Sweet dreams Professor and all who walk the bridge to Truth and Justice. Today’s image, a stone bridge over still water, reminds me of working together, collaboration. Martin Luther King: “Let’s build bridges, not walls.” Isn’t that what we witnessed with the debt ceiling agreement? President Biden is the shining star of bridge building.…
Sweet dreams Professor and all who walk the bridge to Truth and Justice. Today’s image, a stone bridge over still water, reminds me of working together, collaboration. Martin Luther King: “Let’s build bridges, not walls.” Isn’t that what we witnessed with the debt ceiling agreement? President Biden is the shining star of bridge building. He may be criticized for an imperfect agreement, too much, not enough, not standing up, or standing too long. He knows the process. President Biden, Oval Office, June 2, 2023: “Look, the only way American Democracy can function is through compromise and consensus, and that’s what I worked to do as your President- you know, to forge a bipartisan agreement where it’s possible and where it’s needed.”
Irenie, so well-stated! Nobody is perfect but but Biden stands for the preservation of our democracy and doing the things to help this country move forward in a functional V dysfunctional way. He was/is the person we needed for this moment in American history.
I am from Carbondale,Pa. just a few miles east of Scranton.That area has a mix of people from many different ethnic and religious backgrounds and politics was an active and not always pleasant sport. Yet the neighborhoods ,for a while, found a way to make it all work .Our community benefited .My friends were first to be born in the USA. Having a Lebanese Catholic father who was born in Scranton and a German Presbyterian mother born in Brooklyn and raised in Queens meant that my brothers and I were different as most all of our friends from the neighborhood and grade school were either Irish Catholic or Italian Catholic on both sides of their families. Also many Jewish and Eastern European. And yet I felt such kindness and love and acceptance.
I know Joe Biden left Scranton when he was 13. But by that age your community pretty much makes its mark on who you are. Active compromise and fellowship gets things done to benefit the general community. Biden is a fighter and sometimes full of malarkey but he is a decent man and skilled politician.
Coming from the hard coal region of northeastern Pa. I hang on to what I can be proud of. Joe Biden is on that list along with Jason Miller, The Bouys and of course Edith Bunker’s cousin and Dunder Mifflin(sp?)
"Biden is a fighter and sometimes full of malarkey but he is a decent man and skilled politician." Thanks, GJay. This is just what I was thinking. Must be Irish malarky coming from him - he's so proud of that heritage. I'm really impressed with how he has almost eliminated his smartalec remarks but still let's his humor show in other ways. He's got control of his faculties, regardless of what the opposition likes to broadcast.
Sweet dreams Professor and all who walk the bridge to Truth and Justice. Today’s image, a stone bridge over still water, reminds me of working together, collaboration. Martin Luther King: “Let’s build bridges, not walls.” Isn’t that what we witnessed with the debt ceiling agreement? President Biden is the shining star of bridge building. He may be criticized for an imperfect agreement, too much, not enough, not standing up, or standing too long. He knows the process. President Biden, Oval Office, June 2, 2023: “Look, the only way American Democracy can function is through compromise and consensus, and that’s what I worked to do as your President- you know, to forge a bipartisan agreement where it’s possible and where it’s needed.”
Irenie, so well-stated! Nobody is perfect but but Biden stands for the preservation of our democracy and doing the things to help this country move forward in a functional V dysfunctional way. He was/is the person we needed for this moment in American history.
Irenie you summed it up beautifully. Thank you.
I am from Carbondale,Pa. just a few miles east of Scranton.That area has a mix of people from many different ethnic and religious backgrounds and politics was an active and not always pleasant sport. Yet the neighborhoods ,for a while, found a way to make it all work .Our community benefited .My friends were first to be born in the USA. Having a Lebanese Catholic father who was born in Scranton and a German Presbyterian mother born in Brooklyn and raised in Queens meant that my brothers and I were different as most all of our friends from the neighborhood and grade school were either Irish Catholic or Italian Catholic on both sides of their families. Also many Jewish and Eastern European. And yet I felt such kindness and love and acceptance.
I know Joe Biden left Scranton when he was 13. But by that age your community pretty much makes its mark on who you are. Active compromise and fellowship gets things done to benefit the general community. Biden is a fighter and sometimes full of malarkey but he is a decent man and skilled politician.
Coming from the hard coal region of northeastern Pa. I hang on to what I can be proud of. Joe Biden is on that list along with Jason Miller, The Bouys and of course Edith Bunker’s cousin and Dunder Mifflin(sp?)
"Biden is a fighter and sometimes full of malarkey but he is a decent man and skilled politician." Thanks, GJay. This is just what I was thinking. Must be Irish malarky coming from him - he's so proud of that heritage. I'm really impressed with how he has almost eliminated his smartalec remarks but still let's his humor show in other ways. He's got control of his faculties, regardless of what the opposition likes to broadcast.
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