From the Philadelphia Inquirer editorial board:
“President Joe Biden’s debate performance was a disaster. His disjointed responses and dazed look sparked calls for him to drop out of the presidential race.”
“But lost in the hand wringing was Donald Trump’s usual bombastic litany of lies, hyperbole, bigotry, ignorance, and fear mongering. His performance demonstrated once again that he is a danger to democracy and unfit for office.”
“In fact, the debate about the debate is misplaced. The only person who should withdraw from the race is Trump.”
Note….
The media ‘Joe should quit’ stuff IS subsiding as some turn the spotlight on Donald Trump’s performance…
…We’re letting our ancient programming override our cerebral hemispheres.
We just want to DO. We don’t want to think about the consequences, especially that trifling business of there being no seriously competitive “replacement” for Joe on hand if we succeeded in jettisoning him… or all the other issues that would immediately arise, that we’d then have to face and live with. [Though maybe we wouldn’t be living with them, or anything else, for very long, if we help our resident fascists make their dreams come true.]
We don’t want to think about the fact that the same lamestream media that adamantly refuses to cover Trump’s blatant, criminal sociopathy and increasing dementia, while working like demons to make an issue of Biden’s age, is … oh look … right behind us, gee how strange is that, they’re never this perceptive, but now they’re encouraging us, urging Joe to resign NOW for the good of the country [my featherless tail. For the good of Bezos and Sulzberger and Harlan Crow. As several others have pointed out, not once have these sudden heroes insisted that TRUMP withdraw from the race.]
Nope, we’re running our legacy software, running on those old, old, archaic instincts now….
Gaelsdottir @ Daily Kos….
Yeah, things are going just swimmingly for Biden. Debate? Shmabate. Nobody cares.
Did you see how strong and articulate Biden was on Meet the Press this morning? Did you see ho how he went on Face the Nation and responded forcefully to the criticism of his fitness? He did the full Ginsberg, no surrogates needed, and showed everyone precisely why he is the right man to prevent a second Donald Trump term…
We did see that on this Sunday, right???
Well, how about the former president’s appearances on Fox News Sunday and State of the Union, explaining,the phantom half-million National Guard that Michelle Obama turned down?