2024: Sophie's Election

 

"Sophie's choice refers to an extremely difficult decision a person has to make. It describes a situation where no outcome is preferable over the other".

 

 
I watched President Biden's press conference last week.

It came on at 8:00 in the evening.  I don't know when reruns of "Matlock" are on, but I bet it is before 8:00.

He held it to respond to Special Counsel Robert Hur's decision not to recommend President Biden to be indicted for mishandling classified documents.

Hur's report described The President as a “well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory."  Supposedly, The President did not remember the years he was Vice President or the year his son died.

To prove Hur was full of malarkey, the President said, “As you know, the president of Mexico, Sisi, did not want to open the gate to allow humanitarian material to get in,” Biden said in response to a question about Israel’s war against Hamas. “I talked to him. I convinced him to open the gate.” 

The Sisi in this sentence is the President of Egypt, not Mexico, but you must hand it to Biden. He got Mexico to open the gate.

All in all, it was an awful moment for Biden.  He yelled at a reporter from CNN for having the nerve to repeat polling data showing voters are concerned about Biden's age.  He said, “That is your judgment, that is not the judgment [for] the press.”  

Just for the record, on Thursday night, the NBC news poll showed 76% are concerned about Biden's age. On Sunday, that became 85%.  That's not a judgment by the press.

It got so bad that CNN even fact-checked The President.  They fact-checked a Democrat.  Let that sink in.

The next day on my Facebook post, I said the press conference was a train wreck in a dumpster fire during a poop storm.  I was being nice.

I posted several weeks ago about how Biden's age problem reminded me of an episode of "Newhart" where a man brings "the world's smallest horse" to show the audience of "Vermont Today."

Newhart asks the man, "How do you know that's the world's smallest horse?"  The man answered, "Look at him."

I don't know how you could have watched Biden's press conference and not see an infirmed elderly man.  Look at him.

Biden has two things going for him.  One, Vice President Harris doesn't seem ready for prime time.  If she were, there would be Democratic leaders meeting with the President like the Republicans did with Nixon in '74. Two,  Biden's 2024 opponent will be Donald Trump.

Trump is four years younger than Biden, but he seems more energetic because he acts like a baboon.

If Biden is unfit for office due to age, Trump is unsuitable due to temperament.  Trump thinks the country is his privately held firm that he can order around to his liking. It's not.  He has to use persuasion, which to Trump means making up a nickname.

So America has a choice. On one hand, you have somebody you would take the keys of the car away from if he was your dad. On the other, we have a man you wouldn't want your mother, daughter, or ex-wife to date.

Biden needs a boat load of Prevagen.  "Now where did I put those nuclear codes?"

Trump needs an exorcism.  What he said about John McCain years ago was inexcusable. He brought McCain up a few weeks ago, noting McCain could not raise his hands over his head.  McCain couldn't do that because the North Vietnamese were torturing him while Trump was in Manhattan trying to avoid the Clap.

This past week, Trump said about Nikki Haley's husband: “Where’s her husband? Oh, 'he’s away, he’s away.’ What happened to her husband? What happened to her husband? Where is he? He’s gone."

Haley's husband is a South Carolina National Guard member and has been deployed to Africa.

What are we going to do?