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Tuesday, July 23, 2024

Dean Phillips: Political Cassandra

The article (www.nytimes.com/2024/07/23/us/politics/dean-phillips-biden.html) states that Biden had trouble articulating his own agenda during his 2021 visits to Capitol Hill to push for his domestic program.  From the article:

“It was an unmitigated disaster, and it was the first jarring moment for most of us in the caucus,” Mr. Phillips recalled.

The most upsetting aspect of this for me is that I read columnists in the NY Times who had talked to Biden and claimed that the President was as astute and clear as he'd always been.  Woodrow Wilson's exposure to the public after his stroke was tightly controlled by his wife and his physician.  Were those around Biden doing something similar?

Was Biden OK for 20 minutes before sliding downhill?

When I mentioned this to a right winger he said that the media he consumed had been saying that for years.  My only response was that it was not easy to separate bias from news on his choice of media.

We'll know in a few years.

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