Posted on 08/17/2024 9:22:06 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
We head to Chicago on a wave of euphoria, exuberance, exultation, excitement and even, you might say, ecstasy. It’s going to be a glorious coronation — except that everyone’s mad at one another.
Top Democrats are bristling with resentments even as they are about to try to put on a united front at the United Center in the Windy City.
A coterie of powerful Democrats maneuvered behind the scenes to push an incumbent president out of the race.
It wasn’t exactly “Julius Caesar” in Rehoboth Beach. But it was a tectonic shift and, of course, there were going to be serious reverberations. Even though it was the right thing to do, because Joe Biden was not going to be able to campaign, much less serve as president for another four years, in a fully vital way, it was a jaw-dropping putsch.
But at some point, when the polls cratered, Democratic mandarins decided to put the welfare of the party — and the country — ahead of the president’s ego, and stop catering to his self-regarding fantasy that he was the only one who could beat Donald Trump. Also, they all could know that Biden was slowing faster than he and his family and his inner circle were acknowledging.
Biden went from looking “forward to getting back on the campaign trail” to gone in one weekend, with the handprints of Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries on the president’s back. And when Kamala Harris deftly cemented her position as the nominee, the party erupted in a dizzying sense of possibility.
How could Biden not be hurt that the Democratic convention went from four days of “sitting shiva,” as James Carville put it, to a joyful romp with Kamala atop the ticket?
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And they’ll have fun,fun, fun ‘til daddy takes the T-Bird away.
The Hitler method. Work them into an exuberant manic fever.
Joy, joy, joy.
Who cares about “democracy” when you can have joy!
Bundles of joy within the convention hall. The coronation of Queen Kammie and her court jester Timmy. Meanwhile chaos, riots, and destruction outside as 100,000 Hamas devotees descend upon Chicago. Oh, the humanity!
Hope & change & JOY!!!!!
What a fascinating perspective.
It’s like a follower asking Jim Jones for another cup of juice.
Brandon: “Bronco! Bronco! Whyfore you push me out, Bronco? You et tu me without a little do re mi or a by your leave! Alas, poor Corn Pop! (I knew him, Koala!) Still, ‘tis a far, far better thing that I do now than I ever done did before. But, folks, guess what? It’s all a buncha malarkey from some lyin’ dog-faced Pelosi soldiers! …Anyway…”
Horizontal may not always be on top but I hear she charges now.
ROFL!
Would some talented FReeper please do two things:
Post a link to the article that isn’t behind a paywall, and
post a picture of Catherine Zeta-Jones?
Rules ya’ know…please and thank you 🙏
If true, Harris will have to replace Biden as the current POTUS.
It would violate the FR consent agreement to do so.
Do you want FR to be shut down?
It really all depends on the Palestinians if they act out like they have been and cross the AntiFa and BLM brown-shirts it could make Herbert Humphreys nomination look mild.
Brought to you by the same people who did the Wellstone Memorial.
It was not the right thing to do. The right thing would have been to encourage competition during the Dem primary season, but they shut that down also. Dems shy away from the right thing the same way a vampire shies away from sunlight.
Who can ever forget him?
Pigasus being paraded through the protesters at this year’s Convention would be problematic. And “Dump the Hump” protest signs? Those are straight out!
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