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Are Voters Ready for Prime Minister Biden? Unlike most presidents, no one knows what he stands for. He’s the figurehead for a shaky coalition.
Wall Street Journal ^ | August 13, 2020 | Joseph C. Sternberg

Posted on 08/13/2020 9:56:09 AM PDT by karpov

What is Joe Biden running for? I don’t mean what policy goals he hopes to achieve, as much confusion as there is on the point. Rather, I mean “for what office is Mr. Biden campaigning?”

You probably think he’s running for president. He probably does, too. But Mr. Biden is running for a job more akin to a European prime minister. His purpose has become to serve as an avatar for a confused and tenuous Democratic alliance.

Presidents lead their parties. They start with a theory of why their idiosyncratic mix of policy aims is right for their country. Then they deploy deep reserves of charisma to drag their parties, often kicking and screaming, behind them.

Prime ministers such as Angela Merkel or Boris Johnson serve a different function. In constitutional systems that lack a strong executive, a prime minister represents a temporary and often brittle agreement within a ruling party. Even when, as in Mr. Johnson’s case, they seem revolutionary, the leader still has to step lightly around various unvanquished internal foes.

Which of these two models do you think Mr. Biden is following?

One sign that he’s more European is the process by which Mr. Biden had his running mate chosen for him according to the dictates of various wings of his own party. Presidential candidates normally choose vice presidents with a strategic goal of expanding the candidate’s appeal to undecided general-election voters. How often has a candidate selected a running mate to shore up the base, under threat that it might not show up to the polls?

Kamala Harris’s selection more resembles the assembling of a European cabinet. It was premised on the obvious but unspoken understanding that she’ll fight her constituency’s own progressive corner against Mr. Biden’s moderation if need be.

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TOPICS: Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: biden; bidenagenda
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1 posted on 08/13/2020 9:56:09 AM PDT by karpov
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To: karpov

Biden would be like the President of Ireland; a figurehead head of state. Kamala would be like the prime minister, the head of the government.


2 posted on 08/13/2020 9:58:53 AM PDT by nd76
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To: karpov

Americans have had their tv tell them to hate Trump. They are ready for any alternative.


3 posted on 08/13/2020 10:00:20 AM PDT by brownsfan (Behold, the power of government cheese.)
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To: brownsfan

President Trump is the first this century who is not a figurehead.


4 posted on 08/13/2020 10:02:06 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: karpov

Biden doesn’t know what Biden stands for. He doesn’t know what day it is.

Commie-la Harass and Co. are poised to rule from behind the scenes but IT WON’T HAPPEN because Trump will win in a landslide.

ALL efforts, like this what is now the Political Pandemic, to take Trump down have FAILED. Why? God is still with America and still has a purpose for her to shed his Light around the world one last time before it all comes crashing down.


5 posted on 08/13/2020 10:02:26 AM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: karpov

The Biden-Harris ticket has no path to victory and may only win Delaware and D.C.


6 posted on 08/13/2020 10:02:42 AM PDT by Meatspace
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To: karpov
You probably think he’s running for president. He probably does, too.

There is very little evidence that he does.

7 posted on 08/13/2020 10:04:08 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They are openly stating that they intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live.)
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To: karpov
"The 2021 Davos Summit is coming up right after Christmas, and for the Great Reset they need President Joe Biden to hand us, the United States, over to them if he wins this election. This is why they are trying so hard to take Donald Trump down."

"This is about a reset of everything, and the United States of America, right now, is in the way of all of it. So they are destabilising our entire country."

"No one...no country will be allowed to opt out. This is what we're facing in November."

"they made a mistake: they tried to get Trump on their side. They invited Donald Trump to Davos, I think a couple of times. But in January, I think when Donald Trump really began to see the Beast that he was up against, he went to Davos, to the World Economic Forum, and he stuck a megafinger in their eye:

'We're committed to conserving the majesty of God's creation and the natural beauty of our world, but to embrace the possibilities of tomorrow we must reject the perennial prophets of doom and their predictions of the apocalypse. These alarmists always demand the same thing: absolute power to dominate, transform, and control every aspect of our lives. We will never let radical socials destroy our economy, wreck our country.'

~Donald Trump

"Two days after Donald Trump gave that speech...George Soros made an emergency intervention, at Davos, once again, warning that 'the 2020 US Election will determine the 'fate of the whole world.''"

"Do you see why there's so much hate for Trump?" "He never will be one of them."

"Shortly after the speech at the UN that Donald Trump delivered, what do you think happened? The coronavirus was unleashed on the world, and Trump's booming US economy went on life-support. You think that was an accident?"

