Before We Turn The Page, One More Time For Joe Biden
Issue #759 The Choice, Thursday, October 31, 2024
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It still stings the way President Joe Biden was thrown under the bus by his own party, but the best way I help myself get over that is, first, to enjoy watching his Vice President – and his pick to be the next President of the United States – kicking Trump’s ass from coast to coast.
No, I’m not talking about whatever the hell is going on with the polls; I’m talking about what is happening on the ground, like Tuesday night when she crushed it when she delivered her closing argument speech at the Elipse in Washington, D.C. A crowd of more than 75,000 people showed up when initially they were only planning for a comfy crowd of a mere 20,000.
But the other thing that helps me get over it (because in politics, as in much of life you have to learn to let things go if you wanna move forward), is my certainty that President Biden will without question be recognized as one of the most effective and consequential presidents in American history.
The main reason he has not gotten the respect he so deserves is that most people have no idea all that he has accomplished because most of it has barely been reported, if at all. But one thing is for certain, and that none of us should forget when Kamala Harris takes her oath of office as the next POTUS, that we would not be here at this historic juncture if not for Joe Biden.
Make no mistake about it: Kamala is an outstanding presidential candidate, as we are all learning, but she never would have had the chance to prove that if Biden hadn’t stepped aside and prepped her for liftoff.
The Biden/Harris record of the past four years has elevated her from the well-qualified candidate she was during the last presidential primary before dropping out of the race to one of the most qualified and impressive presidential candidates this country has ever seen.
And what is that record, exactly? So let me say I’m not normally in the habit of letting another publication carry the ball to make my point, and especially not Politico, which doesn’t rank as one of my favorite news outlets. But this one story was published last February, and simply pulling a few quotes from it would not suffice. I can honestly say it provides one of the best overviews of the Biden administration’s numerous accomplishments that barely got noticed.
It’s important enough, in my humble opinion, that I’m just going to provide you with the link and encourage you to check out everything the Biden/Harris team managed to get done in the face of near-insurmountable odds that would have stymied every other Democratic candidate who wanted the job except for Biden.
The article is entitled “30 Things Joe Biden Did As President You Might Have Missed.” Doesn’t get much more straightforward than that. Expanded overtime guarantees, the first over-the-counter birth control pill to hit U.S. stores, huge strides in expanding renewable power, preventing discriminatory mortgage lending. And on and on it goes. Most of us know about the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, The American Rescue Plan, The Inflation Reduction Act, and maybe even the Chips and Science Act. These are just a few of what are considered his major accomplishments. But there was so much more.
So before we turn that page, just one more time, let’s give a round of applause to President Joe Biden. Not many Presidents can say they saved their country, but he can certainly be counted among that number.
I was very glad just to have Joe holding the fort, you might say, and I was happy for him because he had been trying to get that job for a long time. He was one of the last of the masters of the Senate. He's lucky (and so are we all) that the balance of power in the Senate stayed in the middle, the last few years. I would have preferred a bit to the left, but maybe this time. Fingers crossed.
I’m retired last May I’ve spent all the “extra” money I dint have on Harris-Walz campaign. I’m bailing out of all but three of the Substacks my name is on until the new year we hen I hope to have unravrlked from
Left behind bills.. you will hear from me in 2025..,,