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highplainsdem

(49,004 posts) Thu Dec 14, 2017, 09:41 AM Dec 2017

Tribe: We need Joe Biden "as Leader in Chief. Maybe as POTUS but, at the very least, as LOTUS"

Laurence Tribe, tweeting about Joe Biden comforting Meghan McCain yesterday:

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This is the @JoeBiden I know and love, the Joe Biden we need as Leader in Chief. Maybe as POTUS but, at the very least, as LOTUS, Leader of the United States.

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Tribe: We need Joe Biden "as Leader in Chief. Maybe as POTUS but, at the very least, as LOTUS" (Original Post) highplainsdem Dec 2017 OP

One of Dad's many complaints about how we do things in the U.S.A. was TexasProgresive Dec 2017 #1

I would support Joe if he ran Gothmog Dec 2017 #2

TexasProgresive

(12,157 posts)

1. One of Dad's many complaints about how we do things in the U.S.A. was

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Thu Dec 14, 2017, 09:57 AM

Dec 2017

We have no elder statesmen (should I write statespersons?) After someone has left the White House they just sort of melt into obscurity. You can see that in our surviving presidents. They may do great things like Mr. Carter but even he refrains from making any kind of real political difference.

Gothmog

(145,321 posts)

2. I would support Joe if he ran

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Thu Dec 14, 2017, 02:35 PM

Dec 2017

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