For a year now, Mr. Biden has warned publicly and privately about the need to avoid a regional war, one that could easily escalate into direct conflict between Israel and Iran.... Mr. Biden even held on to hope for the transformative peace deal... Now, Mr. Biden’s aides say, the president is beginning to acknowledge that he is simply running out of time. With only four months left in office, the chances of a cease-fire and hostage deal with Hamas look dimmer than at any time since Mr. Biden laid out a plan at the beginning of the summer....
Oh, he's running out of time because his term is almost over. But wouldn't he be handing off the task to Kamala Harris, if she wins? Are they not promising continuation of the effort? Harris's campaign theme is that she represents change, so we don't get a don't-change-horses-in-midstream message. We get: Biden is running out of time.
The name Kamala Harris never even appears in the article!
In private... many members of Mr. Biden’s national security team make little effort these days to hide their exasperation with the prime minister. They talk more openly now about the president’s shouting matches in phone calls with Mr. Netanyahu....
Shouting matches! The old man is shouting at Netanyahu. And the other day we saw him unable to recognize that he was in the middle of a public appearance with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Why didn't the NYT put the news of the "shouting matches" in the headline instead of the "news" that Joe Biden is working and the clock is ticking.
[Members of Mr. Biden’s national security team] say it was telling that the White House announced no phone calls between the president and the prime minister as beepers exploded in the pockets of Hezbollah members and missiles flew. It seemed a sign of how little they had to say to each other....
Is President Biden capable of speaking on the phone effectively or is he given to shouting? Does he even understand the problems he'd need to purport to be lecturing Netanyahu about? I can see why Netanyahu might have "little... to say to" Biden. What's the point?
The article doesn't mention Kamala Harris, but it does mention Donald Trump:
[I]t is hard to imagine that Mr. Netanyahu will be able to eliminate Hezbollah, just as he has been unable to eliminate Hamas. And it is harder still to imagine that Mr. Netanyahu will spend much time worrying about crossing Mr. Biden. He knows that if former President Donald J. Trump is elected, he will have a far freer hand to prosecute the war against Hamas and Hezbollah the way he sees fit.
Will Mr. Netanyahu spend any time worrying about crossing Ms. Harris? She doesn't even seem to exist as far as this article is concerned.
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Both Biden and Harris appear to be constructs and not real people. NYT might as well be talking about President Jack Ryan. The opinions and deeds of both Biden and Harris are imaginary. Will they rally us when the shooting starts?
How can we simultaneously believe in the resurrection of Joe Biden and in the legitimacy of depriving him of the nomination he won in the primaries?
You can’t. I don’t think Prime Minister Netanyahu has forgotten that Obama, with Biden as Vice President, and then Biden himself as President shoveled money to Hamas and Hezbollah via Iran, nor has he failed to notice Biden’s party accepting people who shout “Death to the Jews” into his coalition. With all of that, it naturally follows that America under Biden’s “leadership” cannot possibly be viewed by Israel as an honest broker for peace.
Their ideal fictional President is Charlie Sheen’s dad West Wing guy…
I want to add that you’re up early — and you don’t even have the “old man with an enlarged prostate” excuse
I mean, there IS way to stop this madness…
Will fake President 1 be able to hold it together to hand over the reigns of no power to fake President 2? Will they just let Jill do it?
I had to start brining the fried chicken..
I still think Harris should have picked Julia Louis-Dreyfus as her Veep candidate. She has experience in the job and would add gravitas to the ticket.
Meanwhile, Tea Leoni takes walks in the woods…
Feckless, reckless, mindless shitbird.
At this moment, the United States is a perfect example of the enterprise that was started by hard-working, principled grandparents, turned into a huge success by appreciative, resourceful parents, and then kinda sorta run by the indolent, self-centered kids who just want to screw around and bang on de drum all day.
Good thing we live in a world without existential risk, eh?
the REAL Anger about Donald Trump, is that he is a real person; and not an NPC like the government wants "running" it
Apt analogy!
From the post: "Harris's campaign theme is that she represents change..."
