House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) on Thursday ripped President Donald Trump’s debate performance earlier this week, saying it demonstrated that the President has “no respect for the office he holds.”
“What we saw that night was authenticity on both sides of the stage,” Pelosi said. “The President, authentically a bully. Joe Biden, authentically a decent person, who cares about America’s working families.”
In a nutshell.
Now if she can preview the other “debates,” no one will have to actually watch them.
Damn right, Madam Speaker.
A number of Trump allies and aides appear to agree with that assessment, suggesting that Trump’s strategy on Tuesday only weakened his campaign against Biden.
Burst, damned dam, burst.
Her tone & message…perfect
O/T, but not by much —
I was caught a little emotionally off guard this morning when Frank Luntz shared a personal story about Joe Biden.
Appearing on Morning Joe Thursday, Luntz revealed that he had a stroke in January while conducting a focus group in New Hampshire. After a week in the hospital, he ran into Joe Biden — who instantly sought to comfort him when he received the news.
“When he was informed of what happened to me … he came over to me, and gave me the biggest hug,” Luntz said. “And he didn’t let go. And I know how that felt. … It’s like all this weight had left me.”
The pollster lauded Biden’s empathy.
“Joe Biden is a kind man,” Luntz said. “He’s a decent man. He’s been through hell himself, on several occasions.”
Ah, Madam Speaker, once again delivering a shiv while wearing white satin gloves.
Can we assume that Luntz heard nothing from the Pres?
Me? I could deal with President Pelosi until the election results get untangled.
If ever…
Fuck me. She wasn’t even wearing the red coat and shades. (grumble, grumble - runs a line through the note on my calendar.)
What concerns me is that Obama badly lost his first debate with Romney but recovered in the second and third and won the election. Don’t really see how the dotard can change his spots because what we saw in that Tuesday debate is who he is but if his trainers/handlers can get through to him that he needs to act more presidential and less who he really is then maybe he could get through the next debate sanely enough that mainstream media will go all gaga over his performance. I fear the mainstream medias portrayal of the dotard in their ever present quest for false equivalency. Biden is going to have to up his game in the next debate because I fear the dotard will put on an act that the media will fall for.
I would have added that Joe Biden pays income tax like decent Americans. Nevertheless, no complaints about Madam Speaker. I love her.
Trump has always been clear on how autarky works. Roger Ailes found it one of Trump’s most endearing charms.
Repeat after me, ye faint-of-heart: “Current Occupant is no Obama. Not. Even. Close.”
I didn’t watch the first one because I had a sense that Trump would turn it into a farce with his uncontrolled outbursts. It appears as if my reticence was well-served.
I’m interested in the town-hall style format coming mid-month. I’m curious to see if some semblance of decorum will occur with Trump restrained by actual voters asking questions. I’m not optimistic.
Yes. Panic is unstrategic and lazy.
The devil is going to be in the details. I personally don’t think that cutting the mic will be sufficient, and since it’s a town hall format it would be hard to have them be isolated. I have to wonder if he actually thinks that the debate was a big success, as he claims, or if his Tweets hint at the truth: that he realizes that it was a huge debacle and will have to control himself in the next debate. That creates another problem for him, however, since he really doesn’t have the cognitive ability to shift gears.
Joe has to figure out a way to point out that he is answering questions and T is engaging in what @JohnMTalmadgeMD calls “calf splatter”. Perhaps he could even explain to T what calf splatter is.
And I have to believe he has no handlers that he listens to but it’s the media that made the dotard and it will be the media that attempts to save him so as to create the horse race bullshit. Remember CBS head saying that trump was wonderful for their ratings? American media is all about celebrity and for better or worse the dotard was saved by his TV show.
Nancy Pelosi, once again, nails it! She said it, Trump’s enablers will not and can not. They are complicit in all that he does and all that he wrecks.