"The name of the game now is to bring the United States economy to its knees, get it out of the way, so that everyone will want the Great Reset, make the 'new normal' so intolerably abnormal that even you and I maybe in the near future will be begging for the vaccine, so that we'll be driven crazy by that point, begging for whatever else is going to keep us safe according to our jailers and our handlers and our zoo-keepers. You see, that's what they want, that's why they keep using the term 'new normal.'"

"What can we do to fight back? ..."

"For heaven's sake, go back to church and pray that Trump wins in November."

"That's what the Reset is about. That's what the "Russia Hoax" was all about. That's what the "Impeachment Hoax" was about. You see? For four years they've been trying to stop this man because if he succeeds, if he strengthens America, if he makes it great again, if he brings the economy back--again, the Reset won't happen; the New World Order's going to be set way back. Who knows when they're going to have another Covid Opportunity like this one again?! And they know it. So ask yourself why they hate this man."

"They hate Donald Trump, whose political opponents, by the way, right now are knocking statues of saints to the ground; they're beating up cops; and they're burning flags."

"The choice is simple, friends: Stand with America right now, or fall with the New World Order in the not-so-distant future. There's no other choice."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sb9jRqgDOJ8&feature=youtu.be

‘"I have a lot of enemies. This may be the last time you see me for a while. I have a lot of very rich enemies. They're not happy with what I'm doing. But I figure we have one chance to do it. No other president is gonna do what I do."’
Donald Trump
Cleveland, Ohio
August 6, 2020

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/08/a_solution_for_this_weeks_mystery_announcement.html

8 posted on 08/13/2020 10:19:33 AM PDT by Savage Beast (President Trump, loving God, America, and the American People, is on the Side of GOD and the Angels!)
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To: Savage Beast

Wonder if Barack Hussein Obama be the next UN Secretary General...


9 posted on 08/13/2020 10:35:05 AM PDT by polymuser (A socialist is a communist without the power to take everything from their citizens...yet.)
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To: karpov

Dementia Joe has one foot in the grave. He is a white face, establishment figurehead used to attract milqtoast moderates and Wall Street tycoons who are afraid that a Socialist Democrat will take away their wealth.


10 posted on 08/13/2020 11:06:49 AM PDT by Sixgun Symphony (uie)
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To: karpov

He will not last 90 days. He will be replaced by Harris, and Pelosi becomes VP.


11 posted on 08/13/2020 11:42:11 AM PDT by Salvavida
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To: karpov

Bye-Done and Cameltoe Hairass are the dementia whoredog ticket.


12 posted on 08/13/2020 11:54:28 AM PDT by Beagle8U (Slo-Joe Biden... puts the DEM in Dementia.)
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To: Jim W N

I pray every waking hour that the Lord will spare this nation which He Himself ordained into existence.


13 posted on 08/13/2020 12:34:59 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("Pres. Trump doesn't wear glasses. That's because he's got 2020.")
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To: elcid1970

Well God bless you.

I believe as long as we’re here, the Holy Spirit is here (2 Thess 2:6-8). And as long as we and the Holy Spirit are here, America will be here. When America goes, the world goes very quickly.

Something still needs to happen before it all comes crashing down. God in his love and mercy will sweep the world for souls one last time saving everyone he can for the Marriage Supper of the Lamb (Luke 14:23) before the seven-year unimaginable horror happens.


14 posted on 08/13/2020 12:47:27 PM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: Jim W N

He said yesterday, he is for opportunity.

That seems pretty clear./s


15 posted on 08/13/2020 1:55:08 PM PDT by joshua c
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To: karpov

No need to worry about it. Just read the Communist Manifesto and it will all become clear.


16 posted on 08/13/2020 2:04:00 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Kill a Commie for your Mommy.)
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To: karpov

The ho will service him once a week while she consolidates her coalition to destroy us all


17 posted on 08/13/2020 3:58:08 PM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: karpov

This all reminds me of the 1933 election in Germany. Hitler was voted in as chancellor, the German equivalent of prime minister, with president Hindenburg above him. Hindenburg, an old man like Biden and basically a figurehead, did nothing to halt the Nazification of his country. Nevertheless, his presence was enough to keep Hitler on a leash.

One year later Hindenburg died, and Hitler made himself dictator. “Frau Harris” is probably smacking her lips, awaiting the obituaries.


18 posted on 08/13/2020 4:59:57 PM PDT by MoochPooch (I'm a compassionate cynic.)
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To: karpov

In his actions, Biden would cater to only one faction of his constituency: Hillary’s old girls. Oh, he would pander to the younger voters alright. But Biden if were elected, he and Hillary’s girls would scam the young, radical, socialist factions so bad, they would riot for the duration of the term.


19 posted on 08/13/2020 7:06:21 PM PDT by familyop ( "Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy".)
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