The Difficulty: President Biden’s announcement that he is not going to be accepting the Democratic nomination.
The Democrats simply uncovered themselves once more (“The top,” July 22).
Whereas pushing Biden to resign, none of them had a plan of what to do if he did. They’re working round like a rooster with its head reduce off.
By the way in which, who’s making the selections? Rep. Nancy Pelosi, former President Barack Obama, and many others.? Who’s the “president” of the Democratic Social gathering? No one appears to know what to do.
Ought to or not it’s Vice President Kamala Harris? Who else?
If you happen to plan to make a change, you will need to have a follow-up plan in place. Clearly, the Democrats don’t even now the right way to work collectively.
Brian Keane
Patchogue
I can’t perceive how all of those extremely educated people have been attempting to persuade the lots our president was sharp as a tack over the previous 12 months.
Do all of them assume Americans are so dumb they will’t see the reality?
Biden didn’t should be hoodwinked into believing he might nonetheless run the nation.
All these round him — employees, politicians, household, the media — needs to be ashamed of their habits. In contrast to former President Lyndon Johnson, who acknowledged actuality, all of them preached a false narrative, permitting our nation and our president to be a laughingstock, simply to allow them to preserve energy.
This isn’t democracy; it’s voodoo politics.
D. Ricciardi
Brooklyn
It’s tempting to name Biden the last word “low cost faux.”
Nonetheless, he was a really “costly faux” for cities coping with unlawful immigrants, taxpayers funding warfare, not peace, in Ukraine and people who are caught paying for pupil debt as a result of he shifted the burden to non-students.
David Bryant
Easton, Conn.
Biden, upon his choice to exit the 2024 race mentioned in his letter: “I imagine it’s in the most effective curiosity of the social gathering and the nation for me to face down.”
Discover he put social gathering first, nation second — as has all the time been the case with the Democratic Social gathering.
Considerate management would have had him state that it was in the most effective curiosity of the nation alone.
Then once more, Biden has by no means been proper on any challenge at any time, and for the Dems, it’s about profitable and energy alone.
Tom DeFazio
Spring Lake Heights, NJ
On the afternoon of June 27, Democrats have been totally united in supporting Biden. By the top of the evening, they weren’t.
After a lot hand-wringing and teeth-gnashing, the president has stepped apart.
Democrats now discover themselves with out a candidate and no playbook on the right way to get one.
Whereas that is completely their very own doing, it doesn’t erase the truth that they should determine on a candidate previous to the conference. An open conference can be a catastrophe, and having it in Chicago just isn’t a great omen.
Peter Kelly
Hazlet, NJ
Biden’s bugout is essentially the most egregious bait-and-switch to have occurred in our historical past. The one cause he stop is that the donor class refused to pony up for such a pathetic loser.
The ship has abandoned the sinking rat. The one factor that democracy has to concern is the Democratic Social gathering itself. You’ll be able to’t make these things up.
James Evans
Worcester, Mass.
Democrats and their media enablers tried each soiled trick within the ebook to forestall Donald Trump from working for president, solely to fail miserably.
How ironic, then, that the one president they succeeded in stopping was Biden. Within the phrases of the late Jackie Gleason: “How candy it’s.”
Gerald Jacobs
Boca Raton, Fla.
Now that Biden is a lame duck and has nothing to lose, you wish to wager he pardons Hunter earlier than he leaves workplace?
And, by the way in which, calling Joe a “lame duck” is an insult to geese.
Barry Koppel
Kew Gardens Hills
Gentleman Joe has stepped down. We want that so would Vladimir Putin and XI Jinping.
Robert Tarnay
Palmetto, Fla.
