The CHOICE: Joe is our current president and our nominee for president in 2024. Period.
Anything and anyone who is trying to de-throne Joe now is essentially guaranteeing a Democratic loss at all levels. Case Closed.
Issue #661 The Choice, Tuesday, July 9, 2024
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As of today, there are about 46 days before the official start of the Democratic National Convention on August 19, 2024, in Chicago. At the Convention, the nominees for President and Vice President will be officially voted into place.
However, because the state of Ohio has decreed that to appear on the ballot, all nominees must be official 90 days before the election (about August 9, 2024), the Democratic National Committee (DNC) voted to have a virtual nominating process before the official convention. That virtual roll call vote will happen in less than 30 days.
Yet, today there are Democrats—officials and regular people—who are still calling for President Biden to “step down” so that an alternate candidate can be chosen.
These people seem to think that 1) Biden is “too old” to continue to be president, 2) Biden needs to be replaced, and/or 3) Biden is “unelectable.” These people are totally wrong on all counts.
Biden is NOT “too old”
Yes, Joe, who was the oldest person elected as president, will be 82 years old about the time of the election and 86 when the next four years are completed. But “old and healthy” is quite different from being “old and sick” (like Trump).
President Jimmy Carter was still running “Habitat for Humanity,” building homes, and monitoring international elections until his mid-nineties.
It’s a common belief that the stress of being president tends to accelerate a person’s aging. But a 2011 study by S. Jay Olshansky, a professor in the School of Public Health at the University of Illinois at Chicago, found that U.S. presidents—at least the ones who weren’t killed by assassins—actually have tended to live longer than other American males who were their contemporaries.
Biden is “old,” but he is very healthy. There is NOTHING wrong with Biden except his stutter which sometimes shows up when he gets excited and/or talks too fast. His mind is sharp as a tack, and his walk is a little slower since he broke his foot a while ago. I had a very hard fall in 2017, and it still bothers me daily. But Biden can beat most of us on his bike.
As hard as people try to say or prove that Biden is suffering from “cognitive decline,” there is absolutely no evidence of that—either medically or anecdotally. So he had a bad debate night. So did Barack Obama the first time against Mitt Romney. Guess what, there is nothing in the list of presidential duties that requires the president to debate anyone in that format, especially against a perennial liar, and with no fact-checking or effective moderating done by the debate hosts.
The very next day, at a rally in North Carolina, and then later in the same day at a fundraiser in New York, Joe Biden was as robust, alert, and well-spoken as he usually is.
In the weeks before the debate, not only did Joe have a very bad cold, but he traveled to Europe twice for conferences, representing the U.S. excellently, and experiencing jet lag because of moving through up to nine different time zones. One “reporter" asked him why he hadn't overcome the jet lag since he’d been home for 12 days since his last international travel.
Joe also did all of the daily “presidential things” that he does practically every day, no matter where he is.
In the seven days after the debate, Joe held a total of EIGHTEEN different events, all the while also doing all of the regular “presidential stuff,” while Trump disappeared and held no public events. He did go golfing almost every day.
So Joe proves every day that he may be “old” in years, but he is definitely not “old” in mental acuity and performance.
As he said during the ABC interview, Joe passes a “cognitive test” every single day.
Biden Needs to Step Down So “Someone Else” Can Take His Place
This opinion is even more dangerous than thinking that Joe is “too old.”
People who are spreading this idea have absolutely no idea of what it takes to be president, how difficult it would be to find someone, anyone, with Joe’s qualifications and experience, and the damage that would be done to the Democratic nominating process to replace Joe.
There is no one, not even Madam Vice President, who has the wisdom and national and international experience that Joe has. Governors such as Gavin Newsome of California and Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan may be popular in their respective states, but none of them has run a national campaign or been engaged for decades in the international sphere. They would have to start from scratch to build a national campaign, including getting the finances and hiring staff, etc.
Vice President Harris is completely qualified to be president should something happen to President Biden in their second term, and she is the only one who could use the Biden 2024 financial resources, but neither she nor Newsome or Whitmer are throwing Biden under the bus to run themselves.
And if you think it would be easy for Kamala, as a Black-Asian woman to get past the vitriol, you've got another “think” coming, even though she at least has a lot of national/international experience, but not nearly as much as Joe. People on the right are already calling Harris a “DEI hire,” even though 81 million people VOTED for her, and a few are even trying to claim that she isn’t really a true American citizen because her mother was an immigrant. She was born and raised in America, as was her native-born father. It is the same false “birtherism” people tried on Obama, whose father was an immigrant while his mother was native-born. These days, “DEI” is what people say when they really want to call people the N-word.
As he has shown us time and time again, Joseph R. Biden, Jr. is THE most experienced and qualified person for the job. No one else even comes close, and that is because of his age.
Biden is not “Electable”
People who believe this are falling for the media’s “okey-doke” as President Obama would say. Biden has not only already beaten Trump, but he has been out there all over the place and knew that there would be no 2022 “Red Wave” and he also knew that Dems would win almost every relevant election since 2020.
Replacing him now would almost guarantee a Trump win because it would cause chaos in the Democratic Party.
We have to remember that Trump lost the popular vote in 2016, and only won the Electoral College because too many people believed the media “okey-doke” about Hillary, thought the Dems did Bernie (who is NOT a Democrat) wrong, and either didn’t vote for her or voted 3rd party or “their conscience."
Bernie and the Bernie Bros were pissed in 2016 and helped Trump win by not backing Hillary.
By 2020, Bernie (who is NOT a Democrat) came to his senses and helped Biden win with his followers, and he will do the same in 2024.
Joe is totally electable, and he can and will pull off, not only a win but could even have a near-landslide in both the popular vote and the Electoral College. The MAGA Republicans and Trump are so extreme, and abortion is on the ballot in several “red states.”
All we have to do is stop doubting him and get behind him and all Dems up and down the ballot NOW.
We have to believe that we’re not just voting against Trump but FOR Joe.
Period. We have no other choice, and our choice with Joe is the BEST choice.
President Biden made things very clear in his recent letter to Congressional Democrats:
“I can respond to all this by saying clearly and unequivocally: I wouldn't be running again if I did not absolutely believe I was the best person to beat Donald Trump in 2024.
We had a Democratic nomination process and the voters have spoken clearly and decisively. I received over 14 million votes, 87% of the votes cast across the entire nominating process. I have nearly 3,900 delegates, making me the presumptive nominee of our party by a wide margin.
This was a process open to anyone who wanted to run. Only three people chose to challenge me. One fared so badly that he left the primaries to run as an independent. Another attacked me for being too old and was soundly defeated. The voters of the Democratic Party have voted. They have chosen me to be the nominee of the party.
Do we now just say this process didn't matter? That the voters don't have a say?
I decline to do that. I feel a deep obligation to the faith and the trust the voters of the Democratic Party have placed in me to run this year. It was their decision to make. Not the press, not the pundits, not the big donors, not any selected group of individuals, no matter how well intentioned. The voters - and the voters alone - decide the nominee of the Democratic Party. How can we stand for democracy in our nation if we ignore it in our own party? I cannot do that. I will not do that.”
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