen Knickmeyer, Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Robert Burns, Hope Yen, Lynn Berry and Lisa Mascaro contributed to this report.

So, including Zeke and Calvin W., thats EFFING 8 LIBERALS who contributed to this slavish, sychophant, lying article.

27 posted on 01/16/2022 12:50:58 PM PST by KC_Conspirator
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