President Biden is the clearest choice for President I've seen in my lifetime.

[lees1975]

https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2024/03/the-2024-election-offers-clearest.html

It's clear, unless indictments from January 6th, or stolen classified documents, or voter intimidation, render the GOP presumptive nominee ineligible to be on the ballot, a feat that the Supreme Court does not seem capable of accomplishing, that Donald Trump and Joe Biden will be the two candidates of the major parties in November. This is the clearest, most obvious choice we have had for the Presidency in my lifetime, and in the scope of my ability to vote, which goes back to the 1976 contest between Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford.

The "he's too old" arguments more or less evaporated this week when it became clear, after Super Tuesday, that Trump would be the GOP nominee. If the GOP is willing to nominate Trump, then age isn't an issue for them, so it shouldn't be an issue for Democrats either, since the years rest better on Biden, obviously, than they do on Donald. Watching Republicans during the speech, it's clear from their demeanor, hunched over, eyes down, that they realized they're not going to capitalize on the President's age, or fitness for office.

About the only thing critics of the President's speech can say, at this point, is that "it was too partisan." Well, of course it was, the last State of the Union prior to his re-election campaign, though he successfully slapped the failure of the border legislation right squarely on the GOP and Trump, where it will be one of several failures they can cite in November as the reason for Biden's re-election. Quoting Ronald Reagan's statement to then-Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" and contrasting it to Trump's statement, "Let the Russians do whatever the hell they want," was brilliant. That will go down in history as one of the best SOTU quotes of all time. And did you see the looks on the faces of the Republicans in the room when he said that?

[ificandream]

1. That's really true and my presidential options go back to George McGovern

But what we have is the most extreme difference between two candidates in the history of this nation. One is great, the other is horrible. There's no middle ground.

[calimary]

2. I've always voted for Democrats, but this speech last night really got me fired up!

Gotta say I'm impressed! Already was, anyway, but this gave it a boost!

[lees1975]

3. I started voting when I turned 18, during the Carter-Ford election in 1976

in what was then staunchly Republican Arizona. My birthday was 8 days before the registration deadline for the 1976 election, and I was a sophomore in college, so the day I turned 18 there was a registrar on campus and I went in and signed up. I've voted in every election since then. I cast my first straight Democratic ticket vote in 2000.