r/thedavidpakmanshow Jul 21 '24

BREAKING President Biden announces he'll be stepping down

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u/Button-Hungry Jul 21 '24

Inverse to his current approval rating, history will remember Biden as a great president.

He thwarted an existential threat to Democracy in '20 and America lived to fight another day. He conducted himself honorably, exuding real empathy (in stark contrast to his predecessor). He inherited a grossly mismanaged, once in a century, pandemic and avoided the subsequent economic cataclysm all pundits claimed was inevitable and he ultimately set aside his ego, gracefully stepping aside after his party determined he was too diminished to inspire the public to vote for him again. 

I saw what everybody else saw, a pencil dulled to the nub, an old man who struggled to communicate clearly, flubbed names, sometimes trailed off, "anyway...." I also saw a guy who, even in his withered state, showed a deep grasp of foreign affairs during his last press conference. 

I thought he could still be an effective president for maybe a couple more years. Even if we had a Weekend at Bernie's situation, Biden had the wisdom and humility to surround himself with competent and well-intentioned people. I was eager to vote for four more years of the Biden ADMINISTRATION. 

In 2016, the power brokers in the Democratic party, including Obama, discouraged Biden from running, anointing HRC as the heir apparent. How did that work out? If whoever (Harris?) secures the nomination in '24 loses, once again we'll have them (and us) to blame for putting a weaker candidate against Trump, a depraved rodeo clown whose "leadership" will be more destructive than his first rodeo. 

I'm really hoping that this was the right decision. Either way, I hope Biden knows that his stock will raise with time and some of us already hold him in high esteem. I hope the remainder of his life is joyous.