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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Gilbert B Norman: [QB] Here is Kevin Dowd's (Maureen's Brother) annual column from this past Sunday's [URL=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/01/opinion/trigger-warning-its-my-brothers-turn-again.html?] Times[/URL]: Fair Use: [i][list] [*]Biden swept into the presidency on a wave of hope, a friendly press and a highly disliked opponent. He had run as a moderate, a creature of the Senate and a unifier, promising a return to normalcy. Donald Trump’s bungled effort to overturn the election and the ill-advised rally that ended with an attack on the Capitol further raised Biden’s standing. Once he became president, everything changed. Like one of the residents of Santa Mira, the fictional town in Don Siegel’s 1956 masterpiece, “Invasion of the Body Snatchers,” Biden looked the same but his actions revealed a startling transformation. The moderate Joe Biden was gone. The sweeping changes he proposed in the first few months sounded more like Bernie Sanders. Many of them backfired, severely damaging his early support. [/i] [/list] Is this fellow and I ever on the same page!!! I'm probably less a Republican than is he; hardly as "lib" as his sister. With my Presidential voting record to date - 7R, 7D, 1I - the "I" being a mistake I will never make again, I voted for Joe to do my part to get rid of Trump, but also on the strength that Joe would be a Centrist Democrat along the lines of Carter and Clinton. The first was successful - well, at least until Jan '25, but on the second, just like Mr. Dowd, I am sorely disappointed. All I could have hoped for with hindsight is that both parties found different candidates for '20; the same holds for '24. Finally, Mr. Harris' point rings true regarding Ms. Harris; the news cycle has moved away from Afghanistan, so when both Houses of Congress "flip" a year from now, that is when Joe will "throw in the towel", retreat to the banks of the Brandywine, and play frisbee with, Champ, Major, and Commander. He has a lifetime of public service for which he can take much personal pride, but his (I think) two year "hitch" as POTUS46 is not part of such. I look for a 4th Quartile ranking (35th to 45th; Trump is 41 of 44) from the Notable Scholars. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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