Center-right Democrats who support Joe Biden are telling left-leaning Democratic progressives that they should stop being “purity ponies” and support Joe Biden even though his politics are very different from theirs.
The Path to Glory
Ted Rall
Ted Rall is a syndicated political cartoonist for Andrews McMeel Syndication and WhoWhatWhy.org and Counterpoint. He is a contributor to Centerclip and co-host of "The Final Countdown" talk show on Radio Sputnik. He is a graphic novelist and author of many books of art and prose, and an occasional war correspondent. He is, recently, the author of the graphic novel "2024: Revisited."
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L’hypocrisie est un hommage que le vice rend à la vertu.–François de La Rochefoucauld, Maximes
Obama and Clinton both SAID they respected Hispanics, then Clinton removed more than any other president, and Obama deported more (deportation requires a court appearance, and Clinton didn’t want to waste that time, so he removed many more than Obama deported). Trump says he’ll deport them all and put up a wall, but has deported far fewer than Obama, so Clinton and Obama rended their hommage to doing what was right, while Trump don’t rend no hommage to anyone but Trump.
So which is better, the hypocrites who sound good, or the truth-teller who sounds terrible but is lazy and does less harm?
(Ditto climate change and healthcare.)
Your choice (I’m voting Green, myself).
Henri Philippe Omer Pétain was 84 when he became président du Consei ; Paul Ludwig Hans Anton von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg 77 when he became Reichspräsident. When will we learn that senility is not a desirable quality in a chief of state, particularly one with the powers of a US president ?…
Henri