Opinion | George Clooney: I Love Joe Biden. But We Need a New Nominee. - The New York Times
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I'm a lifelong Democrat; I make no apologies for that. I'm proud of what my party represents and what it stands for. As part of my participation in the democratic process and in support of my chosen candidate, I have led some of the biggest fund-raisers in my party's history. Barack Obama in 2012. Hillary Clinton in 2016. Joe Biden in 2020. Last month I co-hosted the single largest fund-raiser supporting any Democratic candidate ever, for President Biden's re-election. I say all of this only to express how much I believe in this process and how profound I think this moment is.
I love Joe Biden. As a senator. As a vice president and as president. I consider him a friend, and I believe in him. Believe in his character. Believe in his morals. In the last four years, he's won many of the battles he's faced.
But the one battle he cannot win is the fight against time. None of us can. It's devastating to say it, but the Joe Biden I was with three weeks ago at the fund-raiser was not the Joe "big F-ing deal" Biden of 2010. He wasn't even the Joe Biden of 2020. He was the same man we all witnessed at the debate.
Was he tired? Yes. A cold? Maybe. But our party leaders need to stop telling us that 51 million people didn't see what we just saw. We're all so terrified by the prospect of a second Trump term that we've opted to ignore every warning sign. The George Stephanopoulos interview only reinforced what we saw the week before. As Democrats, we collectively hold our breath or turn down the volume whenever we see the president, who we respect, walk off Air Force One or walk back to a mic to answer an unscripted question.
Is it fair to point these things out? It has to be. This is about age. Nothing more. But also nothing that can be reversed. We are not going to win in November with this president. On top of that, we won't win the House, and we're going to lose the Senate. This isn't only my opinion; this is the opinion of every senator and congress member and governor that I've spoken with in private. Every single one, irrespective of what he or she is saying publicly.
We love to talk about how the Republican Party has ceded all power, and all of the traits that made it so formidable with Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, to a single person who seeks to hold on to the presidency, and yet most of our members of Congress are opting to wait and see if the dam breaks. But the dam has broken. We can put our heads in the sand and pray for a miracle in November, or we can speak the truth.
By George Clooney
Mr. Clooney is an actor, director and film producer.
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Meanwhile after Joe Biden has repeatedly said he is staying in, Nancy Pelosi went on "Morning Joe" and said that Joe needs to make a decision.
The saga of what democrats will do continues.
I think eventually they will wear Biden down.
the Joe Biden I was with three weeks ago at the fund-raiser was not the Joe "big F-ing deal" Biden of 2010. He wasn't even the Joe Biden of 2020. He was the same man we all witnessed at the debate.
Looking forward to the apologies from those who claimed the criticism of Biden at the fundraiser was disinformation.
Good luck with that, what i'm waiting to laugh at is the (cough) (cough) non partisans trying to justify the belief that a senile old fool with his finger on the nuclear button is in anyway acceptable.
His deadly Afghanistan retreat decision is proof of what can happen.
Who knew Clooney was a trumper?
"I've got a pretty good political instinct and here's the deal, it's not going to happen here," Biden said during his MSNBC appearance. "This time around, the American public is not going to move away from me as the average voter."
RECAP: Biden insists he's staying in 2024 race as Democrats return to a very different DC (msn.com)
Stay the course Joe.