Mikie Sherrill is Right
“…Like a bridge over troubled water
I will lay me down.”
-Simon & Garfunkel
The White House suddenly took on the look of a collapsed Potemkin Village, a carefully crafted façade designed to deceive.
It all started during the June 27th televised Biden/Trump debate on CNN. It was an eye-opening disaster for the President and, quite possibly, for the Democrats’ chances of winning the 2024 election.
President Biden tried to explain it away as a “bad night.” To most Americans watching, though, it was more than that. It was a sad night. When the dust from the demolition cleared, 50 million viewers were left shaken and alarmed.
Why the White House and the Biden re-election campaign agreed to a debate at all is a mystery. Demanding Trump acknowledge both the legitimacy of the Biden presidency and his criminally investigated efforts to thwart the transfer of power should have been a deal breaker.
But the debate night happened and there were two reveals: (1) In the event of a meltdown, there was no Plan B for the Biden campaign. (2) The President’s performance created calls for a Plan B.
Congresswoman Mikie Sherrill (D-11) made one of those calls. Here’s what she said:
“I know President Biden cares deeply about the future of our country, I am asking that he declare that he won’t run for re-election and will help lead us… toward a new nominee…”
Agree or not, credit the Congresswoman for recognizing the need for action and her willingness to take the lead. She gets it. The stakes are high.
Can President Biden lead a successful effort to keep the White House, maintain a Senate majority and win back majority control of the House of Representatives?
Does his mental acuity and physical stamina favor him to seek re-election to an additional four-year term? Most Americans think not.
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In the 2020 Presidential election, Biden, almost 78 years old, survived that year’s (unwatchable) primary debates.
Ultimately, he won out due to a carefully crafted Primary strategy, (thanks to South Carolina), that transformed him into a unifying Democratic leader and the presidential nominee.
He then offered himself up as the self-proclaimed ‘bridge candidate’ for a younger generation of democrats.
With the hopes and support of the American people he won, and he won big. He is the first presidential candidate in American history to win more than 80 million votes.
Four years later, nearly 82 years old, President Biden is no longer the self-proclaimed “bridge candidate.”
He is 3 years older than Ronald Reagan when Reagan (barely) completed his two terms. He’s 20 years older than Richard Nixon when Nixon resigned in 1974 and 27 years older than Bill Clinton after Clinton’s two terms.
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Joe Biden’s presidency will be recognized as one of the most successful and accomplished in American history.
With his legacy intact, he should also be allowed to take home his dignity. Mikie Sherrill and a growing list of others get that.
It’s long past time to get real. Explore other options, pass the torch, offer up new generational leaders, craft a new electoral strategy, work hard for success in November. Make the time. Make it work.
It’s not just old age giving way to generational change. If ageism, mental acuity, cognition, and electoral viability are the issues in question, then honesty, not blind allegiance, and loyalty, might be the answer.
Congresswoman Mikie Sherrill understands that. “…the stakes are too high,” she recently stated, … “I realize this is hard, but we have done hard things in pursuit of democracy since the founding of this nation. It is time to do so again,” she said.
In her own dignified way, Congresswoman Sherrill is right.
Keep on fghuu try ing yo win. Joe. Hupuregoi g yo m win. Trump is a terrible person and never. Smart.
“I’m going home with the one who brought me to the dance.”
Joe Biden
“ thx for the corsage , I have a headache, gotta go, cya Joe?”
Mikie ( blue dog Democrat “ Sherrill
Mikie Sherrill’s ancestral family tree shows that her family was a bunch of slave owners out of the southern state of Virginia for the past 200 or so years. This information should be spread far and wide through the black communities throughout her district. Given the fact that Sherrill touts her military combat career as a helicopter pilot but was only a behind the lines cargo carrier and so no combat, and that she was an Assistant U.S. District Attorney that never prosecuted a case (according to former U.S. District Attorney for N.J. Chris Christie) but was just a liasion for the U.S. Attorney’s office, Sherrill is a fake, phoney and a fraud.
Blacks should be aware that Sherrill is another Democrat looking just for their votes, but will never help their community until its time for another election to get their votes again. She voted 100% of the time with Biden’s Socialist-Communist programs to destroy this country and turn it into a Marxist 3rd world dictatorship. Sherrill is no friend of New Jerseyans, and she’s no friend of Americans. She MUST be voted out of office in November!!!!!
