Rep Swalwell: "Trump is incapable of handling a bad day, let alone a protracted pandemic."

[kpete]

“This country is re-learning what it understood during the Cold War — we don’t elect presidents for the good days, we elect them to handle the bad days. Donald Trump is incapable of handling a bad day, let alone a protracted pandemic.”

— Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA), quoted by NBC News.


https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/two-months-trump-s-coronavirus-response-creates-more-chaos-n1176986?cid=public-rss_20200405

[malaise]

1. Get thee to the greatest page

RFN!!

[ck4829]

2. "We don't elect presidents for the good days". Yep, Trump was elected by people with issues like...

"Why do I have to press 1 for English?!"
"Why did that cashier say 'Happy Holidays' to me and not 'Merry Christmas' like how I wanted to hear?!"
"Why can't *I* say the n-word?!"

I'm shocked that a president elected based on an agenda with these as VITAL ISSUES can't handle a measly little virus.

Shocked.

[CrispyQ]

3. I sure like Swallwell.

[leftieNanner]

4. Me too!

He has a very bright future!

[smirkymonkey]

6. I really like him as well.

It seems like we have so many great Democratic politicians - Senators, Reps, Governors, Mayors - yet we could not come up with a very good selection for a presidential candidate this time around. Of course I will enthusiastically support Biden, but there are so many others out there who are younger, charismatic, competent and promising.

[CrispyQ]

7. I think we have a terrific field of younger, fired up dem leaders!

I will also enthusiastically support Biden and agree it would have been nice to see someone younger as our candidate. IMO, the old guard has too much history with the old republican party and I'm not sure they see their colleagues across the aisle as the right wing extremists that they've become. When Biden commented that he would work with repubs it left me wondering if he sees the repub party for what it was 40-50 years ago, not what it has become. They aren't going to work with Biden or any other dem prez any better than they did with Obama.

[SheltieLover]

5. K&R

[Strelnikov_]

8. What I have been telling people for years

That I hire presidents on a cold war basis. Not based on what they promise, but how they will handle the unexpected (low-probability) crises.