Well, now, there's a hell of a split screen image in this election year!
Trump goes to the wake of a murdered police officer, and at the same time, nearby, Biden holds the biggest campaign fundraiser of all time ever. To carry that off, he needed Obama to lend his crowd appeal, and even brought in Bill Clinton as a chick magnet.
Meanwhile, Trump paid off the mortgage on the NYPD widow's home and started an education fund for her one year-old child.
Even mainstream news media are framing that as a side-by-side contrast.
Did the political geniuses on Biden's reelection campaign team think that would be a good idea? Biden must have. C'mon Man!©, stop the malarky and ask yourself why your poll numbers are dragging on the ground.
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You would think the Biden team would be very aware of optics.
Whoever on his team green-lighted that event ought to be reassigned to something he can handle, like maybe walking Biden's dog.
Biden was yucking it up with some D-list celebrities and that lady who is famous for being fat - Liz something? - while pocketing $26 million from rich donors who paid six figures for a photo with Obama.
Trump was a much-appreciated mourner at a police officer's wake - one that organizers asked the soft-on-crime Governor of New York to leave - and made a strong impression on the officers, union leaders, and elected officials who were present. The atmosphere was 'today we mourn; tomorrow we go to work brining sanity and order back to the city.'
That's a perfect illustration of what even CBS News called "the two Americas." Nobody in the glitzy crowd of 5,000 at Radio City Music Hall knows any of the cops and firefighters at that other event in suburban Massapequa. They happened in two different worlds.
There are true believers in this and they believe in the righteous of their cause. It's become religious to them, even death would be good in this cause.
"True Believer." That's my first or second most favorite book. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_True_Believer
If you've never read it, you should. Published in 1951, written by a longshoreman, Eisenhower loved it, as did the CIA in that era where it was required reading for those working on the overthrow of the Iranian government.
There's still nothing better at describing the appeal of fanaticism.
One of my favorites:https://youtu.be/lErlHLCNM_s?si=5uWpkR61TR6RR3su
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