General Discussion

SIGNIFICANT EDIT RE: 1 TERM GOALS: His 1st and only goal should've been to prevent Trump from ever holding office again. He should have loosed dogs of war on him, scorched the Earth and salted it after. That he assumed the wheels of justice would move slowly but inevitably was unbecomingly naive of a man with his experience.

If he "set a lot of things in motion that he wanted to complete," they should have been implemented in 1 term. I agree that running on 1 term is objectively poor tactics from a political capital standpoint, but only if you are concerned about your own political future, not the existential fate of the Republic.

I liked Biden just fine until he showed me, on TV, that he was incapable of *running* for President. My opinion of him nosedived when he took a month following the debate to accept that he had been played by his campaign staff / pollsters and it took Nancy Pelosi to "do things the easy way or the hard way".

The fact that he still harbors a resentment towards Speaker Emerita Pelosi for her entirely clear-eyed evaluation of what happened and what would certain happen if he continued to run speaks to his personal hubris. There is no way around it.

And with the benefit of hindsight let us be similarly reflective. The man has stage 4 cancer. It is an objective fact that he was in poor health.