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A very beautiful, moving speech and I'm still just a sm. bit teary eyed. Although I have great confidence in VP Harris, I will miss Pres. Biden. He has given of himself for so long and I have been so 'safe' and 'secure' and I will miss the homey touches he gave the WH and his malarkeys' too.

Maria Shriver just posted this:

President @joebiden ’s speech was beautiful, moving, and inspiring. Now he leaves it up to the people to take it from here. He reminds us that our country is bigger than all of us and leaves us with a challenge: What do we do with this moment? How are we going to behave? He puts the challenge in our laps. He leaves it up to us to decide which direction we want to take. He is asking us what we still believe America is, what it can be , and what matters to us now as we move forward? It’s worth noting how different men with power behave. President Biden has all the power in the world and here he is giving it up. He’s passing it on for what he believes is in the best interest of the country. He’s reminding us what strong, brave men do. #abovethenoise

It’s beyond hypocritical and a little bizarre. Usha’s mother is a molecular biologist and a provost at UC San Diego 🤦🏻‍♀️. What on earth are these people thinking???

Exbrnxgrl, not surprised about your Spanish knowledge. I hate to admit I lived in California for 25 years, and still need help ALL the time with Spanish. I believe you hit the nail on the head where Pres. Biden is concerned. I think the lesson for some would be don't mess with someone who has spent the major part of his existence in politics. I'm amazed that it was so easy to take advantage of them in a perfectly above-board way. Then again, Kool-Aid does do strange things to a person's mentality. I do think Republicans had some at one time. There are a few that still do but most of the time they have to remain quiet and in the background.

I'm glad that our President knew what to do and when to do it. I do believe it has had a most outstanding result and while there are a couple who like to think this is a temporary 'honeymoon' period for VP Harris as she transitions, I have some doubts. about that. There are those who are nowhere near ready to give her much credit, but people on our side (and oh those irate women who are so disgustingly tired and fed up with Reps. and Trump) will be in full force keeping the sins on the right front and center adding more fuel all the time till the election. I think the right (insisting on having to have Trump at any cost) will find that wanting votes bad enough to keep that albatross around their necks was the biggest mistake they ever made.

I do expect polls to settle down some, but not to giving Trump a lead unless they do their little trick of finding an outlier poll. I think we are going to be just fine.

Though I am not childless and I have bad cat allergies, I am tempted to adopt a kitty (but a little chihuahua just gave me the stink eye).