EARTHMUSE
It isn't "pride." Biden is just as concerned as you are about Trump. Biden has spent his whole political career making America the envy of the world. Now he's confronted with this diabolical scheme to throw it all down the drain. I'm sure he wishes he was younger, too.
Truth is, we don't have any other choice. At least noone with the name recognition and list of accomplishments that Democrats brings to the table. It's too late for somebody to jump into the race and expect to survive Trump's onslaught. It's too late for somebody to generate the vast amount of money to run a campaign. It's too late for somebody to nail down the electors in swing states; too late to expect that a relative unknown can earn the bloc votes of blacks, women, students, Hispanics and Independents needed to win an election. And it's too late to expect another candidate to have Biden foreign policy chops with other world leaders.
So I look at it this way. Yes, I know that Joe Biden might not be able to finish out his term. It would be naive to think otherwise. But the worst thing that could happen is that Vice President Kamelia Harris steps into his shoes and brings all of Biden's gravatas with her.
The bottom line is: The Trump alternative is unthinkable.
"I've been trying to track down the governor to see -- I don't have any authority to do that [release federal aid] without a specific request from the governor," Biden said.
I take it Gov. Abbott forgot to leave a phone number where he could be reached in case of an emergency.
Although having lived through every hurricane in Florida since 1968, I can hardly call a Cat 1 an emergency.
Maybe Texas' problem is that they haven't fix the problem from the previous 4 or 5 hurricanes. The problems just keep piling up on top one another.