Thursday, July 25th, 2024
My Dear America:
I'm not going to lie. I am both Disappointed and Encouraged today.
I am disappointed because I was Willing and Anxious to back Joe Biden all the way to Election Day 2024. I am certain that without the Widespread Democratic Hand Wringing and Panic over the past few weeks since the debate that Joe Biden could have done what he has done all his life, which was to Get Up and Fight Every time he was knocked down. I was and still am in his corner as he continues his work in what might very well be the Most Successful Presidency of all time.
I am not going to spend a lot of time going over the many successes of the Biden-Harris Administration. Others will surely be doing that over the coming weeks and months. Suffice it too say that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have done a Remarkable Job in stacking up wins for the American People.
As I say, I am also Encouraged today because as Joe Biden has chosen not to run for another Term as President he has chosen to back his Vice President, Kamala Harris for President.
Kamala Harris was from the first, a wise choice for Joe Biden to select as his Vice President. I clearly remember in one of the early Democratic Presidential Primary Debates for the 2020 election Kamala Harris and Joe Biden got into it and Kamala Harris solidly verbally kicked Joe Biden's Ass. I was quite frankly impressed by her Debating skills as well as her other Political Skills including her blistering questions for Judicial Nominees including Supreme Court Judges in Congressional Committee Hearings.
Certainly Kamala has taken on some of the more difficult assignments in her role as Vice President. She has never been a shrinking violet and clearly never will be. I can't wait to see her kicking Donald Trump's ass all over the debate stage. She has also been the point person in reacting to many of the reactionary goings on in the Republican Party and has been a terrific spokesperson for the Biden Administration on any number of Television shows.
In point of fact Kamala Harris will be an Outstanding Nominee for President in the Democratic Party in the coming weeks and months as she has done an Outstanding Job as Joe Biden's Vice President.
I know I will be writing a lot more about Kamala Harris in the weeks and months ahead but for today lets get back to talking about Joe Biden and his Incredible Legacy.
Back in 2020 I read Joe Biden's Autobiography, "Promises To Keep" prior to voting for him in November of that year. I had already gotten on board the Biden Train prior to reading the book but I was doubly impressed by how well written the book was and how honest and interesting the Joe Biden story really was. Some of his best friends in the Senate were Republicans including John McCain, Lindsey Graham and Mitch McConnell. Joe spoke at John McCain's Funeral for a man who truly was a friend. On the other hand Lindsey Graham and Mitch McConnell seem to have been the kinds of friends you have when you don't need enemies.
Even when Joe Biden was a young buck in the Senate it was clear that he had a great deal of leadership potential. He was Re Elected as Senator of his state of Delaware time after time. Despite the personal tragedy of losing his wife and daughter in a car accident, which also kept his two sons in the hospital for a lengthy period of time Joe Biden continued to be an effective Senator for many years. Biden flirted with running for President a few times but it didn't work out for him until he got to know Senator Barack Obama, who tapped him for his Vice President. Following the Obama years Biden gave up politics to spend time with his family. His son, Hunter had some serious drug issues and his son Beau, who had been Attorney General of Delaware passed away from Brain Cancer.
When Biden observed Donald Trump giving aid and comfort to Nazi sympathizers in Charlottesville he decided to run for President in 2020 and won. After a contentious battle with Donald Trump, Biden has been a remarkable President whose accomplishments have been staggering, especially considering the fact that most Republicans have stood in the way of almost all of his accomplishments. Those few Republicans who signed onto a few of Biden's legislative achievements have been driven out of their party, as have those few Republicans who had the audacity to call out Donald Trump for his encouragement of the January 6th Siege of the Capitol Building in order to stop the Certification of Joe Biden's Clear Election Victory in November of 2020.
Joe Biden led us out of Covid and has led to a resurgence of NATO and an obvious appreciation of American Leadership by Allies throughout the world.
Clearly Joe Biden's accomplishments alone should have led to an easy election victory over Donald Trump in 2024 but despite his record of incredible achievements over the three and a half years he was in office His poll numbers did not reflect his accomplishments and a poor debate performance in a recent debate with Donald Trump led to panic in the Democratic party and today to Joe Biden's decision not to run for another term.
So here we are. Biden is not running again and Kamala Harris is running for President. If we are lucky, Democratic Hand Wringers will thank their lucky stars that we have a Democratic Candidate as accomplished as Kamala Harris to take Biden's place. Democrats, Regardless of where you stood before today, you should take stock of where we are and who we are up against and get the hell behind the candidacy of Kamala Harris.
To my mind, with a little bit of time on the Campaign Trail I am sure that Joe Biden could have pulled out a victory in November of 2024. but we will never know now whether or not Joe Could have pulled it off.
Now, we Democrats need to do all we can to bolster the Campaign of Kamala Harris and keep Democracy alive and well in America and keep Donald Trump and JD Vance as far away from the White House as we possibly can.
Donald Trump showed at his 90 minute rambling and sometimes insane acceptance speech at the Republican Convention that he is truly unfit to be President.
Trump's Choice of JD Vance for Vice President is truly alarming. Just a few years ago Vance called Trump an "American Hitler" but is now showing that he has no trace of a soul or spine or moral compass and is presenting himself to be even more extreme than his running mate.
We Democrats need to keep these Weirdos in their Cages where they belong and do everything we can to keep American Politics Nazi Free
We Americans need to realize how lucky we were in 2000 to have Joe Biden running for President of the United States. He saved us from becoming a Dictatorship, along with Vice President Pence and the Democrats in the United States Congress. Without Pence and the Congressional Democrats we very well could have lost our Democracy on January 6th, but we didn't lose it. We saved it and Joe Biden and Kamala Harris kept it running for another three and a half years.
As we travel toward November and Election Day we know that if Democrats win we will save Democracy.
If Donald Trump wins we will see him doing everything he can to cement his participation in the World Dictators Club. Americans need to wake up and smell the Treason before we blindly throw our Democracy into the Trash Heap of History.
Lastly, Let us not forget what Joe Biden and the Democrats have done for America and lets not let what we have protected for two and half centuries slip away. We've got one more opportunity to save Democracy in America. Lets get every Freedom Loving American to vote either by mail or by showing up at the polls in record numbers.
Kamala Harris will need our vote in November.
Lets give Kamala and other Democrats our votes in record numbers so that Freedom will continue to ring throughout The United States Of America.
Sincerely Yours
Jerry Gallagher
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