I was on the road for over an hour yesterday and got to hear NPR the entire time.
They had a program on the age of these 2 very unqualified leading candidates we have running for president. They interviewed OLD people in their 80's.
Heard on
https://www.npr.org/2023/09/28/1202435445/how-older-voters-feel-about-voting-for-older-presidents
DETROW: Any advice you would give to Joe Biden or Donald Trump as you sit here in front of a microphone?
HUGHES: Make your legacy in recruiting and passing on for the good of the country. And the same with Mitch McConnell and Feinstein. It's just kind of embarrassing.
SHIMER: I guess my advice to Donald Trump would be to tell the truth for a change. My advice to Joe Biden would be learn how to camouflage your walk because that's where the criticism is coming from.
FULLER: I guess if we just be candid on the subject...
DETROW: Yeah.
FULLER: ...Advice to both - don't run.
Even if they both were 50 and in their prime, they still would be the 2 worst candidates because of their corruption.
Even if they both were 50 and both were not corrupt, they would still be the worst choices because 1 of them has the worst policies in history (energy, fake climate crisis, killing 500,000 people in Ukraine, border crisis, for instance) and the other suffers mental illness, with extreme lying and dangerously divisive but has some good policies.
Something Is Seriously WrongwithTrump
https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/95084/
https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/95084/#95119
So each of them, has 3 independent factors that define what they bring to the presidency, where just 1 of thoe individual factors should disqualify them from being president, yet both have a massive lead ahead of anybody else running.
Think about what that really means in our country!!!!
The VAST majority of Ds want Biden to retire after this term and NOT run again in 2024 but they have no choice.
And they claim the Rs are threatening our democracy?
https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/28/politics/joe-biden-democracy-speech-arizona/index.html
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In a democracy, people get to vote for who they want to be president!
Ds have NO choice. They get Biden because the party has decided for them.
one would think the death of Fienstien would create some urgency to this mess of pols hanging on to their power for decades too long. Just think yesterday there she sat, in the Senate with a aide telling her how to vote and today she is dead. Well it seems we might as well pay the aide even though he/she/it/them/her/him has never won an election. What a mess we have created.
Thanks much, mcfarm.
I didn't know this happened until just now.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/29/politics/dianne-feinstein-death/index.html
Feinstein, who was the Senate’s oldest member at the time of her death, also faced questions about her mental acuity and ability to lead. She dismissed the concerns, saying, “The real question is whether I’m still an effective representative for 40 million Californians, and the record shows that I am.”
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The real sad thing about this is that Dianne Feinstein had a wonderful legacy of almost nothing but positives and admirable accomplishments going. All she needed to do was retire several years ago and it was locked in forever.
However, just like Biden, who had a similar wonderful legacy locked in after being VP but won't give up his power, 10s of millions of people will remember them most for who they were and what they did during their last several years.
Marriage is supposed to be "until death do us part" not political offices )-:
RIP Diane Feinstein!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dianne_Feinstein
Dianne Goldman Berman Feinstein (/ˈfaɪnstaɪn/FYNE-styne; born Dianne Emiel Goldman; June 22, 1933 – September 28, 2023) was an American politician who served as a United States senator from California from 1992 until her death in 2023. A member of the Democratic Party, she previously served as Mayor of San Francisco from 1978 to 1988.[1]
A San Francisco native, Feinstein graduated from Stanford University in 1955. She was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1969 and served as the board's first female president in 1978, during which time the assassinations of Mayor George Moscone and City Supervisor Harvey Milk drew national attention. Feinstein succeeded Moscone as mayor and became the first woman to serve in that position. During her tenure, she led the renovation of the city's cable car system and oversaw the 1984 Democratic National Convention. Despite a recall attempt in 1983, Feinstein was a popular mayor and was named the most effective mayor in the country by City & State in 1987.[2][3][4]
After losing a race for governor in 1990, Feinstein was elected to the U.S. Senate in a 1992 special election.[5] In November 1992, she became California's first female U.S. senator; shortly after, she became the state's senior senator after Alan Cranston retired in January 1993. Feinstein was reelected five times. In the 2012 election, she received 7.86 million votes,[6] the most popular votes received by any U.S. Senate candidate in history.[7] Feinstein authored the 1994 Federal Assault Weapons Ban. She was the first woman to have chaired the Senate Rules Committee and the Senate Intelligence Committee and the first woman to have presided over a U.S. presidential inauguration. Feinstein chaired the Senate Intelligence Committee from 2009 to 2015[8] and was the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee from 2017 to 2021.[9]
Aged 90, she was the oldest sitting U.S. senator and member of Congress. She was also the longest-serving U.S. senator from California,[10] the longest-tenured female senator in history, and the senior Democratic member of the Senate.[11] In February 2023, Feinstein announced she would not seek reelection in 2024.[12] During her final years in office, as she grew older and her health declined, there were concerns about her mental acuity and fitness to serve.[13][14][15][16] Feinstein died in office on September 28, 2023, at the age of 90.[17][18]