Posted on 07/21/2024 4:59:35 PM PDT by DallasBiff
Rehoboth Beach, Delaware CNN —
In the end, President Joe Biden exited the political stage in isolation.
After weeks of fighting for his political life – insisting he wasn’t going anywhere following a disastrous debate performance – the president’s about-face did not come in an Oval Office address or a speech on the campaign trail. Instead, it came in letter posted to social media as he recovered from Covid-19 at his beach house in Delaware.
It was a low-key way to reveal one of the most historic decisions in modern American politics, but time was not on Biden’s side to reach a decision or make an announcement. Never before has a president left a reelection race this close to Election Day – and for 24 days it seemed as if he were stubbornly planning to ride out the storm that followed the June 27 CNN debate in Atlanta.
He spent the three weeks after the debate repeating that he was staying in the race against former President Donald Trump. The president dug in. He insisted he could beat Trump. His inner circle shrank to his closest aides and family. He was forced to retreat to Delaware, where he reached a decision in the last day-and-a-half, finally conceding that a man loyal to the Democratic Party for more than a half-century was seen as a drag on the ticket.
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It’s all acting for the narrative.
That is why the major networks all use the same phrases, same strategies and same emotions and all begin a new one at the same hour.
They are literally reading from the same page.
Naaah. The HilaryHag wants another shot and told the fake doctor that if she didn’t get the PedoPres to drop out she would go the way of Epstein. Not the PP, HER!
Someone please make a collage video of all the politicians like crazy nancy pelosi gushing over joe biden and how amazing and fit he is.
Gin Sake will probably survive. She’s more connected with the DS.
KJP was just a DIE hire.
UNpresidented? Lying Lyndon Johnson did the same when he chose not to run in 1968. Bobby Kennedy would have been the next elected President in 1968 until a PALESTINIAN IMMIGRANT shot him dead. So they threw Hubert Humphrey into the fray and got Nixon elected.
Oh yeah, I’ve noticed that for a long time now,
I picture these daily memos going out - sometimes a few memos a day, based on the news cycle.
For example, last Thursday evening, the memo went out telling them that “the key word today is ‘rambling.’”
They *all* used it.
but obama is NOT constitutionally ineligible to be president.
He cannot be ELECTED to a third term as president but he can serve a third term by being elected as VP and then the president is killed or resigns.
Unprecedented? Both Truman and Johnson were incumbents who withdrew from the race.
But both served more than one four year term. Harry did almost 8.
I picture one of those old stock market ticker tape machines with an endless tape of new words, phrases and ideas.
Or a fax machine just spitting out pages one after the other.
“This just in from the CIA FAX machi... er, reliable anonymous sources ...”
March 31, 1968
Quotes:
Last week President Thieu ordered the mobilization of 135,000 additional South Vietnamese. He plans to reach—as soon as possible—a total military strength of more than 800,000 men.
To achieve this, the Government of South Vietnam started the drafting of 19-year-olds on March 1st. On May 1st, the Government will begin the drafting of 18-year-olds.
Last month, 10,000 men volunteered for military service—that was two and a half times the number of volunteers during the same month last year. Since the middle of January, more than 48,000 South Vietnamese have joined the armed forces—and nearly half of them volunteered to do so.
....
With America’s sons in the fields far away, with America’s future under challenge right here at home, with our hopes and the world’s hopes for peace in the balance every day, I do not believe that I should devote an hour or a day of my time to any personal partisan causes or to any duties other than the awesome duties of this office—the Presidency of your country.
Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as your President.
You have witnessed a Communist and neo-Nazi COUP D’ETAT.
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/29/truman-declines-to-seek-another-term-march-29-1952-1238358
Address [by Harry Truman] at the Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner
March 29, 1952
All the tricks of Republican propaganda cannot make the people forget that the Democratic Party has been working for their welfare.
We are working for the welfare of the farmer. We hold to the ideal that goes back to Jefferson, that a farmer should have the opportunity to own his farm, to share in the benefits of scientific progress, and to secure a fair income for his efforts.
The Democratic Party is working for the success of our free enterprise system. We have worked to prevent monopoly, to give the small businessman a fair chance, and to develop our natural resources for all the people, and not just for the favored few.
The Democratic Party is working for the welfare of labor. We have worked for good wages and hour legislation, for unemployment compensation, and for fair labor relations laws.
The Democratic Party is dedicated to the ideal that every family is entitled to fair opportunities for decent living conditions, to a chance to educate their children, to have good medical services, and reasonable provision for retirement. That is why we have worked for good social security laws, for better education and health services, for good housing, and for equal rights and opportunities for all our people, regardless of color, religion, or national origin.
Above all, the Democratic Party is working for peace on earth and goodwill among men. We believe that war is not inevitable, that peace can be won, that free men of all lands can find the way to live together in the world as good neighbors. That is why we have been willing to sacrifice to stop aggression, willing to send our money and our goods to help men in other countries stand up against tyranny, willing to fight in Korea to stop world war III before it begins. For if the bloody harvest of world war were to begin anew, most of us would never see a peaceful world again.
This is the record of the Democratic Party. It is a proud record, and an honorable record. It is a record of progress, of actions that are right because they are solidly founded on American ideals.
Whoever the Democrats nominate for President this year, he will have this record to run upon.
I shall not be a candidate for reelection. I have served my country long, and I think efficiently and honestly. I shall not accept a renomination. I do not feel that it is my duty to spend another 4 years in the White House.
https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/library/public-papers/69/address-jefferson-jackson-day-dinner
In the letter he is supposed to give a speech later in the week to address this issue.
After that, I see two options
Option 1 - Occasional campaign stops to introduce Harris and leave
Option 2 - Mayne seen once a week traveling between DC and DE, but not much more.
I hope that joe goes back out on the campaign trail.
That will be interesting. A farewell speech from a guy who will remain the President.
I look forward to the gaffes.
On Option 1, I can see them doing that once or twice then dropping it completely. It would look very weird for Kamala to have her boss, who is non compos mentis, introducing her.
“Here is my second in commander in chief, the black girl I hired, who has been my steady right hand and knows her way around the White House. She brings me sandwiches from where ever that kitchen is. Well, anyway ...”
Maybe it’s like how many Californians are needed to change a light bulb.
6.
One to change the bulb and 5 to share the feeling of the experience.
When was the first time CNN had the true inside story of anything? They wonder what happened just like any person.
would he have to submit a letter of resignation to take effect two years after becoming President?
“I Won’t Step Down” - Brian Coyne - (Tom Petty) PARODY SONG
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLV3LVhH1_I
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