slightly resembling that weird period of fuzzy messaging during Clinton’s political impotence following the 1994 elections —

Your “aw” Biden story of the day.

On their first overseas trip since her husband Joe became president, U.S. First Lady Jill Biden had a simple message for the world emblazoned across the back of her jacket: “LOVE”.

“Well, I think that we’re bringing love from America,” said Biden of her black blazer with the word etched in large print on the back.

Last we checked in the realm of sentimental symbolism Joseph was handing her a dandelion. Not being a romantic, I scratched my head on that one — aren’t dandelions considered weeds?

Lest the article drop historical perspective — we gots this.

Jill Biden is not the first U.S. president’s wife to use a jacket to convey a message. Donald Trump’s wife Melania donned a coat with the words “I really don’t care, do u?” for a visit to a Texas shelter housing migrant children in 2018.

In a game of political inches based off of automatic partisan hatred*, and where the grand branding of “Transformational New FDR'” branding attempts crashes against the limitations of 50 – 50 Congresses and the electoral vantage of that which brung him here — a hodge podge of weary anti Trump anti Bernie sanity establishment seekers —

And I fail to understand Tom Perriello’s point on Joe Manchin. Man chin is not Per risk low is working off of his own damned principles — and that par for the course lightning rod role someone like Joseph Lieberman once played to spare someone like Senator Hillary Clinton.

But we can huddle into culture war debris and sticking messages of “love” on the back of jackets.

Come to think of it, Melanie Trump’s jacket message served the same branding symbolism purpose — a post modern “It’s all a game” meta narrative.

  • on what is false and real equivalence in partisan attitudes toward Obama and Biden on one hand Trump on the other — the “economic up / down” feeling is a real equivalence; the “shaking foundation of democracy” is a false equivalence.

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