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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOF COURSE I'm still "Ridin' With Biden" and, frankly, I don't understand how anyone calling
themselves a Democrat can't or won't say the same thing---PROUDLY.
So, President Biden has not YET accomplished all that he said he would.
So far, is that HIS fault?
Has he not tried mightily to herd the diverse cats in the Democratic party into a unified force for progressive causes?
Unlike Trump, we really DO have many of "the best people" and anyone with a lick of sense is proud of them. Millions in "dark money" funds are being spent to disparage, nitpick and slander everyone with a "D" after their name. Most of that stream of sewage is aimed at OUR president.
Joe Biden is a smart, decent and talented POTUS with genuine concern for and empathy with ALL Americans.
If you have his back, that's me beside you.
dchill
(38,556 posts)is so reminiscent of 2009/2010... are that many of us so ignorant (rhetorical question)
I am so delighted that Biden is our President!
AleksS
(1,665 posts)I was thinking the same thing. It does sound a lot like the same stuff that came at President Obama during the beginning of his term.
It seems there's a large subset of people that are just dying to jump onto the republican talking points, gladly lap up the GOP narrative, and just adore attacking their own.
Fortunately that worked out GREAT for Democrats in 2009/2010 so we should DEFINITELY commence the Biden attacks for not delivering our flying magical ponies quickly enough! ( /sarcasm )
No matter what the GOP and the GOP enablers want me to believe, I wake up every day now thankful that Biden's my president, and that Harris is my VP!
soldierant
(6,937 posts)I can only assue it's being done in the name of whatever cockamamie bothsiderism the media have cooked up so they can say they are bing "fair."
But I really think it's turnout that kills us in midterms, I'm not saying theattacks have no effect. But I am saying that I really can't imagine anyone remorely with the Deocratic platform saying to themselves, "Joe isn't cleaning up the mess fast enough, I think I'll vote Republican."
But I can just see them thinking "Joe isn cleaning up the mess fast enough, why bother to vote?"
LakeArenal
(28,855 posts)Grasswire2
(13,571 posts)I believe we are very lucky to have Ron Klain on board.
I fully trust him with our land and our children's future.
Bayard
(22,172 posts)In KY yesterday, he was hugging people, not throwing paper towels. I am extremely glad to call him President. Its embarrassing and dismaying that a few Dems are holding up the agenda.
Talking with a very good friend of mine a few days ago. She's a rethuglican, but other than that, a good person. We've learned not to discuss politics so we don't come to blows. She did make a snarky comment--I thought Biden was going to end Covid (she is fully vaccinated). I said, he could if stupid unvaccinated people would stop creating variants.
Duppers
(28,127 posts)maxsolomon
(33,419 posts)Righties now think they really have sarcastic hyperbole dialed in after Trump's glorious example. They don't.
Did Biden promise HE would end Covid? I would be shocked if he'd ever said that. He knows to speak in "We"; WE can end Covid if WE work together.
He hasn't even been in office 11 months.
spooky3
(34,484 posts)At Trump in a conversation with a Trump-supporting friend. You would avoid politics. But Trumpers always feel free to introduce their biases regardless of your feelings.
Paladin
(28,276 posts)It's a damn shame that such affirmations are needed on a Democratic site, in these days and in these circumstances.
Walleye
(31,067 posts)judesedit
(4,443 posts)We couldn't have gotten better.
Bev54
(10,074 posts)He has a 4 year term, to turn it around and he has done a lot in the first year, to set the framework to do so.
wryter2000
(46,083 posts)He and Obama has/had to deal with a totally corrupt Republican party. And now he has two so-called Democrats blocking what's left to be fixed.
Budi
(15,325 posts)https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/2021/01/20/photos-scene-biden-inauguration/
IronLionZion
(45,547 posts)so we don't get sandbagged by Sinema and Manchin
2022 elections are coming up and inflation is expected through next year. GOP has been beating us up over that without them offering anything at all to help.
Pepsidog
(6,254 posts)hold him to a standard that no one should be held to. Hell, look at all the Obama scandals, the tan suit, the you can keep your doctor big lie. Who really has Bidens back? Who can he depend on? I mean Al Franken was run out of the Senate for BS sex harassment claims.
barbtries
(28,811 posts)He's been magnificent in my opinion. fuck naysayers, it's so much more important to defeat republicans than to nitpick this president.
Aristus
(66,468 posts)And our excellent VPOTUS, Kamala Harris!
bluescribbler
(2,123 posts)nt
Smackdown2019
(1,191 posts)How many shutdowns were there under Trump? I lost count!
mcar
(42,388 posts)yardwork
(61,712 posts)Bettie
(16,130 posts)I'm not so good with the people who are choosing to obstruct everything.
