By Judi McLeod ——Bio and Archives--September 29, 2020
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“Representatives for President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden have hammered out the final details for Tuesday’s debate, a showdown that will be heavily shaped by the coronavirus pandemic. “The two candidates and moderator Chris Wallace will not wear masks at Tuesday's debate, per final negotiations between the campaigns.Since none of the above really wanted to wear a mask anyway, how much negotiation would have been required?
“The two sides have decided to forego the traditional pre-debate handshake in light of the virus, according to a person with direct knowledge of the negotiations. They also won’t do an elbow-bump, a coronavirus-era handshake substitute which both campaigns saw as awkward.”(Politico)Awkward for everyone other than the scare mongers who recommend it for the hapless masses, that is.
“And unlike past presidential debates, there will be a limited audience of only 75 to 80 people, all of whom will be tested prior to attending the debate, which will be held on the campus of the Cleveland Clinic and Case Western Reserve University. (Politico)“In another concession to the pandemic, there will not be a post-debate spin room, either. Rather, media outlets will have to schedule interviews with surrogates for the campaigns.
“After a coin flip, it was determined that the first question of the 90-minute showdown will go to Trump. The president will stand to the right and Biden to the left.”
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“Former Obama National Security Advisor Susan Rice said on Monday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “All In” that President Donald Trump had “refused to understand the world that we live in, the nature of the threats we face.” “She cited the coronavirus pandemic. “Rice said, “I think American voters who are focussed on our international standing have to be extraordinarily dismayed. Poll after poll shows that our allies don’t trust us, that our confidence and approval of the people is in the gutter. And, yet, more importantly, we are not seeing out of the president the leadership that we need to keep us safe. “National security is about keeping the American people safe, and we have lost over 200,000 Americans to COVID-19. The vast majority of whom we have lost in substantial measure because the president of the United States has failed in his leadership. He’s lied to the American people about the virus in its severity, and he has done very little to nothing to have a plan to get ahead of this. We still don’t have testing straight. We still don’t have preparations in place for when flu (is) converging with COVID. “Our kids aren’t in school, and our economy has suffered with 30 million Americans out of work. That is failed leadership, and that is a national security concern as it even overlaps with the domestic simultaneously.” “…Rice said, “It’s been a while since we’ve had traditionalist old school conceptions of national security. Certainly, in the Obama administration, we understood the threat of pandemic disease to be a very serious national security threat. We learned that through the HINI, before Ebola. They had dealt with a major flu global pandemic and, you know, issues like disease, like climate change like proliferation, these challenges that don’t respect borders, that may not come in the form of a barrel of a gun pointed at us by a hostile adversary, they’re still national security threats. And one of the big problems with President Trump is he has refused to understand the world that we live in, the nature of the threats we face and done nothing, absolutely nothing when it comes to defending us.”
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