The Post gave a detailed account of the intensity of a grueling Debate Practice put on Biden prior to the Debate. Perhaps Biden was over-prepared and pressured to bring up so many topics and statistics, that with just a two-minute response time to a broad question, he tried too hard to answer all the remembered responses he was grilled o…
The Post gave a detailed account of the intensity of a grueling Debate Practice put on Biden prior to the Debate. Perhaps Biden was over-prepared and pressured to bring up so many topics and statistics, that with just a two-minute response time to a broad question, he tried too hard to answer all the remembered responses he was grilled on. He sounded rushed and breathy and stumbled as though trying too hard. He also was said to have a cold.
Biden has had no real, spontaneous debates with anyone since his 2020 candidacy. And consider trying to think with a raving lunatic next to you, spewing lies and bonkers stream of consciousness.
Our problem is that we somehow expected him to be different from what he is. We wanted him to be confident, forceful, quick on his feet, ready to respond with his many accomplishments and future plans. But a debate, with open-ended questions, requiring a two minute answer, does not allow either man time to formulate much of an answer. And they devolved into sniping at each other since the moderators said next to nothing when they veered off topic. And I agree that Tapper and Bash were terrible at keeping them on topic and moving on in the debate.
I can't imagine who will step up to take his place. He was literally a consensus candidate in 2020 because Dems couldn't coalesce around anyone else. Also, do you really believe that Black Americans are going to turn to Trump after his "Black Jobs" comment? Whitmer, Newsome, Bernie, Amy?? Have any of them indicated they would jump at the chance? And do you think the American voters are going to be okay with the conventioneers deciding who they think is the best candidate Get Real?
Joe's mic was muted when Trump called him a criminal preventing Joe from responding in real time. For Trump, this was just a rally. He had 90 seconds of uninterrupted time to do his schtick. He scoffed at the questions from the "enemy of the people". Then here is Joe trying to answer in good faith complicated policy questions with fixed 90 second time limit. Yes, Joe is a sucker for agreeing to this. But read the transcript. Joe's answers were pretty good. We just did not get the Trump beat down that we all dream of. If taking down Trump is so easy then why did Jeb, Little Marco, Lyin Ted, National Review, DeSantos, Nikki, on and on do it?
Agreed. That comment was really dumb. I'm sure Joe would agree. But please look at the transcript. This was at the very end of a complicated answer at the buzzer. Not all full court buzzer shots swish.
"President Biden, I want to give you an opportunity to respond to this question about the national debt.
BIDEN: He had the largest national debt of any president four-year period, number one.
Number two, he got $2 trillion tax cut, benefited the very wealthy.
What I’m going to do is fix the taxes.
For example, we have a thousand trillionaires in America – I mean, billionaires in America. And what’s happening? They’re in a situation where they, in fact, pay 8.2 percent in taxes. If they just paid 24 percent or 25 percent, either one of those numbers, they’d raised $500 million – billion dollars, I should say, in a 10-year period.
We’d be able to right – wipe out his debt. We’d be able to help make sure that – all those things we need to do, childcare, elder care, making sure that we continue to strengthen our healthcare system, making sure that we’re able to make every single solitary person eligible for what I’ve been able to do with the COVID – excuse me, with dealing with everything we have to do with.
Look, if – we finally beat Medicare."
I concede this is poorly worded. But I disagree if this is portrayed as proof of dementia or mental decline. Joe made some important points. Joe wants billionaires to pay taxes at a lower tax rate than school teachers in order to address the national debt. I'm for Joe. I did not quote it but this was a response to a truly demented rant from Trump.
The Post gave a detailed account of the intensity of a grueling Debate Practice put on Biden prior to the Debate. Perhaps Biden was over-prepared and pressured to bring up so many topics and statistics, that with just a two-minute response time to a broad question, he tried too hard to answer all the remembered responses he was grilled on. He sounded rushed and breathy and stumbled as though trying too hard. He also was said to have a cold.
Biden has had no real, spontaneous debates with anyone since his 2020 candidacy. And consider trying to think with a raving lunatic next to you, spewing lies and bonkers stream of consciousness.
Our problem is that we somehow expected him to be different from what he is. We wanted him to be confident, forceful, quick on his feet, ready to respond with his many accomplishments and future plans. But a debate, with open-ended questions, requiring a two minute answer, does not allow either man time to formulate much of an answer. And they devolved into sniping at each other since the moderators said next to nothing when they veered off topic. And I agree that Tapper and Bash were terrible at keeping them on topic and moving on in the debate.
I can't imagine who will step up to take his place. He was literally a consensus candidate in 2020 because Dems couldn't coalesce around anyone else. Also, do you really believe that Black Americans are going to turn to Trump after his "Black Jobs" comment? Whitmer, Newsome, Bernie, Amy?? Have any of them indicated they would jump at the chance? And do you think the American voters are going to be okay with the conventioneers deciding who they think is the best candidate Get Real?
Joe's mic was muted when Trump called him a criminal preventing Joe from responding in real time. For Trump, this was just a rally. He had 90 seconds of uninterrupted time to do his schtick. He scoffed at the questions from the "enemy of the people". Then here is Joe trying to answer in good faith complicated policy questions with fixed 90 second time limit. Yes, Joe is a sucker for agreeing to this. But read the transcript. Joe's answers were pretty good. We just did not get the Trump beat down that we all dream of. If taking down Trump is so easy then why did Jeb, Little Marco, Lyin Ted, National Review, DeSantos, Nikki, on and on do it?
Ummm, “we … got rid of … of … Medicare” does not qualify as a “pretty good” answer. Just sayin’.
Agreed. That comment was really dumb. I'm sure Joe would agree. But please look at the transcript. This was at the very end of a complicated answer at the buzzer. Not all full court buzzer shots swish.
"President Biden, I want to give you an opportunity to respond to this question about the national debt.
BIDEN: He had the largest national debt of any president four-year period, number one.
Number two, he got $2 trillion tax cut, benefited the very wealthy.
What I’m going to do is fix the taxes.
For example, we have a thousand trillionaires in America – I mean, billionaires in America. And what’s happening? They’re in a situation where they, in fact, pay 8.2 percent in taxes. If they just paid 24 percent or 25 percent, either one of those numbers, they’d raised $500 million – billion dollars, I should say, in a 10-year period.
We’d be able to right – wipe out his debt. We’d be able to help make sure that – all those things we need to do, childcare, elder care, making sure that we continue to strengthen our healthcare system, making sure that we’re able to make every single solitary person eligible for what I’ve been able to do with the COVID – excuse me, with dealing with everything we have to do with.
Look, if – we finally beat Medicare."
I concede this is poorly worded. But I disagree if this is portrayed as proof of dementia or mental decline. Joe made some important points. Joe wants billionaires to pay taxes at a lower tax rate than school teachers in order to address the national debt. I'm for Joe. I did not quote it but this was a response to a truly demented rant from Trump.