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Not to me. Biden is the best president of my lifetime. Now to be clear this is comparison to sitting presidents. Not possible people who could be president or pie in the sky this is what a president should be stuff. To me the idea that biden is the problem is nuts. Now congress and particular democratic congressmen not overruling citizens united asap I can get or the democratic party leadership in general. I think the hillary/bernie thing was much bigger deal. At leat for me even though when it came down to it I voted for her because im not an idiot. I suspect anyone who jumps on the last thing to blame when it comes to blaming inaction of the better option as a reason of loss to the worse option.
75% of the electorate said long before the 2024 election said Biden was too old and wanted someone different.
Biden had initially commented (and later admitted to this in a press conference) that he once said he'd be only a transitional one-term President.
Biden disastrously fumbled the June debate and wasted precious weeks while many people blindly followed him despite having worse approval-ratings than Jimmy Carter.
This put the Harris campaign in such a tight spot where 3 weeks were dedicated just to transitional logistics and a mere 12 weeks to run a national campaign against a competitor who's been taking cheap shots from the sidelines for 4 years straight.
Biden was immensely instrumental in setting Democrats up for failure in 2024. My opinion about his actual Presidency is independent of the reality of national optics, perception, and their campaign quality.
In other words, if Biden had announced ahead of 2024, "Having recovered America from the COVID pandemic and set the economy back on the path of success, narrowly dodging both recession and out of control inflation, I am now going to commit to my one-term transitional Presidency and open up my party's process to a vibrant, organic, Democratic primaries. May a younger generation take this country forward" — that would've been SO much better than the incompetence out of an obsession for legacy we got.
I agree with the first bullet point but does not change my stance on biden. I felt both him and trump were to old but once you have a known good quantity vs a known bad I would rather stick with the good. This pretty much applies to the second bullet point. For the third did you see the debate? He handily won if you listened to what they said. Yeah its easier for trump to be energetic and fast in what he says when he does not have to care about accuracy. Biden having to actually think about what he is saying makes for some an appearance that might look bad if you focus on appearance but content wise he was miles ahead. This is something which again causes someone like me to want to go with him. I mean the appearance folks are pretty much maga anyways except for the folks who are like, other people but of course not me vote on appearance and will sink it. Now granted I would be fine with your end scenario. I was not wild about the change to kamala but once it was done I supported her like I voted for hilary. I think a lot of this thinking is all supposition about how other people feel.
Well put. I didn't love Biden for a lot of reasons. One of which was not taking the threat of the conservatives spearheaded by the likes of the convicted felon.
But given his one term, and after all the destruction of the felon and the conservative movement...his administration did do an awful lot right and gets nothing but flak from Democrats and liberals anyway.
The calls from this type of thing seems weird and knee jerk and im very suspicious of the source. Going after the closest thing to a republican opponent and it honestly disrupts real discussion around democrat failures. Obama is my second favorite but I have some real problems with him. I would still say the whole hilary/bernie thing which gave us trump one was a bigger problem but again that is old news and there appears to be some who want to complain about everything the democrats do in opposition usually with the line that its not enough or too weak but it feels to me like something that comes out of maga string pullers to discount the dems.