{"id":29679,"date":"2020-03-11T15:49:13","date_gmt":"2020-03-11T20:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=29679"},"modified":"2020-03-11T16:06:25","modified_gmt":"2020-03-11T21:06:25","slug":"back-in-the-saddle-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=29679","title":{"rendered":"Back in the Saddle again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So to speak. I posted twice from Arizona while I was away. It was a good vacation. Actually it was a good second vacation as I returned from a short Disney cruise one week earlier. Having posted very little for the past few weeks I&#8217;m please my eight loyal readers kept visiting despite having so little fresh food at my blog buffet.<\/p>\n<p>I finished my Not Eudora column on the flight home last night and bent over backwards to get its sent to the Reader for this week&#8217;s issue. I scarcely had the bandwith at O&#8217;Hare field to get it sent then had to send some corrections afterward. As promised earlier its titled <strong>Arizona Highways<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>At noon today I dropped by the now silent Duluth offices of Bloomberg&#8217;s campaign to express my gratitude to Josh and Nicole for their part in moving the primary season into the hands of someone poised to give Trump a run for his money. They were however gone. And from what I&#8217;ve read in the news, they were dropped a little unceremoniously from the campaign by Mr. Bloomberg against the expectations that they and other Bloomberg staffers had a guaranteed job harrying Trump until November. <\/p>\n<p>Now that my vacations are over I intend, once again, to begin writing books. Oh Harry. Please don&#8217;t disappoint yourself again. Get to work. <\/p>\n<p>I kept up with the news all the way through Arizona and it will be hard to tear myself away to write. Even the blog beckons. I&#8217;m discomfited by all the trolling of Democrats in Facebook. Trump loons and Ruskie trolls have perfected their primary work of pissing off Democrats. I suspect half of the apparent Bernie lovers are fakes but real ones not Trump&#8217;s Fake News fakes.<\/p>\n<p>Among the latest tactics is to assure Biden supporters that Biden has lost it and is in full blown dementia. One such post ended with the oblique comment &#8220;What would Eugene V. Debs do?&#8221;  I&#8217;m sorry but mentioning the imprisoned socialist who got a million votes for President in 1916 while in jail is just the sort of smart-ass comment a recent college poly sci drop out would throw around. A true Bernie supporter could give a damn about that factoid.<\/p>\n<p>At any rate I&#8217;ll offer up my Facebook comment on the subject of Biden&#8217;s alleged unfitness for the Presidency, to wit:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Winston Churchill may never have said this but I have always liked this quote attributed to him. &#8220;Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing\u2026after they have exhausted all other possibilities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m for the failing Biden. He should lead us back from the abyss over 4 years before winking out. Does America need a shot of Sanders. You betcha it does. Its 50 years overdue. But lots of things take time. Black voters who are still decades away from being treated as equals and a century away from overcoming 400 years worth of disadvantages collectively understand this. Four more years of Trump is their biggest impediment. America was hardly ready for a black President. Apparently Americans still would prefer a rat bastard to a socialist. I don&#8217;t like it either but don&#8217;t think I am an idiot for understanding this ridiculous morass and acting rationally in supporting Biden.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To which yet another troll exulted in Biden&#8217;s dementia. I added this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>BTW &#8211; Ronald Reagan was showing serious signs of a confused intellect in his last term as president and it was a great success. More so than his first term.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Reagan was a real President who did his best to be everybody&#8217;s President even if you didn&#8217;t care for his priorities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So to speak. I posted twice from Arizona while I was away. It was a good vacation. 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