He is one tough old man, and perhaps the finest ex-president. Certainly the finest in the modern era.
Djscman
2052
With so many contenders for the Democratic presidential nominee, I’m starting to feel overwhelmed with options. I feel like I need to know everything about a candidate before I can side with her or him.
Scratch that, I don’t need to know everything about a candidate.
PeterK
2053
For half a second I expected your post to be about Jimmy Carter running for president again.
Nesrie
2054
I’d vote for him over Trump but pay real, real close attention to that VP.
Democrats have a new senate seat to defend in 2020. Decent enough chance that they can, but not a slam dunk either.
kerzain
2056
Politico paints a reality they’d like Biden to contend with.
Joe Biden is enduring the roughest stretch of any candidate in the Democratic presidential primary, and he’s not even a candidate yet.
The hardest hit came Friday, when Lucy Flores, Nevada’s Democratic nominee for lieutenant governor in 2014, stepped forward to say she was made uncomfortable by Biden’s attentions that year when he was too physical with her at a campaign event.
“He proceeded to plant a big slow kiss on the back of my head,” Flores wrote in a publication called The Cut. “My brain couldn’t process what was happening. I was embarrassed. I was shocked. I was confused.”
But a picture from the event also shows Biden also burying his nose in the hair of actress and activist Eva Longoria. Katz, a former staffer in the U.S. Senate — where Biden had served for 36 years before becoming President Obama’s vice president in 2009 — said it was easy to believe Flores’ accusations.
…Biden has been reminded in short order of the lingering questions he’ll need to address. Namely, whether there is a place for a 76-year-old white male career politician in a historically broad and diverse field of candidates, and whether his long career in public service has left him with a record that is out of sync with a party that’s rapidly moving leftward.
Not that kind of Demming Hard, Joe :/
kerzain
2058
Well, the Harris campaign has been bragging about a new message with cool new merch. Lets take a look.
“We know these are dark times that require us to fight and march and resist – but as we are fighting, let’s be joyful warriors . Let us understand that we are not fighting against something, we are fighting for something.”
GET YOUR FREE “JOYFUL WARRIOR” STICKER!
Sigh. I’m too cynical for that shit.
Dave47
2059
On one hand, I really like the echo back to Al Smith, “The Happy Warrior.”
On the other hand, Hoover whooped Smith bad in 1928.
I ain’t joyful. I want this douchebag out and then I want us to save our republic and try to avoid melting the planet.
You silly willy! What is it about your children boiling alive in trash plastic while the oligarchs fortify mountaintop arcologies that’s got you down, frowny clown?
orald
2063
Latino Decisions has a poll out surveying LatinX voter attitudes towards likely Dem presidential candidates. Like all early polls it largely reflects name recognition but it is discouraging to see no women in the top four.
Sen. Warren had the highest unfavorables.
I read it as a Biblical reference, but who knows.
Dave47
2065
I’m not sure it’s in the Bible, but a quick google search suggests the phrase may be echoing Jeb!
Oh, sorry, I didn’t mean a literal quote, just a reference to “Make a joyful noise unto the Lord”
First time I’ve heard Brian Schatz, or even really noticed his existence. I like him. He’s not some kind of inspirational figure, just a smart legislator.
Brian Schatz is much too liberal for me, but because he is smart, I happily voted for him. Hawaii’s other Senator, Mazie Hirono policy wise is closer to me, but because she is a partisan hack and not too bright, I voted for hapless Republican opponent.
