Tag: Election 2024
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Biden’s fine for a second term
There’s a new alarming poll from the Washington Post: 58% of Democrats want someone other than Joe Biden to be their 2024 party’s nominee for president. I don’t. I want Joe Biden as the nominee because he’s best positioned to win the election and deliver results to the American people. I guess I can understand…
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Siloed Republicans are causing their party’s demise
Are you “woke”? If you are a Republican, being “woke” means that you are “overly” politically correct. For weeks I couldn’t decipher what Republicans meant by “woke”. It turns out I have plenty of company. USA Today surveyed people to find out what the term meant to them. I am one of the 56% who…
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Trump, the “gift” that keeps on giving
I’m starting to root for Donald Trump for 2024 Republican Party presidential nominee. I don’t actually want him to be president again, unsurprisingly. And I admit just as he surprised us in 2016 by actually winning the Electoral College, he might do so again in 2024. But I suspect that any other Republican nominee would…
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Inadequate to the stormy present
“The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.” Abraham Lincoln This quote has been…
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Tomorrow’s unfortunate news today
I can see the future! Obviously I’ve made lots of predictions over the years and many of them turned out wrong. And while I can’t say exactly when and how things will happen in the future, I can see the future of the United States easily enough over the next decade or so. Most likely,…