Personally, I think both of them are too old. I think Trump is a criminal who was the worst president in American history, and he ought to be in prison. Biden has been a good and effective President but will be 86 by the end of a second term, and that is simply too old. My preference would be for a younger progressive president, and my ticket would be Gavin Newsom and Gretchen Whitmer. That said the media’s obsession with Biden’s age is a disgraceful example of what is going wrong with media. Biden, as I said, has been an excellent president in most regards, and what he has accomplished is not getting anything close to the attention and reportage it deserves. I also think that there should be much more detailed coverage of Trump’s criminality and the fact that American voters are not recognizing this. Trump’s comments about NATO are not only virtually a repeat of Hitler’s words as he invaded Poland, they are also factually wrong, which most Americans don’t seem to understand. The nations of NATO don’t pay dues, nor are they supposed to pay anything to us. The NATO agreement is that each country pays at least 2% of their gross domestic product (GDP, a measure of national production) for the support of its own armed forces. The intention was that if that were done then all the member nations would be prepared to come to the aid of any nation attacked as described in Article 5. Trump seems to think NATO has dues like a country club. His ignorance like his blatant criminality is one of his defining characteristics.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A new ABC News/Ipsos poll conducted after the release of the Hur Report finds that a majority of Americans (59%) believe that both Joe Biden and Donald Trump are too old for another term as president. This finding, coming after allegations in Special Counsel Hur’s report of President Joe Biden’s memory lapses, suggests that age will continue to be a factor in the 2024 election. An additional quarter of Americans (27%) say that only Biden is too old to serve another term (but not Trump). Only one in ten Americans (11%) say that neither is too old to serve another term. Partisanship plays a large part in assessments of the candidates’ age with the majority of Republicans (62%) saying only Biden while the majority of both Democrats (69%) and Independents (70%) say both are too old.
On the substance of the Hur Report, Americans are divided about whether Biden should have been charged with a crime for his handling of classified documents after he left office as vice president. On this question, similar shares say […]
Sam Crespi
on Tuesday, February 13, 2024 at 2:34 pm
Re the age factor..FDR was very challenged physically and toward the end was worse than the public knew..You being an excellent historian must know of other situations and times when an American President should have been removed. These days, it seems even harder to know the truth of what is happening.. except for Trump who tends to be out there in the faces worldwide.
Re the age factor..FDR was very challenged physically and toward the end was worse than the public knew..You being an excellent historian must know of other situations and times when an American President should have been removed. These days, it seems even harder to know the truth of what is happening.. except for Trump who tends to be out there in the faces worldwide.