The Soldier and the Flack

Rodney Clough
Jun 27, 2024

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Photo by Kevin Deitch, Bloomberg/Getty, courtesy of The New Yorker

The first 2024 Election Presidential Debate: too soon and too late.

Trump may try to do something he’s done before: pose as the comeback kid. It’s the only script he has. Otherwise, it’s anyone’s guess: Trump, the flack.

Biden will not last the 90 minute heat without veering into jumbled discourse masking reflection, experience. The audience will be left to decipher Biden’s rambling. Those sentient will try to divine what Biden meant. It’s not a gratuitous journey, but how many will survive: Biden, the soldier.

In the end the ‘informed voter’ loses something, The images will remain, along with the static, interrupting closure.

Can a moderator help us make sense of this incoherence?

June 27, eight hours until the debate.

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Rodney Clough

Refuses to nap. Septuagenarian. Cliche’ raker. Writes weekly.