A short note on Rep. Jim Clyburn saying “ We're ridin' with Biden”
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He had to give out a soundbite to the Black folk, a catchy little rhyme such as “We're ridin' with Biden” - something that they could go on repeating like a hit on the grapevine
Clyburn is prepared to ride to hell with his boss and if need be, to burn with him, down there. It’s called loyalty, not “Uncle Tom”
Not even in his raunchiest days, there’s no way this could have been about him : Hey Joe.
In some ill-willed description Shaykh Dr. Abdalqadir as-Sufi talks about Obama’s basketball walk .
I wonder how he would describe Joe Biden’s current shuffle that’s really far from anything like Shaquille O'Neal or LeBron James’? And that’s another thing about Joe Biden observed from any distance - his unique resemblance to Bill Clinton, not the morals of an alley cat with his Cuban size cigar on a helpless wench in the precincts of the Oval Office but a unique resemblance in this one aspect captured so succinctly by Ishmael Reed : “I was the first to identify Clinton as a black president as a result of his mimicking a black style. (I said he was the second, since Warren G. Harding never denied the rumors about his black ancestry.) As a result of his ability to imitate the black preaching style, Clinton was able to seduce black audiences…”
So the last time around you’d have Joe Biden trotting over to some places in South Carolina rapping or trying to rap Hello Brothers, we’re in this love together” and nowadays it’s him shuffling over to South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, trying to mimic a black preacher man's style to win black hearts and minds…
Waxing religiously again, did you hear him addressing the NATO Summit shrilly ( trying to sound no nonsense and forceful) that it was his “Sacred obligation” to support Ukraine ? Maybe also his sacred obligation to defeat Donald Trump, his stance on abortion also his sacred obligation, and his embrace of same-sex-marriage, a sacred obligation, because just as Ginsberg ( not Ruth Bader Ginsburg) put it,
“A week is a long time in politics” and for Biden it's 16 long weeks and 6 days between now and -a possible doomsday scenario, his ultimate date with fate on Tuesday, 5 November 2024, a total of 118 uncertain days, most of them hectic days to be spent on the campaign trail, early and late, from New York City to the Golden Gate , in his case, all written in the future tense, it’s “I’ll be shuffling, early and late, from New York City to the Golden Gate.” - and since in real time it’s always the present tense ( hectic, fast and furious ) - the present continuous , it’ll be more of Sly & the Family Stone : “Can’t strain my brain” ( I know how it feels to worry all the time, I can't take the pain”
If we look through the major news and views of 9th July in RealClearPolitics, Biden is not on a winning streak - far from it, and it’s not only jet lag, it’s now more a matter of ” uneasy sleeps the head that wears the crown”. So he’ll need to take several naps and a long rest before he can pass the test that he’ll have to face during the 2nd and final debate with Donald Trump who is definitely out to knock him out beyond any shadow of a doubt even if Biden’s lame excuse is gonna be that it was just another bad night. Bad night number 2.
Of course, it would be wise for Biden to avoid debate no.2 altogether. Tell Trump & the rebel democrats in his Democrat Party that he has a cold or is suffering from exhaustion after so many weeks on the campaign trail - suggest that he would like to send Kamala Harris to box with Trump in his stead, as he wails by way of explanation
“ Yesterday all my troubles seemed so far away.
Now it looks as though they're here to stay.
Oh, I believe in yesterday.
Suddenly, I'm not half the man I used to be.
There's a shadow hanging over me.
Oh, yesterday came suddenly.”
And who is going to take the blame if Biden loses?
Dr. Oohay
This US House member (from the Palmetto State) will most likely have THE final say in this Demodrama.
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Dr Oohay,
Who could this most powerful US House member (from the Palmetto State) be, that could have “THE final say” when Old Man Biden has already told the rebel Democrats that “only the Almighty Lord” can convince him to throw in the towel? Of course, we should not exclude the possibility that the US House member (from the Palmetto State) could be an emissary from the Almighty to the reluctant Biden...
