Israel war: Why Obama’s Worse Than Tlaib
“Poor Rashida Tlaib,” snarks The Wall Street Journal’s William McGurn. “If only she had Barack Obama’s ability to couch the argument for moral equivalence between Israel and Hamas in terms acceptable to polite society.” The House censured her for defending Hamas’ brutality and what amounts to a “genocidal call” to destroy Israel. Yet “her influence is limited” because she’s recognized as “a left-wing kook.” Obama isn’t so “crude,” but his call for “complexity” and claim that we’re all complicit clouds “moral distinctions” and undermines President Biden’s backing of Israel. “When Rashida Tlaib makes the case for moral equivalence, she is outrageous and extreme. But when Barack Obama does, his argument is smooth and sophisticated. That’s what makes it all the more pernicious.”
From the left: American Gerontocracy
“Here’s how the likely presidential field for 2024 is currently shaping up — actuarially,” observes The American Prospect’s Harold Meyerson: “Joe Biden is 80 years old. Donald Trump is 77. Joe Manchin is 76. Jill Stein is 73. Cornel West is 70. Robert Kennedy Jr. is just 69, but he’ll turn 70 come January.” Wow: “A merely middle-aged candidate would stand out in that field.” And “Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear’s election night victory speech provided the opportunity to hear the case for Bidenesque policies and themes made by a more effective proponent than Biden himself.” “Biden does have an ace in the hole, of course: his opponent.” But the facts on the ground argue “for a better advocate for Biden’s values and achievements than Biden himself.
Eye on 2024: Biden’s Glaring Weaknesses
Key polls show President “Biden trailing former President Trump in five of six swing states,” cautions Doug Schoen at The Hill. His approval rating is “on par with Jimmy Carter when he suffered an overwhelming defeat in 1980,” while third-party candidates Jill Stein and Robert Kennedy Jr. may draw voters “away from Biden in states where he already had very little margin of safety.” Bidenomics has “very little credibility” with voters — and by 2024, when “issues of war and peace,” plus the “economic management of the country are at stake, it is less likely that abortion will predominate.” With Biden’s numbers “sinking precipitously,” his re-election “wouldn’t be a bet that I would take, and I doubt many in the White House would disagree.”
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