Life of Wry

Are we in the throes of angst and uncertainty, or what?!

Two weeks since the frightening debate (on both debaters’ parts) of June 27, we are still deep into the should he go or should he stay arguments.

It’s pundit city everywhere you look.

Tonight, Anderson talked with Joe Lockhart (Clinton Press Secretary), Kate Bedingfield (Biden WH Comms director), Jon Lovett (Obama speechwriter), and Carl Bernstein (legendary investigative journalist). A great panel of wonks if there ever was one. They covered every angle. Fun to listen to. Not fun to listen to. They don’t arrive at ready solutions. Nobody has a crystal ball. All options are a gamble.

Ugh. And I certainly don’t know the best course, but my heart seems to be rooting for a new candidate.

On another show, Josh Green (Hawaii Governor) made some good points (heavily embellished by me, below):

They’re both old men. We have one old man who will surely have some bad days. But he also has a heart, is wise, has excellent policies (and can continue to pursue them if he wins). The other is a sociopath. One cares and takes care of the people of this country. The other guy is seriously unwell, is running to stay out of jail, is immoral and indecent, and cares not a wit about people, the US or democracy.

Biden just has to have mostly good days. We have an awesome backup quarterback in Kamala and he has a great team. Reagan had bad days, too. But he had a party that loved him and a team that supported him.

Have a cognitive test, sure. But both of them should take it. But also have a psychiatric battery of tests. You’ll find similar age-related results on the first one. On the second, you’ll have one decent human with strong core strengths, and a second one who has a diagnosable malignant narcissistic personality disorder.

Thousands of other points were raised today, yesterday, and no doubt tomorrow. Some shocking polls have been released and parsed, all spell disaster. Besides dozens of pundits and as many strategies, a lot of electeds are taking sides, but far more are staying quiet.. until the next “test” (tomorrow’s is an unscripted press conference).

This is painful beyond. I hope the best and brightest will figure this out soon.