Uncategorized
With the real World Series taking the night off, a lot of America tuned into Game 7 of the World Series of Politics, the last mano a mano event of the 2020 presidential season. Neither was the home team, but the GOP suited up the Good Donald J. Trump, the
Supreme Court
Former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell, one of the last truth-telling moderate Democrats, analyzed some of his colleagues' hankering to pack the U.S. Supreme Court on Bill Hemmer’s show on (gasp) Fox News Channel. Why the gasp? Well, admitting I watch Fox, and that Rendell would appear there.
Uncategorized
Thursday night, two networks offered a choice at 8 p.m.: Town halls with former Vice President Joe Biden on ABC; and with President Donald J. Trump on NBC. If you could watch only one, which would it be? Me? Trump, of course, to maximize the chance of seeing or
Uncategorized
Nyet to Donald J. Trump. No man, to Joe Biden. I can’t vote for either of them. In fact, I didn’t. I voted by mail and passed on the males. Why? Trump? I don’t have all day to list the reasons. Here are a few off the
Microaggressions
Remember in 2007, when Joe Biden said this, about the man who would later beat him in the presidential race: "I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man." It
Uncategorized
Vice President Joe Biden won the first presidential debate, and before my Trumpster friends have a stroke, let me tell you why. You did it to yourself with all your smoke about Biden’s supposed dementia, and his inability to put together two coherent sentences. You set the bar so
Politics
In the past few days, two “C” issues have impacted the Presidential race, with less than seven weeks to go. Democratic candidate Joe Biden has seized on Covid as President Donald J. Trump’s Achilles heel. Only about one-third of Americans approve of his performance on that issue and he
Joe Biden
Today I am putting on my political advisor hat and will stage an intervention to rescue Joe Biden from the fracking fracas. Part of the problem is of his own making, when he answered “yes” when asked if he would ban fracking. Here is what he should have said, and
Uncategorized
On this, his biggest night of the Republican National Convention, the question was which Donald J. Trump would show up — the generous, caring, warm-hearted, person described by his friends and family, or the slashing, bragging, biting, mocking, vain and thin-skinned president we have come to know. Always the showman and
Uncategorized
Since Donald J. Trump ran for the presidency four years ago as a disrupter, and has spent 3 ½ years upsetting presidential precedents, it’s no surprise that he knocked down tradition in his convention, which began last night, from Charlotte, N.C., and elsewhere. For better or worse, the Republican
Uncategorized
A presidential political campaign that began in January 2019 with Rep. Tulsi Gabbard’s announcement of candidacy, and attracted enough candidates to fill a Septa subway car, ended Thursday with the acceptance of nomination by former Vice President Joe Biden. Ironically, the party that fetishizes diversity and accuses everyone else
Uncategorized
The third night of the Democratic National Convention was planned as Ladies Night, but the trophy was taken by a man, former President Barack Obama. If that sounds sexist, so be it. Like he did when we first saw him on the national stage at the 2004 DNC, Obama lit