There’s some depressing reading being hosted at Breitbart (https://www.breitbart.com/politics/ )
Painful reading for Biden. These kinds of headlines :
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta Removes Restrictions on Donald Trump’s Facebook and Instagram Accounts
Elon Musk, World’s Richest Man, Comes Off Sidelines, Begins to Spend Vast Fortune to Elect Donald Trump President
Donors for Pro-Biden Super PAC Reportedly Planning to Freeze $90M If Biden Remains on Ticket
Exclusive — Sen. Joni Ernst: World ‘Laughing’ at Joe Biden Instead of ‘Trembling’ Before American Leadership
Trump Says Biden Should ‘Immediately Take a Cognitive Test’: ‘All Presidential Candidates Should’
( Biden of course who says that no one is above the law believes that he is an exception when it comes to cognition. It’s clear and everybody including himself knows why he doesn’t want to take a cognitive test. He knows that the minute the results of such a test are made public he would be kissing a second term in the White House goodbye, forever, because he would not have passed such a test with flying colours.
John F Kennedy was 43 years old when he was inaugurated as President. Barack Obama was 47 years old when he became president. According to this List of presidents of the United States by age, “The oldest person inaugurated president was Joe Biden, at the age of 78” He now wants to be re-elected to serve until he is a good old 86, he says “because of the gravity of the situation”
“The peace of the brave,
Not the peace of the grave”
As the late Chairman Arafat used to say.
Dr. Oohay
Don’t forget the Faustian (JB-JC) agreement involved J. Biden (who was already losing to Candidate B. Sanders during the 2020 Democratic presidential primary AND key JB supporters, led by JC, former President Obama, Senator B. Sanders, Al Sharpton, and some Democrats associated with the “Progressive” wing of the Democratic Party. JC conditions included JB choosing a back woman as his VP. Apparently, JB agreed to ALL JC conditions. Now the DemoDrama moves into Act 2 and JB has to honor the JB-JC agreement. So JC has a final say in what happens in Act 2. The climax yet to come.
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Dr Oohay,
Will soon be replying to your take
For now, another opinion piece from DN ( from two days ago)
https://www.dn.se/varlden/partikallor-obama-har-uttryckt-oro-for-biden/
Party sources: Obama has expressed concern about Biden
Updated 13:22 Published 2024-07-12
Former US President Barack Obama. Photo: Al Drago/TT
Two heavy names within the Democrats, Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi, have expressed concern for Joe Biden in private conversations, according to sources.
But according to US expert Erik Åsard, it is Congress leaders Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries who could ultimately get the president to step down.
- Then he has no other choice, he says.
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Former US President Barack Obama and former Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi have both expressed concern about Joe Biden's chances of winning over Donald Trump in November, several party sources told CNN .
Obama and Pelosi are described together with the Clintons as some of the heaviest names in the party. If anyone can get Biden to step aside, it's either of them.
- They are very popular within the party, what they think and say is of great importance, says Erik Åsard, professor emeritus in North American studies.
The Democrats are desperate, the sources said. The internal battles over Biden's being or not being the party's presidential candidate take both focus and energy away from the real battle – that of the presidency.
Nancy Pelosi is one of the Democrats' heaviest names. Photo: Tom Williams/TT
In vague terms, Nancy Pelosi said last week that it is "up to the president to decide whether to run" or not. But Biden has already made up his mind. "Only God" can make him pull out, he has said, and Pelosi's statement was interpreted by some as a call for Biden to reconsider.
Behind the scenes, the former speaker is working feverishly to put pressure on Biden to reconsider his decision, Democratic sources told The Hill. Pelosi has not explicitly said that Biden should throw in the towel, but in conversations with several party colleagues, she has expressed her concerns about his ability to win over Donald Trump in November, the sources said.
- She is very worried, says a person to the newspaper.
Barack Obama and Joe Biden during a fundraising gala in March. Photo: Alex Brandon/AP
A total of 19 members of Congress, including one Senator (Peter Welch), have now publicly called on Joe Biden, 81, to step aside. Major contributors such as movie star George Clooney and producer Abigail E Disney are pressuring the president to release another candidate. The campaign fund has already taken a serious beating two weeks after the disputed debate against Donald Trump.
