Sharpe
3235
Lowry has thrown in the towel on any kind of real or perceived Trump-opposition and has become a full time Trump-normalizer/rationalizer. It’s pretty sickening.
Dunno about voting for her, but I now like her a lot more.
Also lends a sort of absurdist comedic bent to the stories about her temper tantrums and mistreatment of staff. Kristen Gillibrand as abusive dad sipping bourbon and tossing the rocks glass at his kids?
Sounds like the political version of Deadheads, the Grateful Dumb.
Gillibrand too? Or are you conflating her with laughable milquetoast pretender Amy Klobuchar?
Menzo
3241
Imagine the meeting where Gabbard’s advisors are trying to figure out the optimal answer to this question. And somehow they settle on vegan cupcakes. All her staff should be fired.
Matt_W
3242
Also known as the 3rd most popular Senator in the Senate.
I think Klobuchar would be formidable if anyone had heard of her outside Minnesota.
Disappointed nobody said “the rich”. I guess Bernie wasn’t available at the time.
Yeah @ArmandoPenblade, come on! There are just as many Dem candidates as there are countries in the Pathfinder world, and you should know them all just as well!
She’s not incompetent. In 20 years she can be our generation’s Biden, squeezing out candidates anyone cares about and ensuring the kleptocracy lives on!
Canuck
3246
I was hoping someone would say “bitter Trumpista tears”. At least as valid as a food as iced tea.
It seems about as offensive as my grandma referring to the ‘coloreds’ or my dad calling his secretaries the ‘girls’ at the office. Just like with Biden, you have to factor in the following critical data: they’re old.
It just feels to me like Social Justice Warrior bullshit. Basically “everything is black or white, there is nothing in between, and if you don’t see my color, then you are my enemy.”
Timex
3250
I think what Biden said is even less offensive, because he wasn’t actually using old school bigoted language… He was describing old school bigoted language, in the context of describing a racist segregationist.
And i say this as someone who, again, absolutely does not want Biden to be the nominee.
This belongs in two threads, sadly
“While the case is still being investigated, we do know this: a South Bend family is enduring the crushing and inconsolable anguish that far too many Black and Latino families across the country have shared,” the Buttigieg campaign wrote in an email to supporters Thursday.
“In new ways, we will elicit community input on the policies that decide how the police department does its work – policies on body cameras, the use of force, and the prevention of bias – and we will empower community members to help shape how these policies are put into practice.”
Timex
3252
I saw Pete standing there in front of protestors, and to his credit, he listened to them and their cries, despite a lot of them just wanting to shout at him.
… And, of course, if either your grandma or your dad were to run for president in a Democratic primary in 2019 they’d be immediately called on it, and rightly so.
I want a candidate who lives in, and will lead us in, the now. Not someone who has to constantly be excused with, “Oh, he thinks and acts like someone from 40 years ago. Things were different then.” You only get to live in the past if you’ve given up on being relevant to today. (For once a Politico headline is actually on point.)
But no one has claimed this is an issue of language, of Biden inadvertantly using a word or two he shouldn’t have out of habit. That’s not what happened at all. What happened is that a candidate, in 2019, deliberately, on his own initiative, chose to dust off and then praise a long-dead viciously racist segregationist as an example of someone he could work with, all at a time when he needs to appeal to the Democratic base.
What does this tell us about Biden’s ability to run a campaign? For the moment, put aside questions about exactly how offensive Biden’s statement was and to whom. What can’t be denied is that it was an outright stupid move. The voters his little paean to southern segregationists would appeal to don’t vote in Democratic primaries, and it gives the voters who do vote in Democratic primaries a good reason to re-evaluate what they think they know about Joe Biden. Most of the public (incorrectly) assumes that in terms of values and policy Biden is simply Obama Part Two. That’s his biggest asset, and he’s destroying it by his own actions.
Timex
3254
What part of what Biden said constituted praise of the segregationist?
