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Joe Biden is the best president of my lifetime. He showed a lot of strength here.
yeah this was one of the rare good surprised in the millenium.
We're you born since Obama left office?
Biden never bombed a doctors without borders hospital.
I would be starting from Reagan. I think Biden has done a better job than Obama.
I'm okay with it. It's really caught the Republicans and particularly Trump off-guard, especially since he locked in Vance in what turned out to be a too-early decision specifically because Biden waited until after the Republican convention to announce.
He's a good man and he's been such an incredibly effective President and politician. I think his main failing - and it's very much part of the way that he actually gets things done - is that they have all these successes but they never trumpet them through the media. He's gotten a lot done, but no one knows about it.
He's a product of a biased system. He was elected to the Senate in '72, over 50 years ago, and spent 36 years there. That long, during that time in a highly business-heavy state, would probably have been untenable for anything left of liberal. I'm not optimistic that anyone trying to be an effective politician in those circumstances for so long could have been much more progressive.
Considering all that, he got a lot of good done. But like you say, it's easy for the media to focus on the things that generate outrage. He wasn't a saint by any measure, but he was a decent compromise at a time when the Democrats were scared of losing the moderate votes. Him being nominated for re-election is probably a product of the political inertia that sitting and eligible presidents are rarely swapped out instead of being put up for re-election (actually, is there any precedent at all?)
Walz, by contrast, was in the House for twelve years, then governor for another five. That's a third of Biden's time in Congress, and much later too. I think it's much more realistic for someone in his position to be and stay progressive, and I hope he helps pull the Overton Window to the left. I hope this election shows that there is a platform for progress, that Biden was an emergency measure for damage control and that handing the baton over to Harris and Walz was a step in the right direction.
Of course, that hinges on Harris also driving a more progressive line than Biden did, instead of resigning to another term of mediocrity. She seems to signal as much, but whether that will be followed up with deeds remains to be seen.
Joe Biden is a good man who really did the right thing here. That’s in addition to his other accomplishments.
True selfless patriot.
Trump can't even comprehend Joe's selflessness. Witness recent "fan fiction Trump has generated suggesting that Joe would take back the nomination for himself as though it was stolen from him. Trump cannot comprehend altruism.
This is 100% normal.
As we get to the point of "elderly" time seems to move fast for a number of reasons. Not only is a period of time a percentage of your age, and every day means tomorrow is a smaller percentage, we go on "autopilot" more because our brain figures by now we've seen the same thing so many times, you don't need to be bothered thinking about what to do
You're just going about your day barely checked in, especially if your environment hasn't changed.
For 12 of the last 16 years, Bidens been in the White House. Before that he's had decades of time in the Senate. I'm absolutely sure the last four years just flew by to him and he doesn't know where the times gone.
It's 100% normal and too be expected of someone of his age.
Which is why we need a fucking age limit on the presidency. Just because you don't notice years going by doesn't mean they aren't.
I hope that he can enjoy a long life in retirements for he deserved it.
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Seems to me like less of a torch passing and more of a torch taking, akin to taking the car keys from grandpa because he's a danger when driving now. Not that I'm complaining, because things are looking a lot better with Harris at the helm.
edit: anyone downvoting want to explain how I'm wrong? Biden insisted he was staying in the race over and over until his hand was clearly forced and now the blow is being softened with "actually I meant to drop out but things were moving too fast" even though there were multiple points he was being asked to drop (including after the debate) and he refused. Hell, he could've simply not run in the primary if he sincerely believed he was a "transition president" in the first place.
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