Watching the second of the presidential debates the other night, I winced when I watched Biden speak, react, squirm, half-raise his pointer finger. He does not look well. It is not just his age; he looks frail. I thought he was older than Bernie, but the latter is more than a year older.
Everyone knew that beside Mayor Pete, Biden would look about a hundred; but what no one had reckoned was how that young whippersnapper Kamala Harris would eclipse the vice-president like a bull at a meat parade. She took her bites laced in pink, but with a venom that stung into the morning and will resonate for years to come. Biden not only looked weak, but out-of-touch, old in the way my late mother (who died at 79) never did. His ideas were old, his approach was arrogant, and his self-importance wreaked.
Bernie was better, and his youthful following will always love him. I am impressed by his vigor and vim, and like him more this time round than I did last time. But that may be because compared to Biden, I find him full of forward-thinking youthful vision and genuinely concerned about this country. Biden seems like he's phoning it in, and just hoping Obama will pick up.
Can anyone imagine for a minute that a 76-year-old and a 77-year-old woman would have the chutzpah to promote themselves as candidates for president? Even though typically women live longer than men, females know they would be pilloried and taken down in a way their male peers are not. Even as I write this and read the bad Biden reviews, he still leads in the polls. He is a "comfortable" choice for that Middle American sixty-five-year-old couple with the white picket fence and the time share. A female counterpart, however, need not brave such waters. Why, after 70 she should be tucked away in a den with her grandchildren, reading them bed-time stories, right?
The time is now for America to realize that privileged white males do not get a pass when it comes to running for the nation's highest land. If one is over 70, he or she should do anything but join this rigorous, unforgiving circus. Hillary Clinton knew better. Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden did not. I'm just hoping they know enough to withdraw before Buttigieg and Harris further embarrass them.
Photo: By DonkeyHotey - Democratic Primary Debate Participants June 27, 2019, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=79790020
Everyone knew that beside Mayor Pete, Biden would look about a hundred; but what no one had reckoned was how that young whippersnapper Kamala Harris would eclipse the vice-president like a bull at a meat parade. She took her bites laced in pink, but with a venom that stung into the morning and will resonate for years to come. Biden not only looked weak, but out-of-touch, old in the way my late mother (who died at 79) never did. His ideas were old, his approach was arrogant, and his self-importance wreaked.
Bernie was better, and his youthful following will always love him. I am impressed by his vigor and vim, and like him more this time round than I did last time. But that may be because compared to Biden, I find him full of forward-thinking youthful vision and genuinely concerned about this country. Biden seems like he's phoning it in, and just hoping Obama will pick up.
Can anyone imagine for a minute that a 76-year-old and a 77-year-old woman would have the chutzpah to promote themselves as candidates for president? Even though typically women live longer than men, females know they would be pilloried and taken down in a way their male peers are not. Even as I write this and read the bad Biden reviews, he still leads in the polls. He is a "comfortable" choice for that Middle American sixty-five-year-old couple with the white picket fence and the time share. A female counterpart, however, need not brave such waters. Why, after 70 she should be tucked away in a den with her grandchildren, reading them bed-time stories, right?
The time is now for America to realize that privileged white males do not get a pass when it comes to running for the nation's highest land. If one is over 70, he or she should do anything but join this rigorous, unforgiving circus. Hillary Clinton knew better. Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden did not. I'm just hoping they know enough to withdraw before Buttigieg and Harris further embarrass them.
Photo: By DonkeyHotey - Democratic Primary Debate Participants June 27, 2019, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=79790020
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