The "change" she purports to represent is change from whatever Trump was doing. That's why the slogan "We're not going back" is part of the message.
If your pilot becomes disabled, should the copilot to take over or should he/she sit back quietly while the semi-comatose drooler in the left seat tries to land the plane?
"Shouting matches! The old man is shouting at Netanyahu."
It's OK. The White House has a trained and certified health-care professional who wipes the drool off the phone and sanitizes the area after the president finishes his calls.
I read yesterday that the Pentagon announced troops being sent to the Middle East. AP yesterday. "BREAKING: The U.S. will send additional troops to the Middle East amid escalation between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Pentagon says." Shouldn't the President announce this as I thought there no no US troops in war zones now?
Why are Harris/Walz (Zelensky) using foreign leaders as campaign backdrops> I thought that was why Trump was impeached>
They hired professional managers of dubious reliability and honesty. Let's see how this works out for the family! The new managers are certainly thriving, and according to them, the enterprise has never been in better shape.
The ever-ongoing Democrat Myth-making machinery at the NYT has settled on this. Joe vs Time. Similar to Joe vs Gravity, which we watched unfold before our eyes, but using Time as his nemesis creates a Sisyphean narrative, as he is surely going to lose to Time in the end. Thus the two Presidential myths of Biden-Harris have now diverged from each other. Happy Happy Joy Joy Kamala is Comedy (though how it ends in a "wedding" is still a plot twist yet to unfold) and Biden is Tragedy, the hero undone by an unconquerable Foe.
Democrats just love love LOVE them some mythology to undergird their state Religion of Marxism.
That last clause is comedy gold, Amadeus.
I love how Walz over the weekend was screaming "We can't allow four more years of what's happening now!"
True dat, Fathead.
Seems possible that sometime in Oct, the Dems will both invoke the 25th on Biden, and send troops into Russia.
How can we simultaneously believe in the resurrection of Joe Biden and in the legitimacy of depriving him of the nomination he won in the primaries?
Simple...just be a Democrat, or a member of the press (but I repeat myself).
It does not matter what Biden yells at Bibi as long as Hamas has the hostages (remember them?) and refuses to agree to a ceasefire. Biden is yelling at the wrong people. Who's next?
The Ukraine war has been going on longer. What’s Biden and Harris doing to push for a ceasefire there?
Talk about cracked fairy tales
The situation we find ourselves in today in the world and here at home are directly attributable to our current White House administration.
None of this had to happen. The people running Joe Biden made it happen.
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"Will Mr. Netanyahu spend any time worrying about crossing Ms. Harris? She doesn't even seem to exist as far as this article is concerned."
New boss, same as the old boss... if she's elected.
"[Harris] doesn't even seem to exist as far as this article is concerned."
Obviously because talking about her has some downsides. She wants:
1. Israel to get all the weapons it needs to defend itself,
2. But not to use them (a ceasefire),
3. Palestinians to get their own, sovereign state next to Israel with inviolable borders,
4. Palestine to become prosperous and strong.
Who might not be completely ok with that? (Israelis overwhelmingly prefer Trump to Harris.) Better to stay out of focus.
What violence is escalating in the Middle East?
Almost a year ago, 800 Israeli civilians were massacred, and since then, the IDF has been effectively striking against Hamas and Hezbollah. Biden doesn't want Israel to defend itself.
Ukraine and Russia seem like a much bigger concern for NATO and America.
"and fantasizing about asking Kamala Harris how she could justify refraining from using the 25th Amendment to fill the vacuum."
Nice fantasy, but as long as Biden is conscious, and has staff support, such a move would only create chaos. Most seem to not notice that the 25th only makes the VP the "acting president" and that the president can reverse the cabinet/VP determination by sending a letter saying he's resuming his duties. Then if the cabinet/VP persist, both houses of Congress have to vote on whether to remove the elected president.
They either have to pop a blood vessel in Biden's head or just leave it.
Joe is so busy working 'round the clock that Jill has taken over running his cabinet meetings, just so he can get a break.
