Today, July 20 President Biden has served 18 full months in office, a far cry from the 48 months he was elected to serve. Yet, the news media in general and the so called conservative media in particular are trying their best to plant the seed that Biden will be too old to seek a second term and are trying to figure out what democrat will step forward to replace the President as the nominee for 2024. Some has suggested that the President announce his intentions now even though Biden has said he would run for re-election.
Now comes two commentaries published in the New Orleans Advocate dated 7/15 and 7/18 by Steve Roberts and Ron Faucheux who basically ask the question, "what democrat will replace President Biden in 2024." They name several democrats as possible candidates. But the story unfolding is an indication how the media is broken when there are so many other important issues to talk about. The idea of being so negative about the President when he still has 30 months left to serve demonstrates how low the media has fallen. It's an attempt to make Biden a "lame duck President." A cliche festered by politics and the media.
Both Roberts and Faucheux make note of Biden's low poll numbers like the election is next month and the President cannot recover. But neither one mentioned that recent polls concerning the media are less favorable to the media than the President. One would think that Roberts and Faucheux could find something positive to comment on like the economy for the last 17 months. Taking a shot at the President and what democrat may or may not replace him this early in the President's administration is childish, unproductive and destabilizing. Time itself will work things out.
As this writer said in previous Politidose commentary, the President will not seek re-election and listed the reasons why and hopefully will not make the announcement until January 2024. That will be time enough for any democrat who has character, courage and is worth his salt to enter the race at a time of his own choice. As for the negative noise media, they made the choice to be negative early on and at the same time when their fellow opinion writers are predicting doom and gloom for the economy, recession and all sorts of negative comments about the administration, The negative voices seem to be following the Trump/GOP play book.
This commentary written by Joe Lorio
