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lees1975

(7,046 posts)
Sun May 1, 2022, 10:56 PM May 2022

We have an awesome Presidency, and an awesome President and he was on display last night

at the White House Correspondents Dinner.

https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2022/05/the-white-house-correspondents-dinner.html

First of all, he showed up. His predecessor's temperament would have never been able to take the atmosphere. Nor would his view of the media's role have permitted him to make jokes and spend a lighthearted, entertaining evening with people he clearly looked down on and despised. And the feeling was mutual, which most definitely would have darkened the atmosphere.

But President Biden was as comfortable and natural in that setting, as any President who understands what constitutionally guaranteed free press means, supports it, and who does not interfere with them. That's the way it should always be, regardless of who is in the White House. And for the first time since President Obama left office, freedom of the press was on public display in the quirky kind of way that it happens at this particular event.

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We have an awesome Presidency, and an awesome President and he was on display last night (Original Post) lees1975 May 2022 OP
K&R Demovictory9 May 2022 #1
K&R Blue Owl May 2022 #2
K&R Stuart G May 2022 #3
Definitely K&R! calimary May 2022 #4
i'm watching it now. MoJoe is so good! Love the comedic lines, but more so love the empathy included onetexan May 2022 #5

calimary

(90,017 posts)
4. Definitely K&R!
Mon May 2, 2022, 04:10 PM
May 2022

I think he’s terrific. Even more so than I did, before. Man enough, and stable, secure, mature, and well-adjusted enough to laugh at ALL the jokes, even the ones poking fun at him! Good grief, what an improvement!!!

Chicken-donald couldn’t even weather good-natured kidding. Had to hide himself away for all those years! What a pathetic pansy-ass.

LOSER!

onetexan

(13,913 posts)
5. i'm watching it now. MoJoe is so good! Love the comedic lines, but more so love the empathy included
Mon May 2, 2022, 04:46 PM
May 2022

twds the tail end of the speech. This is what a president should sound like, not a conman who can't string 2 sentences together.

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