Yep, I resemble this remark. It’s always a surprise to me when I mention some news story in casual conversation and no one else has any idea what I’m talking about. Doesn’t happen with the stuff that gets the super-crazy feeding frenzy media coverage, since the Facebookers see those, but anything that’s just “normal” news (let alone low coverage stuff) rarely gets onto their radar.
And that’s a sad state for our country to be in. We will continue to get crazy candidates that people can remember by name, not people who could effectively make real change.
There may be no truly great system of government, I don’t know. But if there is one, it’s gotta be one that can handle idiots, because that problem isn’t ever going away.
I’m a pretty firm believer in the “horseshoe theory” when it comes to governance; the extremes are a lot closer to each other than they are to the middle. Not that the middle has any claim to greatness - it gets hammered, walked all over, and shoved through the muck just like the rest.
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Appearing at the SALT hedge fund conference in Las Vegas, the possible 2020 presidential candidate weighed in on Hillary Clinton’s 2016 candidacy in a way that Clinton supporters sure won’t like.
“I never thought she was a great candidate,” Biden said, according to reports. “I thought I was a great candidate.”
Biden clarified, according to CNN, that “Hillary would have been a really good president.”[/quote]
Hey, WaPo, why this? “the possible 2020 presidential candidate”