The star's bombshell New York Times op-ed, titled I Love Joe Biden. But We Need a New Nominee, became a critical part of the left-wing pressure on former President Joe Biden, urging him to drop out of the presidential race. In the piece, Clooney described seeing Biden's mental decline up close, writing that the one battle he [Biden] cannot win is the fight against time. The former president dropped out of the race less than two weeks after the op-ed was published.
We are not going to win in November with this president, Clooney wrote at the time. On top of that, we won't win the House, and we're going to lose the Senate. This isn't only my opinion; this is the opinion of every senator and congress member and governor that I've spoken with in private. Every single one, irrespective of what he or she is saying publicly.
An old man leans on a stone jetty nearby, his fishing pole perched on the wall and angled out over the lake, the line disappearing down into the water, a perfect triangle. The window shades in the house are drawn. The Clooneys just arrived yesterday. The house is right there, visible from the water and from the old man's fishing spot: a large, elegant rectangle built in the eighteenth century with lovely tall windows,
Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal were notably snubbed in this year's Tony nominations, while newcomers George Clooney and Nicole Scherzinger received their first nominations.
He does it mainly by stumbling upon the biggest story of the decade, that a sitting president is mentally infirm and ought to be 25th Amendment'ed right out of office, and then burying it.