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In reply to the discussion: I support Biden and want him as our candidate. But.. [View all]shrike3
(5,370 posts)I see it all the time here in Camp Real World. "Joe Biden hasn't done a damn thing." I hear it all the time. I then fill them in, and the reaction is surprise, even incredulity. "He did all that?" They really have no idea. There was a news story done on a new Ford electric truck plant in Tennessee. Life-changing for a lot of people. Even the building of it has created tons of jobs. Do any of those folks know that the Biden administration got it all going by making sure Ford got the financing for the project? No. The article made that clear. Doesn't sound like the reporters enlightened the people, but that's neither here nor there. The media is only interested in the fact that Joe is old. They won't report the good stuff because it's not part of the narrative.
A lot of blame to go around for this. Part of the blame lies with Joe, and I don't know why he's not tooting his horn enough. Maybe it's his personality, self-effacing, maybe it's his generation: let your work speak for itself. These days, that doesn't cut it. It's definitely his people's fault. And the DNC, IMO. They should be sending out surrogates every day, talking about the accomplishments of this administration. They aren't. I'm not sure why.
The author of The Last Politician, a book on Joe, said that he is actually not too well thought of among the Washington crowd. He didn't go to Harvard, he's genuinely religious. The latter is unusual. They say the words, they play the part, but it's all show.
Probably more behind the scenes, but the fact is, Americans don't know what Joe has accomplished because no one's told them