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Opinion | Joe Biden Knows What He’s Doing (www.nytimes.com)

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There’s a gathering sense that President Biden’s response to the war in Gaza may cost him the 2024 election. A recent Gallup poll showed that his support among Democrats has slipped 11 points in the past month to 75 percent, the lowest of his presidency. On Friday my colleagues in the newsroom reported on a growing backlash against Biden coming from young and left-leaning voters.

Does this mean that standing with Israel could be politically fatal for Biden? I don’t think so, and to understand why, it’s important to understand the core responsibilities of an American president.

In 2012, when I was a partisan supporter of Mitt Romney, there was one message from President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign that I thought made the most succinct and persuasive case for his second term. It was delivered most memorably by then-Vice President Biden, of all people, at the 2012 Democratic National Convention. He said that Obama had “courage in his soul, compassion in his heart and a spine of steel,” and then Biden delivered the key line: “Osama bin Laden is dead, and General Motors is alive.”

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[-] drbluefall@toast.ooo 30 points 1 year ago

Yes, the system is a joke, but I'd rather it be run by competent bureaucrats than foaming-at-the-mouth violent theocrats.

[-] photonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 1 year ago

Don't forget the outright fascists!

[-] K1nsey6@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

The covert fascists are the greater danger

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