Predictions don’t really strike me as fake news. In any event, this stuff will just keep coming.
NBC makes a hash of this story, but the gist of it is simple: In 1975, Biden pushed an amendment to the appropriations bill that would have permitted individual public schools to remain segregated while still receiving federal funds. He did it as a direct reaction to the anger of white Delaware voters over federal efforts to desegregate Delaware schools. The triggering issue seemed to be bussing, but in fact the amendment permitted segregation regardless of whether bussing was necessary to end it.
He’s got a bad record. Maybe he’ll be the nominee anyway, and maybe he’ll win the general (I’ll vote for him over Trump). But his bad record is likely to cause him trouble is hardly a dumb prediction.
So Obama, the first black president, was cool with all this when he picked Biden. No way he didn’t know. Why do we think that is?
Genuinely asking this isn’t a rhetorical question.
Obama picked Biden as a way of signaling to white voters that they didn’t need to fear him. This was pretty much openly discussed — in polite language, of course — by journalists and pundits at the time.
Edit: Here’s an example of the form:
The Biden pick — the most important choice Obama has made to date in his public career — was safe and traditional.
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Obama was not persuaded by arguments that Democrats for the past 60 years have won the presidency only when they’ve had a Southerner on the ticket. He seems confident he can put a few states in the Old Confederacy in play by stoking African-American turnout. Perhaps. But he also is calculating that his more urgent concern is working-class whites, especially those in the industrial Midwest.
Beyond that, I think he picked Biden as a way of brokering a deal with Hillary Clinton. It was widely believed and stated that Biden would be too old to run in 2016, so the way would be open for Clinton to be the nominee. That, plus the promise of a major role in his administration that would improve her resume, bought him her enthusiastic support.
I’m not clicking a link to the Trump website, oh God no. Screenshot it, good sir!
Okay, here’s a sample:
10 questions in that vein.
Lol…I wouldn’t expect anything else.
Honestly my answers to all of those questions even as worded would be the second choice every time.
Apple News has put together a summary of all the candidates in tonight’s debate - ie, it’s actually made by Apple. I assume this is only clickable for people with Apple News enabled devices.
Fucking gross
Edit: I know you warned us, not trying to be mean. I just hate Apple for this shit.
It was on the tin! (edit: in before edit!). Yea, it’s annoying Apple literally blocks others from even interacting with their news content. It’s really an echo of America Online.
Sorry, I edited. I read what you put there I just wanted to document the expected result for those of us who don’t Apple.
Saw my first Buttigieg bumper sticker in the wild this morning. Which reminds me, I haven’t seen a Trump sticker in ages. NV has turned pretty blue, but there’s still a thick Trumpy stain running through it. Rare is the week I don’t spot a Blue Lives Matter decal on an oversized pickup in this town, yet I can’t recall seeing a pro-Trump sticker since…2017?
I live in Western Washington, which is pretty blue, and I see Trump bumper stickers, yard signs, flags, etc. all the time. In the rural areas, as you might expect, but also the suburbs.
Perhaps in blue areas they are louder about it, because that’s their way to protest being surrounded by commie hippies.
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The dude who owns property at the edge of town here had a sign up for Romney/Ryan from 2012 through 2016, but never put up a Trump sign. That sign eventually became an ad for a local gun shop.
I parked next to a car with a “Veterans for Trump” bumper sticker last week at Chic-Fil-A. What can you do? Some people just want to cut off their nose to spite their face.
