February 10, 2024

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A Roundup of the dust up from the Hur Report.

First, all about Special Counsel Robert Hur aka Comey 2.

Then, many, many weigh in.

From the Vice President.

Vice President Harris was twice elected Attorney General of the State of California, The California Department of Justice is the largest state Department of Justice in the country - 2nd only to the federal Department of Justice.

She has been around the DOJ block.

From Vice President Harris: President Biden has been in front of it all. Leading. Directing. The way that his demeanor in that report was characterized could not be more wrong on the facts. It was clearly politically motivated, gratuitous. We should expect a higher level of integrity.

Touch 👇 to watch the Vice President.

A reminder of what General Milley has said about the President.

Touch to watch. 👇

From Paul Krugman. Nobel Prize Economist .New York Times.

The Disgusting Furor Over Biden’s Age

When the news broke about the special counsel’s hit job — his snide, unwarranted, obviously politically motivated slurs about President Biden’s memory — I found myself thinking about my mother. What year did she die? It turned out that I didn’t know offhand; I knew that it was after I moved from Princeton to CUNY, because I was regularly commuting out to New Jersey to see her, but before the pandemic. I actually had to look into my records to confirm that she died in 2017.

I’ll bet that many readers are similarly vague about the dates of major life events. You remember the circumstances but not necessarily the precise year. And whatever you think of me, I’m pretty sure I don’t write or sound like an old man. The idea that Biden’s difficulty in pinning down the year of his son’s death shows his incapacity — in the middle of the Gaza crisis! — is disgusting.

As it happens, I had an hourlong off-the-record meeting with Biden in August. I can’t talk about the content, but I can assure you that he’s perfectly lucid, with a good grasp of events. And outside of that personal experience, on several occasions when I thought he was making a serious misjudgment — like his handling of the debt ceiling crisis — he was right, and I was wrong.

And my God, consider his opponent. When I listen to Donald Trump’s speeches, I find myself thinking about my father, who died in 2013 (something else I had to look up). During his last year my father suffered from sundowning: He was lucid during the day but would sometimes become incoherent and aggressive after dark. If we’re going to be doing amateur psychological diagnoses of elderly politicians, shouldn’t we be talking about a candidate who has confused Nikki Haley with Nancy Pelosi and whose ranting and raving sometimes reminds me of my father on a bad evening?

So to everyone who’s piling on Biden right now, stop and look in the mirror. And ask yourself what you are doing.

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Summary. Remember - while we wish the Hur Report and its snide and inappropriate commentary on the President’s mental state hadn’t happened, we have 268 days to November 5th, 2024.

Lethe is the true god of Americans, leading inevitably to national forgetfulness. The 24-hour news cycle is her favorite child. Robert Hur has his 15 minutes of fame. You likely won’t remember his name by the time of Biden’s second inaugural.

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Now, a little hard news.

Biden sending CIA chief to Egypt in latest push for Gaza hostage deal.

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See you tomorrow.

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