Biden Now the Presumptive Democratic Nominee

Posted March 12, 2024, 7:54 p.m.

President Joe Biden (D) has won a majority of available delegates for the Democratic presidential nomination and is now the presumptive Democratic nominee. With a win in today’s Democratic primary in Georgia, and barring any unusual developments, Biden is now all-but certain to win the nomination. He is expected to be formally nominated at the Democratic National Convention in August.

Biden was a long-serving member of the United States Senate, a two-term vice president under President Barack Obama (D), and is now nearing the end of his first term as president. He defeated former President Donald Trump (R) in 2020, and is likely to face him again in November.

Trump (R) has been the presumptive Republican nominee since his last opponent, former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley (R), dropped out of the race last week. Trump has not yet attained the necessary 1,215 delegates, but is likely to do so soon. The Republican National Convention, where Trump is likely to be formally nominated, will be held in July.

Scott Bradford has been putting his opinions on his website since 1995—before most people knew what a website was. He has been a professional web developer in the public- and private-sector for over twenty years. He is an independent constitutional conservative who believes in human rights and limited government, and a Catholic Christian whose beliefs are summarized in the Nicene Creed. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Public Administration from George Mason University. He loves Pink Floyd and can play the bass guitar . . . sort-of. He’s a husband, pet lover, amateur radio operator, and classic AMC/Jeep enthusiast.

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Troubles grow by recounting them.

Our lack of confidence is not the result of difficulty. The difficulty comes from our lack of confidence.

The moment the idea is admitted into society, that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence.

There is no logical path to these laws [of physics]; only intuition, resting on sympathetic understanding of experience, can reach them.

There is no such thing as bad weather, only unsuitable clothing.

Two classes of people make up the world: those who have found God, and those who are looking for Him—thirsting, hungering, seeking!

Our task is not one of producing persuasive propaganda; Christianity shows its greatness when it is hated by the world.

Genuine love has two essential elements: self-sacrifice and commitment. Perfect love is total self-sacrifice and complete commitment.

From a moral point of view this is certain: even if a doubt existed concerning whether the fruit of conception is already a human person, it is objectively a grave sin to dare to risk murder.

When I die, I want to go peacefully like my Grandfather did, in his sleep—not screaming, like the passengers in his car.

Only the most cynical, hopeless philosophy insists that reality could be improved through falsification.

Christian morality and God’s law are not arbitrary, but are specifically given to us for our happiness.

In laying down a political system it is safer to rely on principles than upon precedents, because the former are fixed and immutable, while the latter vary with men, places, times and circumstances.

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

And it is a fact that books which fall short of greatness sometimes have a power to move us greatly, especially in childhood when we are least critical and most forgiving, for their very failures confess their humanity.

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.

In despotic States men know not how to act, because they are told nothing; in democratic nations they often act at random, because nothing is to be left untold.

Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are part of nature and therefore part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.

Those who ‘abjure’ violence can only do so because others are committing violence on their behalf.