According to sources to the New York Times, powerful Democratic sponsors have decided to freeze promised donations of $90 million if Joe Biden decides to stay in the presidential race.
- It is already catastrophic, says a person with access to NBC .
But the most important names, Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries, the party's leaders in the Senate and the House of Representatives, respectively, have not openly taken a stand against Biden.
Jeffries met Joe Biden on Thursday and then discussed "the way forward", he writes in a letter to colleagues in the House of Representatives. According to CNN sources, Jeffries has not offered Biden his support.
- If they (Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries editor's note) turn against him and say that he should drop out, then he probably has no other choice, says Erik Åsard.
In a new survey from the Washington Post, at the same time, Vice President Kamala Harris now receives slightly stronger support than Joe Biden in the fight against Donald Trump.
When Harris is pitted against Trump, 49 percent say they would vote for her and 47 percent say they would vote for Donald Trump. Between Biden and Trump, however, there is a stalemate, both candidates have support from 46 percent of those surveyed.
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Dr. Oohay,
I’ll get back to you later.
Of relevance, from this morning’s Dagens Nyheter 👍
https://www.dn.se/varlden/karin-eriksson-goda-rad-fran-obama-ar-nog-det-sista-biden-onskar/
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Karin Eriksson: Good advice from Obama is probably the last thing Biden wants
Updated 00:01 Published yesterday 18:44
Biden and Obama in March this year. Photo: Alex Brandon/AP
WASHINGTON. It is no wonder that many Democrats dream of Barack Obama stepping in and fixing everything in the crisis surrounding Joe Biden.
It's just a dream.
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“Shoot. Me. Now!" That was the message on the note that newly appointed Senator Barack Obama handed over to one of his associates, during a particularly lengthy congressional hearing in January 2005.
An older colleague held a box. His name was Joe Biden.
Just a few years later, the fraternization between the two top politicians was marketed as the "bromance" of the century in American politics. Obama became the young, cool, charismatic president and Biden his humorous and experienced vice president.
Youtube is full of cozy clips of their campaign meetings, jogging trips, laughter and hugs.
In fact, their relationship was and remains complicated. The book "The long alliance: The imperfect union of Joe Biden and Barack Obama", which came out in September 2022, and which traces the history of the note in the Senate, is just one of many testimonies of the rivalry between the two presidents.
Now, several American media outlets state that Obama has expressed concern for Joe Biden in individual conversations. That could matter to Democratic voters, the same way it mattered when Obama came out and endorsed Biden after the debate a couple of weeks ago.
Personal choice is strong and parties are weak in American politics. The party leaders in Congress do not really have the mandate to ask Biden to step aside as a candidate. From that perspective, it is not strange if some people hope that fix star Obama will step in as an authority.
But Biden isn't longing for good advice from his former boss. Rather, it is the last thing he learns to listen to. He and his associates are painfully aware that some of the sharpest critics of the crisis come from the Obama administration. Advisor David Axelrod has urged the president to step aside. Former staffers Dan Pfeiffer and Jon Favreau - who now lead the popular podcast "Pod Save America" - believe that Biden will lose to Trump.
On Wednesday, the New York Times described how the Biden campaign is dismissing the men behind the podcast as a couple of guys who worked for an "intellectual, cool-dude president" and who have never understood working-class Biden.
Then Pfeiffer and Favreau went to the roof and accused Biden's campaign staff of being "fucking insane", completely crazy, who went on a podcast instead of fighting Donald Trump.
It's many years of frustration coming to the surface.
When Barack Obama captured the party's nomination in 2008, Joe Biden, after some persuasion from his family, agreed to be his vice presidential running mate. The Obama camp hoped the senior senator would contribute experience. They saw it as an advantage that he had reached the age of 65 – it was interpreted to mean that he was unlikely to embark on more presidential campaigns:
They thus dismissed Biden as a competitor. It was a mistake.
