Allow President Biden His Dignity

[lame54]

By letting him finish a complete term

[Sucha NastyWoman]

1. No one but Magats could possibly want otherwise

[lame54]

2. Except for the threads on this sight

[we can do it]

8. Lots of surprising crap here the past month.

[newdayneeded]

15. I only saw one thread,

and there wasn't much agreeing with it on here at all.

[barbtries]

26. glad i haven't seen them.

terrible, terrible idea.

[SharonClark]

30. Example?

[XRubicon]

31. Only an idiot or troll would suggest Biden quit the presidency.

[displacedvermoter]

3. I believe he has a great deal he can get

done now that running for reelection is no longer taking up critical time. I don't think it is a question of letting him finish his term. I believe there are still important things he plans on accomplishing.

History -- if we still keep track of it in a few years -- will be very kind to that man.

[Frasier Balzov]

4. I encourage him to make a weekly campaign appearance

by phone and video.

To see and hear him healthy will quiet calls for him to turn over the Presidency prematurely.

[onecaliberal]

19. I don't give a fuck who is calling for what.

Nothing he does is good enough. Leave him the fuck alone.

[electric_blue68]

40. Er...He Sounded Fine at a bunch of Post-Debate Events

[malaise]

5. +1,000

Rec

[Tommy Carcetti]

6. Not only that, resigning now would be monumentally foolish.

There's no way a VP would be confirmed in that short a time, given Congress, and that means Speaker of the House Mike Johnson would be next in the line of succession.

[Joinfortmill]

16. Bingo!

[usonian]

7. Are you demanding that he go full term? How un-Democratic.

IT’S HIS CHOICE

(Sarcastically and not sarcastically)

[Wounded Bear]

9. Not to mention, Ms Harris does not need the distraction of being sworn in right now...

Pres Biden finishes his term and VP Harris runs her campaign.

[Cha]

14. Really She's a

Little busy working on Saving Our Planet 🌎

[ecstatic]

10. I agree. He deserves it. nt

[StarryNite]

20. We deserve it too!

He’s our President and he’s still working hard for us.

[meadowlander]

11. It's not even about that. President Biden was and is a great President

and is entirely capable and fit to serve out the next six months. He doesn't need a pity endorsement to finish out his term.

The question was always whether or not he had the energy to be President at the same time as he had to run the kind of campaign he needed to to beat Trump and then do the hardest job in the world until he was 86 given that he is clearly starting to feel the effects of time.

You can think "probably not" on the second proposition without conceding the first (that he's unfit for office now).

[Clouds Passing]

12. Joe Biden is STILL our President until Inauguration Day...

Then we will inaugurate President-Elect Kamela Harris

[Bleacher Creature]

13. Any suggestion to the contrary is ABSURD.

When a star athlete decides that he or she is going to retire at the end of the season nobody pushes them to immediately quit. The same holds true for Biden.

[StarryNite]

17. It's not just about his dignity.

We need him to keep working for the betterment of our country. Kamala can focus on the election.

[BidenRocks]

18. Let's not about Reagan

And his issues. Shall we?

Do you really want to to go there?

[Rubyshoo]

21. Wow... I Thought That Went Without Saying

But then, common sense is now an oxymoron, so...

[Ms. Toad]

22. Biden has his dignity - it is not anyone's to take from him.

Whether he chooses to complete his term - or not - has nothing to do with dignity. It has to do with an assessment only he, his doctors, his family, and close advisor can make. I trust him to make that assessment.

[lame54]

23. And pretend people aren't publicly floating the idea

[Ms. Toad]

27. People can float what they want. It has nothing to do with Biden's dignity.

No one can take your dignity but you.

[lame54]

28. It has something to do with my response...

Which you are trying to invalidate

[Ms. Toad]

41. Anyone whose dignity depends on what others do or say,

never had it to lose in the first place. And Biden has dignity in spades.

[lame54]

42. The gall of some people...

I tried to speak highly of President Biden
Fuck me with a hockey stick
I'll never do that again
Lesson learned
Thank you for showing me the light

[SharonClark]

32. Are you the only one reading this GQP

talking point on DU?

Do you have an example?

[lame54]

33. ...

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=19223084

[choie]

35. Pretty much everyone who responded

to that thread was against him resigning.

[SharonClark]

36. Thanks for sharing that one post.

It wasn’t well-received.

[lame54]

37. You only asked for one...

Some people have to push back on everything

[Self Esteem]

24. Some people don't think things through.

Biden stepping aside and Harris ascending to the presidency would look like she's being gifted the office and that is never good optics. Unless you have an ironclad reason for Biden to step down, as in a legitimate health reason, you're just asking for a massive distraction that will suck all the air out of the campaign and very possibly turn voters against her.

[Rstrstx]

39. Agree, though I wouldn't mind letting her start some of her own projects

Something that people have been very concerned with, like inflation

[barbtries]

25. Absolutely.

No fucking way should he step down before his term is over. Harris needs to be campaigning, not governing right now, for starters.

Are we hearing more bullshit about the president?! aargh

[Farmer-Rick]

29. Mostly right wing pundits are pushing this.

Because it would tie up any new VP appoint approval in Congress. They would never approve any VP pick of Kamala's.

She doesn't need their approval for VP pick this way. And Biden with all his lame duck, presidential immunity, can keep the Supremes from unconstitutionally throwing Kamala's win to the angry Pedo who wants to be king.

[choie]

34. Of course and without question

this is as it should be.

[onandup]

38. If it would help Kamala win, I'd want Joe to resign

I'll leave it to the experts if that's the case. That's what matters.

[BrightKnight]

43. Kamala is dealing with old man Potter now, Biden

doesn’t need to carry it all on his shoulders.

Nobody has ever accused Biden of lacking dignity.

[wildflowergardener]

44. Biden should finish his term

People are believing the right wing and media lies that he has cognitive issues which it is clear from his many speeches over the past week his does not. No he should not step down.

[lame54]

45. He'll kill it tonight...

And hopefully shut them up

Yeah right
Nothing shuts them up

[lees1975]

46. Filling a 24 hour news cycle can be a challenge, especially for some of the people running those outlets today.

Vocabulary not strong, speaking skills weak, no critical thinking, takes its toll, so they have to make up stuff to talk about.

Biden isn't going anywhere. He will finish his term at noon on the day President Harris is inaugurated. She will remain in charge of counting and certifying the electoral votes.

I'd have military units on hand for that. But what I'm waiting to see is if a state like Florida flips, which it very well could, will they certify their electors or try to cheat?

[lame54]

47. No time for complacency...

There will be a 3 month hurricane of shit thrown against the wall