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After promising that most K-8 students would be in schools in the first 100 days,  apparently Joe is afraid to lead on this and has drastically scaled back that goal.

Instead, we're shooting for about half to go to school at least one day a week,  by the end of April.

https://www.usnews.com/news/education-news/articles/2021-02-09/bidens-goal-for-school-reopenings-suddenly-became-more-attainable

 

2 hours ago, toomuchbaloney said:

His chronological age. 

What age is one too old to be president?

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27 minutes ago, Beerman said:

What age is one too old to be president?

Do you need a random number for a reason? The last two elected presidents were near the age of average life expectancy for Americans when they were elected.  That seems short sighted and risky to me.  It's best if our presidents have minimal chance of death while in office...even from old age.  I mean when the previous president, elderly and obese, was hospitalized with covid everyone was concerned that the outcome could have been bad. Geriatric patients sometimes don't recover as well from acute illness. 

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8 hours ago, toomuchbaloney said:

Do you need a random number for a reason? The last two elected presidents were near the age of average life expectancy for Americans when they were elected.  That seems short sighted and risky to me.  It's best if our presidents have minimal chance of death while in office...even from old age.  I mean when the previous president, elderly and obese, was hospitalized with covid everyone was concerned that the outcome could have been bad. Geriatric patients sometimes don't recover as well from acute illness. 

You claim that there is no reason to be concerned about his cognitive abilities, yet at the same time say he's too old.  I'm just trying to determine what makes him too old.

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52 minutes ago, Beerman said:

You claim that there is no reason to be concerned about his cognitive abilities, yet at the same time say he's too old.  I'm just trying to determine what makes him too old.

His chronological age. 

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Executive Physical done today on President Biden at Walter Reed that one would expect for a President of the United States --  see results-- new issues: Reflux, new mild peripheral neuropathy --getting orthotics and Gait Dysfunction due to Spinal arthritis -- same as me.     His BP is better than mine, but my cholesteral level norrnal.  Hope I'm doing that good at 78.

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16 hours ago, toomuchbaloney said:

His chronological age. 

This morning I came across my copy of Whose Boat Is This Boat; Comments that Don't Help in the Aftermath of a Hurricane.  Is is a collection of comments Trump made while visiting North Carolina after Hurricane Florence.

"Is this your boat:  Or...did it become your boat?"

"That boat is wiped out...or not?"

"And do you know whose boat that is?  They don't know whose boat that is?"

"to see what we're seeing this boat, I don't know what happened, but this boat, just came here."

AND some people are worried about the competency of Biden?  Biden, who can still ride a bike?  Biden, who gets out of his private office, and fulfills his duties with punishing schedules?  I would prefer that my cat's stinky boom-booms occupy the Oval Office.  They would do a lot less damage than the former occupant.  I do, however, fear the next election when neither party has a competent candidate.  

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59 minutes ago, subee said:

I do, however, fear the next election when neither party has a competent candidate

Why do you fear that there will be no competent candidate from either party? Only one of the parties is elevating crazy right now. 

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1 hour ago, toomuchbaloney said:

Why do you fear that there will be no competent candidate from either party? Only one of the parties is elevating crazy right now. 

Because, in my opinion, neither party has had a competent candidate for several election cycles.

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1 hour ago, toomuchbaloney said:

Why do you fear that there will be no competent candidate from either party? Only one of the parties is elevating crazy right now. 

The Republicans are deranged and the Democrats can't unite enough to make their policies coherent to the public.  I don't see any up and comers in the party now who can be ready for 2024.  I will surely have to vote Democratic the next time to stem the tide of Republican abandonment of sanity, but I hate having to go into an election with that attitude.  

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23 minutes ago, chare said:

Because, in my opinion, neither party has had a competent candidate for several election cycles.

I would disagree.  Clinton was, arguably, the most qualified and competent candidate ever forwarded.  Biden is competent.  The vast majority of the candidates vying for the Democratic nod were competent, in my opinion. 

Obama was competent. Kerry was competent.  

I just don't agree. 

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11 minutes ago, subee said:

The Republicans are deranged and the Democrats can't unite enough to make their policies coherent to the public.  I don't see any up and comers in the party now who can be ready for 2024.  I will surely have to vote Democratic the next time to stem the tide of Republican abandonment of sanity, but I hate having to go into an election with that attitude.  

I see a number of qualified and competent individuals who could challenge Biden. Don't you consider Buttigieg as "ready"...for example?

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5 hours ago, subee said:

AND some people are worried about the competency of Biden?  Biden, who can still ride a bike?  Biden, who gets out of his private office, and fulfills his duties with punishing schedules?  I would prefer that my cat's stinky boom-booms occupy the Oval Office.  They would do a lot less damage than the former occupant.  I do, however, fear the next election when neither party has a competent candidate.  

Not only that, but I definitely found it a problem when Trump insisted his imaginary memories were real despite clear evidence to the contrary as he did with regard to this:

"I watched in Jersey City, New Jersey, where thousands and thousands of people were cheering as that building [World Trade Center] was coming down."

He made reckless threats, has poor impulse control and is incapable of self-reflection. I ask myself, without regard to political leanings at all, what type of personality is more potentially dangerous when given the levers of executive power?

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