I have trouble telling the difference between Bidet and Capt Pike.
Posted on 06/06/2024 4:00:44 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The aging American president facing a re-election campaign came to the Normandy coast of France to pay tribute to the daring Army Rangers who scaled the cliffs of Pointe du Hoc, offer a paean to democracy for which they sacrificed and perhaps even wrap himself a little bit in their reflected glory.
That was 1984, and the president was Ronald Reagan, who delivered an ode to heroism and patriotism that would become one of the most iconic moments of his presidency. Forty years later, another aging president facing re-election plans to return to the same spot Friday to honor the same heroes and effectively align himself with Mr. Reagan’s legacy of leadership against tyranny.
President Biden will not be the first president to try to walk in Mr. Reagan’s footsteps in Normandy, and it is a risky gamble. To many in both parties, Mr. Reagan’s speech remains the gold standard of presidential oratory and none have matched it at Normandy since. But like Mr. Reagan, Mr. Biden wants to use the inspiring story of the Rangers at Pointe du Hoc to make a case for American alliances in the face of Russian aggression — and, implicitly, for himself.
If there is something audacious about Mr. Biden, a staunch Democrat who was no friend of Mr. Reagan’s in the 1980s, summoning the spirit of the Republican legend, it speaks to the up-is-down, black-is-white nature of politics in today’s America. When it comes to international relations, the 46th president essentially is arguing that he has more in common with the 40th president than the current head of the Republican Party does.
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When Biden tries to walk in Reagan’s footsteps, all you hear is squish, squish, squish. And hold your nose.
If true to his plagiarizing past, Biden will read Reagan’s speech off a teleprompter verbatim, then brag that he and Beau wrote it.
I have trouble telling the difference between Bidet and Capt Pike.
/anyone left at the times who was even alive for Ronald Reagan?
Joe Schmo couldn’t hold Reagain’s jock strap. Hell, Joe couldn’t hold Brittany Griner’s jock strap.
I heard somewhere that SloJo got lost during “Taps” and turned his back to the flag, but I haven’t seen any video of it.
True or not?
Too late now.
Great meme.
Update from Biden making simple light bulb choice replies is now he’s so sound asleep at events Jill has to shake him awake even for that.
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