Bakari's comment that no white man has given up power for a black woman - is supremely sad but entirely accurate. This is the argument that makes me believe Joe won't step down.
Bakari's comment that no white man has given up power for a black woman - is supremely sad but entirely accurate. This is the argument that makes me believe Joe won't step down.
I've never believed Biden would step down, but I discount that Kamala Harris as opposed to some white guy as a potential choice to replace him on the ticket makes much difference. This seemed to me to be just another of Bakari's weird bank shot comments that doesn't pass the pressure test. Biden was always stubborn and prickly about his image. Now he's old, stubborn and prickly about his image. Absent some kind of catastrophic event like a seizure or total freeze up, I predict he'll hang on and get through the convention as the nominee. And after that? I'm preparing for the worst.
What enrages me is the fatalism that while it's never happened, that it never will. Lots of things never happened - until they did! See 2008 when we elected a Black man president. Or 2020, when a woman - a Black woman - became VP. A woman was elected Speaker of the House - twice! Several woman have been confirmed to the Supreme Court.
In the end, we all know we're really voting for Kamala for president, because very few of us think Joe will finish another term. But I'd sure like to see him get off his high horse, acknowledge reality and give her the opportunity to get up on stage and make her case. She would shred Trump in a debate.
Bakari's comment that no white man has given up power for a black woman - is supremely sad but entirely accurate. This is the argument that makes me believe Joe won't step down.
I've never believed Biden would step down, but I discount that Kamala Harris as opposed to some white guy as a potential choice to replace him on the ticket makes much difference. This seemed to me to be just another of Bakari's weird bank shot comments that doesn't pass the pressure test. Biden was always stubborn and prickly about his image. Now he's old, stubborn and prickly about his image. Absent some kind of catastrophic event like a seizure or total freeze up, I predict he'll hang on and get through the convention as the nominee. And after that? I'm preparing for the worst.
What enrages me is the fatalism that while it's never happened, that it never will. Lots of things never happened - until they did! See 2008 when we elected a Black man president. Or 2020, when a woman - a Black woman - became VP. A woman was elected Speaker of the House - twice! Several woman have been confirmed to the Supreme Court.
In the end, we all know we're really voting for Kamala for president, because very few of us think Joe will finish another term. But I'd sure like to see him get off his high horse, acknowledge reality and give her the opportunity to get up on stage and make her case. She would shred Trump in a debate.