A radical idea

How about we drop the continual tirades against Biden and acknowledge that the most difficult job in the world is, well...difficult? How about voicing the realization that he's been faced with crisis after crisis?

Most of all, how about acknowledging that Biden is a good man?

Some on this board have called Biden "your" leader, immediately preceding yet another hate-laced tirade. That's wrong. He's every American citizen's leader, duly and fairly elected. And most important of all--he's trying. I don't agree with everything he does--far from it--but I appreciate his efforts.

I contrast this with his predecessor, who was and is NOT a good man (no one can argue with that). The Orange Jerkoff didn't show up for work until noon, never even bothered to read his one-page briefings, and jetted off to Mar-o-Asshole every Friday afternoon. 

So we should show Biden some respect, and maybe even, God forbid, a little gratitude.

I'm sure this suggestion will be met with the usual screaming tirades and I will be insulted by Tom, David Miller will call me a liar, and Boiler will do his moronic "Kevin thinks" shtick. This will happen, as surely as the night doth follow the day. But I thought I'd throw this out there anyway.

Because, y'know, acknowledging a leader's fundamental decency is such a radical liberal thing to do.

 Sad, truly sad.

Kevin makes a point about respecting the office of POTUS regardless of who it is...despite the segue into "his predecessor" territory.  But the basic point is well taken.  I can't imagine the challenges of the job.  Decades ago the office itself was accorded due respect even when the office holder wasn't popular with our dad or liked by the guy next door.  If the pres came to our town it was an honor and everyone gave it its due respect, whether or not they went to the parade and cheered, because he was the President.

Times have changed, including individual concepts of what "respect" means.  The example that comes to mind is how students viewed school teachers decades ago.  We all had some we liked and some we didn't like for various reasons, but we feared them!  They had the power!  They could send notes home ratting us out!  They could send us to the principal's office!  They could schooch a point to bring a C+ to a B- if they thought we were trying hard and we didn't give them trouble in the classroom.  We who were taught manners at home would not have DARED to sass the teacher.  Parents took the teacher's word for it if told we were causing problems or weren't applying ourselves.   The teacher got the benefit of the doubt, not the kid, who would be lucky not to get a whipping or grounded for two weeks.

In the USA we are still a democracy.  Our leader's 6 X 10 foot portrait is not plastered all over town; we aren't forced to salute them, to march in lockstep, to faux cheer at parades or else someone would come in the night to take us away.   Our leaders have to vie for election every four years, not remain in power until they die and/or pass the office to their favorite son without the people having anything to say about it.  [No need to go into the last election, stolen or not, etc.]   Our leaders have to please a lot of people vying for funding, rule changes, re-election of course, and all kinds of problems and issues we have no idea about.   

So far they've all been men, and like most humans fallible for something.  FDR cheated on  his wife and tried to hide his disability from the public.  IKE got elected based on his military service, was fortunate to be POTUS in peace time and prosperity, at least for the US.  Kennedy was a womanizer; his influential father a bootlegger who bought the election for him (JMHO), popular based much on his looks and personality.  He was in the right place at the right time, married the best woman who added cache to his personna.  And he did some honorary military service.   Lots to like, lots to not like.  Nixon was manipulated into being a pretty despicable person.  Jimmy Carter's presidency is said to be the worst in modern history, but few can say he wasn't an honorable man who did good things for the comman man after his term.

Biden certainly is facing some terrible situations, getting 'advice' (more like mandates) from all corners as do most presidents.  Many have had to answer for results of war, i.e. soldiers and citizens captured and tortured and killed.  Now it is terrorism as much as or more than formally defined wars where eventually somebody surrenders.   Not all will be liked or respected for their personal attributes or what decisions they were forced into making.

But, good or bad presidential performance, they are due the respect of the office put in charge of a democratic (lower case d) government.  Not the man, the office.

Again, JMHO.

Candy

Yeah, what the heck.  The senile guy next to my grandmother's room at the nursing home was trying too this morning when I stopped by.  He was listening to the nurse when asked to get up and leave his room just as good as Biden does when he told to do something but whomever.  

Most of us are old enough to remember how the Democrats treated President Trump...from calls to impeach the day he took office to "The Resistance"  before he even took the oath.

Don't bring up Trump.  Kevin can't get by that topic to see how awful Biden is.  However, I actually think Kevin can but he chooses to deflect using the "Trump card."  

So Biden creates a crisis, and Kevin believes that we should cut Biden slack for the crisis?  I think not.

The vitriol isnt going away...and I'm not just talking about this board.    Its national. 

There's a protest this week in Washington in support of the domestic terrorists that tried to overthrow our election this past year.    And thats coupled with several elected members of Congress who actively bless those people and continue to spread the lie about the election results that fuels those people.   

Demographics are changing in this country.  And rather than adapt to the demographics the alt-right is fighting to reign as a minority.      Gerrymandering districts, reigning in voting access,  intimidating poll workers, spreading lies about voter fraud,  and usurping election officials with partisan hacks is just a few of the measures we're seeing in the wake of the 2020 election.

The parties used to fight about taxes, government programs, and trade policy.     Now we're fighting about the principles of Democracy.    Thats not a good place to be in.   

Now a lot of that I agree with PJ. 

But it doesn't help unite anything, having an inept senile old man being given directions "in charge."  And like Kevin likes to spew......there were more than 75M people who got bamboozled into voting for him.  

Typical liberal response. When confronted with undisputable facts the liberals change the subject. PJ brings up "turmoil" - now that is funny. The whole Biden fraudlent election and the results of the first 8 months of Biden's inept administration are the reasons for the "turmoil". Look on any front - 1) the mass illegal immigration on the southern border,- 2) the inflation, across the board, of gasoline prices, food, utilities,ect.,- 3) the corona "follow the science" virus mishandling, - 4) the ongoing butchered Afghan situation,- 5) CRT garbage,- 6) antifa and blm rioting, civil unrest, killings and mayhem, -7) the list is endless. Yeah, "turmoil" - all of it totally Biden and his administration's fault.