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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJoe is killing it! Empathy, action, successes, targets, and a plan.
Just absolutely killing it.
Truth, facts, and a call to action.
This is how you lead a nation.
demtenjeep
(31,997 posts)perfect time
ZonkerHarris
(24,155 posts)BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)calimary
(80,693 posts)NEVER was it - OR him - needed more than NOW.
He's the absolutely Heaven-sent PERFECT man for the Presidency.
Blue Owl
(49,913 posts)cornball 24
(1,472 posts)sandensea
(21,528 posts)There's a well-known anecdote about LBJ gathering with his top advisers in the White House after the address.
There were kudos aplenty, given what was almost unanimously viewed as a paradigm-shifting speech.
"How do you think the Dixiecrats took it?" one adviser asked.
"Well," LBJ began. "Have you ever been to my Texas ranch? I've got a prize bull there that I let loose on the cows every springtime."
"Now, the cows know he means business and - you should see'em! - they start quivering and quivering."
"Well, boys. We had'em quivering tonight!"
onecaliberal
(32,483 posts)Thank Goddess. Such a good and decent man.
Ocelot II
(115,276 posts)mvd
(65,148 posts)dflprincess
(28,057 posts)use multi-syllable words.
Though she is concerned he'll only confuse the Trump base if keeps talking like an "elite".
3catwoman3
(23,812 posts)...have used the word hyperbole, to which I responded, And if he had, he would have read it as hyper-bowl.
dflprincess
(28,057 posts)MyOwnPeace
(16,887 posts)to thank Twitter for cutting him off?
Can you imagine the Twit-Fit he'd be having by now?
mvd
(65,148 posts)Great speech. I am convinced America will be back and better than ever.
Takket
(21,424 posts)gademocrat7
(10,623 posts)A real President.
Mr.Bill
(24,103 posts)that could watch that and say he is completely senile. But they won't watch, they will just let someone else tell them that.
texasfiddler
(1,986 posts)Plus, my wife and I received our first Moderna Vaccine Today. Fuck Trump and God Bless our Troops.
getagrip_already
(14,243 posts)Or are they droning on about cancel culture and dr. seuss?
ZonkerHarris
(24,155 posts)getagrip_already
(14,243 posts)This smacks of killing field mentality. Anyone who has a degree or a skill needs to die.......
Midnight Writer
(21,546 posts)FlyingPiggy
(3,373 posts)Steady hand, compassionate, empathic, and utter competence. I am so thankful for him.
calimary
(80,693 posts)sandensea
(21,528 posts)Taking care of business in a flash.
iluvtennis
(19,757 posts)samplegirl
(11,415 posts)Sincere and on point. And Im sure he does keep the number of deaths in his pocket and the prayers in his heart. We have a good man in the Whitehouse!!!
BigmanPigman
(51,430 posts)calimary
(80,693 posts)Gonna lift a chunk of the finish as our "quote of the week" that leads off our next Call to Action email:
After long, dark years, one whole year there is light and hope of better days ahead if we all do our part. This country will be vaccinated soon. Our economy will be on the mend, our kids will be back in school.
This country can do anything, hard things, big things, important things. Over a year ago no one could have imagined what we were about to go through. But now we're coming through it. And it's a shared experience that binds us together as a nation. We are bound together by the loss and the pain of the days that have gone by. We're also bound together by the hope and the possibilities of the days in front of us. My fervent prayer for our country after all we've been through will come together as one people, one nation, one America. I believe we can and we will. We're seizing this moment, and history, I believe, will record, we faced and overcame one of the toughest and darkest periods in this nation's history. The darkest we've ever known. I promise you we'll come out stronger with a renewed faith in ourselves, a renewed commitment to one another, to our communities, and country."
As Rachel Maddow - AND many of us before her - have said:
"WHAT a difference a president makes!"
Lucinda
(31,170 posts)ZonkerHarris
(24,155 posts)Talitha
(6,477 posts)Pepsidog
(6,252 posts)BobTheSubgenius
(11,535 posts)As I've said several times, I would have been happy with steady and competent. Even that would have been a giant improvement, and been seen by anyone with a pulse and room temperature IQ or better as a gigantic improvement.
He has blown past those tepid benchmarks so quickly and by so much that it's hard to imagine when he's going to stop accelerating and hit terminal velocity.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)He is doing an amazing job! It's so refreshing!
The Jungle 1
(4,552 posts)Soooooooo refreshing.
panfluteman
(2,054 posts)ZonkerHarris
(24,155 posts)bucolic_frolic
(42,664 posts)But I am convinced this week that Biden will quickly harness mankind's better angels and our interconnectedness with modern technology is part of that equation. The mood has so lifted in the country. Stores are abuzz. No company lacks manpower at least in the retailers I have visited. Joe's speeches will be studied for generations. He is speaking softly, slowly, targeted our minds and hearts. It's like he's speaking to the collective unconscious, to our very souls. It may soften a lot of anger.
CTyankee
(63,769 posts)Just, plain decency. Now we have it back.
Courage. Humility. Honor.
You have earned my respect in every one of those categories. Thank you, Mr. President.