{"id":57575,"date":"2024-09-20T00:21:51","date_gmt":"2024-09-20T00:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=57575"},"modified":"2024-09-20T00:25:11","modified_gmt":"2024-09-20T00:25:11","slug":"greatest-selfless-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=57575","title":{"rendered":"‘Greatest selfless act’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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George Clooney is known for a lot of things: accomplished actor and filmmaker, bona fide “hunk,” noted family man in an industry not known for such a lifestyle.<\/p>\n

Political scholarship doesn’t come to mind when I think of George Clooney.<\/p>\n

Yet the actor has offered what I believe is a spot-on critique of President Biden when he calls the president’s decision to step down from his re-election campaign the “greatest selfless act” perhaps since the time George Washington decided that two terms as POTUS was enough.<\/p>\n

Biden’s withdrawal from the campaign and his endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris is the rarest of all acts, given that Biden surrendered the enormous power he possessed as POTUS.<\/p>\n

That act of selflessness is going to ensure, in my mind, historians’ verdict on Biden’s presidency and his willingness to surrender the power that goes with occupying it.<\/p>\n

Biden did not want to step aside after that debate performance that prompted the tongue-wagging that questioned his mental acuity. He faced enormous pressure from Democrats, his friends and allies … and from George Clooney, whose op-ed column in the New York Times shook the political world at its core.<\/p>\n

It is President Biden, though, who deserves the bouquet, as his decision to surrender power well might save this country from madness and mayhem.<\/p>\n\n

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