And they are in our own party, in the senate specifically. In the House, they argue, negotiate, and, in the end, they pass the bills.
Not so much in the Senate.
I'm also not so good with the media and their relentless stream of bullshit, insisting that everything is a disaster.
Biden is doing the best he can, given the above two problems.
relayerbob
(6,559 posts)Right there with you!!
karin_sj
(812 posts)I thank God that he and Harris are at the helm. They are doing their level best to help *all* Americans despite being stymied left and right by Manchin, Sinema, all Republicans, anti-mask and anti-vaccine Trumpers, and the frigging "both sideism" of the mainstream media. He is swimming uphill against huge odds and doing a fantastic job with the limits that have been forced on him.
PatrickforB
(14,593 posts)I had no idea when he emerged as our candidate that he would have gotten as much done as he has.
Plus, as you say, he's a good guy.
Now if certain Senators can get with the program!
geardaddy
(24,931 posts)BlueJac
(7,838 posts)LoisB
(7,234 posts)sazemisery
(2,608 posts)I am very proud of our 46th POTUS and what he has accomplished so far.
Progressive dog
(6,921 posts)Thank you.
LW1977
(1,237 posts)DownriverDem
(6,232 posts)go nothing - no plans, no legislation, no ideas. They post crap with no proof.
CaptainTruth
(6,606 posts)GoCubsGo
(32,095 posts)When you consider what he has gotten done with the slim majorities in Congress, which is full of obstructionist assholes, some from his own party, and only in ten months, it's downright miraculous. Nobody with even the slightest grasp on reality is going to think he's going to clean up Trump's massive shit mess within a year. Anyone who believes otherwise is fucking deluded.
liberalla
(9,266 posts)lees1975
(3,888 posts)than anyone since FDR.
He's the best choice, he knows what he is doing, we needed a smart, experienced politician in the Presidency and everything that is happening, including a roaring economy, tanking unemployment and legislative progress, shows it.
I heard a comment on MSNBC, from a Democratic congressman who said that Biden needs to put Manchin and Sinema on the spot, call their bluff and move the legislation forward. Turn the cameras off of them and on to people like Amy Klobuchar and Elizabeth Warren who take no prisoners and lay it all out there.
Yep, I've got his back and my Biden bumper sticker stays on the car for seven more years.
iemanja
(53,074 posts)AND have criticisms. It's possible to do both.
Atticus
(15,124 posts)Joinfortmill
(14,474 posts)Lunabell
(6,117 posts)you'll support Biden.
DFW
(54,447 posts)I hope I'm not alone in this, and it appears from the OP (and others) that I am not.
summer_in_TX
(2,762 posts)I'd never heard that before. Thanks for sharing it!
DFW
(54,447 posts)I always underestimate how much time is needed to put these things together.
lees1975
(3,888 posts)I had fun putting it together, even if it didnt get used in the election campaign.
niyad
(113,596 posts)And, as you noted, you are NOT alone.
Okay, I just watched this again, and the tears are flowing. Thank you again.
DFW
(54,447 posts)And my videographer perceived my wishes exactly.
niyad
(113,596 posts)such a decent, caring, compassionate, intelligent person leading us in this time of peril.
BlueIdaho
(13,582 posts)Happy to have Joe at the wheel!
BigmanPigman
(51,638 posts)my anxiety level is already half what is was during the fucking moron's years as fake POTUS.
ShazzieB
(16,542 posts)Hell, yes, I am!
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)Those who abide by that way of thinking more frequently end up with the "nothing" end of the equation (and for some bizarre reason, appear to be quite satisfied about it.) In the end, the effect is to sabotage, cripple or kneecap the Biden agenda. They have no real power to accomplish anything meaningful, so instead they end up being a disruptive force.
All I'm trying to say is that we remain in an ALL HANDS ON DECK moment... now is not the time to rehash petty grievances or to demand "perfect" legislation at the expense of losing it all. The time for grandstanding and nit-picking Joe Biden (and his administration) is OVER! Progress (no matter how small) is still progress. It may not be "perfect" but any movement at all is closer to "perfect" than we are now. One step at a time. Building and growing along the way.
We'll get there... BUT... in order to do so, we and our elected representatives MUST come together and support EVERY bit of legislation, EVERY initiative, EVERY policy, EVERY executive order; EVERY appointment... WITHOUT FAIL!!
We're in a place where the public somehow believes FOX News over 17 Nobel Prize winning economists regarding BBB. Up is down and down is up, and people seem proud of their ignorance.
sarchasm
(1,012 posts)niyad
(113,596 posts)PatSeg
(47,625 posts)than I'd thought was possible, especially considering the slim margins in congress.
Poiuyt
(18,130 posts)America should be rejoicing what he's done, yet we only hear of doom and gloom from the media.