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With sound..
Posted on 06/30/2024 1:09:52 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Seventy-two hours after the debate in Atlanta last week, President Biden and those closest to him have settled on the same strategy police officers use to shoo bystanders away from a car crash: “Nothing to see here.”
According to the talking points being repeated by the president’s aides and surrogates, the debate was a 90-minute blip in a long campaign. Mr. Biden didn’t have “a great night,” as he told donors Saturday, but fund-raising is going strong and he has already bounced back.
Aides have been pushing a similar message for more than a year, as polls have shown that voters are worried about the president’s age. They have brushed off such concerns, calling them little more than a creation of the media and the MAGA movement supporting the campaign of former President Donald J. Trump.
Jen O’Malley Dillon, the president’s top campaign strategist, said on Saturday that any drop in the polls would be the result of “overblown media narratives.” Senator John Fetterman, Democrat of Pennsylvania, dismissed anxiety about the president’s performance, saying on “Fox News Sunday” that “it’s like one debate.”
And yet, like the bystanders at the car crash, voters do not need to be told what happened during the face-off with Mr. Trump. They saw it with their own eyes.
“Telling people they didn’t see what they saw is not the way to respond to this,” Ben Rhodes, who was a top foreign policy adviser to President Barack Obama, wrote on social media an hour after the debate ended on Thursday.
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Dear White House: Please lie to us some more.
Such inveterate f’n liars they are. This disgraceful sick politician had seven days and sixteen advisors at Camp David at taxpayers’ expense to “prep” for a 90-minute debate. DID EVERYONE FORGET WHAT HE WAS SUPPOSED TO HAVE BEEN DOING THAT ENTIRE TIME????? And then he blew the whole damned thing. How soon everyone forgets inconvenient FACTS. What the country saw Thursday night was in no way, shape, or form, anything remotely like a “blip”.
The Hindenburg had a bad night.
They just picked up the five thousand pieces and kept going....
Riding with Biden.
Lol.
The Hindenburg had a bad night.
They just picked up the five thousand pieces and kept going....
Riding with Biden.
Lol.
“I think he is pretty safe”...
until he gets on a WH helicopter...
Lol.
In DC the good stuff is very secret—and sometimes the secret is kept for decades.
For 5 years they believed the lie with the obvious, a stammering fool in front of them.
Now they’ll believe the next lie.
So they’re implicitly admitting the “senior moment” spin first put out there, didn’t work...?
Oh yeah. It is part of a grand strategy. Underperform expectations and come back in September and clean up big time in the second debate. pResident Biden is pure genius!
I got a few Democrat aquantinces who are adamant that he has to go after the performance. I’m like why? He was senile after getting office from a stolen election. Biden doesn’t run the country and it doesn’t matter if the puppet drools.
Exactly.
I am reminded of Monty Python and the Holy Grail where the character says, “It is only the flesh wound”.
Y’all are getting so worked up, and the President just had a cold!
Do they think it won’t happen again?
This actually the best news the Trump campaign could get.
Very perceptive post, ansel12
This needs its own editorial. You permitting, I would like to start with this and add in all the other 'conspiracy theories' that proved to be fact, and wrap it all together.
Great.
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