Dear Mr. Barrett,
Thank you for your article, and thank you, Congresswoman Sherrill for your thoughtful and respectful request of President Biden to step aside from his re-election bid so that he can truly be that ‘bridge candidate’ to a younger generation of Democrats that he alluded to in 2020. Your analysis of how President Biden’s debate performance sabotaged the Democrats campaign is spot on.
Jesus told all who could listen to love your neighbor as yourself. Sometimes I struggle with this. Sometimes all of us, no doubt struggle with this.
Thank you, Mr. Barrett, for including that classic line from Simon and Garfunkel, ‘Like a Bridge over Troubled Water, I will lay me down.”
And weren’t you a slave owner, Thomas Jefferson, who said “ All men are created equal”? (except for your slaves?)
WNY Voter: I am not running for office. Mikie Sherrill is. Therefore, all bets are off when exploring her past history and ancestry. Just like what the Democrats do to every Republican politician. Oh, by the way, the investigated the Trump family. No slave owners there. But, Kamala Harris’ family owned slaves in Jamaica.
TJ, nope no slave owners in the Trump family, just a cadet heel Spurs draft dodger, serial sexual predator ,bankruptcy artist, known Epstein associate 34 felony adjudicated sex offender , $550 million dollar conspiracy to defraud NYC, $88 million dollar EJ Carol judgement, son of a brothel owner pimp is all I’ve read about?
But other than that?
You made a statement that Congresswoman Sherrill’s ancestors owned slaves. Back it up with proof.
Stewart Resmer continues with the false narrative and gaslighting that Trump was a “draft dodger”, serial sexual predator, bankruptcy artist, Known Epstein associate, 34 felony, $550 Million dollar conspiracy to defraud NYC, $88 Million EJ Carroll judgment, son of a brothel owner pimp? Show proof. Everything you said is anecdotal, unproven, or false narrative by the Propagandist media.
The war against Trump, a/k/a “witch hunt”, shows that he was never a “draft dodger”, no proof of being a ‘serial sexual predator (even the jury in the E.J. Carroll case said he wasn’t; and he will win that case on appeal). Bankruptcy is the cost of doing business on the huge scale that Trump’s empire is. Many corporations use bankruptcy to rearrange their finances. There is no proof that Trump was a known Epstein associate. In fact, Trump’s name wasn’t even in the so-called Epstein “black book”. The 34 felony counts was a sham kangaroo court trial that will either be dismissed on grounds of Presidential Immunity, or thrown out on appeal. Same goes for the $550 MILLION dollar judgment by NYC. NYC will never see a dime of that fraudulent judgment. Another sham kangaroo court proceeding where the sitting judge now has a major conflict of interest due to ex parte communications; and the judge obstructed and tampered with mitigating evidence.
The E.J. Carroll judgment was an extortion shakedown. No proof of “rape”, or even sexual assault. Carroll couldn’t even recount it ever happening as she said it did–wrong date, wrong year, wrong place, etc. That case also involved the Federal Judge obstructing and tampering with the mitigating evidence for Trump. That case, too, will be thrown out on appeal. E.J. Carroll will never see a dime of that judgment. It was “lawfare” by Democrat operatives, E.J. Carroll funded by Democrat billionaire Reid Hoffman to “get Trump”. Reid Hoffman actually was/is in the Jeffrey Epstein “black book” of pedophile clients.
Resmer, get your facts straight before you spout inane stories trying to gaslight the public.
Mr “Jefferson” is, of course, raised from the grave thanks to brilliant Russian scientists who have more-or-less mastered necromancy in building our army of anonymous keyboard warriors hiding behind their screens, raging on the internet every day. While we do employ millions of bots, the best trolling is, naturally, done by people. To that end, we managed to reanimate his deteriorating, bony fingers to let him type away to his non-beating heart’s content. Unfortunately, we were not able to fully restore the brain which, like Mr Robert Kennedy Jr., was largely eaten by worms over the years. But not to worry! Considering the calibre of the human material at the disposal of my minions in the Kremlin, I am very proud of Mr “Jefferson”! He continues to do excellent work in undermining faith in American institutions, the judicial system, and reality itself–a top tier agent of chaos! As ever, our thanks, comrade!
Praising Sherrill is praising someone who supported a dementia patient who has ruined the US economy, supported a corrupt president who took tens of millions from our enemies and sold out the US, and what should be especially important to her – supported a pedophile who showered with and molested his own daughter Ashley Biden.
Yes that’s a proud member of Congress