You know, increasingly I am thinking this election is better understood, not as a political contest, but as a hostile corporate takeover. It's how the Corporation is seeing Donald Trump, and how he is being presented: A dangerous threat, a reckless, uncontrollable corporate raider. Our beloved company, that we worked so hard to build from the ground up, is Under Attack and we have to save it, save Our Democracy ! This is how the narrative is being shaped, protecting our beloved company from the outsiders. And maybe that's not far from the truth, seeing the way the Media Department, the Dirty Tricks Department, the Foreign Adventures Department, the Border and Human Resources Department are all working together...... Yes, makes better sense.
rehajm, I never watched it but I considered it an example of the Democrats desire for Bill Clinton without Hillary.
Yeah, Harris and Walz seem to lack symmetry there.
Shooting the "corporate raider" would seem a bit extreme.
The lame duck period post-elections and pre-Inauguration Day is more likely to be the window for Biden’s final presidential acts.
Anything done now risks blowback.
Everything Biden has done with respect to Hamas has served to prolong the conflict, not to bring it to an end. He has excoriated Israel's handling of the war, which has caused Hamas to believe that all they have to do is hold onto the remaining hostages and ride out the storm before America forces Netanhayu to stand down. He has brow beat Israel for not signing a "cease fire deal" that Hamas has flatly stated it will NEVER sign or abide by. He has reportedly denied Israel intelligence that it could have used to target Hamas more closely. He refused to meet with Netanyahu and allowed his VP/usurper to similarly insult Netanyahu, not meeting him when he arrived in DC and skipping his address to Congress despite presiding over Congress being LITERALLY the only actual job function of the VP. Now he is reported to be yelling at Netanyahu over Hezbollah, further signaling his desire for Israel to suffer at the hands of Arab terrorism.
Time is running out because Biden himself f*'ed up.
Depends upon who's sitting on the Board of Directors, eh?
If the jihadists get the upper hand in their war of attrition against Israel, it is unlikely that 5 million Israelis will pack their bags and leave. Far more likely they will reduce Iran and her evil consorts, "Palestine,"Lebanon, Yemen and Syria to heaps of radioactive rubble. It is impossible to imagine Joe the Demented or Kamala the Nebbish running the gauntlet of braying, antisemitic progressives, et al., to deal with this.
Bibi is a Sabra who, despite a splendid academic stint at MIT, did not fall prey to the mind-numbing absurdity of American Jewish secular progressivism. However, he must certainly be aware of the danger it poses to Israel and American Jews in the face of rising antisemitism, here and abroad. He is unlikely to fall into a Biden-Harris stupidity trap.
"If it was proper to engage in the bold strategy to displace him as her party's candidate, why is it acceptable to stand by and do nothing when you are the one with the power to oust him from the presidency?"
She doesn't have that power alone. Needs the Cabinet. Then needs two-thirds of the Congress.
If this failed in Congress after an initial removal then the mess would be real and spectacular.
"Biden" is a collective noun, referring to the members of the administration who are involved in any matter. "Biden" probably has to work around things that the flesh and blood Joe Biden says and does. When "Biden" is yelling at Netanyahu, the phone may not even be connected.
Is Netanyahu the tough, hard-nosed, bare-knuckles, bull in a china shop guy we hear about, or is he a fragile, easily bruised, wilting flower? If he's such a tough guy, he's more likely to ride roughshod over other people's sensibilities than to have others do the same to him. He cast at least as much shade on Obama and Biden as they did on him. Bibi plays hardball and shouldn't complain if some people think others are doing the same. He probably doesn't complain. He's busy working to get what he wants done and not bothering with what other people think of him.
Bill Clinton tried that in 2000, with better prospects for success. Until Arafat walked away.
Anyone who thinks Biden has been president since the day of his inauguration is an idiot or lying. He has been a dementia patient of increasingly severe mental degradation since well before the campaign of 2020, and people including me noted that here at the time. I'm sure we've had "machine politics" before in the US, but this presidency beats all that by miles of undemocratic behavior by the "administration" that runs Joe.
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