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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The Democrats rolled out the second night of their unconventional convention, and — Spoiler Alert! — Joe Biden received the nomination for president. That came during the roll call of states — you know, that cornball process where someone from the state, usually in a dumb hat or dress, gets up to bellow
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I settle in my armchair, notepad at my side, expecting two things from the first night of the Democratic National Convention. First, a shower of oatmeal around the personalities of Joe Biden and his historic pick for VP, Kamala Harris. Second, a hose of vinegar aimed at the incumbent president,
Joe Biden
8/11/20 UPDATE: Joe Biden picks Kamala Harris. Let the attack commercials begin. A year ago, long before Basement Brigadier Biden emerged as The Candidate, I asked fellow Democrats if it were possible the top of the 2020 slate would be two white men. A very large majority answered,