I wrote two Sunday columns for RedState last weekend. One will likely never see the light of day because of what happened to former President Donald Trump in Joe Biden’s home state of Pennsylvania.
But one of its sentences was accidentally prescient:
Don’t be surprised by anything that happens in this marathon, jumbled presidential campaign.
Last weekend’s nearly successful assassination attempt on Trump likely stunned most Americans.
But seriously surprising it wasn’t, given all the harsh rhetoric and angry accusations flying back and forth in this historic — and marathon — presidential campaign that still has about 16 percent of its two-year span to go. Ugh.
If Joe Biden was an ordinary, ornery old-timer, we might be able to skip over his extremist comments about the Republican candidate seeking to oust him from the latest of his lifetime government jobs.
The former president has resided in Biden’s addled mind for a long while. Many Democrats, too.
Biden may not be fully aware of what he’s saying, the harshness, and unpresidential tone of his words.
But that can’t be an excuse for a commander in chief, especially among a crowd of politicians who made such a big deal about Donald Trump’s “mean tweets.”
Anyway, I was struck by the president’s choice of words.
So, that’s the topic of this week’s audio commentary. Remember, please, your reactions and own commentary on the audio are welcome in the Comments section below.
The actual Sunday column that was published on my Author’s page concerned political assassinations, both successful and failed, during my decades in journalism.
It was titled “Political Assassinations I Have Known.”
I shared some interesting tales, not all of them ever told publicly before. The most direct involvement was a September day in 1975 when a woman who had gone through five husbands tried to take out Betty Ford’s husband, Gerald, the president.
It was the second assassination attempt on Ford’s life in California in only two weeks. Sometimes, that’s a dangerous place to be. Think Robert F. Kennedy, too.
Anyway, my veteran newspaper colleague Wallace Turner found out the would-be assassin’s identity almost immediately. In a few minutes, I was knocking on her landlord’s door.
I asked to see Sara Jane Moore’s apartment. He asked why.
I said, honestly, that I understood it might be vacant soon. He let me in. You can read the rest here, along with some fascinating details on other tales of attempted murder.
Did you know an assassin tried to kill Teddy Roosevelt in the same city where Republicans nominated Trump this week? It didn’t kill Roosevelt, the Rough Rider, who went on to deliver his 50-page speech anyway. While advising the angry crowd not to lynch his assailant.
Speaking of political conventions, earlier this week I posted another in the ongoing series of my personal Memories, this one recalling the party conventions I have attended in pretty much every capacity you might imagine.
The most recent audio commentary looked at the least-examined question about Joe Biden and our array of elected leaders among the countless topics being discussed and bandied about since his disastrous debate performance in June.
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