....what a real POTUS does and says:

(CNN) One of the great tragedies of the past year, as some 400,000
Americans lost their lives to Covid-19, was not only that many victims
died alone -- their loved ones robbed of the chance to say goodbye --
but that the pain of that loss was whitewashed by a President who chose
to minimize and deny it.

In a somber ceremony at the Lincoln Memorial on Tuesday night that was
his first stop in Washington, President-elect Joe Biden signaled that
honoring that grief and the terrible toll of the last year would be at
the very heart of his administration. Elected because of his empathy and
his compassion for Americans, who are suffering through a confluence of
crises that have created a time of great uncertainty, Biden spoke just a
few words as the sun set over the National Mall, casting a rosy glow in
the twilight.

The President-elect told Americans he shared in their grief -- with his
own understanding deepened by the loss of his first wife and daughter in
a car accident as a young man and the loss of his son Beau to cancer at
the age of 46.

"It's hard sometimes to remember, but that's how we heal. It's important
to do that as a nation," Biden said in brief remarks before 400 lights
were illuminated along the edges of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting
Pool, marking the more than 400,000 Americans who have died from Covid-19.

He and his wife, Jill Biden, watched in silence, alongside Vice
President-elect Kamala Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff, as the
reflections of the lights glimmered in the water. Hundreds of towns,
cities and communities across the country joined in the tribute,
lighting up buildings from the Empire State Building in New York to the
Space Needle in Seattle. Cardinal Wilton Gregory, the archbishop of
Washington, delivered the invocation and gospel singer Yolanda Adams
performed "Hallelujah" after Biden spoke.

Harris spoke briefly at the memorial, noting that "for many months, we
have grieved by ourselves. Tonight, we grieve and begin healing together."

"Though we may be physically separated, we, the American people, are
united in spirit and my abiding hope, my abiding prayer, is that we
emerge from this ordeal with a new wisdom: to cherish simple moments, to
imagine new possibilities and to open our hearts just a little bit more
to one another," Harris said.

from CNN

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On Tue, 19 Jan 2021 20:54:43 -0500, Keyser Söze
wrote:

...what a real POTUS does and says:

(CNN) One of the great tragedies of the past year, as some 400,000
Americans lost their lives to Covid-19, was not only that many victims
died alone -- their loved ones robbed of the chance to say goodbye --
but that the pain of that loss was whitewashed by a President who chose
to minimize and deny it.

In a somber ceremony at the Lincoln Memorial on Tuesday night that was
his first stop in Washington, President-elect Joe Biden signaled that
honoring that grief and the terrible toll of the last year would be at
the very heart of his administration. Elected because of his empathy and
his compassion for Americans, who are suffering through a confluence of
crises that have created a time of great uncertainty, Biden spoke just a
few words as the sun set over the National Mall, casting a rosy glow in
the twilight.


Much nicer that the WaPo tribute, eh?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local...ump-has-begun/

That set the tone for the media for the next four years. Wayne, do you recall
that? Wonder how long Biden would last if faced with that on a daily or hourly
basis.
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