Brooks and Capehart from April 28, 2023

 

The First Ad of the Biden/Harris Reelection Campaign Frames What 2024 Should be About: Freedom, Democracy, and America

From Bloomberg.

In the first ad for the Biden/Harris Reelection campaign called "Flag," the President, Vice President, and their teams have ably framed what the 2024 election will be about:

"Freedom, Democracy, America."

Honestly, the Reagan people could have produced this ad.

The first part of the ad is partially reminiscent of the famed 1984 Reagan/Bush "Morning in America" ad with the sun rising in American suburbia and children posting the American flag on their homes.

The narrator then relays what the American flag symbolizes:

"Courage, opportunity, democracy, freedom: they’re the values and beliefs that built this country and still beat in our hearts."

The ad and narrator then pivot with the attack on the very things the flag symbolizes, including video clips of the January 6 Domestic Terrorist Attack on the Nation's Capitol, stating:

"But they're under attack by an extreme movement that seeks to overturn elections, ban books, and eliminate a woman's right to choose."

The narrator then describes President Biden's views and actions during his and Vice President Harris's Administration, relaying:

"Joe Biden has made defending our basic freedoms the cause of his presidency: the freedom for women to make their own health care decisions, the freedom for our children to be safe from gun violence, the freedom to vote and have your vote counted, for seniors to live with dignity, and to give every American the freedom that comes with a fair shot at building a good life."

The ad, with pictures of the American landscape and a cross-section of the country's populace,  then says that President Biden will not stop fighting for the ideals the American Flag represents, offering:

"In small towns and big cities, we raise our heads, our eyes, our hearts, for America – for the idea of this great country. Joe Biden is running for re-election to make certain that the sun will not set on this flag. The promise of American democracy will not break.”

The ad then shows a clip of President Biden speaking from this year's State of the Union, saying:  “Democracy must not be a partisan issue. It's an American issue. As your president, I will defend our democracy with every fiber of my being and I'm asking every American to join me.”

The ad concludes with:

“For freedom, for democracy, for America – Joe Biden.”

One can not imagine Donald Trump, Ron DeSantis, or any of the other MAGA-extremist contenders, with their positions and record of Ant-Democracy, Anti-Reproductive Freedom, Anti-LGBTQ Community, Anti-Historical and Scientific Literacy, Anti Middle-Class Economy, and Anti Environment being credible or believed on any of the themes conveyed in the first Biden/Harris ad for the 2024 campaign.

 

 

 

President Biden Should Not Negotiate with MAGA Terrorists

 The Maga Extremist-Terrorists in the House of Representatives (officially known as the Republican Party) have passed on a 217 to 215 vote a Debt Limit increase with massive strings attached including:

• Repealing many of the Inflation Reduction Acts Clean Energy and Combatting Adverse Environmental Change provisions.
• Taking away the Internal Revenue Service increased enforcement tools against tax cheats.
• Stopping President Biden from forgiving $10,000 in student loans for qualifying individuals.
• Cutting nondefense spending to 2022 levels and restricting its growth to one percent a year.
• Imposing increased work requirements on future welfare and SNAP recipients.

Voters should ask the question. Why do Republicans put debt limit increase conditions when a Democrat is in the White House and not when their own leaders (Reagan, Bush I, Bush II, and Trump) are in office.

All Democrats and four Republicans did not support the draconian measure.

Sadly, the four Republicans that voted against the bill (including MAGA Extremist leaders Andy Biggs and Matt Gaetz) did so because they felt the legislation was not terrifying enough.

Speaker Kevin, it took me 15 rounds, McCarthy told his MAGA colleagues that passage of this bill would get him a place at the negotiating table.

President Biden already has an answer for that and he has repeated it several times.

NO WAY.

The President said it again at the end of a press conference with the President of South Korea.

"I'm happy to meet with McCarthy but not on whether or not the debt limit gets extended. That's not negotiable. I notice they quote Reagan...they quote Reagan all the time and they quote Trump, both of which said I'm paraphrasing, 'it would be an absolute crime to not extend the debt limit."

President Biden is right.

The country's leaders do not negotiate with terrorist hostage takers and pay a ransom.

They should not negotiate with the domestic ones (many of whom were willing enablers of the January 6, 2021, terrorist attack on the Nation's Capitol) as they hold the full faith and credit of the United States hostage.

Pass a clean debt ceiling limit increase bill like they did under Republican Presidents and negotiate on the budget.

That is what public servants on both sides are supposed to do.

We have seen this movie before in the Clinton and Obama Administrations.

Fast forward and everyone knows which political party will get the blame for tanking the economy if they do not get serious about governing.

Newsflash: It will not be the Democrats.

Check out President Biden's Video announcing his and Vice President Harris's Reelection Campaign.

 

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