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  1. Joe is going to be in Iowa this next week. I plan to see him. I have a question or two.

  2. Biden seems to be a real life example of the famous joke by Groucho Marx:

    “Those are my principles, and if you don’t like them… well, I have others.”

  3. I always thought that Obama had Biden as his VP as a life insurance policy since Biden was always full of gaffes.

    Cornhead – I’m interested in what you want to ask Biden if you get a chance. MY question would be “How can you reconcile your upbringing as a Catholic with support for abortion and being against the Hyde Amendment?”

  4. A blogger for whom I have a good deal of respect, always caveated any comment about Biden by characterizing him as a “nice guy”; even though he disagreed with his every policy position. Every time he did this, I challenged it. I don’t think he ever responded with any specifics illustrating Biden’s claim to niceness. But, I don’t think he uses that phrase any longer either.

    In my opinion Biden has demonstrated that he is a congenital liar; and one of the most egregious I am aware of was his persistent claim that his family were killed by a drunk truck driver. After many years, the truck driver’s daughter obtained, and made public, the police reports of the accident, proving Biden’s deliberate slander against her father.

  5. “That word “likeable” often puzzles me when applied to politicians, and it’s applied often.”

    I think it’s an important trait, and I get it. It’s easy to forget that the president is the leader, not just some guy making policy, and has to be charismatic, to some extent, he has to get people to follow him, to buy into whatever he is selling. Obama had it, Reagan really had it, Trump has it. (I never did really see it in either of the Clintons, but I guess plenty of people did) Some of the presidential candidates I’ve liked for their policy positions just didn’t have it in terms of charisma and never caught on, which I didn’t get until I started to think of politicians in terms of being leaders.

    I’m with you on Biden though. Who can forget this great moment in campaigning – Vice President Joe Biden on Tuesday told a diverse crowd here, including many African-Americans, that presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney would “put you all back in chains” by unshackling Wall Street.

  6. The Dems Elite think that Biden can beat Trump. Then, he dies and Harris or whomever becomes President. A younger Dem then in the WH. Most likely a woman.
    They see it as a win win. He dies, bury him and then have their preferred person as President.

  7. On paper Biden looks good. He’s got a great lead in the polls, though too early to mean much. He’s an old style Democrat, so older Democrats will be comfortable with him. He was Obama’s VP, so blacks will be somewhat more comfortable with him than other white candidates. He’s not a radical like the others, who would have been fringe even ten years ago, so he’s got a shot at moderate and swing voters. What’s not to like?

    It’s a good plan. The only problem is that he’s Joe Biden and a 76-year-old Joe Biden at that.

  8. liz on June 8, 2019 at 6:24 pm said:

    Cornhead – I’m interested in what you want to ask Biden if you get a chance. MY question would be “How can you reconcile your upbringing as a Catholic with support for abortion and being against the Hyde Amendment?”
    * * *
    Same way the Democrats have been doing it for decades.
    They lie.

  9. Biden has always been a which ever the way the wind is blowing buffoon. He has the gravitas (favorite term of the msm a few years ago) of a stale donut.

  10. https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1136967564934995968.html

    John Hayward@Doc_0

    Media can cook up all the polls it wants, but every political consultant with his or her head screwed on right knows Donald Trump will destroy this doddering old fool. He just threw away his flimsy “moderate” disguise to placate the far Left before the primary even heats up.

    Biden is the worst of all worlds as a candidate: an empty suit seen as insincere by the small but noisy gang of radicals that has completely captured the Democrat Party, but also an opportunistic coward who can’t fool moderate voters into thinking he would stand up to the Left.

    Biden is clearly, clumsily blowing an opportunity to show real leadership and turn the Democrat Party away from its descent into radical lunacy. Abortion would have been a perfect opportunity to do that, and all he had to do was stick with his position of decades.
    But the Democrat Party IS insane, and corrupt to its very core. Abortion interests and radical ideologues run that party, and the will of the majority of American voters be damned. Biden is demonstrating that in a way no one can ignore, not even the most casual news consumer.

    Well, most news consumers ignore quite a lot, but otherwise he may be onto something here.

  11. Related to the above Descent of the Democrats
    https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1136264238941581313.html

    “The Left deliberately and very aggressively attacked one of the most important positive forces for healthy social cohesion: men and women getting married relatively young and staying together. Everything unraveled after that pin was pulled out of society, just as they wanted.”

  12. https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/06/08/cnn-iowa-poll-creepy-24-crazy-16-dopey-14-spank-me-7-and-how-15/#more-164834

    Carson Napier says:
    June 8, 2019 at 10:59 pm
    My own view is that the democrat party is being used as a lunatic asylum and dumping ground by a superior civilization, to get rid of the most undesirable and unfit. I can’t prove it, but no one can disprove it either and the circumstantial evidence is overwhelming.

    And it has only gotten worse,obviously far worse, since the late, great Christopher Hitchens said that several years ago now.

    Some people say there would be a better Congress by picking people out of the phone book at random. I say, there would be a better Democrat Presidential field by picking people out of an insane asylum at random. But then, I think they already beat me to it.

  13. “The only problem is…”

    …that he’s a clown. And a dishonest one at that. (Shocking but true!)

    He’s a very weak candidate, but he could make it depending on how fraudulent the voting will be (the dead, the multiple voters, the non-citizen voters, etc.).

    To be sure, he might might improve his chances considerably by declaring himself transgender.

    Not a minute to lose.

  14. Say what you will about Biden, I find his love for America is unquestionably touching

  15. Carson Napier says:
    June 8, 2019 at 10:59 pm
    My own view is that the democrat party is being used as a lunatic asylum and dumping ground by a superior civilization, to get rid of the most undesirable and unfit. I can’t prove it, but no one can disprove it either and the circumstantial evidence is overwhelming.

    Don’t talk to me about superior civilizations, mortal. Know your place!

  16. I’ve always seen Joe as an old-time Democrat ward heeler. He’s way out of his depth for anything above that. If he gets the nomination, Trump will have to be very careful in going after him — he might be seen as committing elder abuse!

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