And Biden's speech at NATO yesterday was good enough to take some heat off of him.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5553146&forum_id=2#47827395)

Mr. Clooney is an actor, director and film producer.

I’m a lifelong Democrat; I make no apologies for that. I’m proud of what my party represents and what it stands for. As part of my participation in the democratic process and in support of my chosen candidate, I have led some of the biggest fund-raisers in my party’s history. Barack Obama in 2012. Hillary Clinton in 2016. Joe Biden in 2020. Last month I co-hosted the single largest fund-raiser supporting any Democratic candidate ever, for President Biden’s re-election. I say all of this only to express how much I believe in this process and how profound I think this moment is.

I love Joe Biden. As a senator. As a vice president and as president. I consider him a friend, and I believe in him. Believe in his character. Believe in his morals. In the last four years, he’s won many of the battles he’s faced.

But the one battle he cannot win is the fight against time. None of us can. It’s devastating to say it, but the Joe Biden I was with three weeks ago at the fund-raiser was not the Joe “big F-ing deal” Biden of 2010. He wasn’t even the Joe Biden of 2020. He was the same man we all witnessed at the debate.

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Was he tired? Yes. A cold? Maybe. But our party leaders need to stop telling us that 51 million people didn’t see what we just saw. We’re all so terrified by the prospect of a second Trump term that we’ve opted to ignore every warning sign. The George Stephanopoulos interview only reinforced what we saw the week before. As Democrats, we collectively hold our breath or turn down the volume whenever we see the president, who we respect, walk off Air Force One or walk back to a mic to answer an unscripted question.

Is it fair to point these things out? It has to be. This is about age. Nothing more. But also nothing that can be reversed. We are not going to win in November with this president. On top of that, we won’t win the House, and we’re going to lose the Senate. This isn’t only my opinion; this is the opinion of every senator and congress member and governor that I’ve spoken with in private. Every single one, irrespective of what he or she is saying publicly.

We love to talk about how the Republican Party has ceded all power, and all of the traits that made it so formidable with Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, to a single person who seeks to hold on to the presidency, and yet most of our members of Congress are opting to wait and see if the dam breaks. But the dam has broken. We can put our heads in the sand and pray for a miracle in November, or we can speak the truth.

It is disingenuous, at best, to argue that Democrats have already spoken with their vote and therefore the nomination is settled and done, when we just received new and upsetting information. We all think Republicans should abandon their nominee now that he’s been convicted of 34 felonies. That’s new and upsetting information as well. Top Democrats — Chuck Schumer, Hakeem Jeffries, Nancy Pelosi — and senators, representatives and other candidates who face losing in November need to ask this president to voluntarily step aside.

All of the scary stories that we’re being told about what would happen next are simply not true. In all likelihood, the money in the Biden-Harris coffers could go to help elect the presidential ticket and other Democrats. The new nominee wouldn’t be left off ballots in Ohio. We Democrats have a very exciting bench. We don’t anoint leaders or fall sway to a cult of personality; we vote for a president. We can easily foresee a group of several strong Democrats stepping forward to stand and tell us why they’re best qualified to lead this country and take on some of the deeply concerning trends we’re seeing from the revenge tour that Donald Trump calls a presidential campaign.

Let’s hear from Wes Moore and Kamala Harris and Gretchen Whitmer and Gavin Newsom and Andy Beshear and J.B. Pritzker and others. Let’s agree that the candidates not attack one another but, in the short time we have, focus on what will make this country soar. Then we could go into the Democratic convention next month and figure it out.

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Would it be messy? Yes. Democracy is messy. But would it enliven our party and wake up voters who, long before the June debate, had already checked out? It sure would. The short ramp to Election Day would be a benefit for us, not a danger. It would give us the chance to showcase the future without so much opposition research and negative campaigning that comes with these ridiculously long and expensive election seasons. This can be an exciting time for democracy, as we’ve just seen with the 200 or so French candidates who stepped aside and put their personal ambitions on hold to save their democracy from the far right.

Joe Biden is a hero; he saved democracy in 2020. We need him to do it again in 2024.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5553146&forum_id=2#47827419)

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Biden is a low-IQ, serial liar, sexual creep, head of a grifting family of low-lifes. he and his family are currently pulling off one of the worst frauds on the public in decades.

his great achievements in all those decades in the Senate was in protecting credit card companies and sending black men to jail through what Joe called "The Biden Crime Bill." Robert Gates, deeply respected by both parties, said that Biden was on the wrong side of nearly every important policy issue for decades.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5553146&forum_id=2#47827429)

in other words, everything i said about Joe up above is true and all the bullshit that Clooney, Colin Jost, and the MSM have slathered on Biden is complete bullshit.

the truth didn't change. the only thing that changed is the tactical needs of Democrats. and so now MSM and elites are willing to acknowledge certain truths.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5553146&forum_id=2#47830507)

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Dave Rubin

@RubinReport

George Clooney had called for Biden to step down.

Will the rest of the cast of The Facts of Life have the balls to speak up?

https://x.com/RubinReport/status/1811059584502796572

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5553146&forum_id=2#47827491)

there is no chance clooney would write and publish that without Obama's ok.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5553146&forum_id=2#47827717)

Obama knew in advance of George Clooney’s bombshell call for Biden to drop out — but didn’t object

Emily Crane

Former President Barack Obama was given a heads-up but didn’t object to Oscar-winning actor George Clooney’s bombshell call for President Biden to drop out of the 2024 race, a new report says.

The Hollywood A-lister had called Obama in advance to warn him he was going to make the call in an op-ed published in the New York Times on Wednesday, sources told Politico.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5553146&forum_id=2#47830346)

Obama has declared a quiet war on Biden.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5553146&forum_id=2#47830486)

before the debate, clooney tried to call joe, had to speak to an underling and was yosemite sam fuming about the ICC stuff

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5553146&forum_id=2#47828152)

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Would it be messy? Yes.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5553146&forum_id=2#47828557)

https://x.com/anniekarni/status/1811141585142252014?s=46&t=lHi3fy4jwVfX8-181y6RRg

Biden is fighting back on Clooney.

From a source familiar with event planning: “The President stayed for over 3 hours, while Clooney took a photo quickly and left.”

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5553146&forum_id=2#47828710)