Month: July 2024

1) Carl Hulse, Michael S. Schmidt, Reid J. Epstein, Peter Baker and Luke Broadwater, “Biden Called ‘More Receptive’ to Hearing Pleas to Step Aside; The president has given no indication that he is changing his mind about staying in the race but is said to be more willing to listen to the case for bowing out,” New York Times, July 17, 2024(updated 11:19 pm ET);

Following President Joe Biden’ disastrous performance in the presidential debate on June 27, 2024 and his failure to ease doubts in his interview on ABC with George Stephanopoulos on July 5, Democratic panic over Biden’s candidacy for the presidency has only grown.

Democratic leaders have voiced grave concern in private, but hidden behind the oft-repeated mantra that is is up to Joe Biden to decide whether to withdraw from the race.

That is like saying that a drunken steamboat captain who is steering the boat towards a waterfall has the sole power of decision over whether he should yield the ship’s wheel to the first mate or someone else who is sober. Instead, the passengers, whose deaths becomes more probable each minute as the steamboat approaches the waterfall, need to rush the captain and wrest the ship’s wheel t from his drunken grasp.

We in America face a similar moment, as Joe Biden threatens ton take the steamboat of America over the waterfall that leads to a Trump victory in November and the triumph of the fascist movement led by Trump and the tpro-Russian Republican Party that believe neither in democracy nor the rule of law.

Democrats, like the the passengers on the steamboat, need to rush President Biden and seize the Democratic ticket from the death grip of a vain and stubborn old man with diminishing mental faculties.

One obstacle holding them back has been widespread uncertainty about who could replace Biden and Kamala Harrus on the ticket.

The answer has been sitting on the bench and hiding in plain sight,

Gavin Newsom and Gretchen Whitmer, two governors of large and important states, would make up a powerful Democratic ticket that could blow Trump put of tje water along with with Republican candidates for the House and the Senate

Newsom and Whitmer could lead the Democrats to a landslide in the presidential election, retention of and even gains in the Senate, and a large majority in the House.

Gavin Newsom (b. 1967) has served as governor of California since 2019, Previously, he was Lieutenant Governor from 2011 to 2019, and Mayor of San Francisco from 2004 to 2011.

Newsom is handsome, charming, hihgly intelligent, and extremely well-spoken. He is governor of a state with 39 million people and the fifth largest exonomy in the world. If it were a country, California would be the 39th most populous nation in the world. He also has international experience of the kind that is sorely needed in Washington.

Gretchen Whitmer (b. 1971) has served as governor of Michigan since 2019. She served in the Michigan House of Representatives from 2001 to 2006 and in the Michigan Senate from 2006 to 2015.111

She won reelection as governor in 2022 by a margin of some 11 points. With Michigan and Wisconsin being among the seven swing states that will be critical in the Noveber, 2024 elections, she would add significant electoral strengh to the Democratic ticket.

Will the Democrats rush the drunken steamboat captain and wrest control of the ship’s wheel from his stubborn determined grasp? Will they nominate Newsom and Whitmer to be their candidates on the Democratic ticket? This would be a powerful ticket that could lead to a Democratic sweepin 3024.

The future of democracy in America and of a civilization based on the U.N. Charter-based international legal order may depend on the answers to these questions.

1) Suzanne Moore, “The Democrats are denying reality by refusing to admit Biden is unfit; The party are fooling themselves and the electorate that the 81-year-old is up to the job. Is this the best they have to offer?” The Telegraph, July 2, 2024 (3:10 pm);

2) Matt Viser, “Biden is seeing a different world than other Democrats; At his rallies, he is embraced by enthusiastic crowds. Outside, others in the party want him to step aside, Washington Post, July 8, 2024 (6:49 pm ET);

“Everyone in the party concedes that it is Biden’s decision — and his alone — whether to continue his reelection bid.”

Everyone can see the Captain is drink–with is own power, his own ambition, his own illusion that “Only I can fix it”–and that he is steering the steamboat towards the waterfall. If no one wrests the steering
wheel from his death grip, the steamboat will go over the waterfall. and everyone will perish.

His delusions and hus iron-willed resistance to hearing rational arguments demonstrate, beyond a doubt, that the steering wheel must be wrested from his grip.

1) No byline, “Kamala Harris worried Democrats will replace Joe Biden with white candidate; Vice president’s team say it would be ‘offensive’ to black voters if she were ignored,” The Telegraph, July 1, 2024 (3:56 pm);

Harris lost me in the prmary debate where she ambushed Joe Biden on racial busing, greatly distorting tge historical context.

Now she has played tge race card, revealing again the inherent racism and fatal flaws in the “identity politics” of the current Democratic Party.

Harris, despite a lackluster candidate in the 2020 Democratic primaries, was picked by Joe Biden to be his running mate to placate Jim Clyburn and the African American minority in the party, because she was black.

Lloyd Austin appears to have been chosen as Defense Secretary, despite recent service in the military requiring a waiver under the law prohibiting military officers from serving as Defense chief if they been on active dut in the last seven years, because he was black.

Biden named Ketanji Brown Jackson, who may well have been the most qualified person for the position, to the Supreme Court because he had promised Jim Clyburn, who was largely responsible for his winning the Democratic nomination, that as president he would name a black woman to the Court.

Harris has demonstrated that being black doesn’t mean you’re necessarily the best person for the position.

Now she has played the race card in a most blatant and unforgivable manner.

The Democrats will not win in November unless they put aside their “identity politics” and what is in effect anti-white racism, and return to a policy of naming officials, including vice-presidential and presidential candidates, on the basis of merit and qualifications, without regard to race. In zmartin Luther King’s words, “on the basis if their character and not the color of their skin”.