Admittedly, the politicians got closer to each other after the election victory in 2008. Obama kept his promise to Biden to let him into the room where the decisions were made. When the vice president's eldest son Beau Biden fell ill and died of a brain tumor, the Obama family was there.
But there was never a question of taco Tuesdays or Friday snuggles. Political conflicts occurred, not least over Afghanistan. Biden allegedly took offense when Barack Obama supported Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign in 2016.
No one becomes president of the United States without a big ego or a strong sense of entitlement to lead the world. Joe Biden's need for revenge is great. In March, the news site Axios reported that the current president likes to speculate that Obama is "jealous."
It is clear that the representative may have some objections when Biden is marketed as the most effective president in many decades. Even Obama cares about his legacy.
That doesn't mean his concern about Biden isn't genuine.
"I feel great pride in what the Biden administration has accomplished," Barack Obama emphasized at a meeting with donors in Los Angeles in June, when the two presidents were to campaign with movie stars such as George Clooney and Julia Roberts.
Afterwards, pictures of him helping Biden leave the stage were spread.
A few days ago, Clooney wrote a devastating guest column in the New York Times about Biden's condition during the event. According to information to the political website Politico, Barack Obama knew the content of the text before it was published.
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Dr. Oohay,
Things have changed a lot since 2020. Biden has got a little older : Neurologist comments on Biden's health
Right now Donald J. Trump backed by his Wailers, is happily singing “Bad Card”
“You a-go tired to see me face
Can't get me out of the race
Oh, man, you said I'm in your place
And then you draw bad card
A-make you draw bad card
And then you draw bad card
Propaganda spreading over my name
Say you want to bring another life to shame
Oh, man, you just a-playing a game
And then you draw bad card (draw bad card)
A-make you draw bad card (draw bad card)
A-make you draw bad card
I want to disturb my neighbour
'Cause I'm feelin' so right
I want to turn up my disco
Blow them to full watts tonight, eh
In a rub-a-dub style, in a rub-a-dub style
In a rub-a-dub style, in a rub-a-dub style
'Cause we guarding the palace so majestic
Guarding the palace so realistic
Them a-go tired to see we face (oh yeah)
Me say them can't get we out of the race
Oh, man, it's just a big disgrace
The way you draw bad card (draw bad card)
The way you make wrong moves (make wrong moves)
The way you draw bad card (draw bad card)
A-make you draw bad card (draw bad card)
A-make you draw bad card
In a rub-a-dub style, rub-a-dub style
In a rub-a-dub style”
Indeed, the climax yet to come, but it looks like we will have to update and review our earlier anticipations because first of all according to most of the US based commentators on what’s going on, ironically, the failed assassination attempt to take dear Trump out of the race has given Biden a reprieve / some respite:
“The Biden campaign officials said they expect that the assassination attempt will lower the pressure from congressional Democrats for Biden, 81, to step aside in the race amid concerns about his fitness for office.”
And so, “as stubborn as an illiterate goat”, Joe is sticking to his guns that he ain’t going anywhere. This means that the loser will only have himself to blame in November.
Secondly, now that Donald J. Trump has been confirmed as the Republican nominee and he has chosen 39-year-old J.D. Vance (and not e.g. Tim Scott) as his running mate, we are to suppose that the likes of Jim Clyburn and Al Sharpton will be busy making it their sacred duty to go on telling Biden, in the usual sycophant’s manner, “boss, don’t worry be happy” - assuring and reassuring him that they will help deliver the Black Vote… even though it’s doubtful that grassroot supporters of the Black Caucus think that “Kamala Harris is not black enough.”
If Biden had someone like Cornel West or a younger edition of Barack Obama as his running mate, his prospects would be infinitely better. My intuition is that the White woman, be she the Hillary Clinton or Sarah Palin type, instinctively jealous and in competition with the successful black woman, wouldn't normally be looking forward to Kamala Harris a heartbeat away becoming de facto and de jure next Prezzo if a victorious 2nd term Biden were to prematurely kick the bucket …